Paradise

By BBC Radio 5 live

What's Paradise about?

Peta and Chris are in paradise - they sail into hell. Why does it take 38 years to arrest the only suspect: Silas Duane Boston? A BBC 5 Live podcast investigating their murders.

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Paradise episodes:

05.17.2019
Episode 11 - No such luck?
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.
05.04.2019
Episode 10 - Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity
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...
04.26.2019
Episode 9 – Double Crosses
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,...
04.19.2019
Episode 8 – You Better Belize It
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...
04.08.2019
Episode 7 – The Vikings
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...
03.30.2019
Episode 6 - Dear Mr. Boston
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...
03.25.2019
Episode 5 - Making a murderer?
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 lie to...
03.18.2019
Episode 4 - Buried evidence
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...
03.11.2019
Episode 3 - Sins of the father
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...
03.04.2019
Episode 2 - Death in Paradise
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...
02.25.2019
Episode 1 - Welcome to Paradise
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 quickly focused...
02.21.2019
Paradise: A major new true crime podcast
Peta and Chris are in paradise. They sail into hell.

What's Paradise about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Paradise episodes:

Episode 11 - No such luck?

Episode 10 - Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity

Episode 9 – Double Crosses

Episode 8 – You Better Belize It

Episode 7 – The Vikings

Episode 6 - Dear Mr. Boston

Episode 5 - Making a murderer?

Episode 4 - Buried evidence

Episode 3 - Sins of the father

Episode 2 - Death in Paradise

Episode 1 - Welcome to Paradise

Paradise: A major new true crime podcast