Missing Katrice Lee to be focus of new podcast on unsolved cases
and live on Freeview channel 276
The Missing has worked alongside the families of nine people who have been missing for a long period of time and asks listeners for help in the hope they can be solved.
Hosted by journalist Pandora Sykes, co-host of the soon-to-end The High Low podcast, the series has been made in collaboration with the UK charity Missing People and community organisation Locate International, which brings together ex-detectives who want to help families.
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Episodes will be made available in Spanish, German and Danish in the hope of reaching as many people as possible.
Katrice went missing 39-years-ago on her second birthday during a visit to a military supermarket in Paderborn, then part of West Germany, where her Hartlepool father Richard was stationed.
The former sergeant major and retired postman Mr Lee, 71, who lives in the Stockton Road area of town, believes his daughter was kidnapped by or for a childless couple and could still be alive today.
The podcast team said: “Her family have never given up hope, but 40 years on they still lack the answers they so desperately need.
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"Could Katrice could have been abducted and brought up by a different family?”
Ms Sykes said: “It’s true mystery, with an ethical purpose - to try and find, or at least find out what happened to, the long term missing, of which there are 4,500 cases in the UK alone.
"I am so grateful to Missing People and Locate International for their support and tireless hard work and Podimo and What’s the Story? Sounds, for allowing me to be a part of the project.”Other cases to feature include Andrew Gosden, 14, who went missing in 2007 after skipping school to catch a train to London, Bernadette Cooper, last heard of in 1993 when she called a friend to say she had found the cash to save her bar in Spain and Suzy Lamplugh, who went missing in 1986 in broad daylight following an appointment with an unidentified man.
The first episode will be released on Monday, December 14, with a trailer for the podcast, made by Podimo, available to listen via www.themissingpodcast.org/.