American couple Jack and Robin Firestone stumbled upon the Pont de l’Alma tunnel in Paris on the 31st of August 1997, seconds after the car crash that killed Princess Diana – the ex-wife of Prince Charles and mother of Prince William and Prince Harry.
“The scene is very vivid even after 20 years,” Robin said in episode 8 of the Fatal Voyage: Diana Case Solved podcast.
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According to Radar Online, she added: “As we entered the tunnel, there was definitely unusual traffic. It was a slowdown. We were trying to peek ahead to see what was coming up, but at the same time, we saw these flashing lights bouncing off of the tiled walls from the interior of the tunnel.”
Up ahead, the couple started seeing “some action and activity,” according to Robin, including a bunch of cars with blacked-out windows, one of which had Diana inside.
“I looked toward the westbound lane and saw this carnage, the metal of the car just crushed like an accordion,” Jack recounts. “I noticed that there were — this was very odd — motorcycles parked very neatly on the median strip, maybe about somewhere from six to 10 motorcycles. That really struck me as odd.”
In the episode, former homicide detective Colin McLaren explains that “nowhere in any of the official reports into the crash were there two dark, formal cars that Robin mentioned.”
The episode also includes a rundown of events from a French photographer named Pierre.
The tragedy has been plagued with speculation and conspiracy theories, with many suspecting there was something more sinister behind the fatal car crash that killed the Princess of Wales, her boyfriend Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul.
Speaking with Dr. Phil McGraw earlier this year, McLaren and another former homicide detectives – Dylan Howard – shared their insights into the death of Diana, revealing that the crime scene itself was riddled with problems.
“I turned the TV on — like many people in the audience — and saw this horror show unfold,” Mr McLaren explained. “I’m expecting to see a crime scene, a textbook crime scene, because she was the most popular woman in the world.”
The former detective continued: “What I saw was a disaster. I thought, ‘This is what you lecture detectives not to do.'”
The detectives have teamed up together to write the book, Diana: Case Solved: The Definitive Account That Proves What Really Happened, where they review new evidence in the case.
A passage from the book reads:
“Our new research has shown that the paparazzi were not to blame in Diana’s death, and that it was instead a case of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We have found that on the night of her death, the $123,000 Mercedes that carried Diana and others was capable of easily out-accelerating every single vehicle that the members of the paparazzi were driving. In short, there was no neck-and-neck chase, as such a thing was an impossibility. The mass of photographers could not have kept up with her car. Period.”
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