The Porthole Mystery: James Camb & The Death of Gay Gibson

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Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

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On a misty night in October 1947, the luxury liner Durban Castle sailed smoothly across the dark waves of the Atlantic. Aboard was Gay Gibson, a young actress with dreams of stardom, and James Camb, a steward with a chequered past. When Gibson mysteriously vanished, and her lifeless body was allegedly pushed through the ship’s porthole, a dark tale of desire, deceit, and death unfolded in a mystery that would captivate the world. SOURCES Herbstein, Dennis (1991) The Porthole Murder Case. Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK. The Sunday Pictorial (1947) The Girl in Cabin 126. The Sunday Pictorial, Sunday 26 October 1947, p1. London, UK. Yorkshire Evening Post (1948) Gay Gibson Jury Sees Liner Cabin Porthole. Yorkshire Evening Post, Thursday 18 March 1948, p1. Yorkshire, UK. Yorkshire Evening Post (1947) Gay Gibson Disappeared In Shark Infested Seas. Yorkshire Evening Post, Monday 24 November 1947, p5. Yorkshire, UK. ------- This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, check out betterhelp.com/darkhistories to get 10% off your first month. ------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On a misty night in October 1947, the luxury liner, the Durban Castle, sailed smoothly across the dark waves of the Atlantic.
0:09.8	A board was Gay Gibson, a young actress with dreams of stardom, and James Cam, a steward with a chequered past.
0:17.7	When Gibson mysteriously vanished and her lifeless body was allegedly pushed through the ship's
0:22.6	porthole, a dark tale of desire, deceit and death unfolded in a mystery that would captivate the world.
0:29.6	This is Dark History's, where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:43.1	Hello and welcome to Dark History's Season 8, Episode 22.
0:47.7	I'm your host, Ben, as always, and it's a pleasure to be back on the microphone.
0:52.7	Today, we've got an interesting kind of mystery for you.
0:58.1	It's a story that I heard of a few times and sort of breezed over. And then I read it compared to an Agatha Christie tale and sort of compared to something
1:05.1	that could have been an Agatha Christie tale. And that sort of flipped my sort of switches, I guess,
1:10.6	and made me decide to look back into it again because I thought, well, that sounds cool. I sort of switches, I guess, and made me decide to look back
1:12.0	into it again because I thought, well, that sounds cool. I was always a big fan of Poirot. But anyway,
1:16.4	all that aside, I don't really want to buy us to you before you listen to the story. So we'll
1:20.3	talk about that afterwards. But yes, let's get straight onto it, because it is slightly longer one as well. So, yeah, this episode is called The Port Hole Mystery, James Cam and the death of Gay Gibson.
1:35.7	South Africa in the post-war 1940s was a peculiar place to find yourself for most young British professionals.
1:42.7	The war had helped fuel industrial growth,
1:45.2	and cities had begun to boom as people migrated for work
1:48.3	and a somewhat illusory promise of a better life.
1:52.1	Made a dominion of the British Empire following the Boer War,
1:55.0	early in the century,
1:56.4	the country saw a significant influx of British immigration,
2:00.0	especially to the cities like Johannesburg
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