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[insects chirping]
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[Penny] I keep havingthis recurring dream...
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about my brother Chris coming back
and being really, really happy.
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We have a party to celebrate.
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After the party, I go into the bedroom
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to go and sit on his bed and talk,
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and I discover a mask of his facelying on the bedside table.
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But it isn't really him.
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[Audrey] I don't thinkanybody could imagine
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what a terrible senseof absolute despair there was,
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not knowing what had happened to my son.
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{\an8}[Penny] It just didn't make sense.It didn't add up.
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Where could they be?
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We knew that somebodysomewhere knew the truth.
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[bird caws]
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It's like watching a horror movie,
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but it's real.
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You feel like you're hiding this secret
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that people would not understand.
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What happened to Peta and Chris
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is a nightmare
that you can't wake up from.
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[theme music playing]
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[Penny] My brother Chrisand his girlfriend Peta always wanted
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to travel, always.
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[Chris] Hello, everyone.What's the date today?
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It's the 30th. No, 29th May.
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Chris had a tape recorder,
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so he would send tapes back.
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[Chris] Greetings from Belize.It's basically paradise.
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The markets are quite lively places.
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We're going to travel down the coast.
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Chris was my cool older brother.
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There were three of us.
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Nigel was the oldest, I was the youngest,
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and Chris was in the middle,
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{\an8}and I idolised him, I suppose.
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My father hated Chris' long hair.
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They often locked horns,
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but Chris really didn't care
what other people thought of him.
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You know, loved his leather jacket,loved wearing silver boots, jeans.
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And you could never really hold him back.He hated boundaries.
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[Audrey] He was a very lovable little boy.
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{\an8}There was always
a sense of excitement about him.
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From the age of tenhe decided to be a doctor.
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I was always very proud of him.
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He was very devotedto his girlfriend, Peta.
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[Penny] Chris and Peta metwhen they were 14
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and became childhood sweethearts.
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[Sue] I met Peta in 1964,
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when we were 11.
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She had this Mona Lisa smile,very reserved,
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{\an8}but underneath that exterior
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{\an8}was this mischievous character,
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with this twinkle in her eye.
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Soul music was the big thing.
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We loved it.
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She would go mental.
[chuckling] She would.
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That's what I loved about her.
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That sense of fun.
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And then Chris came along.
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They seemed to belong together.
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[Penny] He was probablynot your conventional doctor.
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He was very much a party animal,
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and they were quite well-known,I think for their parties.
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They were adventurous,
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and they thought nothing of justgetting in Chris' old banger of a car
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and just taking off, and they did.
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You know, they travelled across Europe
and to Morocco and Tangier.
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They went to Australiaand worked there for six months,
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and then travelled downto Central America.
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Well, I didn't like it at all.
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I mean, I don't think many parents would.
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Wasn't even too sure
where Central America was, to be honest.
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But you can't clip a kid's wings.
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You've got to let them fly.
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So, they went off with our blessings.
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[Penny] "6th of June, 1978.
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{\an8}"Dear Mum, I'm now in Sartenejaon the north coast of Belize."
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Peta always wrote
long letters to her mother,
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usually fortnightly, maybe more often.
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[Penny] "Life is very slow here,
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"and we shall probably stayuntil the end of the week.
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"The sun is warm,the sky is a little cloudy,
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"and the sea is emerald green."
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[Chris] People are very friendly indeed.You know, you've got fish in the sea,
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you've got all your fruit and vegetablesgrowing behind you, in the jungle.
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We heard stories of peoplewho'd gone out there
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just for a couple of weeks and ended upstaying two or three months.
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[Penny] It was always very excitinghearing from them.
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These were strange places to us.
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For me back at home, little 17-year-old,
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it all seemed very exciting and exotic.
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[Sue] That type of travel was unusual.
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They were going
to completely foreign places,
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right out of your comfort zone.
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[Penny] Chris was a risk taker.
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He did go beyond
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what people would accept as being safe.
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[Chris] After that, um...still not quite sure.
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Might be going to Jamaica,
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might be going down to Peru.
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[Penny] They were all over the place,really, depending on who they met.
