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Speaker 1: You're listening to the second and final pard of Unexplained,

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Speaker 1: Season nine, episode fifteen, Red Dust. A haze of smoke

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Speaker 1: Pinfold sat alone as he chained smoked one three, five

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Speaker 1: after another. He fidgeted with the packet. He picked at

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Speaker 1: a scab on his arm. He bit at his nails.

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Speaker 1: The man was clearly nervous and quite possibly in the

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Speaker 1: early stages of opium withdrawn. Nineteen year old Pamela Werner

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Speaker 1: had been dead for over a week, and Pinfold was

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Speaker 1: the first real suspect Inspectors Hans shir Cheung and Richard

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Speaker 1: Dennis had had to work with. Having made little progress

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Speaker 1: up till then Inspector Hahn's sweep of Beijing's infamous den

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Speaker 1: During door to door inquiries. A Russian landlady, clearly rattled

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Speaker 1: informing the attending officer that she just recently found a

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Speaker 1: revealed to be a Canadian called Harold Pinfld. Pinfold was

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Speaker 1: was quickly apprehended and taken into custody for questioning. One

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Speaker 1: officer at the Beijing police station recognized him immediately as

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Speaker 1: stone see the day they found the body. For hours,

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Speaker 1: Pinfold refused to answer Inspectors Hahn and Dennis's questions what

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Speaker 1: a known brothel, they'd found a business card for it

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Speaker 1: among Pinfold's possessions, and what was the newdest retreat. Harold

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Speaker 1: Pinfold feigned ignorance of it all, but they'd already spoken

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Speaker 1: to Joseph Nuf, the manager of Number twenty seven. It

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Speaker 1: was Nuf who told them that Pinfold was a regular

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Speaker 1: them that Pinfold had a side hustle working as a

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Speaker 1: security guard for what he described as a newdest retreat.

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Speaker 1: Nuf claimed not to know too much about it, only

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Speaker 1: run out of cigarettes, Pinfold finally dropped his guard Harold

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Speaker 1: Pinfld admitted to having worked security once or twice at

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Speaker 1: the so called nudest retreats, and that on occasions he'd

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Speaker 1: more than just dancing. Was Pamela one of these dancers,

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Speaker 1: they asked. Pinfald said he couldn't tell them because he'd

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Speaker 1: never heard of Pamela before her body was found. He

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Speaker 1: And as for the blood on his possessions, it wasn't human,

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Speaker 1: According to Pinfald, he sometimes went hunting in the woods

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Speaker 1: Nouf called them, but Pinfald refused to be drawn any

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Speaker 1: By then they had everything they needed. Wentworth Apprentice was

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Speaker 1: The real killers were Chinese, not Westerners, Gorman insisted. Many

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Speaker 1: with Gorman's assessment. Intriguingly, George Gorman did know Pamela Werner,

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Speaker 1: her murder. The potential connections demanded to be followed up,

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Speaker 1: February seventh, just before Chinese New Year. It wasn't nearly

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Speaker 1: unmitigated disaster that also led to Fitzmorris's demotion. Now with

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Speaker 1: to other cases. After all, there were far more pressing

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Speaker 1: the impending invasion of the city. By March nineteen thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: There was only one man left to keep investigating Pamela's murder.

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Speaker 1: Her dogged and heartbroken father, Edward Werner, had been extremely

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Speaker 1: British authorities in Beijing had offered a reward of one

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Speaker 1: Werner's investigations led him to the brothels at twenty seven

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Speaker 1: concluding with the accusation that Wentworth, Prentice and his fellow

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