He melted six tons of stolen gold. He defrauded thousands. He beat every prosecution-until someone decided he'd survived long enough. On a quiet summer evening in Essex, John Palmer-the notorious "Goldfinger" of Britain's most infamous robbery-was executed in his own garden. Six bullets at close range. No witnesses. No arrests. No justice. But here's the twist that shocked investigators: for two days, nobody knew he'd been murdered. From the ashes of the legendary 1983 Brink's-Mat heist to the sun-drenched fraud empires of Tenerife, Palmer built a criminal kingdom worth millions. He outsmarted Scotland Yard, walked free from courtrooms, and made enemies across two continents. When he finally went to prison, he kept his silence-the one thing that kept him alive. Until it didn't. The Essex Murders takes you deep inside one of Britain's most baffling unsolved cases. Who wanted Palmer dead? The Spanish associates he betrayed? Fellow criminals who feared what he knew? Victims seeking revenge? Or someone else entirely? With a contaminated crime scene, a forty-eight-hour head start, and a killer who vanished like smoke, detectives faced an almost impossible investigation. Nearly a decade later, the truth remains buried in the shadows of Britain's criminal underworld-protected by a code of silence that even death cannot break. This is the untold story of: The melting of Britain's biggest gold heist A timeshare empire built on broken dreams The enemies who waited decades for revenge The professional execution that remains unsolved The secrets that died with Goldfinger Some mysteries are solved. Some haunt forever. The garden has been cleaned. The blood has been washed away. But the questions remain.