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You know, it was all at a whim.
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Always looking
for the next new experience.
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They were very much children of the '70s.
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That whole buzz, that whole vibe,you know, free love and the music.
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But, you know, I think what came
with that was a certain naivety.
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They couldn't conceivethat anybody could harm them.
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"13th of June, 1978.
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{\an8}"All our plans have changed.
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{\an8}"An American called Duane offeredto take us up to Chetumal by sail.
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"We thought it was an opportunitynot to be missed,
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"especially as Chris wantssailing experience.
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"No more news, I don't think,
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"so we'll close now with all my love,as ever. Pete."
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We knew that in one of the bars in Belize
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they'd met this man, Duane Boston.
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They were going to sail with him
down the coast.
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He had two boys in tow, Russell and Vince.
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[woman] Can you tell me your name?
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My name is Vince Boston.
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You know, I had a weird childhood.
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We moved around a lot.
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We never stayed in one place
for, like, more than a year.
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I hadn't seen my mom since I was three,
almost four years old.
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So, it was my brother Russ,
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me, and my dad, Silas Duane Boston,
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but everyone called him Duane.
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He had a lot of girlfriends.
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A lot of really good-looking women.
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He had that certain charisma,
I guess, you know.
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They call it the Boston charm.
I don't know, whatever.
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I think the best way to describe my dad is
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he acts like a big kid.
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Zero responsibilities,
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just wants to have fun and party
and good times, you know.
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There was alwaysthese hippies in the house
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smoking pot, drinking, doing drugs.
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We'd be sitting therein the living room
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and somebody would pass
a joint over. Then I'd take a little hit.
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My dad didn't care. He's like,
"Yeah, it's good for him. Fuck him."
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I remember one Christmas
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we hada little Charlie Brown Christmas tree,
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scrawny, but oh, well, we decorated it.
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We had Froot Loops,
we strung those through a thread.
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Christmas morning, under the tree,
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there was a brown paper bag.
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I opened it up.
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It was this View-Master.
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You put these reels in
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and put a little cartridge thingto your eyes.
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You saw this amazing full-colour picturefrom three dimensions.
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And it was from Dad.
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It just meant to me that he cared.
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In his own little way, you know.
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This stupid little View-Master
in a paper bag,
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that meant a lot to me.
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[breath trembling]
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That was my favourite Christmas. [exhales]
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[tv presenter] If you wereto write a motto for Belize,
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it might be "no sweat."
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[Vince] One day, I'm 12 years old,
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we're watching this television show
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about Belize.
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[presenter] If you can't remember whereBelize is, you're probably not alone.
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It's in Central America, all right,
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just the other side of the Gulf of Mexico.
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{\an8}And we're, you know,tripping on it and loving it,
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{\an8}and Dad said, "Hey,you guys wanna go to Belize?"
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And we both look at each other like,
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"Is he bullshitting us?"
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Next thing you know we got passports,
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got snorkels and fins,
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loaded up the truck,
and headed down to Belize.
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Belize, it's a beautiful country.
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The water's turquoise blue
and crystal clear.
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Weather's perfect all the time.
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Dad bought a boat,
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the Justin B,
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and he'd been in the navy,
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so he knew a lot of seamanship.
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We'd take tourists out on day trips,
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teach people how to spearfish,
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how to snorkel, how to scuba.
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Dad would basically turninto this devil-may-care,
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easy-going character,
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where they would say, "Yeah, OK.
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"This guy, he's a fucking hippie,
I can see that,
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"but at least he's legit."
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He kept calling usPirates of the Caribbean,
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and this is before the movies came out.
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And he was so proud of the fact
that he was a pirate of the Caribbean.
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One day we pull into Belize City.
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And I remember
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this British couple coming down the dock.
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They had their duffel bags
and all their gear.
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They came on board and said,"Hello. Here we are.
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"I'm Chris." And she's like,
"Hello, I'm Peta Frampton."
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Nice couple, fairly young, 25.
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He was a doctor, he said,
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and she was... an attorney,
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and they were gonna be on board
for quite a while.
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A couple of weeks, I think.
