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00:32Lord, I know the coming days are going to be hard for me.
00:36Yasmin, we've got two less for lunch.
00:38You give me the strength to face them.
00:41And Winston, well, Winston's not feeling...
00:44You're by my side.
00:45I still made as much green fig salad as usual.
00:48Always gets eaten.
00:49Oh, Sylvie sweetheart, I'm so sorry.
00:53We didn't disturb you, did we?
00:55No, just saying a quick prayer.
00:56Oh, please don't tell me you've got the whole church ready on your own.
01:00I don't mind. I enjoy it.
01:02Yeah, but I told him to be here to help.
01:16So, I think I know what you're going to say.
01:18Despite me specifically asking you...
01:21To arrive early and help Mrs. Godwin with the church.
01:24I'm sorry, I promise it will never happen again.
01:28It will.
01:28I mean, yes, it's very probable.
01:30So, are you going to make it to the service?
01:38Um...
01:39I will try my best.
01:42Cha-cha.
01:43I will try my best.
02:01I'm
02:21Down by the riverside
02:23One foot floor, my love, my goal
02:25Down by the riverside
02:28Down by the riverside
02:31I ain't gonna study one no more
02:34Make a prayer in the morning for you.
02:37Bye.
02:40I'm going to nip home and grab the food.
02:43Is Seb still not here?
02:45You're gonna be okay setting up for lunch?
02:47I'll be fine.
02:49Okay.
02:53Today is collection pasta.
02:55I'll go and finish tidy up in here
02:57then I'll head over to your place.
02:59I'll see you soon, Sylvie.
03:18Hello?
03:19Hello?
03:24Is somebody there?
03:36Okay, everybody.
03:38Come and sit down.
03:41Oh, that boy has a sixth sense.
03:43You can't get him to come to church on time,
03:45but dish up some food and there he is.
03:48What a feast.
03:49Looks like a time did just right.
03:51Can't wait to dig in.
03:52I'm dead for hungry.
03:54Miss Sealy, mama, you all good?
03:57Mm-hmm, nice to see you, Seb.
03:59Right, come everybody, sit down.
04:04Whit, Sylvie's not here.
04:06Don't tell me she's still at the church.
04:10的人 on a foodstab.
04:12All right.
04:34All right.
04:34Let's go see here.
04:35Let's see here.
04:37Gofüru and Helen.
05:08Marvin, good afternoon.
05:11We don't often see you here on your own.
05:14Yeah, well, the commissioner's been encouraging me to put myself out more.
05:19And you've got to do what the big man says, right?
05:21So I thought I'd try my hand with the dominoes crowd.
05:24Good for you.
05:25I'll introduce you.
05:29It's a lot noisier than how they play back up.
05:32I mean, back there, it's more sedate.
05:35Less, um...
05:36Passionate.
05:37Exactly that.
05:38So off in the way with the English.
05:43Everyone, this is Marvin.
05:45He was looking to play.
05:49Oscar, maybe you could play with me.
05:52Sure.
05:53Yeah, nice to meet you, Oscar.
05:55Nice to meet you.
05:56Um, be gentle with me, yeah?
05:58It's been a while.
06:00Oh, Naomi, you're not working today.
06:03We are now, I'm afraid.
06:05Got an accidental death.
06:08Coroner's away at the moment, so we have to go and sign off on it.
06:11Mervyn's here.
06:12He was just about to play his first dominoes game on the island.
06:16There you go.
06:18What?
06:19Oh.
06:20That's it?
06:21Well.
06:22Well, okay then, er, nice one, mate.
06:27We should, er, have a rematch sometime.
06:29You know, by the 12th or never.
06:31It's not over already.
06:33The man totally thrashed me.
06:35I was only gone a few moments.
06:37It's like a hurricane.
06:38I've never seen anything like it.
06:42DS Thomas, please tell me we've got a new case to deal with.
06:45Because that was genuinely humiliating.
06:47We have.
06:48Buy St Vincent's church.
06:50Which is Seb's mother's church.
06:53He was the one that called it in.
06:58See you, Oscar.
07:01English.
07:04The victim's name is Sylvia Godwin.
07:06She was 85 years old.
07:08God bless her.
07:10I can't believe she's gone just like that.
07:12Did you know her well?
07:13Since I was a kid.
07:15She was like an auntie to me, you know?
07:18Sorry, mate.
07:20So, was she alone when it happened?
07:23She stayed behind after service to tidy up.
07:25Looks like she was dusting the cross and lost her footing and pulled it down with her.
07:30Poor woman.
07:31Paramedics reckon she banged her head when she landed.
07:33Caused an injury to the brain.
07:36And you found her body, Officer Rose?
07:39Mm-hmm.
07:40Me and my mama and Miss Seeley.
