205. Murder in Paradise - Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the podcast. This is Murder With My Husband. I'm Peyton Marland. And I'm Garrett Marland. And he's the husband. And I'm the husband. I'm sad to say that we have just been recording for 25 minutes and didn't realize that we didn't press record.

Okay, everybody, deep breaths. Deep, long breaths. Everything's going to be okay, but that sucks. So now we are going to go through everything once again, and Garrett now knows a little bit of the story at the beginning. The best part is we can zoom through all this, but you're going to want to listen to this. Don't zoom through and skip. I know some of you skip. Just give us three minutes. I'll make this quick. Okay, go, go, go, go. First, mind.

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And now we have my 10 seconds and I guess I'll just tell the story again since it just got cut out because we weren't actually recording. But we were talking into the mics the entire time. Basically, the last week or two, I've been washing my face with some magical face wash that I found in our shower. I've been using it for like a week or two. It's been amazing. My skin's been clear.

It feels good. It doesn't smell the best. I'll be honest. It smells a little funky. But I was washing my face the other day and Peyton comes by and she goes, hey, what are you washing your face with? Like, what are you talking about? Like this face wash that's right here. Long story short, that was not face wash. What was it, babe? Garrett was washing his face for the last week, week and a half.

Using my vagina wash. Wash made specifically for my vagina, pH, you know, all the girl stuff, all the girl stuff, okay? And if, sorry for the strong language, I guess, vagina, but that's what I was doing. I was washing my face with it and I had no idea, but I will let everybody know I am still washing my face with it because there actually was a bunch of dermatologists and

Other people who said that it's just a pH balancing. So it's gentle. It's gentle. It's fine. And it's working. So disclaimer, I'm not a dermatologist. I'm not a doctor. But if you want to try something new, maybe you need some new face wash, go and check it out. That's what I got from our 10 seconds. We made it short. That was a lot faster. It was a lot faster. So let's hop back. Not back into. Let's hop into today's episode. All right.

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So as we've learned by now, not all cases come with that whodunit mystery. Sometimes the culprit is obvious, and instead the question lies somewhere between how did it all go down and why the heck did they do it? Well, today's story is absolutely one of those cases, a crime that went uninvestigated for decades, primarily over issues with jurisdiction since it happened in international waters.

But everyone knew who was responsible, including the suspect's two young sons, who actually saw the entire crime happen right before their very eyes. Yet they were forced to keep their father's secrets for years. So getting into it, it's December 1977. 25-year-old Chris Farmer and his 24-year-old girlfriend, Peta Frampton, are about to embark on the trip of their lives.

For the next 12 months, they'll be going from Australia to North America, down through Central America and beyond, filling their days with once-in-a-lifetime experiences. So Chris and Peta were actually childhood sweethearts who grew up in the suburbs of Manchester, UK, and their romance was an impenetrable one that stood the test of middle school, high school, and their college years.

Even a small handbag business that the two actually ran together. In fact, their love for one another was so strong that when Chris got accepted to study medicine at Cambridge University, he turned it down so that he and PETA would keep their decades old promise that they were going to go to college together. So the two enrolled in Birmingham University. Like PETA from Hunger Games?

Yes, except she's a girl. Okay. There, PETA studied law while Chris got his medical degree, a goal he'd set for himself early. It was around the age of 10 when he decided to do that. Okay.

But Chris was the kind of person to always follow through on whatever he'd set his sights on. And it wasn't just the future paycheck that excited Chris about getting his medical degree. He had a longing for adventure, a desire to be challenged, and he knew that practicing medicine was something that could take him to all different parts of the world.

A trait that was well complemented by his outgoing personality. Chris was the kind of person who was always the center of attention. He was larger than life and eccentric in a way that made people gravitate towards him. He was the kind of guy who had no problem standing up in a crowd to vocalize what he believed in. To tell someone that their beliefs were outdated, intolerant, or just plain offensive.

Chris had principles, the kind of guy you'd be proud to say was your doctor. And Peeta either shared or complimented a lot of those same qualities. She was independent, a go-getter, someone who had a lust for life and was willing to participate in a good adventure, if not just for the story. But Peeta was also meticulous, a communicator and a planner, so much so that before their big trip across the world, Peeta drafted a will.

one that left most of her earthly possessions to her beloved Chris. However, looking back, that document will read more like a sign of doom than a declaration of love.