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[Penny] "Dear Mum.
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"We have just set offand the sea is somewhat choppy,
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"so my writing may go haywire.
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"Chris has been doing a lot of sailing."
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[Chris] The sailing's reallyvery good fun, except...
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I think I need a lot more practice at it.
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[Audrey] Chris was very fond of sailing,
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which was a legacy
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of our holidays in Anglesey.
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[Penny] I always remember he and I justtaking the boat out on our own, too far,
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out of the bay, out of sight.
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But that was Chris, pushing boundaries.
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He did go too far.
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[Vince] Chris was very easy-going,
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really cool guy, easy to get along with.
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He was there for the ride,
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he loved the adventure,
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he wanted to steer the boat,
grab the tiller.
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We taught him the ropes, literally.
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"OK, this is how you sail,
this is how you navigate."
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Chris had this giant boombox
that he loved,
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and he was always cranking up
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some mixtapes that he had
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from I guess recording
from his LP collection back home,
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and playing Pink Floyd, or ELO,
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or Santana, or whatever,
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and he was like, "Yeah, this is groovy!
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"We love this kind of music!"
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You know, and we were dancing onboard.
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It's fun when you have somebody on board
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that's really into it.
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I really admired his adventurous spirit.
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Peta was a little bit more reserved.
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She would kind of hang backand sun herself, or write letters.
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[Penny] "During the day it's super,just lying on the hatches
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"and soaking up the sun,
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"whilst the boat flies along.
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"We had a perfect sail.
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"Chris wants me to say
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"this was due to his superb navigation."
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[Vince] I would jump
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into this beautiful crystal clear water
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and we'd spearfish.
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Then at the end of the day
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we would make a nice meal of rice
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and beans and whatever we caught.
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Dad was, "Oh, man, this is awesome.
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"We're sailing,
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"drinking Jamaican rum, partying.
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"This is the life."
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For every now and again,you wanna go into port,
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they would both come inand she would drop off her letters
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and go shopping.
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You get tired of a place, you just pull up
your anchor and go somewhere else.
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[Chris] Doing some coral-reef divingon a little island,
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and I suppose I must've seenabout 400 different sorts of fish,
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and lots and lotsof amazingly coloured coral.
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The only thing you've gottawatch out for is a few sharks,
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but they shouldn't be too much problem.
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[Penny] They were travelling aroundgoing to all the cayes,
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these little islands of Belize,
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just lapping it all up really,
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and just really enjoying life.
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[Audrey] I can remember,I was missing him.
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The house felt very flat without him.
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But they'd been snorkelling, and swimming,
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and really enjoying the life,
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so they were happy.
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[Penny] "It's incredibly hot here,
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"but at night,the sky is absolutely amazing.
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"There's lightning flashingon the horizon all the time.
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"Just looks beautiful.
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"We've had thunderstorms as well,
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"which are something on a boat."
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[Vince] Since they'd stayed on longer,
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we got to know them better.
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You know, we were like a little tight crew
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and we all had our jobs to do.
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So, I think they really enjoyed it
at first, yeah.
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I remember that Peta asked,
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"So, aren't you going to school?
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Aren't you missing school?"
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She wanted to volunteerto be our onboard tutor.
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You know, some knuckleheaded American kids
that didn't know nothing,
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and that was her gift to us, I guess.
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Onboard, my dad was the captain,
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and we were just the crew, and we were
obligated to follow his every order.
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The captain is the god.
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You follow what the captain says,
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or it's called mutiny.
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You had to swab the decks,
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you had to maintain the paint.
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This boat would slowly leak,
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and this ugly,
smelly black water would seep in.
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Every day, if you didn't bilge,you could eventually sink,
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so you had to be up on that.
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It's a life and death thing, you know.
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We didn't have any radios,
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no way of communicating,
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so we were kind of out there on our own.
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Anything that goes wrong, we're toast.
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Dad would spenda lot of time getting drunk.
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He would, kind of,
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sulk.
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And then he would turn into this...
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Jekyll-and-Hyde type character.
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Alcohol, whatever it was, wouldactivate this asshole in him.