07:42She's the headmistress at the church paramedic school down the road.
07:45Miss Godwin!
07:47Something isn't right.
07:48It's not adding up.
07:50This whole scene in front of it, it's just not adding up for me.
07:56It's her shoes.
07:57What's wrong with her shoes?
07:59There's nothing wrong with her shoes, per se.
08:01They're nice enough, sunny best shoes.
08:04Got a bit of a heel on them.
08:06About two inches, I reckon.
08:08The thing is, most people, if they're going to climb up on a chair to do some dusting,
08:13and they're wearing heels, they're going to remove them beforehand.
08:16To be more sure-footed.
08:17Safety first and all that.
08:19And at 85 years old, I think Mrs. Godwin here will be even more likely to do that
08:25than anyone younger or more agile.
08:28So, what are you suggesting?
08:30That she didn't climb up on the chair?
08:34No, she didn't.
08:35And if she didn't climb up on the chair, she didn't fall from the chair.
08:39And if she didn't fall from the chair, she didn't bang her head from falling.
08:42And if she didn't bang her head from falling, then what did actually happen here?
08:47You think it's suspicious?
08:49I think we've been sold a lie.
08:50What?
08:51That's not possible.
08:52Why not?
08:53Because the church was all locked up from the inside, so nobody could get in or out.
09:00Show me.
09:02So, when we got here, we went to the back entrance.
09:06It's locked.
09:09Flip won't go in.
09:12The key's in on the other side.
09:14So, we came round to the front entrance.
09:17To the same situation.
09:19Let me see.
09:21There's a key in here too.
09:23So, I had to bust the door open.
09:28See?
09:29Whose key's that?
09:30Mrs. Godwin's.
09:31She usually locks the door and she's tidying up, so nobody bothers her.
09:35Show me the back door.
09:40Is this also the victim's key?
09:43No.
09:43That's from the hook over there, sir.
09:45I don't know how it got in this door.
09:47Could someone have been hiding in here while you were in there?
09:51No way.
09:52As soon as I found her, I saw my phone had no juice.
09:55I came straight in here and called the ambulance.
09:58I'm telling you, both doors were locked on the inside.
10:00If someone killed Mrs. Godwin and staged a crime scene,
10:05then how did they manage to get out?
10:12No, that just can't be.
10:14There is no reason anybody would want to do that to Sylvie.
10:18She's right.
10:18It's crazy you think it is suspicious.
10:21Well, can you tell us a little more about her?
10:23Did Mrs. Godwin have any family?
10:25Was she married?
10:26Was, but he passed away.
10:27When was it now?
10:28It was 2017.
10:30I officiated the funeral.
10:32I mean, you want to know about Sylvie's life?
10:34It was this church.
10:36This church was her family.
10:39That's the truth.
10:41She had been coming to St. Vincent since before I was born.
10:45She was christened here.
10:46She got married here.
10:47She...
10:48And she never missed a single Sunday service in all of her life.
10:53Pastor, I came straight over.
10:55Thank you for coming, Hector.
10:57Oh.
11:00I called Hector and told him the news.
11:03He was very close to Sylvie.
11:05She was his schoolteacher many years ago.
11:07Hector, my eyes.
11:11D.I. Wilson.
11:12D.S. Thomas.
11:16So, Mrs. Godwin was a teacher?
11:18St. Vincent Primary School.
11:20I took over from her as headmistress when she retired.
11:24And you kept in touch with her?
11:26Always.
11:27The things she did for me as a kid.
11:29Above and beyond, you know?
11:35In what way?
11:38Kept an eye on me.
11:40Because my parents didn't.
11:42Sylvie and Walter, her husband.
11:44They never had kids themselves.
11:46Hector met the world to her.
11:48That's why this just can't be true.
11:51That woman had nothing but good in her.
11:57Well, if you think of anything, you let us know, yeah?
12:00Mm.
12:14You can go and rest your feet, ma'am.
12:16I'll clear all this up.
12:18Want me to make your herbal tea?
12:20After a day like today, all I want is for you to pour me a rum.
12:24A large one.
12:25All right.
12:26The Christmas rum coming out early this year.
12:29Seb, your inspector.
12:34Is he usually right about this kind of thing?
12:3699.9% of the time.
12:39So someone did murder Sylvie.
12:43But who?
12:44I don't know.
12:46But it couldn't have been anybody at the church, right?
12:49So maybe Sylvie had things going on in her life that we don't know about.
12:56But, Mum, I promise you, whatever it is, we'll figure it out.
13:06I know this hasn't played out how we expected, but I had to do what I had to do.
13:12No, I'm not coming back yet.
13:14Not until I've got what I came for.
13:32Finish your breakfast.
13:41You're welcome.
13:54Commissioner, you made me jump.
