177. The Spy Inside The Duffle Bag. The Mysterious Death Of Gareth Wyn Williams

E177 - 177. The Spy Inside The Duffle Bag. The Mysterious Death Of Gareth Wyn Williams

Published: March 23, 2026

Duration: 42:22

A brilliant spy. A duffle bag containing a body, padlocked from the outside. And a death no one can explain.

When an intelligence officer is found zipped inside a padlocked duffel bag in his own bathtub, the official answers only deepen the mystery.


In August 2010, brilliant Welsh mathematician and intelligence analyst Gareth Wyn Williams was discovered dead in a London flat his naked body sealed inside a zipped and padlocked sports bag in the bathtub. Gareth Wyn Williams worked as a codebreaker for GCHQ while on secondment to MI6, helping track global money-laundering networks...