E57.5 | BONUS - While the Baby Slept: Jess Rigby (companion to Episode 57)

E57.5 | BONUS - While the Baby Slept: Jess Rigby (companion to Episode 57)

August 30, 2026 · 49 min · Season 1 · Episode 59

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Jess Rigby discusses the aftermath of her brother-in-law Jason Rigby's death and the ongoing quest for justice.

A companion to Episode 57 — the death of Jason Rigby On the evening of 14 December 2024, Jess Rigby and her husband Chris had put their youngest to bed and started a movie when the calls began. Chris's brother Jason, forty years old and second-in-charge of a resort in Nadi, had died in his staff apartment that morning — ten hours earlier, on the other side of the Pacific, with a stab wound to the chest. By the time the family were told, the scene had already been cleared and released. In this conversation Jess describes what the twenty months since have been like: three trips to Fiji, a private investigator, a missing phone, a knife nobody can account for, a toxicology form with a word crossed out - and the single document her family has been given about how Jason died. IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING Jason's family want to hear from anyone who worked at, or stayed at, the Crowne Plaza Fiji Nadi Bay Resort & Spa on 14 December 2024. There were hundreds of guests and hundreds of staff on the property that day, and almost none has ever been asked what they saw. No detail is too small. Justice for Jason Rigby — on Instagram and Facebook Or message anonymously via theguiltpodcast.com and…

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Guest: Jess Rigby

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Organizations: Crowne Plaza Fiji Nadi Bay Resort & Spa, Hembury Books

Books & works: WHILE THE BABY SLEPT: A Family's Fight for Justice in Fiji Over the Unsolved Death of Jason Rigby

Places: Fiji

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