13:57Good morning, Inspector.
13:58Good morning.
13:59This arrived for me in the morning post.
14:05It's from your victim.
14:10Mrs. Godwin saw me on the local news covering the recent police initiative event.
14:16She said she could tell I wanted to put things right.
14:21And that's what she also needed to do, right or wrong.
14:26But she didn't say what that was?
14:28Only that whatever it was, was of a criminal nature and had something to do with St. Vincent's Church.
14:35There is a dark secret that has been buried for too long.
14:38And it's time the truth came out.
14:43It was posted on Saturday morning.
14:48And 24 hours later, she was dead.
14:54Well, this gets more interesting by the minute.
14:56How much is in Mrs. Godwin's bank account?
14:59$2,463,000.
15:04What?
15:05You sure about that?
15:06Like, seriously?
15:08Seriously.
15:09Well, new primary school headteachers earn so much.
15:12I requested statements that go further back.
15:14All I have is the last five years, and the money was already in the account.
15:18The victim's husband, Walter, is it?
15:20What did he do for a living?
15:21Mr. Walter Godwin.
15:23He was a caretaker at the same school that Mrs. Godwin worked at.
15:26I think that's where they first met.
15:28So it's not only to be his money.
15:29Do we know anything about her family?
15:31Yeah.
15:32Mrs. Godwin told me once her parents were farmers.
15:34They definitely weren't rich.
15:36So she didn't inherit it?
15:38Could the money have something to do with the crime she talks about in this letter?
15:41The one connected to St. Vincent's.
15:43Officer Rose, give your mum a call.
15:45See if it sparks a memory or something, yeah?
15:47Cool.
15:48But all of this is a bit odd.
15:50Because it's nothing like Mrs. Godwin.
15:52I mean, $2 million?
15:54That's crazy.
15:56She wasn't that kind of person.
15:58Once we're done here, we're going to go and search Mrs. Godwin's house.
16:01Also, we've emailed everyone on the St. Vincent's weekly newsletter
16:05to see if any of the parishioners saw anything suspicious yesterday.
16:08Okay, thank you.
16:11Sir, that was the solicitor handling Sylvie Godwin's will.
16:15It seems Mrs. Godwin has left everything to Hector Moyse.
16:21Oh, so this guy's just become a millionaire?
16:25It appears so, sir.
16:27What do we know about him?
16:28He's a fisherman, or was.
16:31But he hasn't worked for the last 18 months or so
16:33due to an injury out at sea.
16:36So, if he's had no income for almost two years,
16:40then $2 million's going to come in very handy.
16:48I don't know either.
16:49It's all a bit crazy right now.
16:51Mum, I'll speak to you later.
16:52I got to go.
16:53I'll leave you to his inspector.
16:55No worries, Commissioner.
16:57Sir!
16:57I just got off the phone to my mother
16:59and she has no idea what Sylvie Godwin was talking about in that letter.
17:02Well, if anything else comes to mind, you'll let me know, yeah?
17:05All right.
17:07Where are you going?
17:08To interview Hector Moyse.
17:10He's a possible suspect now.
17:12Hector?
17:13A suspect?
17:14He's a good guy.
17:15He wouldn't kill anybody, let alone Sylvie Godwin.
17:18She was like a mother to him.
17:19Well, these are the questions we have to ask.
17:21It's what we do, without fear or favour, remember?
17:30That used to be my boat.
17:33There.
17:34Spent more time to get on me and her than anyone else.
17:38And then, some doctor you don't even know
17:42writes a certificate saying you can't do it no more.
17:47Well, how are your finances?
17:49Now you're not working.
17:50I'm struggling.
17:51All right.
17:52No one wants to employ a guy who only knows how to do one thing in his life.
17:57Yeah, but that will change us now, doesn't it?
18:00Excuse me?
18:01What?
18:01Mr. Moyse, you inherit the bulk of Sylvie Godwin's estate,
18:05and don't tell us you didn't know.
18:07Her solicitor told us Mrs. Godwin informed you
18:10when she made the will a few years back.
18:11Yeah, I knew.
18:12But she got hardly nothing, just her house,
18:15which is a few tens of thousands.
18:17You think I'd kill for that?
18:18You're telling us she didn't let you know what was in her will?
18:20No.
18:22Why?
18:25It's more than just her house.
18:26$2.4 million more.
18:30I'm sorry, what?
18:33Is this a joke?
18:34Funny how things turn out, eh?
18:36Yeah.
18:36I didn't know she had that kind of money.
18:38I swear to you,
18:39she never mentioned a word to me about it.
18:41Look, I get it.
18:43I get how it looks to you.
18:44I need money.
18:45Badly, I'm desperate.
18:47But I had no idea Sylvie was loaded like that.