So on December 5th, 1977, Chris and PETA could not be more excited as they said goodbye to their families in Manchester and arrived at Heathrow Airport for their big trip. The plan was this. For the next several months, Chris was going to be participating in a medical program out of Brisbane, Australia, where PETA had landed some temporary work as a secretary. Once Chris's program concluded, they'd fill it

Fill it out. Go where the wind took them, which was exactly what happened. Upon arriving in Australia, the couple settled in quickly, making sure to keep up with their phone calls and letters back to their respective families in the UK. Ample time off allowed them to enjoy afternoons on the Sunshine Coast, eating delicious food and participating in one of their favorite shared pastimes, sailing.

Then in April of 1978, PETA wrote a letter home laying out the next steps of their journey. She said they planned to visit New Caledonia, Fiji, and then Los Angeles. From there, they were going to make their way down to Mexico. And while PETA expressed her sympathies for Chris, who had a large bag of books that he had to bring along with him to study...

She herself seemed upbeat and prepared. They were just making the most of this study and really doing what they've always wanted to do. I love traveling, but I do not think I could travel that consecutively for three months or whatever. They're going for 12 months. Or 12 months. Yeah, that's a lot.

Also, while studying for school, like they're doing this. It's an excuse to go somewhere as he's studying for school and whatnot. Yeah. But like I said, PETA was very organized. She listed to her family all of the vaccinations they'd received, travelers checks they'd cashed, and visas they'd secured to ensure the next leg of their travels was seamless, which

It was. The islands were filled with scuba dives and snorkeling excursions. And when they arrived in the States, they rented a car and drove south from Los Angeles to San Diego and on through the Mexican border.

On May 29th, 1978, Chris made an audio recording for his brother Nigel's birthday, saying how much fun he and PETA were having on their little extravaganza and that they planned now to head east to the Yucatan Peninsula.

But on June 6th, PETA wrote that they had actually changed their plans. On a bus ride out east, they met another young English couple who was headed to Bolivia with a stopover in Belize. So after hearing that Belize was home to one of the longest reefs in the Western Hemisphere, Chris and PETA were kind of tempted to tag along with this couple that they had just barely met.

They were craving another great snorkeling adventure. However, this slight adjustment to their plans wouldn't just change the course of their vacation, it would end up changing their life.

changing the course of many people's lives. By the end of June, Chris and Peta found themselves staying in a cheap bohemian motel on an island just off the coast of Belize called Key Kulker. And even with its crystal blue waters and white sand beaches, the destination was a hot spot for those on a budget, particularly young backpackers and older fishermen looking for a quick stopover.

which was how Chris Impita came to meet a 37-year-old American seaman named Silas Dwayne Boston. Dwayne, as he called himself, with his piercing blue eyes and innate charm, immediately caught the attention of Chris Impita at the hotel bar one night.

As they got to chatting, they learned that Dwayne was traveling around the islands in his 32-foot wooden sailing boat he'd named after one of his kids. The boat was called Justin B.

not John B. He mostly made his cash by ferrying tourists to the many keys off the mainland. However, Dwayne didn't work alone. He'd come from Sacramento, California with his other two sons, 13-year-old Vince and 12-year-old Russell, who were helping him out with the small business. Is there any background on how, like, how did he end up in Belize with his two sons and now

This is what he just does full time? I think because they wanted to start this business. They wanted to make some money. So they literally left California to go here to make money. It was kind of like a cheaper place to live. There was a need because it was kind of touristy. There were a lot of backpackers. I don't know if they like traveled there and then got the idea, but it's definitely a family business at this point. Got it.

So at the time, the only thing that set off alarm bells for Chris was the fact that Dwayne was said to be somewhat of a ladies' man. So they're here, they're staying, and they're kind of learning more about this character. If anyone ever says they're a ladies' man...

I can promise they are not a ladies' man. So despite how underwhelming Dwayne was in the looks department, he spoke of how much success he had with women and boasted about having been married five different times. Oh, that's not a good thing. Still, with his two young children on board, Chris and Peta felt comfortable enough to actually hire Dwayne one day for an afternoon excursion.

So Chris and Peta, our UK couple, are going to go out with Dwayne and his two sons on an excursion.

And from PETA's letters, the first trip seemed enjoyable enough. They set out for a day of snorkeling and scuba diving while Dwayne and his boys cooked them lunch with the fish and lobsters they'd caught that afternoon. The evening ended with a bonfire on the beach, sipping coconuts before a drop-off back at their hotel. It was delightful enough for Chris and PETA to take Dwayne up on another excursion. And then another one.

