Was Boston a master criminal or was he just a lucky one? As Paradise concludes, Dan and Stephen examine the breaks Boston received that allowed him to escape justice for 38 years.

Episode 10 - Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

May 4th, 2019 48m 10s

As the podcast nears its conclusion, fresh information kept hidden in UK Foreign Office files for 40 years delivers yet another twist to this case.Martin Bottomley of the Greater Manchester Police Cold Case Unit gives an unexpected reply to

Episode 9 – Double Crosses

Apr 26th, 2019 48m 7s

Vince, Penny and Dan head out to the remote island of Hunting Caye, where Peta and Chris were last seen alive.They find a near deserted paradise, far removed from any sense of danger. But as they sit and talk, Vince reveals disturbing new detai

Episode 8 – You Better Belize It

Apr 19th, 2019 1h 5m

As Dan heads to Belize, hopes of finding Chris and Peta’s graves in Guatemala fade with new information about the lengths the FBI went to in their attempts to find them.We meet Orlando, Dan’s Belizean fixer, who seems to know everybody in Be

Episode 7 – The Vikings

Apr 8th, 2019 55m 1s

Dan heads to Sandwich in Kent to meet Blaise and Jenny, Peta’s eldest brother and sister-in-law. He hears where Peta got her stoicism from and learns that Blaise was never told that the FBI failed to find the graves.Back in the States, Detectiv

Episode 6 - Dear Mr. Boston

Mar 30th, 2019 53m 51s

Dan travels to Oxfordshire to meet Penny and her mother, Audrey, who by now is in her nineties. He hears how Audrey and her late husband, Charles, painstakingly tracked down information about Chris and Peta's whereabouts and made appeals on rad

Episode 5 - Making a murderer?

Mar 25th, 2019 37m 48s

We visit Boston’s half-sister, Arthene, and hear about his childhood growing up surrounded by criminality.But questions are raised about the stories Boston and Arthene’s mother, Mary Sellers, would tell them and make us question – did she li

Episode 4 - Buried evidence

Mar 18th, 2019 53m 2s

A remarkable set of coincidences on both sides of the Atlantic sees Boston arrested after 38 years but with crucial evidence buried, how watertight is this case?Stephen and Dan head to Sacramento to interview Detective Amy Crosby, who led th

Episode 3 - Sins of the father

Mar 11th, 2019 42m 49s

Vince speaks about his mother’s disappearance in 1968 – and how his own grandmother told him what had happened to her.We learn more about his childhood, growing up with Silas Duane Boston as his only parent.As Stephen and Dan reflect on w

Episode 2 - Death in Paradise

Mar 4th, 2019 51m 29s

Stephen and Dan head to Savannah, Georgia to meet Vince Boston – son of suspect Silas Duane Boston. Vince (then 13) and his younger brother, Russell (12), were on board the ‘Justin B’ with their dad, when they met Chris and Peta in June 1978.

Episode 1 - Welcome to Paradise

Feb 25th, 2019 55m 35s

In 1978 the bodies of a young male and female couple were found hogtied and drowned off Guatemala’s Caribbean coast. Nine months later they were identified as British graduates Peta Frampton and Chris Farmer.Police in Manchester, England quickl