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How does a killer escape justice for decades? Why does the death of a schoolgirl go unsolved, even when police believe they know who did it? These are some of the questions explored by Eastern Daily Press journalist Tom Bristow in Unfinished. It takes a fresh look at the most troubling cold cases in…

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    • Dec 10, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 28m AVG DURATION
    • 21 EPISODES


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    S2 Ep11: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 11

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 36:05


    Charles investigates what the new documents tell us about the previous failed police investigations into the ring and how shortcomings allowed two of the perpetrators to carry out more abuse.  To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html

    S2 Ep10: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 10

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2021 36:44


    Charles and the Archant Investigations Unit score a legal victory against the police, unearthing more than 1,000 pages of previously secret documents about the ringleaders of the Shoebury paedophile ring. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html

    9: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Bonus Episode

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2020 32:08


    Charles interviews Nick Alston, the Essex police and crime commissioner who ordered the Shoebury paedophile ring case to be re-opened. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html

    8: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 8

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 36:01


    Just as Charles makes another breakthrough in the Shoebury case, he is told his newspaper is shutting down. Then, as the final episode of this podcast series is being produced, there is a last-minute twist. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html

    7: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 7

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2020 34:21


    Charles uncovers disturbing links between the Shoebury paedophile ring and a notorious London gang of child-killers. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html

    6: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 6

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2020 29:34


    A fresh police investigation gets underway in 2016, thanks to Charles' findings. It doesn't go as planned, but a new victim emerges just in the nick of time. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html

    5: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 5

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2020 28:44


    Charles investigates how the social services department at Essex County Council failed Shoebury's lost boys. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html     

    4: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2020 30:34


    Information about why police appeared to cover up the extent of a paedophile ring finally comes to light thanks to a document which was about to be destroyed. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html    

    3: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 28:24


    Charity workers helping the victims cannot work out why police are acting so strangely, until a crucial new piece of information comes to light 30 years later. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html   

    2: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 30:16


    The police investigation starts but takes a series of strange turns. What is going in Shoebury? To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html  

    1: Shoebury's Lost Boys - Episode 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 38:23


    A man walks into the office of a local newspaper in Essex and asks to speak to a reporter. So starts an investigation into how police appeared to cover up a paedophile ring almost 30 years ago. To support this podcast, please go to https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html 

    Trailer: Shoebury's Lost Boys

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2020 2:56


    A new series of Unfinished explores how a police force failed to properly investigate a paedophile ring. When a local newspaper reporter started asking questions almost 30 years later, they uncovered some dark secrets. 

    7: Michelle Bettles: Our daughter

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2019 46:30


    The parents of murdered Norwich prostitute Michelle Bettles speak out 17 years after her disappearance from the city’s red light district.

    6: Jeanette Kempton: The body in the field – Part Three

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2019 29:16


    How do you solve a case like Jeanette’s 30 years on with no murder scene, weapon or witnesses? A cold case detective gives his verdict and we hear about links to serial killer Steve Wright.

    5: Jeanette Kempton: The body in the field – Part Two

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2019 26:46


    Police step up their investigation but are 16 days behind the killer and get little information in Jeanette’s home patch of Brixton. In Suffolk, meanwhile, the sightings of two vehicles offer them hope.

    4: Jeanette Kempton: The body in the field – Part One

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2019 28:27


    It is the afternoon of Saturday, February 18th 1989 and a rabbit hunter finds a decomposing body in a field in rural north Suffolk. It turns out to be a 31-year-old mother from Brixton, Jeanette Kempton. Who was she and what was she doing in Suffolk? This episode looks at the background to a case which has remained cold for 30 years.

    Trailer: Jeanette Kempton - The body in the field

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2019 2:24


    How does the body of a young mother from south London end up in a field 120 miles away in rural east England? Why is a man arrested for her murder when police have no evidence against him? Why was she killed and most importantly who did it? These questions in the case of Jeanette Kempton have gone unanswered for 30 years.

    3: The Girl in the Pit - Part Three

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2018 31:23


    Who killed Johanna? The police make arrests but lack evidence to charge. We hear from a new witness and the last friend to see her alive.

    2: The Girl in the Pit – Part Two

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2018 34:51


    How was Johanna Young killed? Police launch a murder investigation but run into problems.

    1: The Girl in the Pit - Part One

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2018 28:41


    It is Christmas 1992 in the small Norfolk town of Watton and a 14-year-old girl has just been found floating face down in a pit. This episode looks at the background to the killing of Johanna Young.

    Trailer: Johanna Young case

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2018 2:53


    Trailer for the Unfinished podcast which explores cold cases in east England, brought to you by the Eastern Daily Press. It starts by looking at what happened to schoolgirl Johanna Young who went missing from her home town of Watton, Norfolk, on December 23rd 1992. The 14-year-old’s body was found three days later floating face down in a freezing pond. Nobody has ever been charged over the killing.

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