The Rolex That Told the Truth

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back. Everybody today wed to be talking about the
Rolicks that told the Truth. Canadian con man Albert Walker,
later dubbed the Rolicks Killer, fled Canada in the early
nineteen nineties, escaping fraud charges by assuming the alias David Davis.
In England, he befriended a Canadian ex patriot and television repairman,

(00:23):
Ronald Platt. When Platt expressed it longing to return to Canada,
Walker financed the trip under the guise of business necessity
and opportunistically obtained Platt's birth certificate, driver's license, and credit card.
Once Platt departed in nineteen ninety two, Walker adopted his
identity for good. Years later, in nineteen ninety five, Platt

(00:43):
found himself penniless and returned to England, unwittingly threatening Walker's
carefully constructed double life. In July nineteen ninety six, Walker
invited Platt on a fishing excursion aboard his yacht, then
attacked him with an anchor, tied the heavyweight to to
his waist, and dumped his body into the English Channel.
Two weeks later, a local fisherman discovered a body tangled

(01:06):
in nets, with no idea on the victim. Only a
Rolex wristwatch remained, a watertight automatic timepiece that was still ticking.
Investigators traced the serial number and service records to Platt
and utilized its internal day and power reserve capabilities to
approximate his time of death. The breakthrough led authorities straight
to Walker. He voluntarily appeared for questioning, but mounting evidence

(01:28):
including fishing net discovery, Rolex identification, and proximity data sealed
his fate. In nineteen ninety eight, Walker was convicted of
murder in the UK and sentenced to life imprisonment. I
guess you could say he was all out of time.