18:52So why would I kill her?
18:59Sarge, found some kind of time machine
19:02in Mrs. Godwin's office.
19:04Oh, it's a computer.
19:08Have you done those yet?
19:10No, not yet.
19:10OK, you do that and I'll do this.
19:12Cool.
19:18Well, it seems to be working.
19:21So, I noticed your dad wasn't around yesterday.
19:24If you don't mind me asking, is he...
19:27Yeah, he, um...
19:29He passed away.
19:31I'm so sorry.
19:33How old were you?
19:36Eleven.
19:37That's so young.
19:38It must have been hard.
19:42Really hard, you know?
19:44Yeah.
19:46My first lesson in pain.
19:48But seeing my mother rise up every morning after that,
19:53that showed me what true love looks like, you know?
19:57Made us closer.
19:58A team.
20:00You can tell.
20:10The Bel-Shad dipty?
20:13You know what a dipty is?
20:15Yeah, it's, um, used to measure oil in the car.
20:18You know, you dip it in, take it out.
20:20I said dipty.
20:21You're trying to say dipstick, right?
20:24Dipty.
20:24The painting or carving on two panels usually hinge like a book.
20:29Oh, you mean dipty.
20:31Yeah, man, me know about dipty and them thing, yeah.
20:34Well, apparently this Bel-Shad dipty is rare.
20:37Priceless kind of rare.
20:39Yeah?
20:41Why was Sylvie interested in this?
20:46Let's check her search history.
20:52Why, watch her.
20:54She searched the hell out of it.
20:56This was three days ago.
20:58Friday, the day before she posted that lesson to the commissioner.
21:07The Bel-Shad dipty is a rare French panel painting from the Middle Ages.
21:11Each panel measures 50 by 30 centimetres.
21:15Rare?
21:15So it's worth some coinage?
21:17Hmm.
21:17It's worth major coinage.
21:19If anybody could find it, it went missing from France during the Second World War.
21:23And here it is.
21:24It's believed the diptych was taken from a museum in Paris by a young German soldier called Joseph Krauss.
21:31They reckon he brought that same painting over here to the Caribbean.
21:35When the Vichy government sent a new governor to Martigny, Krauss and a couple of other German soldiers accompanied him.
21:42And what happened to it when he came here?
21:45Boy, I don't know.
21:47But Joseph Krauss, he fled the region when the war finished and the painting never resurfaced.
21:53And some historians believe that Krauss hid the Bel-Shad diptych on one of the smaller neighbouring islands, like St.
21:59Marie.
22:01Right, so our victim was looking into this Bel-Shad diptych and the next day sent a letter to the
22:08commissioner saying she wanted to put right a wrong that took place many years before at St. Vincent's Church.
22:13And 24 hours later, Sylvie was murdered in the church with both doors locked from the inside.
22:20She also had over $2 million in her bank account and we've no idea how she got that money.
22:26But if she came into possession of this painting, then maybe that could explain why she ended up so rich.
22:36OK, let's keep digging, yeah?
22:38And DS Thomas, get in touch with the commissioner.
22:40Because if there's any truth in it, this could be a big deal.
22:56Everything all right?
23:00It's just like first Hector, then Mrs. Godwin.
23:06It's all a bit much right now.
23:11Sylvie was all about doing the right thing.
23:14You should have said so.
23:16No, because it's like you said, right?
23:17Without fear or favour.
23:19So it's not right me defending her, is it?
23:22Even if I know it's the truth.
23:25Seb, if this case is too close to home, it's OK to take a step back.
23:30No, it's cool, Sarge. It's cool.
23:31I really want to help get to the bottom of this.
23:34For Sylvie.
23:36Yeah, sure?
23:37Yeah.
23:38All right, then I'll see you tomorrow morning, yeah?
23:41All right.
23:42Take care of yourself.
23:48All right, thanks for letting me know, Mrs. Martin.
23:50You have yourself a good evening.
23:55Sir, that was one of the parishioners from St. Vincent's.
23:59Received the email we sent out asking if anyone saw anything suspicious yesterday.
24:04Mm-hmm.
24:04Says she saw a woman outside the church yesterday morning, parked up in a hire car.
24:09Never seen her at St. Vincent's before.
24:11Description?
24:12It was a silver vehicle with logos for Kariba car hire.
24:17The woman looked in her 50s with shoulder-length blonde hair.
24:21Not much of a tan, apparently.
24:23So, with the hire car, maybe not a local?
24:27Yeah, it's me again.
24:28So, who is she?
24:30I'm telling you, the police haven't found it yet.
24:32I watched two officers leaving her house, both of them carrying evidence, and they didn't have it with them.
24:38So, where's it got to?
24:40I know a little of the history of the Belshow diptyque, but how or why that connects to Sylvie Godwin,
24:47I don't know.
