For more than two decades, Debbie Griggs' disappearance haunted her family and baffled investigators. The devoted mother-of-three, who was pregnant with her fourth child, vanished from her home in Kent in 1999. As suspicion increasingly focused on her husband, Andrew, detectives painstakingly assembled a case without a body. Years later, shocking revelations would finally expose the truth and uncover the lengths one man was prepared to go to in order to protect his secrets…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton.
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Narration, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
Storm Before The Calm by LNDÖ
Darker Days by Alternate Endings
Call Of Kingship by Cody Martin
Dark Night by Cody Martin
Demogorgon by Cody Martin
Earn It by Cody Martin
Far From Home by Cody Martin
Rhosphere by Cody Martin
Sahara by Cody Martin
Stone Table by Cody Martin
Tales Of Myst by Cody Martin
Tesseract by Cody Martin
Titan by Cody Martin
Enigma by Dakota Mack
White Water by Jed Stark
The Plot Thickens by Joshua Spacht
Dawn Of Triumph by Salon Dijon
Driven To The Edge by Salon Dijon
True Crime Investigation by Rhythm Scott
Dark Places by Wicked Cinema
No Escape by Wicked Cinema
Rag Doll by Wicked Cinema
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NEWSBANK
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ONLINE
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/murder-accused-claimed-wife-shouted-at-him-then-left-214339/
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e6g2ezdj7o
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-63286562