Ripoffs and a Rolex: The Murder of Ronald Joseph Platt

Podcast: Dark Poutine - True Crime and Dark History · Dark Poutine / Curiouscast

Opublikowano: 2026-06-01

Episode 421: On July 28, 1996, a fisherman hauling nets off the coast of Devon, England pulled up a body. The dead man had no wallet, no identification — nothing but a Rolex watch still ticking on his wrist. When British police traced the watch, it gave them a name: Ronald Joseph Platt, 51, of Essex. When they went looking for him, they found him — apparently alive. The trail led back across the Atlantic to Ayr, a small town in southwestern Ontario, where roughly seventy people had spent years trusting the wrong man with everything they had. By the time anyo...