24:50But I shall ask her own.
24:53Evening all.
24:54Well, um, sorry I'm late.
24:57I had a prior arrangement with a bloke called Barry.
25:00Who, might I ask, is Barry?
25:03It's funny you should ask that.
25:04Well, Barry is a retired expat who's returning to the UK to be with his grandchildren.
25:09So, he's selling off a bunch of stuff online.
25:11So, I got myself this beauty.
25:14And what is that, sir?
25:17This is the answer to Catherine's prayers, not that she knows yet.
25:20What is the answer to my prayers?
25:23Oh, Catherine.
25:24Well, it's the one thing that's missing from your place.
25:28Hmm.
25:36Oh.
25:38It's a dartboard.
25:39I can see that.
25:40You see, the thing is, Domino's is all well and good, but for a boozer to be a proper boozer...
25:45Pardon, but this is not a boozer.
25:48A pub.
25:49Or a pub.
25:50But whatever this establishment wants to call itself, with this on your wall, it can only enhance the communal vibe.
25:58No, we're not an English-themed sports bar.
26:02It's not going up.
26:04Yeah, but Catherine...
26:04I said no.
26:05Just imagine...
26:06Mervyn, my final word, no.
26:09No!
26:11No!
26:21It seems you are not the proud owner of your very own dartboard.
26:37I'll have it much to me right now in the moment, you know?
26:40I know it is, my love.
26:41I know.
26:46Whoa!
26:47Mum!
26:47What's this?
26:49What?
26:49Huh?
26:49All right.
26:50Seb, sweetheart, this isn't, um...
26:53Seb, you weren't supposed to...
26:55good evening sebastian you all right me are you all right what's this huh what's going on
27:02because it look like what are you i i i i guess you could say we've we've been getting close
27:08the
27:09two of us right since when well um since i suppose since um what would you say loretta
27:18how long has it been i suppose we could say um it's been a year a year a year ma
27:26and you never
27:27once thought to mention it to me oh hector i'm so sorry could you could you give us a moment
27:33please i need to be getting home anyway sir sorry you had to find out like this sebastian i should
27:41have we should have to sorry i wanted to tell you but i i was too scared of how i'd
28:03react no so then
28:05what see it is because of that no no really it's not that a whole year ma a whole year
28:16you've been
28:16lying to me you know in the last 24 hours it turns out not one person is who i thought
28:28they were
28:31but i never thought you would be one of them
28:36i need some air
28:56good morning inspector yes tomas inheritance oh well i mean okay that's interesting
29:05all right well thanks and also i wanted to know so when was what the oh one second sir
29:14good morning inspector sarge sarge what's going on sir well i went on our walk last night and i ended
29:21up here so i thought i'd come and start on the case hey can we oh yes sure sorry sorry
29:27yes sorry
29:29sorry oh sorry no sir oh sorry yes yes come on yes so um i'm just on the phone with
29:37uh sylvie godwin's
29:38bank manager and interestingly the 2.4 million in her account she inherited it from her husband walter
29:44godwin the bank manager says she don't know where he got it from or how walter got so rich it
29:50was walter's
29:51money yeah and unfortunately the liar who was handling water's will it's no longer her own so that's all
29:57i got why is there a post-it with post-mortem estimation mark written on it oh uh the post
30:02-mortem just
30:03came in it's here somewhere got it under the takeaway i will clear that up for you as soon as
30:08possible
30:09sarge sorry about that why is there a pack of toilet roll on my desk that's why i went for
30:13the walk in the
30:14first place my new host mate was i don't forget the toilet roll pm says the victim became unconscious
30:20and died of hypoxia and reckoned she was hit with something with a sharp edge rather than banging her
30:27head on the floor so we're right it was murder what are all these printouts on the floor sir oh
30:34that's
30:34from uh kariba car hire they sent the details of the woman who was seen outside st vincent church the
30:39morning of the murder selena bascombe 54 years old from the uk berkshire arrived here friday and is
30:47staying at the golden bay hotel yeah yeah i think she's just a tourist there's nothing interesting
30:52about her yet well then you didn't look properly said because on her passport she uses her maiden name
31:02godwin as in sylvie and walter godwin how did i miss that we need to talk to her right away
31:08so i think i'm fletcher yeah sorry about that hello hello
31:30seb this is cool you're trying to move the case on but your head is pinging around all over the
31:36place
31:36it's close to chaos in there i understand what it looks like sarge but i've been up all night
31:41doing a lot of work and i feel like i'm very close to you should go home okay have a
31:46shower get yourself
31:47straight but sarge i need to finish i know i know but you're not helping right now we can't work
31:53like
32:07this thanks for coming in miss bascombe please take a seat walter godwin was my grandfather
32:13he was stationed on saint marie during the second world war
32:17when the war ended he wrote to my grandmother who was pregnant with my father at the time saying that
32:25he wasn't coming home that it was over between them and he knew she was pregnant yes except i don't
32:33think it was him who wrote that letter i think it was someone else um i found this on the
32:40saint vincent's
32:41church website it's the day that walter godwin got married to sylvie well that's sylvie but that's
32:50not walter godwin that that's not my grandfather see that's not the same man