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Nothing was ever good enough for him.
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You know, he would yell at Russ or I,
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"Why didn't you tie the knot this way?"
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or, "Why didn't you pull
the anchor up this way?"
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It was like a storm that would come inand you weren't prepared for it.
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You just had to be careful
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not to cross that line and...
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wake up the dragon or whatever.
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My dad, you've gotta understand,
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he was a very prolific burglar,
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breaking into people's houses.
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He was brought up that way.
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My grandfather,
his father before him, was a criminal,
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running illegal hoochback in the Prohibition.
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Whereas, maybe a normal dad would
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teach his kid how
to play catch or something,
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Dad would want me to gobreaking into people's houses with him.
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I didn't wanna do it.
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You know, I wasn't part of that.
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Dad was pissed off about that.
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He would say things like,
"I don't think that you're my son.
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You can't be my son, because...
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"you wanna be good."
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You know, "You're just too goodie-goodie."
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So, my nickname was "Goody Two-Shoes."
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[Audrey] Peta wrote a letter.
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The boat was very small,
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they were all pretty well living
on top of one another.
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[Penny] "We sleep in the galley,a space about 4-by-5 by 2.5 feet."
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Peta was getting a little bit irritated
at a lack of privacy.
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[Penny] "Like all boats,this one has cockroaches,
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"and it's horrible when we turn onthe kerosene lamp
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"and they come out.
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"We spray every day,
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"but they come out to die."
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At first it's paradise,
and then after a while it's like,
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"OK, another day,
another day, another day."
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You know, it's like every dayyou see the same water,
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you see the same boat,you see the same person.
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So, "OK, there's another sunrise,there's another sunset. OK, whatever."
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[Penny] "Another reason I wouldn't mindending my sailing career now is
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"the two sons of Duane.
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"They are 12 and 13 years,
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"but behave more like eight and nine.
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"They squabble most of the time,
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"and I find I just haveno patience at all with them.
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"What makes it worse is that Duane curses
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"and puts them down continually,
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"but on a boatthere's nowhere you can go."
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The boys were very quarrelsome.
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Boston was very angry.
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[gasps]
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He would put you into a classification
of either good people,
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if they were criminals.
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But if they were law-abiding,those are bluebloods.
366
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"Fucking bluebloods."
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He thought that
they were looking down on him.
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And they did. They did look down on him.
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When things go wrong,
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little quirks in people's personality
get on your nerves,
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and you can't go anywhere.
Where are you gonna go?
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You could tell just by her expression
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that Peta was a little bitover the novelty of being onboard.
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Not too emotional,
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stiff upper lip and all that, you know,
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but there's a little bit
of passive aggressiveness, you could tell.
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I think, yeah, she was, kind of, done.
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[Penny] June 29th,
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Peta wrote that they'd decided
to change their plans
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and go to Livingston in Guatemala.
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And then Peta was going to catcha flight to New Orleans,
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and Chris was going to go on to Trinidad.
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Yeah, "We'll be glad
to get away," she said.
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"Nothing much happens on a boat."
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[Vince] We had been sailingaround different islands,
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just exploring, for a few weeks.
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Especially, Peta was anxious
to get off the boat and stretch her legs.
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[Penny] "29th of June, 1978.
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"We reached Hunting Caye at about 11:00.
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"We're docked about 50 yards offshore
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"and the water is perfectly clear."
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[Vince] It was a very beautiful island.
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I think the name of it was Hunting Caye.
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When we first get there, it's, of course,
me and my dad and Russ,
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and Chris and Peta,
and the lighthouse keeper.
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00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:46,200
And he's like, "Yeah, man, we'll be having
a big party here, man, later.
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"Yeah, you're all invited, come stay,you know. We have big party."
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They were having a pig roast.
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They stuck an apple in its mouth
and put it on a spit,
400
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and everyone was having roast pig.
401
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,320
All the adults were drinking and dancing,
402
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:08,080
and we had the music blaring,
403
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,280
and it's like,
"Wow, really, this is cool."
404
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,080
Everyone's having a good timeand smoking pot,
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doing drugs.