Oh, man. To the point where over the next few weeks, they became pretty friendly with Dwayne and his sons. And when the couple was finally ready to move on from Belize and travel further south, Dwayne made them an offer.

Rather than take a series of buses, why not let him take them by sea to their next destination, which was Roatan, Honduras. So after all, it was on his way to Costa Rica where he'd planned to sell his boat before heading back to the States with the boys. So he's like, we're done with this gig. We made the work. We're heading out anyways. We will drop you off on our way to Costa Rica. And then we're heading back to America and you guys can go to Honduras. I wonder how true this all was. I'm sure we'll get into it.

So all Dwayne asked for in return was $500 for their passage, which seemed reasonable enough to Chris and Peta.

It was nearing the end of June when Peta wrote another letter home to her parents to tell them about the next leg of their journey. She mentioned Dwayne, his two sons, and the Justin B., which is the sailing boat. How she and Chris were quite enjoying their travels and found the journey peaceful. They were even liking the fact that they could catch and cook their own supper together.

But in that same letter, it was also becoming clear that tensions on the boat might have been running a little high. Remember, they've been spending a lot of time together with these people. Yeah.

PETA wrote that the ship was not very comfortable, that the lower deck was mostly used for storage, making it too cramped for sleeping. It was overrun with cockroaches and a shower only came when they docked for the night in a harbor somewhere. Oh no, they shouldn't have said yes. Plus, at that time of year, even the nights were getting unbearably hot, making the passengers irritable in such a confined space.

Still, PETA signed her letter with an optimistic outlook, claiming it all seemed worthwhile once she watched the sunset each evening.

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So like I said, Peta was feeling okay about the journey, but Dwayne maybe wasn't feeling the same way. And we know this because one afternoon, Dwayne stopped the boat on a small island for a little break. That afternoon, Russell and Vince came running up to him to show him something they had found on the beach, and it was a handful of poisonous berries. So

So Dwayne took them from his kids, but didn't warn them or reprimand them. Instead, he said something that stuck with Russell for years to come. He said, maybe I should just feed these to Chris and Peta. At the time, Russell, the kid, just waved it off. What the freak?

He knew his father had a problem with alcohol and that day on the beach was no exception. So needless to say, Dwayne was two sheets to the wind. But once he nodded off, Vince and Russell knew better than to leave the berries with their father. So they stole them back, fearful that Dwayne might actually follow through on his threats if given the opportunity.

That's weird that you would ever even think that that would be a possibility. And I think it says a lot about the type of character Dwayne is that even his sons are like, maybe we should steal the berries back.

Yeah, that's weird. So on June 28th, 1978, PETA penned another letter updating her parents on their journey. In this one, she said, after speaking with a lighthouse keeper, they learned it was especially hard to get into the port in Honduras this time of year due to the tides. So they were told they might have to rethink their travels with an unexpected stop in Livingston, Guatemala instead.

It also became clear in this letter that PETA and Chris were at the end of their rope with Dwayne and his boys. Like what started as like, oh, we're friends and we're going on this journey. You know, we've done all these excursions. It's just not, it's not going well anymore. PETA mentioned how Russell and Vince argued all the time and acted much younger than their age. They're getting annoyed with the two boys. And that a drunken Dwayne was constantly yelling at them, bringing the awkward tension on the boat to an all-time high. Which

With nowhere to escape to on the 32-foot vessel, things were becoming untenable. Chris and Peta were essentially over it. Peta signed that letter with lots of love and mailed it out at the next port, but that was it. After that, Peta and Chris's communication back home stopped entirely.

That final letter arrived at PETA's parents' house in August of 1978, and when days turned into weeks with no word from either Chris or PETA, both of their families sounded the alarm bells. Come September, the farmers in the Framptons knew it was time to get the authorities involved.

The farmers began by reaching out to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which helped scan the borders of all countries between the United States and Peru. This is, I mean, and this is like something that's hard, is they don't know how far they made it. So what country could they even be in by the time something bad happens? Well, also they were...

In the middle of sea? Yeah. In the middle of the sea on a ship? I don't... Right. That's so hard. So both families wrote to the consuls in South America as well, but nothing produced results. Chris's father then contacted the harbor master in Belize City, trying to dig up any information he could on the Justin B, since this is the last known place that they knew their kids were. Yeah.