33:02so you realized that someone might have stolen your grandfather's identity i know they did
33:09and you came here to saint marie to find out who this other walter godwin was that's why you're at
33:16the church sunday morning to speak with sylvie godwin mrs godwin so how did she react when you
33:30suggested that the man who she'd been married to for 60 odd years may not be who she thought he
33:34was
33:35she already knew she said that she'd only just found out herself that week
33:43how well her plumber had found a box hidden under the floorboards when he was fixing a pipe
33:50i'll find out which plumber sylvie said it had the true identity of her husband in it all his personal
33:57documents making clear what happened to my grandfather which was what
34:05she wouldn't tell me she said that she wasn't ready yet and that she wanted to do it in her
34:10own
34:11time and in her own way whatever that meant i think it meant she wanted to go to the police
34:19first
34:20about it which must have frustrated you coming all this way to be denied the truth this is my family
34:26you have no right to keep this to yourself sorry i can't help you
34:33and in that moment caught up in it all that's when you must have decided no no i wouldn't really
34:39i
34:40wouldn't i just left i was angry but i didn't want to hurt her i just wanted to know what
34:46was in that box
34:47and now she's dead and i don't know where it is
35:00so if sylvie had this box she talked about where is it because it wasn't at the crime scene
35:07and it wasn't at her house and if someone did steal water godwin's identity who and what happened to
35:14the real water godwin i just got off the phone with a plumber who was over at the victim's house
35:18last friday said sylvie looked haunted after she looked inside that box
35:27about an hour later she was getting inside a taxi saying she needed to go to st vincent's primary school
35:36she went to see yasmin seeley
35:43okay i'm gonna lay it out miss seeley i believe it's you who has the missing box sylvie's
35:49we could get a search warrant or
36:08it's a german passport
36:12from the second world war it looks like belonged to joseph krauss
36:16it's believed the diptych was taken from a museum in paris by a young german soldier
36:21called joseph krauss the last visa stamp show he left martinique at the end of the war and came to
36:27saint marie
36:36it's a report about an unnamed british soldier getting into a fight with a group of german naval
36:43officers and left for dead near saint vincent's church his body was never found i believe that
36:49soldier was walter godwin and i think joseph krauss came across his body
36:56joseph realized he could steal his identity if he could dispose of the body without it being found
37:04a map of the saint vincent churchyard that must be where the real walter godwin was buried he took
37:12walter's uniform and papers and buried him there in this grave so no one would ever find it from that
37:19moment on joseph krauss was walter godwin i guess he softened his accent as much as he could and by
37:26the
37:26time he and sylvie met about 15 years later and he seemed like the englishman she thought he was
37:31we need to get a forensic victim over from godaloo
37:39i'm assuming mr krauss went to all these lengths because of this
37:44the belshaw diptych i mean if the authorities worked out he stole it and came looking for him
37:50then with a new identity they wouldn't find him from what i know he lived a simple life working as
37:56a
37:56caretaker for this school and when he and sylvie met everyone always said they truly loved each other
38:05that was the deal she retired handed the baton over to me
38:12why have you got this box miss silly
38:16sylvie brought it with her when she came here on friday
38:19i asked her if i could keep it so i could look into it some more that's all it's entirely
38:23innocent
38:23not if you didn't tell us about it it isn't actually that's suspicious
38:28why did you choose to keep it to yourself
38:35this school is everything to me
38:39and i can't risk his reputation being damaged
38:43it's struggling enough as it is financially
38:47all we have to keep going is donations people's goodwill
38:50and if it ever got out that we had a caretaker working here that wasn't who we thought he was
38:56was a a nazi soldier who covered up a murder
39:02so you killed miss godwin to stop all this no no no i'm very sorry i should have told you
39:08about it i know but
39:11i didn't kill her
39:20so if joseph kraus sold the belshar diptych and had all that money then why he never do nothing with
39:28it never spend it nothing perhaps he kept it just in case i mean if the truth ever caught up
39:34with him
39:35then he had the means to change his identity again afternoon sergeant thomas
39:44the trouble is we're still no closer to working out who murdered sylvie godwin
39:49and then managed to exit the building when both the front and back door were locked from the inside
39:54with keys inside the lock
39:59he's buried here my grandfather we believe so yes
40:23officer rose inspector hey um sorry i'll just uh take in a moment you know
40:33i'll give you some space no no no no you're all right i was just coming in to see if
40:38i could
40:39make any more sense of it all me too i guess and not much
40:48usually i find it levels me out i can feel peace here
40:57no sorry i haven't been much use in this investigation it's just been a lot for me you
41:01know i mean look we all have cases that um throw us off balance from time to time