406
00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:28,800
Quaaludes were being passed around.
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There was a lot of debauchery.
408
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:39,400
I remember there was these two very drunk
Guatemalan girls, they were beautiful.
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They're, you know,
in bikinis, scantily clad,
410
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,440
and they were standing in the surf,
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kissing each other.
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And I'm, like,
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"Russ, look at that!"
We'd never seen that before, right?
414
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"Oh, my gosh.Two girls kissing each other,"
415
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,840
and then they started
taking each other's top off.
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00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,920
We were like, "Oh, my God,
how far is this gonna go?"
417
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,280
Dad was drunkand dancing around the bonfire,
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life of the party.
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Chris and Peta were havinga wonderful time,
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very drunk, and dancing.
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And she let her hair down
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00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:22,960
and was in the flow of the party.
423
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:29,840
Dad was talking about
all these crazy ghost stories.
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He had smuggled inall of these nitrous oxide cartridges,
425
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,560
and he had tossed
one of these cartridges in the bonfire.
426
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And after a while,they started to explode.
427
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:42,960
Kaboom!
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00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,440
Dad was dancing around like
he was conjuring up some kind of magic.
429
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He's like, "Yes, white magic!"
430
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At that point, I didn't know
what was going to happen next.
431
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Peta sent a letter
that was dated June 29th.
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That was the last we heard from them.
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00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:24,560
The letters stopped.
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We didn't hear anything at all,
and we started to get concerned.
435
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It was just that inabilityto reach out to them.
436
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It's hard to think nowadays
that you couldn't get in touch with them,
437
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,400
but there was just no means of doing so.
438
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:47,480
Every day when the post came,
439
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,840
there was the searchingfor an airmail envelope,
440
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,400
or some news from them.
441
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:56,160
There was just nothing.
442
00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,680
By the end of August,we were all very worried.
443
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We went to Anglesey on holiday.
444
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:11,840
We came back from Angleseyexpecting a letter,
445
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,360
but there was nothing there.
446
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,560
[Audrey] We thought, were they unwell,
447
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that some sort of accidentmust have befallen them.
448
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,400
Weeks went by with no word.
449
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{\an8}The last letter was postmarkedfrom Livingston, in Guatemala.
450
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{\an8}We knew it wasa fairly dangerous place to be,
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that there was a civil war raging.
452
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They had got visas in Belize
to go to Honduras,
453
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so it was never their intention
to go to Guatemala.
454
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Our fears just began to grow and grow.
455
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,040
I felt desperate, absolutely desperate.
456
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So helpless, really.
457
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,520
When Chris was three,
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he fell out of the bedroom window
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to the ground floor.
460
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,520
I remember hearing the thud
461
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and dashing downstairs.
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I thought first, of course, he was dead.
463
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,320
But actually he fell onto a garden table,
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and that had broken his fall.
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That's always etched on my memory.
466
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You think you've coveredevery eventuality,
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such as falling down stairs
468
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or, I don't know, being run over,
469
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,480
but an open window was nothing
that had ever occurred to me.
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I never forgave myself for that.
471
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Now, they were missing.
472
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You don't know what to do.
473
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,040
You don't know who to turn to.
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[David] One day I was calledin to my boss' office
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in special branch at police headquarters.
476
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{\an8}He explained to mehow two young British people
477
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{\an8}had gone missing in Guatemala,
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and said he would likeme to try and find them.
479
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,760
The plain fact is that several things
could've happened to them.
480
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:17,880
Guatemala were, at that time,
481
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,840
- in the middle of a violent civil war.
- [gunfire in distance]
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There were serious drugand gang problems there,
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00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,160
and large areas of jungle, to all intentsand purposes, totally lawless.
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They could've been kidnapped.
485
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,240
They could've simplygot lost somewhere in the jungle.
486
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So, I had just to keep
an absolutely open mind
487
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,640
on what might've happened to them.
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{\an8}[Penny] My father workedfor the BBC in Manchester,
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in the news department.
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He just threw himself into it.
491
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,400
[Audrey] Charles was in contactwith newspapers and things.