In October, he received a letter back saying, yes, they had been on the passenger list when the boat left Belize. But the next time the boat docked in Livingston, Guatemala on July 6th, Chris and Pita were no longer aboard the vessel. And when the farmers reached out to a commander of a naval base in Honduras, they also confirmed Justin B. had never made it to that port.

Despite the fact that Chris and Peta had secured visas for Honduras, there was no record of them ever entering the country. So authorities did, however, have the name of one person who might shed light on where these people went. And that was Dwayne.

By this point, now mid-October, Dwayne and the boys had returned to the States. Dwayne was said to be living with his father just outside of Sacramento. So the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office asked a consulate general in San Francisco to look into Dwayne. What a mess because you have to go through all the different legal procedures of the different countries and justice systems. I can't even imagine.

Well, and I mean, if we're just playing on theory here that Dwayne did do something to them, probably thought he got away with it. Well, also, there's a pretty good chance he can get away with this. Yeah. Considering where he was and what's going on. So the consulate general in San Francisco looks into Dwayne for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. And here's what they learn.

Dwayne had a pretty unsettling criminal record in the States. He'd been accused of assault and rape. And 10 years prior, in 1968, his third wife, Russell and Vince's mom, had also...

without a trace. What a ladies man. When that consulate official visited Dwayne for an interview in December 1978, the 37-year-old wasn't exactly forthcoming, but he did seem rather calm and collected without much concern for the whole situation. Dwayne did say, however, that he dropped Pita and Chris off at a place called Cabo de Tres Puntas across the bay from the Livingston, Guatemala port. He's like, I just dropped them off.

dropped them off right there. And then I just skidded across and went to Guatemala. And that's why they weren't with me.

He did this because then they wouldn't have to go through immigration, and then he just continued on without them. After the interview, the consulate general who'd conducted the interview was certain Dwayne Boston was a suspect in their disappearance. I feel like if your record is that bad, and you've been charged for rape or armed robbery or something of that sort, you should have to wear like a sign on your chest at all times.

or like on your head so then people know. You know what I'm saying? - You know people aren't even happy that sex offenders have to register. There's a pretty wide group of people that don't think that should have to happen. - Well, they probably shouldn't listen to this podcast. - Probably not.

So the consulate's like, okay, reporting back to duty, I'm pretty sure this guy definitely has something to do with the disappearance of PETA and Chris. But with zero concrete evidence, he didn't feel like there was much they could do to pursue the charges. And from there, the investigation kind of sizzled out, at least for government officials. Obviously, the farmers and the Framptons were hellbent on keeping the case alive. These are their children. Yeah.

Which is when they hired a private investigator named Alfonso de Pena back in Belize to take up the case. Armed with photos of the couple, Alfonso went to nearly every bar, hotel, and restaurant in the country asking if anyone had seen them. And come January 1979, his digging turned up a major piece of information.

That month, Alfonso was contacted by a Catholic priest down in Livingston, Guatemala, who said, back in July, a few local fishermen made a gruesome discovery right near the border of Belize. About 200 yards from shore, they discovered the bodies of two Europeans, a male and a female, in their early to mid-20s. How are they in Belize? They were supposed to be on the ship.

Both appeared to have their hands and ankles bound and were tied to heavy engine parts. The woman also had a plastic bag over her head. When they were cut loose, the bodies were brought back to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala for an autopsy. There, it was determined that the couple was still alive when they entered the water and the cause of death was listed as drowning. Oh my gosh, that's insane.

After the autopsy, the two were buried in unmarked graves in a nearby cemetery since their identities remained unknown. That is, until the priest passed the word on to Alfonso. When news reached the farmers in the Framptons back in England, they felt pretty certain this probably was their missing loved ones. But the only way to prove it for sure was to exhume the bodies and compare the dental records.

The process took about nine weeks. Imagine waiting nine weeks. It's hard because they're in a different country. There's just so much you have to go through. But come April 1979, the families got their answers. The dental records were a match with the two unknown victims. These were the bodies of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton.

Just as devastating was the complete lack of investigation into the bodies after they were recovered. The Guatemalan police never looked into the crime or even alerted any embassies as far as I'm aware. I mean, they're thinking, okay, these are just two Europeans who are probably traveling. How are we ever going to get to the bottom of this and didn't look any further?

