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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 4 – Silas Duane Boston’s violent past

Episode 4 – Silas Duane Boston’s violent past

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We hear from Laura who was just 11 when her mum got together with Silas Duane Boston.

Two bodies found hogtied in the sea off Guatemala in 1978 are identified as a British couple. We hear from Laura who was just 11 when her Mum got together with Silas Duane Boston.

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 and previously unheard interviews, we learn more about Boston’s violent past from Detective Amy Crosby and two of his ex-girlfriends – Laura, who was 11 when her Mum got together with Boston, and Colleen who dated him in the 1980s.

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

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