Murder in the Masai Mara | Episode 1, SOS

Nov 28, 2025
40 mins

Episode Description

On a cold February day in 1988, Julie Ward sets off on the journey of a lifetime from England, through Africa. She establishes a new life in the bustling capital of Kenya but mysteriously disappears while on safari - leaving her plane ticket back to England untouched on a table in her Nairobi home. When her father John flies to Kenya to track her down, he finds a gruesome crime scene in the Masai Mara that throws up more questions than it answers. 


Archive in this episode: NPR, ITN via Getty, The Telegraph


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Watch the accompanying film to this series: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/28/kenyas-secret-deal-silence-father-murdered-julie-ward/


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