41:06and i've had more than my first year trust me right see when i'm thrown by a kiss
41:12my brain just starts jumping around like some itchy footed grasshopper you know
41:24well maybe that is your unique selling point so i'd say embrace it
41:32own it don't let it own you in fact you know what let's try it let's try it right now
41:39yeah
41:39oh we visualize it only this time you are taking the lead okay come on up you get that's it
41:51okay this is the crime scene the murder of sylvie godwin that door the front door
41:58is locked from the inside the keys in the door
42:05sylvie's body is here
42:09this big wooden cross is on top of her
42:15now come on just freestyle it yeah just say whatever your brain wants to say
42:20um i'm thinking about when i busted the door open
42:25i hurt my arm you know when i got home it was all bruised up so i drank some rum
42:30to numb the pain
42:34what that also means it was definitely locked
42:41okay okay what else well then if you were the killer you'll probably prefer to leave the scene
42:49at the back yeah yeah keep going keep going so that way you're less likely to be seen by others
42:53so um
42:54maybe we're in the wrong room the back room come on
43:08so what's she saying to you this room what was it telling you
43:17what collection box it's just usually it sits right there under the shelf now it looks like it's
43:25been pulled out a little bit
43:32there's a kind in it and that's odd because because miss godwin empties the collection box every sunday
43:40after the service today's collection passed down and she gives the money to my mom
43:50so this must have been put in there after she was murdered which means well then the killer must have
43:56put it there that won't go in the keys in on the other side
44:07p.m says the victim became unconscious and reckoned she was hit by something with a sharp edge
44:13diptych a painting or a carving on two panels usually hinge like a book
44:19local art historians generally leave it was brought to saint marie
44:30bingo
44:32have you solved the case it was actually officer rose and his itchy footy grass upper brain that solved
44:38it i did that coin explains everything okay let's move people there's still some things we need to
44:46do like get hold of a search warrant and we need the luminol oh and we need a tape measure
44:52why do we
44:53need a tape measure to measure something
45:03way back in 1945 a young british soldier by the name of walter godwin was killed here on saint marie
45:11his identity was stolen and his body was hidden in someone else's grave now finally thanks to sylvie
45:20godwin and the discovery of this box that young man can get the proper burial he deserves thank you
45:29which brings us to the crime in the present sylvie godwin's murder at st vincent's church on sunday
45:35and although it occurred many years after walter godwin's murder this little wooden box in its
45:41contents helped solve this murder as well we know from the post-mortem that sylvie was hit with a
45:48sharp object this spray luminal it takes traces of blood and this proves that there was blood on the
45:55box recently as you can see here
46:02now we have another time to carry out the relevant tests but when our lab compares this blood with
46:08sylvie's i'm confident they'll match and as this box has only been in one person's possession since
46:14the murder it has led me to believe that sylvie godwin's killer was yasmin seeley
46:24what have you done that that's not true someone else must have taken it on them
46:33don't worry miss seeley we'll be coming to this in a minute
46:38throughout this case we've worked on the assumption that sylvie godwin's husband real name joseph
46:45krauss had sold the painting he had stolen which explains why he had so much money in his bank
46:51account well it's half the truth because the unique defining thing about a diptych is that there are
46:58two halves to it diptych a painting or a carving on two panels usually hinge like a book and we
47:05now know
47:06that joseph krauss sold only one half of the belshaw diptych
47:12and he kept the other half
47:21witness me now we'll never fully know why joseph separated the two panels my sense is that he was
47:30someone who liked to hedge his bets be prepared for all eventualities i think that's partly why
47:36he never spent any of the money plus having to explain to his wife-to-be how he came into
47:42such
47:43major coinage would mean admitting to the theft of this famous piece of art and also being an imposter
47:50so joseph held on to the money and the picture so where has it been the last 80 odd years
47:59or so
47:59hanging on the wall of the headmistress's office at the saint vincent's primary school which is now
48:07your office miss sealy
48:13joseph cross must have put it there during his years as caretaker and no one ever thought anything of it
48:19this faded religious icon hanging on the wall of a church school surrounded by other religious images
48:28earlier today miss seeley when we talked in your office that was the day she retired i saw that
48:35framed photo on the wall of sylvie and walter and i happened to notice the outline of a larger rectangle
48:42around that frame where the paint hadn't faded clearly another picture had previously hung there
48:47for some time i didn't think much of it at first but i had it measured and guess what it
48:54was 50
48:55centimeters by 30 centimeters the exact same dimensions as one half of the belshaw dip team
49:03each panel measures 50 by 30 centimeters that's why mrs godwin came to see you when she found the box
