Here’s a follow up to a news story that made headlines around the world four years ago. The mystery is still unsolved.
British Journalist Tir Dhondy could not let go of the story about Sam Helsop’s disappearance from a cruising cat in St. John, the USVI. A British adventurer living in the Caribbean, Helsop was living with her then boyfriend Ryan Bane on his 49-foot cat Siren Song and was last seen in a security video one evening in 2021 walking down a dock holding his hand. Six hours later she was reported missing.
Bane asserts that he went to bed and was soon asleep. He surmises that Helsop must have fallen overboard or may have gone for a late swim. Bane has never been interviewed by police, which made Dhondy question the thoroughness of their investigation.
Dhondy, who works for the BBC, wrote in a recent article “To try to establish the truth, I spent a month in the US Virgin Islands investigating the case for a BBC Three documentary – speaking to the police who led the investigation, the coast guard and possible witnesses.”
One of the pieces of evident that Dhondy turned up was the security video of the couple on the night of Helsop’s disappearance.
