THE gripping story of a woman who turned detective to track down her brother’s killer - nearly four decades after he was brutally murdered. A real-life page turner more intriguing than anything on Netflix. Matt Nixson, Books Editor Mail on Sunday, London
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by O, The Oprah Magazine.
[A story] almost too mad to make up, too good not to tell and which one day, no doubt, will be a film. Ben Dirs, BBC World News USA & Canada
and WH Smith Travel.
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The chilling oldest international cold case ever to be solved
"I was 17 when my 25-year old brother, Chris, a junior doctor, was brutally and inexplicably murdered in 1978. I can still recall the sense of paralysing shock that ricocheted through my family the day we received confirmation from the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office that two tortured corpses found off the Guatemalan coast were those of Chris and his girlfriend Peta.
It was in October 2015 that the thought came to me from out of the blue to use the internet to track down their killer and his two sons (whom we knew to have been on the boat at the time of their deaths).
It was this that was to ultimately lead to the arrest in Sacramento of their psychopathic serial killer, Silas Duane Boston, who had spent a lifetime of robbing, raping, murdering and evading law enforcement. At the age of 75 he ran out of road."
A true story by Penny Farmer
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How I retraced Chris and Peta’s footsteps in Central America for the making of the BBC Paradise podcast.