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[radio presenter] The couple areDoctor Chris Farmer,
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and his girlfriend, law graduatePeta Frampton, who are both 25.
494
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,840
Peta and Chris have been friendssince childhood.
495
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,040
They even went to the same university,
496
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:12,480
and according to Chris' mother,
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it was there that the urgeto travel the world was born.
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{\an8}[Audrey] It was their one ideathat as soon as they graduated
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00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,800
{\an8}that they would travelas extensively as they could.
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00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:22,920
[Audrey] It was headline news.
501
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,560
Here were thesetwo good-looking young graduates,
502
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,760
with everything to live for,missing on the other side of the world.
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00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,440
[Sue] The TV was on.
504
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,400
The two of them were missing.
505
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,320
It was a terrible shock.
506
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,120
[radio presenter] They travelled downthrough Mexico to Belize,
507
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,600
where they hitched a rideon a converted fishing boat
508
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:45,800
owned by an American.
509
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,840
{\an8}[Charles] It would be the letterthat arrived in the middle of July
510
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,760
but it had been writtenat the end of June.
511
00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:55,560
And there was a gap of about,
512
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,400
well, nearly three weeks betweenthe writing and the actual posting.
513
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,960
Night after night,
my father would sit at the bureau,
514
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,880
writing letters
to anyone he could think of.
515
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,280
[Audrey] We just wrote to every consul
516
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:15,600
down the coast of Central America.
517
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,320
Guatemala, Belize.
518
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,880
{\an8}[Penny] We started thinkingmaybe one of them had fallen ill or,
519
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:23,760
{\an8}they were in jail for something.
520
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,080
{\an8}The Foreign & Commonwealth Officemade extensive enquiries.
521
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,480
Dad employed a private detective
522
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,560
to look at all the tourist haunts
523
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,760
along the Belizean coast,Guatemala, Honduras.
524
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,920
[Audrey] We wrote to the harbourmasterat Hunting Caye.
525
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,520
{\an8}We contacted weather stationsto see if there'd been any storms,
526
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,600
the boat might've been damaged.
527
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,520
It was all we could do
was find any information
528
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:54,800
about what could've happened
to Chris and Peta.
529
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:58,040
[David] I didn't havedetectives working for me
530
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,320
in the area where they'd gone missing,
531
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,720
so I had to rely on
British Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
532
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:08,440
{\an8}They were already helpingCharles Farmer to try and find out
533
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,120
{\an8}what had happened to the pair,
534
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,720
but it all drew a blank.
535
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:21,160
However, Charles wasa very well-educated, clever man.
536
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,800
He'd have made a good detective, actually.
537
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,440
He handed over quite a large fileof documents
538
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,200
from his own enquiries.
539
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,280
The most important documentthat he handed to me was
540
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,560
a port document
541
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,800
{\an8}showing the Justin B leaving Belizeon the 26th
542
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,960
{\an8}with its captain shown as Duane Boston.
543
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,600
{\an8}On board at the time
544
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:49,360
were Christopher, Peta,
545
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,800
and Boston's two young sons,
546
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,200
Vince and Russell.
547
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,440
The next we knew, from the port record,
548
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,160
it sailed into Livingston
on the 6th of July,
549
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,400
but Christopher and Peta were not aboard.
550
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,640
[Audrey] The harbourmaster saidthat he remembered
551
00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:17,040
Chris and Peta being signed
on this boat, the Justin B.
552
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,120
Something had happened to them
553
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:22,560
between Hunting Caye and Livingston.
554
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,240
So, it was logical that we needed
to find out from Boston
555
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,240
where they'd left the boat.
556
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:31,600
[radio presenter 1] It would seemthat the key to all this,
557
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,440
the key to the mysteryof their whereabouts is the boat owner.
558
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,840
[radio presenter 2] Well, this is what isbeing hoped for by the police.
559
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:38,320
They're trying to contact him
560
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,600
to actually pin down where he landed them.
561
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,600
We discovered
from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
562
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:03,360
that Boston had left Livingston
563
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,040
on July the 19th.
564
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:10,200
He had sold the boat.
