The Man in the Bag

In August 2010, a British intelligence analyst was found dead, naked, and padlocked inside a red duffel bag in his own bathtub, with the keys to the lock tucked beneath his body. Two escapology experts made 400 attempts to replicate the feat. They failed every time. Gareth Williams worked with the NSA tracing money-laundering routes for Moscow-based organized crime, his phone had been wiped, and the heating was turned to maximum in the middle of summer. The coroner called it unlawful killing. The Metropolitan Police called it probably an accident. They still do. Episode 27 of Still Unexplained.