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Interviews from the Paradise podcast, investigating the deaths of 2 British tourists.

Extended interviews from the Paradise podcast, investigating the deaths of 2 British tourists off the coast of Guatemala - Peta Frampton and Chris Farmer.

Extended interviews from the Paradise podcast, investigating the deaths of 2 British tourists off the coast of Guatemala - Peta Frampton and Chris Farmer. Download the full podcast from BBC Sounds by searching for "Paradise".

The Paradise Interviews: Episode 6 – The cold case is reopened

Episode 6 – The cold case is reopened

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We hear from detectives who reopened the cold case into the deaths of a British couple.

We hear from US and UK detectives who reopened the cold case into the deaths of a British couple, whose bodies were found hogtied off Guatemala in 1978.

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 quickly focused in on an American called Silas Duane Boston who had offered to sail Chris and Peta from Belize to Costa Rica on board his boat, the Justin B.

Boston’s boat never reached Costa Rica and he fled back to California with his two young sons soon after the murders. So why did it take 38 years to arrest him – and how could he maintain his innocence when both his boys were telling the FBI they saw him do it?

In this programme, featuring extended interviews taken from the original podcast series, we hear from both sides of the Atlantic about the remarkable sequence of events that led to the cold case being reopened and Boston’s eventual arrest in 2016.

Find out more about the case and download the whole podcast series: www.bbc.co.uk/paradise

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