565
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:15,120
The next thing we knew wasthat he had gone back to Sacramento.
566
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:21,880
{\an8}And then, in October,they interviewed him.
567
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,400
{\an8}He said that he had put them ashore
568
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,640
{\an8}in Guatemala,across the bay from Livingston.
569
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:30,040
{\an8}He said also that
570
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:31,480
Chris and Peta...
571
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:34,080
were drug addicts...
572
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,000
drug pushers,
573
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:40,360
that they'd left the boat and that was it.
574
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:44,880
The skipper of the boat alleged
that they were taking drugs.
575
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,320
At their own request,
he had dropped them off
576
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,080
at a peninsula,
577
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,400
{\an8}Punta de Manabique,which is largely uninhabited.
578
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,360
Why they should drop off
579
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,360
at such a remote placestruck me as being odd,
580
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,960
but Central America at the timewas certainly regarded
581
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,280
as a major drug smuggling route.
582
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,400
[Nixon] America's public enemynumber one is drug abuse.
583
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,040
In order to fight and defeat this enemy,
584
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,080
it is necessary to wage
a new all-out offensive.
585
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,840
[David] Without informingthe Greater Manchester Police,
586
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,040
{\an8}the DEA opened a file
587
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,800
{\an8}on Chris and Petaas being suspected drug smugglers.
588
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,520
Seemingly the DEA had seen
589
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,640
that Chris and Peta hadtravelled through Morocco,
590
00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:41,000
{\an8}another significant smuggling route,
591
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,440
{\an8}and together with Boston's testimony,
592
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,320
{\an8}suspicions were raised.
593
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:53,120
{\an8}I mean, yeah, they smoked marijuana,
hands up, they did, yeah.
594
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,400
You know, they smoked dope.
595
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:56,840
But then I think
596
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,640
it wasn't out of the norm
597
00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:01,600
in the '70s to smoke joints.
598
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,520
Were they drugs pushers? No. No way.
599
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,400
[David] I thought they may have falleninto the hands of villains,
600
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:12,480
maybe been robbed.
601
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,880
They could've been arrestedby the authorities.
602
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,440
You know, where you've got
drugs and money,
603
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:21,280
then sadly
police officers can be corrupted.
604
00:37:23,720 --> 00:37:28,280
[Penny] It became an all-consuming passionfor my father, really,
605
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,640
to find out what had happened.
606
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:36,160
My parents pleaded with the Foreign Officeto interview the boys,
607
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,080
but they didn't.
608
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,080
So, he decided to getthe phone number for Boston,
609
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,920
and he made a call.
610
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,640
[David] Charles recordedthat conversation.
611
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,160
The phone rang,
612
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:05,960
and Boston's father answered.
613
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:07,960
He was called Russell Boston.
614
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:11,800
- [Charles] You're Mr Russell Boston?
- [Russell] Yeah, that's right.
615
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:13,680
[Charles] Yeah, you'rethe father of Mr Boston.
616
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:15,280
[Russell] Yes.
617
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,680
[Charles] So, obviously,as Duane was the last person,
618
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:22,240
I would just like to have a chat with him,
619
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:23,840
and ask him just whereabouts
620
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,800
and this sort of thing, you see.
621
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,000
[Russell] Has anyone ever told you
622
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,400
to look in Colombia?
623
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:32,640
[Charles] In Colombia?
624
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:34,120
[Russell] Yeah.
625
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,760
[Charles] Well, you see,the last news we had was
626
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,960
that Duane had dropped them
627
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,480
{\an8}just short of Livingston.
628
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,000
{\an8}[Russell] Well...
629
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:45,960
'cause they were on dope.
630
00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,640
He told me, he says,
631
00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:53,360
"I met hundreds and hundredsof them types of people down there,"
632
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,640
and he says, "Some of them are brought onthose poppy farms
633
00:38:56,720 --> 00:38:59,120
or marijuana farms,"
634
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,240
and he says, "They might be out therefor a year or two."
635
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,680
[Charles] You have no addressfor your son, though?
636
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:07,280
[Russell] No.
637
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,040
But I can get a hold of him.
