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🎾 Sport is meant to unite people - to inspire, to celebrate human achievement and to bring people together across the globe. But behind the glory and admiration, many athletes face a much darker reality. In this episode of Unknown Passage, we explore some of the most violent headlines that took place both on and off the field or the court, from stalking and home invasions to murder and missing persons.

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🚢 Just before Christmas, 1988. An 82 foot freighter embarks Miami for the Caribbean island of Haiti. On board are nine people, including Haitian workers, a German captain and a young American journalism student. The boat never arrived at its destination and has never been seen again. Or has it? This week we untangle the mysterious disappearance of the “Freedon”.

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🇮🇹 Summer or autumn, 79AD. At the height of the Roman Empire, more than 100,000 people live under the looming presence of Mount Vesuvius on the Bay of Naples, and the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum are home to many of them. Their towering backdrop hadn’t erupted for hundreds of years, but she would soon unleash her fiery fury. Many of the people of these towns quickly met violent and disturbing ends, and to this day, their cities - and their stories - are still being unearthed.

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🇮🇳 April, 2013. 24 year old British backpacker Sarah Groves travels to the politically unstable region of Kashmir while on a lengthy trip abroad. Sarah was brutally murdered while in a seemingly safe place, and 12 years on, her family’s battle for answers - and for justice - continues.

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🇵🇱 March, 2018. Polish man living in Germany, Mateusz Kawecki, sets out on a long drive home from Hanover to witness the birth of his first child. But he never arrives. His family and girlfriend search for him to no avail, across two countries. Then months later, a discovery is made that cracks the case wide open, one that potentially leaves more questions than answers.

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🌎 Every year, millions of people leave their home countries to travel abroad for cut price plastic and cosmetic surgery. Many don’t make it home. On this week’s Unknown Passage, I look at four countries and deaths under the knife that have befallen medical tourists there.

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🇮🇪 June, 2009. A solitary figure steps off a bus in the peaceful Irish town of Sligo. He checks into a hotel. Over the next few days, he is sighted on CCTV across town. Then, he is found dead on a quiet local beach. When the Gardai attempt to identify the man, they realise that the man who signed into his accommodation as Peter Bergmann does not exist. He went to great lengths to ensure he was never identified. And to this day, he hasn’t been. This is the story of Peter Bergmann, Ireland’s John Doe.

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🛥️ 1983. Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. 23 year old Tami Oldham is left adrift and alone after a Category 4 hurricane severely damages her yacht and sends her more experienced fiancé overboard. She survived 41 days alone, starving and hallucinating in a boat half full of water. This is the inspiring story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft.

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🇫🇷 August, 1986. Engaged British teachers, Paul Bellion and Lorraine Glasby, enjoy a month-long summer cycling trip through France. When they don’t return to begin the new school year, the alarm is raised. Paul and Lorraine would later be found brutally murdered in a quiet cornfield, just a few miles from the coastal city they intended on sailing home from just days after they were last seen. Despite many separate investigations, almosf 40 years on, the murders of this young and adventurous couple remain unsolved.

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🇲🇽 July, 2021. 35 year old Texas firefighter Elijah Snow and his wife jet down to sunny Cancun for their wedding anniversary. After their first night at their resort, his wife awakes to find him missing. Elijah is soon found dead, but in a bizarre way. Three and a half years on, the family and the Mexican authorities are at odds as to what happened to Elijah, and whether his death was accidental or murder.