'The three-part true crime documentary Dead In The Water explores the story of a young British couple who set off for a trip of a lifetime across Central America. However, it soon becomes a living nightmare. The couple are murdered and the case for their killer goes cold. 4 decades later their families continue the investigation and make some shocking discoveries.'
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00:00 My brother, Chris, and his girlfriend, Peter,
00:03 always wanted to travel.
00:06 Chris was a risk-taker.
00:09 He hated boundaries.
00:12 Greetings from Belize.
00:14 We're going to travel down the coast.
00:18 We rented a boat with some nice Americans.
00:21 We knew it was a dangerous place to be.
00:25 There was a civil war raging.
00:29 The sailing's really very safe.
00:31 It's basically paradise.
00:33 Suddenly, there was just a deadly silence.
00:38 The last we'd heard from them,
00:42 they got on board a boat.
00:44 It just didn't make sense.
00:48 But the truth was far worse than we could ever have imagined.
00:53 [thunder]
00:56 Why were these two kids tortured and murdered?
01:03 What absolute monster would do these unspeakable things?
01:08 We had no witnesses.
01:12 They were untraceable.
01:14 But my family never gave up, and 40 years on,
01:21 I am looking at my brother's killer.
01:24 What happened to Peter and Chris,
01:31 it's a nightmare that you can't wake up from.
01:34 You feel like you're hiding this secret
01:38 that people would not understand.
01:41 But now, all I can do is tell the story
01:44 of what I saw in front of my own eyes.
01:48 [music]
01:51 [music]
01:54 [BLANK_AUDIO]