Dead in the Water
The decades-long hunt for a brutal killer
In July 1978, the bodies of junior doctor Chris Farmer and his girlfriend Peta Frampton were found floating off the coast of Guatemala. They had been tortured, bound and weighed down with engine parts. In a last letter to loved ones, they wrote that they were due to sail to Honduras with an American and his two sons. Almost 40 years after the trail for their killer had gone cold, the Facebook page of an elderly man on the other side of the world provided a shocking breakthrough …
This tense and atmospheric documentary series from Raw, makers of Don’ t F ** k with Cats and The Tinder Swindler, reveals how a British journalist, Penny Farmer, battled to identify her brother’ s killer. Packed with cliffhangers and extraordinary twists, it charts the astonishing story of how Penny tracked down boat captain Silas Boston and his two sons Russell and Vince to finally discover the horrific truth about what happened to her brother aboard Boston’ s boat.
Duration 3 x 1 hr
Produced by Raw for Amazon Prime Video, in association with All3Media International