Dead Man Running
Dead Man Running

<p>A missing British tourist, a US-wide manhunt and the untold story of how a local celebrity became an international fugitive after his dark past begins to catch up with him.</p>

The Apartheid Killer – a new investigation. All the victims were black and the youngest was just 12 years old. Some relatives are still searching for the graves. They were killed during a three-year bloodbath in the 1980s, in the South African city of East London – by one person. He killed so many, he lost count. It has been 30 years since the white supremacist apartheid regime crumbled. The unresolved trauma of this time has cast a long shadow across a nation. In piecing together this story, the new season of World of Secrets exposes the disturbed past and racial injustices of South Africa itself.To hear more, search for World of Secrets, wherever you get your podcasts.World of Secrets is the BBC podcast about the stories they don’t want told. Delve into a World of Secrets – major BBC global investigations and gripping storytelling. Holding the powerful to account and exposing scandals around the world.
In this final episode, Kim writes from prison. And back in the place where this all started, could a tragic story about a young woman's death in Inverness hold more answers about him?Dead Man Running is produced by Myles Bonnar and Calum McKay. Audio Editing, Sound Design, and Mixing by Gav Murchie. The series producers are Mark Daly and Jack Kibble-White. Original score composed by Callan Marchetti. Research by Ricki Cooper, Katie McEvinney and Marisha Currie. Location recording by Myles Bonnar, Calum McKay and Steven Donnelly. Additional recording by Jenn Daly, Hannah McClintock and Joanne Willott. Artwork by Matt Russell. Production Manager is Susan McLundie. Production management assistant is Ruth McKay. Our Series Editor is Shelley Jofre. The Commissioning editors are Gareth Hydes and Heather Kane-Darling. This is a BBC Scotland production for BBC Sounds.
It's been two years since Kim Avis faked his death at "Mortuary Beach", California. Now, four women take the stand in the trial against him at the High Court in Glasgow, Scotland.
As the net closes in on Kim, the programme team receives an intriguing tip-off and the promise of learning who the fugitive really is.
Kim has yet again switched identities and is beginning to settle down in Colorado Springs. But is the fugitive’s new friend Angie all that she seems?
While American police launch a manhunt, a woman who knows all about Kim Avis's darkest crimes shares her story.
After a mysterious drowning off ‘Mortuary Beach’, police start to question what’s really happened to the missing man.
A missing tourist, a US-wide manhunt and the story of how a local celebrity, Kim Avis, became a fugitive after his dark past begins to catch up with him.