49:11and realized what was hanging on her old office wall we can't keep it i go and let the police
49:19know
49:20but you didn't agree did you you told us your school was struggling for money but we had a bit
49:27of a dig
49:28and it's it's worse than that you've not drawn a salary in the last six months to keep it going
49:36you said
49:37yourself the place meant so much to you and so the prospect of getting millions of dollars just landing
49:44in your lap well you just weren't willing to give that up and so after driving home to pick up
49:53food
49:54for lorette's lunch gathering you returned to the church to plead with sylvie one more time please don't
50:00do it that money it could help the school so much could help me but sylvie wasn't for turning was
50:08she
50:08i'm desperate as officer rose said she always tried to do good in life and she wasn't about to stop
50:15now sorry so in that moment desire for the money got the better of you and you decided you were
50:22going
50:22to stop her i assume sylvie had that box with her in the church that day and this box was
50:29your weapon of
50:30choice and once she used it to kill her you made it look like there'd been some tragic accident
50:45how could you
50:49now knowing that the front door of the church had already been locked by mrs godwin
50:54you made your escape via the rear using the church's spare back door key that you took from
51:00the back room to lock the door from the outside and placing this little coin in the lock
51:15it's locked so that when you returned with officer rose and lorette that won't go in and with a
51:21little play acting it would seem like the door was locked from the inside the key's in on the other
51:27side then when officer rose and his mom headed round to the front you lingered briefly and proceeded to open
51:34the door with the church's spare key pushing this coin out in the process and then inserting that key
51:44inside all you had to do was find a moment to actually lock it okay thank you
51:51i'm gonna have to do was find a moment to see the coin on the floor you picked it up
51:59and without your bag or purse you disposed of it in the collection box
52:10and then actually locked the back door with the key
52:16it was very clever of you making it look like sylvie was on her own in the church when she
52:21had that
52:22fatal fall one might say devilishly so but you see sylvie was so determined that the truth would come out
52:31that even after her death her desire to put right a decades old wrong finally won out this
52:38arrived for me in the morning post
52:45officer rose i think this arrest has your name on it
52:54is
52:54get up
52:57he has my ceiling i'm arresting you for the murder of silly me godwin
53:02you don't need to say anything
53:12excuse me serge i'll do a second
53:29i can't believe what that woman's done
53:34poor sylvie
53:37and just for money
53:40i'm sorry for getting it wrong no you haven't seen me at my best on this case
53:46that's not what your inspector told me he said it was because of you that it all got solved
53:54which is even more impressive considering you had other things to deal with
53:58like your mother keeping secrets
54:02and honestly mom i think it's helping you moving on i don't think you should be getting old and lonely
54:09and just focusing on me and the church you know you deserve happiness too
54:18you all right yes i
54:24so you like him
54:28then i'm pleased for you
54:30but you do know that all that money he inherited from the stolen painting you want me getting none of
54:36that you know i'm not after him for his money
54:39well seriously though i mean he seems like a good guy with him shiny head
54:49see you sunday you won't be late this time
54:54i'm the best
54:58love you love you love you too
55:12all right that's the hockey this is where you throw from
55:16you get three throws each and then it's the next player's turn all right let's get it started
55:24game on round one
55:30shut you i thought you were supposed to hit the board inspector yeah yeah i think there's something
55:35off with the flyer it's all right not to worry we got this sir
55:43sir you are really bad at this no it's not me honestly it's it's the dance you know you're giving
55:48off some real bad loser vibes right now maybe you should let the commissioner take the last
55:53role it's not his turn yet with respect now if you just stop talking then i can throw properly all
55:59right
56:06there you go so so that's two points is it
56:21just two points for our team wow i'm just a bit rusty that's all
56:27you want to join our team commissioner i mean i don't think any of us are going to be
56:43all right well come on then officer you reckon you can do better show us what you got
56:58you're going to do better show us what you're going to do better show us what you're going to do
57:00ladies and gentlemen of the tempest company this is your 15 minute call this was their final
57:04performance it suddenly collapsed halfway through the second the poison was in the bottle that our
57:09victim and the other two actors drank from on stage but only michael farrah dies would you like
57:13to go for a drink with me that's inappropriate mr gorman a complaint has been me accusing you of
57:19unprofessional conduct still haven't heard from your brother i think he's actually ignoring my calls
57:24then maybe you should go visit him in antigo somebody's giving the inspector some hair
57:55who's going to be a and the other uh
57:56well
57:57yep
57:57yep
57:58yep
57:58yep
57:58yep
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