Any evidence, including the ropes and engine parts they were tied to, were lost in the shuffle, never analyzed for clues. Adding to the frustration, after confirming their identities, both families requested that the bodies be placed in a British cemetery. However, there's a strange rule in Guatemala that a body must remain in its original burial plot for at least four years.

Why? I don't know. So the families are like, hey, can we bring can we just at least bring our kids home? Like, you know, they were young. They were just trying to live their lives. Can we just have them home in a resting spot near us? And they were like, nope, they got to stay buried for four years.

So four more years passed when the trail on Duane, Boston ran even colder. The families were told they could now exhume Peta and Chris's remains and have them sent back to the UK. But at this point, both felt since they were already exhumed once and reburied, it was best to just maybe keep them together where they were. Mm-hmm.

Let Guatemala maybe be their final resting place. And with that, four years quickly turned to about 40 as the farmers and the Framptons were left without much resolution. Holy crap. So 40 years basically goes by and they are not able to do a thing. Yes. There was one person who never let Dwayne Boston leave her mind.

And that was Chris's younger sister, Penny Farmer. Okay, so you have to keep in mind.

My brother, right? My brother's murdered while he's traveling the world with his girlfriend who was his high school sweetheart from middle school. Yep. And we basically know who did it. Like we know it's this Dwayne guy. He lives in the States, in California, but there's just no evidence. But we're pretty sure. And Dwayne's got to be like almost 80 at this point. Right. So let's now cut to October 2nd, 2015. We have Penny Farmer, Chris's little sister, who is hellbent on

hell-bent on solving this case. And she has to be between 50 and around 60 or somewhere around there is my guess. So Penny was 17 when her brother went missing. She was now in her 50s. Okay. Yep. She was grown with a husband and kids. She was sitting outside her Oxfordshire home when something dawned on her. Why not look Dwayne and his kids up on the internet?

Like the internet's a thing now. All this time has passed. She's probably thinking about his case and she's like, wait, I wonder if I can just find him. So she's looking for Dwayne. She can't find him, but she goes looking for the kids. Remember his, one of their names was Vince Boston. So it was as easy as typing Vince Boston into the Facebook search bar. And suddenly there he was in living color. The boy who had most likely witnessed her brother's murder was now a 51 year old man.

He was an aviation engineer in Tucson, Arizona. But there was a post on his page that actually caught Penny's eye. Vince had written a status that read, quote, my mother was killed at 23 with a gun. And it went on. Now, this struck Penny as odd because she distinctly remembered in their letters they were told Vince and Russell's mother had disappeared. Yeah.

It was a huge reason she and her family were suspicious of Dwayne in the first place. Like his, his, one of his wives had disappeared and now Dwayne,

They had disappeared. So she was wondering, has something changed in the woman's investigation or was she unraveling some dark family secret? So Penny keeps digging, eventually uncovering the 49-year-old Russell's Facebook page as well, who was also living a seemingly normal life as an illustrator out in Laguna Beach, California. Wow.

Though Penny didn't stop there, another quick search, she finally found father, Silas Dwayne Boston. He has a Facebook? He's got to be like 80, like I said earlier. The now 74-year-old man's profile photo showed a more hardened Dwayne with an aging gray beard, hiding under a baseball cap and sunglasses.

Beneath it all, Penny was sure it was the same monster who'd claimed Chris and PETA's lives. The fact that he even had a Facebook page, in her opinion, was a privilege he should have never gotten. Yet here it was, a path forward, a life he had lived.

This was a chance for Penny to reconnect with the only people in this world who knew the truth about PETA and Chris's final days. So Penny decides to send a few messages to the sons, Vince and Russell. And after receiving no response, she decided to bring the case back up to the Greater Manchester Police or the GMP now that she had found them.

Now Penny and her family knew the chances of reopening this investigation were slim. So when she contacted the GMP and learned that they still had all of the case files, she was kind of shocked. Even more, when the GMP spoke to a detective named Amy Crosby with the Sacramento police, they learned they had just reopened a case against him recently. It was the case surrounding Dwayne's missing wife.

Mary Lou Boston. What a chance of that. Over in the UK, they're like, hey, can you please reopen this case? They contact American police and the Californian police are like,

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And by complete coincidence, Vince, the son, had been interviewed by Detective Crosby mere days after Penny had reached out to him on Facebook. So police are actually already talking to the people they want them to talk to just for a different case.

