The Body on the Moor
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On 12 December 2015, a man’s body was found by a moorland track on Saddleworth Moor in northern England. He had nothing on him showing his identity. No-one knew who he was. And he had died from a rare kind of poisoning.
Who was this man? Where did he come from? Why has nobody reported him missing? Their biggest lead was brought to the mortuary within the body itself. It was inside his left leg. And it’s a clue which took the inquiry to Pakistan. Police believe he took his own life but did he travel nearly 4000 miles to die in this particular place?
Image: Saddleworth Moor, Credit: Shutterstock
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Saturday the 12th of December incident log 936 male found deceased in local |
| 0:09.7 | beauty spots I saw what here to be a body on the side. A man thought to have been |
| 0:16.9 | between 65 and 75 was found by the side of a path on Saddleworth Moore, part of a national park in Northern |
| 0:24.8 | England. It was one of the worst days of the year, absolutely torrential rain. |
| 0:28.2 | The temperature had been near to freezing. The gentleman had a pair of slip on the shoes. |
| 0:32.8 | There was nothing on him showing who he was. |
| 0:35.2 | No mobile phone, no driver license, no credit cards, no wallet. |
| 0:38.8 | We've got no idea who he is, where he's come from. |
| 0:41.3 | He had travelled a long way way possibly thousands of miles across the world to find the spot where he was discovered. |
| 0:48.0 | He just said could he tell me the directions to the top of the mountain? |
| 0:52.0 | Why is he going to take the journey? |
| 0:54.0 | Why did he travel on that day? |
| 0:56.0 | And he died from an unusual form of poisoning. |
| 1:00.0 | I've never seen a case of it in my career. |
| 1:02.0 | It's very, very rare now to see a |
| 1:04.3 | stricting case. This is a story of an ongoing police investigation |
| 1:09.3 | with access to those hoping to find out who he was. |
| 1:12.6 | Everyone I speak to, wherever I go, the first question is, |
| 1:15.6 | have you identified him yet? |
| 1:16.8 | Seven months on from his death, |
| 1:18.6 | his identity remains a mystery. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm John Manel, this is the BBC World Service and this is the story of the |
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