Unfinished

Unfinished

The award-winning true crime podcast looking at the most troubling cold cases in the east of England. Unfinished's latest series explores how a local newspaper journalist exposed an alleged police cover-up of a paedophile ring in Essex. To support us please visit https://www.presspatron.com/unfinishedpodcast.html

Episodes

December 10, 2021 36 mins
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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     
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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    
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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   
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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  
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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 
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June 23, 2020 1 min
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. 
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The parents of murdered Norwich prostitute Michelle Bettles speak out 17 years after her disappearance from the city’s red light district.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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November 9, 2018 29 mins

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.

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November 2, 2018 33 mins

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

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October 26, 2018 27 mins

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.

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