So he told the detective it was an open family secret that his father had shot his mother back in 1968, but her body had been missing ever since. So they talked to the son and he's like, yeah, my father definitely killed my mother, but we just never found her body. What he said, like. Yeah, the son tattled on his father, essentially. Oh, okay, okay.

So Vince said he was about three years old at the time that his mother disappeared. Only he didn't learn the truth about her death until they went down to Belize in 1978. This is now tying us back to our case. That's when a drunken Dwayne began confessing to his sons that he had killed their mother because she wanted a divorce.

She wasn't the only one. He killed dozens of other people as well. At least this is what he told his sons. What in the world? What do you what do you do? Because the sons are so young as well. It's like they're not. What are they going to do? That's crazy. So this was a statement that the boys actually wholeheartedly believed, which now makes it a little more understanding why they stole those berries back. Yeah. Because they didn't want their dad killing their new friends, Peter and Chris.

So they were also terrified of reporting after they saw what he did to two English tourists that summer that were on the boat with them. So during that interview, Vince also told detectives the full account of what he'd witnessed on the Justin B. that July. I didn't expect this. I didn't think that they were going to comply. And they're just they're letting it all out.

So it's in March of 2016, Penny and her family were finally brought into the GMP's office to hear his statement that he had made back in California. At least getting the details of how and why Chris and Peta had died. So here's what Vince said.

In the summer of 1978, Dwayne took his two boys to Belize to dodge an arrest for a statutory rape charge. Holy crap. So they had said, oh, it's just this family business. Like we came here because we thought it'd be good money. No, he was trying to get out of the States. What a scumbag. His plan was to buy a boat, sail along the coast of Central and South America, stay under the radar. But

But that was easier said than done for a man like Dwayne. Come July 1st, Chris and PETA were regular fixtures aboard the Justin B. And as we learned from PETA's letters, tensions were starting to run high.

One evening, after too much to drink, Dwayne began ordering Russell around, yelling at him to get into the water and untangle the anchor. Russell, terrified of his drunk father, always did what he was told. But when Russell noticed there was nothing wrong with the anchor, he got back on board and began reeling it in to show his father it wasn't stuck.

But that's when Dwayne came up behind him and started beating the 12-year-old boy. What? Well, this being such a tiny boat, Chris and Peta bore witness to the entire thing. And Dwayne was just taking it way too far. They had been fighting. They had been yelling. But now this physical abuse was just too far. So Chris stepped in and tried to pull Dwayne off of Russell, his son. And he did.

And when Dwayne took a swing at Chris, he missed entirely, instead falling off the boat and into the water. Now the drunken Dwayne was absolutely humiliated. Like this is his boat and he just tried to punch someone and he fell in the water. And even though Chris offered him a hand to get him back on board, Dwayne was not about to consider it an olive branch. Over the next several hours, he replayed the events over and over in his mind to the point where he was set in his convictions. It

It was time to kill Chris and PETA. This whole thing had just been too embarrassing. He was over it. That's insane to me. So on the following evening, July 2nd, Dwayne pretended like all was forgiven. He asked Chris for his help pulling up the anchor. And that's when Dwayne snuck up behind him and attacked Chris.

he hit Chris over the head with a club repeatedly and tried to stab him with an old broken fillet knife until Chris surrendered. Chris suffered in pain until the following morning when Dwayne came to him and PETA and said he'd be dropping them off near a port in Guatemala.

but in order to give him ample time to get away, he said he needed to tie them up to slow them down. He forced them to strip naked, bound their wrists and ankles, and then for the next 36 hours, Dwayne sat and tortured and played mind games with the couple. And the kids are there the whole time? Yeah.

convincing them that he was going to let them live if they played along but on the morning of july 4th both chris and pita physically and emotionally were beaten to a pulp duane chose not to make good on his promise he placed plastic bags over their heads and forced his children to help him tie the couple to those old machine parts then duane grabbed chris and threw him overboard followed by pita ultimately chris and pita died trying to defend russell his they're they're

Yeah. Dwayne's son in a time of need. I don't understand how, I just don't understand how someone like that is not in jail before and is some just, just out in the open. Cause he's running away. Yeah. So I can't even imagine how that must've left Russell feeling in the aftermath of all this.