638
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,840
If you write a letter here,I'll see that he gets the letter.
639
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,560
[Charles] Sure thing. Many thanks indeed.
640
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,520
- [Russell] Thank you.
- [Charles] Thank you. Bye-bye.
641
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:19,600
[phone clicks]
642
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,680
[David] I was very suspiciousof the responses.
643
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,160
I mean, I felt, "He's hiding something.
644
00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:29,960
"Why would he hide something?"
645
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,480
But at the end of the day,
646
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,640
Chris and Peta had been missing for months
647
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:37,840
in a country like Guatemala.
648
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,920
Boston and his two sons had disappeared.
649
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,800
There was no evidencethat he had committed a crime,
650
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:47,960
and the truth of the matter,
651
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,960
what I could do was very limited.
652
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:55,680
Because we had absolutelyno jurisdiction in the matter.
653
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,440
[radio presenter 1] Inquiries haveso far produced nothing.
654
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:01,480
[radio presenter 2] Absolutely nothing.
655
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:02,680
Absolutely nothing.
656
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,080
From the time that the last letterwas written,
657
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:06,840
just an utter blank.
658
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,480
All that both families can dois wait and wonder
659
00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:12,360
what has happened to Peta and Chris.
660
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:18,160
[Penny] Any news would'vebeen better than no news.
661
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,240
As a family, we couldn'tcome to terms with anything, really,
662
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,400
not knowing where they were.
663
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:27,480
We were in limbo.
664
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:33,400
[female interviewer] What were
you going through, Audrey?
665
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,360
Hell, [chuckling] in a word.
666
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,760
I don't know, how can you describe it?
667
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,360
I just remember looking upat the stars and thinking,
668
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:49,080
"Is there no sign of anything,
any reason, or..."
669
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,560
You just think that surely
670
00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:54,040
there'll be some sign
671
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,520
or somebody who must've seen them.
672
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:00,960
We couldn't imagine
673
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,080
what we were about to find out.
674
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,520
{\an8}[phone ringing]
675
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:26,760
[Penny] My father took the phone call.
676
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:31,400
He just crumpled, really.
677
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:33,360
Yeah. Just...
678
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:37,080
didn't really cry, just...
679
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,240
just crumpled.
680
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,320
Back in July of the previous year,
681
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:49,080
two bodies had been discovered
682
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:50,680
floating 200 metres
683
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,840
off the peninsula at Punta de Manabique.
684
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,120
And they'd been buried unidentified.
685
00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:02,400
They'd been found
with obvious signs of torture,
686
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:07,880
and Peta's body had
a plastic bag over her head.
687
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:23,600
I remember I was at work at the clinic
when the police rang up and said
688
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:26,080
that it was Chris and Peta.
689
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,080
And I can remember
driving back from the clinic and...
690
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,960
shouting to the empty car,
691
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,200
"My son has been murdered,
692
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,240
"my son has been murdered!"
693
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,160
And then...
694
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:45,400
the next day...
695
00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:48,720
I went back to work as normal.
696
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:58,800
[inaudible]
697
00:42:59,240 --> 00:43:01,160
[Penny] That was it, that was the end.
698
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:03,080
They were not coming back.
699
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,000
[David] This was a whole new ballgame.
700
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:13,400
This was now a murder.
701
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,440
They had died
from asphyxia due to submersion.
702
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,240
In other words, they were drowned.
703
00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:23,400
They were bound hand and foot,
704
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:28,360
and they were attached to pieces
of heavy machinery on the seabed.
705
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,200
[Audrey] I was very, very angry.
706
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:36,520
I really was.
707
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,000
We wanted justice.
708
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,800
[Penny] We were all grievingin our own individual ways,
709
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:50,400
but one question was in all our heads,
710
00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,840
just the question "Why."
711
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,880
It just didn't make sense,it didn't add up.
712
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,080
What could possibly have gone so wrong?
713
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:09,280
Why were these two kidstortured and murdered?
714
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:21,160
[Vince] All I can do is tell the storyof what I saw in front of my own eyes,
715
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,400
to tell the truth as I remember it.
716
00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:30,720
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