The Case of the Missing Canoe Part 2 - Crime Bizarre
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With Mick Molloy and Sidus O'Reilly. Yes, welcome everyone to Crime Bazaar. It's part two of our... What's his name? Ex-bazaar... John Darwin, canoe man. I'm Titus O'Reilly. Here I am with Mick Malloy. Yes, hello. Where we left off, obviously, is John and Anne Darwin have faked John's death to pay off a bunch of their debts. They've successfully done this by him going off for a canoe and then appearing to never come back, even though he has. Even though he did. And we know he was living with her. He's run off to America.
He's living next door in a house they own and limping around town with a beard, thinking he's going to get away with it. Joining the library. Tried to have an affair with someone in Kansas City. Yeah. Moved, bought a farm. Comes back. She said get out.
She said get out. They've gone to Cypress, looked at that as a potential place. Now they've decided they're going to move. Somehow he and Anne have patched it back up together after him heading over to Kansas City. Going to give it another go. Well, I mean, and there is a lot here where some people would argue Anne is very complicit in all of this. So far it would seem that way. And others say that she's, you know, under the thrall of him and all that sort of stuff. So, you know, we'll get to that.
So a couple of questions. So Cyprus first. Why did they choose Cyprus? He just.
He just goes online and she said later on he'd just come up with an idea. So there's Cyprus. They then went to Gibraltar looking to buy a – and Spain looking to buy a catamaran to live on for most, you know, all the time.
Probably their best option, by the way.
What did the hosts recap about John and Anne Darwin’s fake death in Part 1?
That's out of all of his plans. Yeah. That's probably the best shot. That's right. But, I mean, at least that way you're not going to run into your neighbour. That's right. Because he's still living in the same town.
You've got to remember around this time he puts in a planning objection to a neighbour's work using his false name. But still, what does he think's going to – he's not laying low.
We need to point out he's been recognised in a town he lives in.
Yeah. So none of this is clever. So finally he thinks – He's online again looking at possible options of what they could do. And one day, I don't know, he comes up with Panama. I want to know why Panama. He just, well, there's one good reason about Panama, which is there's no extradition treaty with the UK in Panama. Which I would have thought would be number one on your list of where you're going to. So you're going public really. Yeah, like do whatever. Like if I'm going somewhere, I'm going somewhere where I can't be taken back to where I did the crime, right? That's 101 of the run. He begins looking at property. He uses Anne's email address to contact a whole bunch of real estate agents in Panama and, you know, saying I'd like to look at this, like to look at that.
And so in July 2006 they fly to Central America And they spent a fortnight travelling around Panama looking at property.
This is under his new passport. Passport. As who? John Jones. Who lived for five weeks.
Who was a kid that passed away at five weeks old. What could go wrong? What could go wrong? But the fact he's managed to even do that, like I wouldn't know how to even, I mean it's kind of eerie how quickly he got a passport and a birth certificate. It's quite hard.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:13
2
What did the hosts recap about John and Anne Darwin’s fake death in Part 1?
2:13–4:52
3
Why did the Darwins consider moving to Cyprus and Spain before choosing Panama?
4:52–9:19
4
How did the Darwins set up their Panama scheme and acquire property there?
9:19–23:52
Speakers
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