But as it turns out, he didn't keep this bottled up for all those years like the farmers in the Framptons had first imagined. Apparently, both Russell and Vince had tried several times to report all of this to the Sacramento PD and the FBI, even Scotland Yard and Interpol. Only none of those agencies followed up on their statements. No freaking way. Right. How does that happen? Because they're young kids.

So even after what? And this is even after Vince joined the U.S. Navy. That's so frustrating. In 1982. Over time, Vince just began to think that his father was the luckiest criminal in the world. Like they had gone and reported and their father was still out. Somehow managing to escape conviction for both Chris and PETA and his mother's death back in 1986.

But someone who feels that invincible usually doesn't stop there. But with not enough evidence in every single murder, there's now enough at least circumstantial evidence to charge Dwayne with PETA and Chris's deaths as long as the boys agree to testify against him. But police had one last hurdle to jump through because Dwayne was right. His crimes were out of Sacramento's jurisdiction.

So they began looking for ways that they could prosecute Dwayne. They considered extraditing him to Guatemala, but the government there just didn't want to take on this now 40-year-old case. They probably didn't care. Belize claimed the murders were in their jurisdiction since they happened off the coast of Guatemala. Even the FBI couldn't take it on since Guatemala didn't have ties to the U.S. However, the U.S. could claim jurisdiction if the crime happened out in open waters, buying in a boat that was owned

owned by a U.S. citizen. Which it did. So all they needed was more proof that Dwayne owned the Justin B. Turns out, Russell the son is like, okay, let me get on this. He finds a mountain of useful evidence stored in his garage. A boat flag with the words Justin B written in Dwayne's handwriting. Photos of them with Chris and Peta. Chris's old cassette tape collection, which he left behind. And the old ownership title to the Justin B. I can't believe, I'm still kind of in awe how...

proactive the kids are being which is amazing i thought that they were going to be scared of their dad or something else was going on but they they tried multiple times before to report it yeah so i'm glad that it's going this way well i think now at 50 they're probably like he murdered my mom he murdered people in front of us yeah like who like he needs to go to prison for life like this is crazy yeah and he beat us yeah as kids

So with this smoking gun, they can now prosecute Dwayne for those murder charges here in the U.S., something Dwayne himself never thought would happen. But on December 1st, 2016, the 75-year-old Dwayne got the shock of his life when he was met at his nursing home with an arrest warrant. That's what I'm talking about. The following day, he was charged with two counts of first-degree murder. His trial was set to begin in October 2017 only.

Only Dwayne would never make it. On March 20th, 2017, Dwayne shackled to a hospital bed, took a turn for the worst. He had exercised his rights to end his treatment, had stopped taking his medication, and was now letting his liver and heart problems get the best of him. In April, Russell came to visit him, figuring now was the time to get everything off his chest.

He told his dad he did love him. He did forgive him. Before he died, he wanted Dwayne to answer for one last thing. Where did you bury mom's body? Dwayne looked to the U.S. Marshal guarding his bedside, then turned back to Russell and said, you don't expect me to tell you with him sitting here, do you? Dwayne then proceeded to call Russell a traitor and a snitch, but

But in all of that, he never confessed to where he buried their mother, Mary Lou. You can catch me unplugging all those machines as he's saying all that. On April 24th, 2017, Dwayne died in that hospital bed just two weeks shy of his first pretrial hearing. As Penny Farmer put it, Dwayne had taken the coward's way out. She said she felt cheated that she was looking forward to the day Dwayne had to face her and her family in court today.

and hear about the pain he had caused them. So she went on to write a book about her brother's case and included a quote that I think speaks to how many of the victim's families must feel in a situation like this. Penny wrote, quote, "'Time blunts the intense searing pain of bereavement, but what remains is a dull, throbbing ache.'"

A longing for what might have been and the knowledge that a life with them in it would have been so much richer for us all. And that is the case of Chris Farmer and Peter Frampton. It's hard because I'm glad that we knew who did it. So for them, it wasn't really a who did it. It was more of when does he get caught? And then when he does get caught, he dies. And that's just crazy that no reason like a lot of these cases, no rhyme or reason.

Just because honestly, he was a bad guy and wanted to kill people. Like there was no other reason. Yeah. It's devastating. It's devastating for his kids. Yeah. Devastating for the victims who were just like supposed to be on the vacation of their life. They trusted this guy to get them somewhere.

But that is all we have for this week. Remember, we have bonus episodes over on Patreon and Apple subscriptions. And we will see you next time with another episode. I love it. And I hate it. Goodbye.