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The upcoming docuseries In Cold Water: The Shelter Bay Mystery explores the mysterious death of Laura Letts-Beckett, a Canadian school teacher. Laura, 50, allegedly fell overboard and drowned during a fishing trip with her husband, Peter Beckett, near Shelter Bay, Canada, as she couldn’t swim and wasn’t wearing a life vest. This three-part series includes interviews with Peter, law enforcement, and forensic experts, unraveling the twists of the case.
In Cold Water: The Shelter Bay Mystery is directed by Trish Neufeld and executive produced by Michael Kronish, Suze Hannagan, Thomas Robins, Kim Roberts, Benjamin Duffield, and Pablo Salzman. It is a Sky New Zealand Originals series produced by Prime Video in association with AJP Productions and Cineflix C3 Media of Canada.
The docu-series is set to premiere on Prime Video on November 12, 7 pm ET. In New Zealand, it will air in three parts on Sky Open at 8:30 pm on 18, 19, and 20 November 2024.
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The official synopsis of the series as per Prime Video is:
"On a fishing trip in the Canadian Rockies, schoolteacher Laura Letts-Beckett drowns under mysterious circumstances, leaving her husband, Peter, as the sole witness. What follows is so extraordinary that it's hard to believe this is a true story. A secret police investigation ensues, exposing additional murder allegations and questions about marriage, religion, suicide and a plot to kill witnesses."
Follow the article to learn more about the mysterious demise of Laura Letts-Beckett.
The true story of what happened to Laura Letts-Beckett
Laura Letts-Beckett was a schoolteacher from Canada and the wife of Peter Beckett, a former councilor of Napier City in New Zealand. The couple had gone fishing in Upper Arrow Lake in the Shelter Bay area of Canada on August 18, 2010, when calamity struck. Laura allegedly fell over from the boat and drowned in the lake as she could not swim and did not have a life vest.
The only person in the vicinity at the time was Peter Beckett, who can be heard in the official trailer saying that he was unsuccessful in rescuing Laura Letts-Beckett on time, and she had already asphyxiated by the time she was brought out of the water. The incident was declared an accident at the time.
Was the death of Laura Letts-Beckett an accident,
murder, or suicide?
The shocking turn of events followed a year after Laura's death. Her husband, Peter Beckett, was arrested in August 2011 for allegedly murdering her for her insurance payout. Moreover, an anonymous inmate who was imprisoned with him claimed through a letter that he had been recruited by Peter to kill witnesses, including Laura's family members and the police.
The defense, however, claimed that Laura Letts-Beckett was depressed prior to her death and had possibly jumped overboard of her own accord. From the trailer, we also hear doubts that Peter would not receive a fair trial since he was mentally ill at the time. The trial ultimately had a hung jury and ended as a mistrial in 2016.
In a retrial in 2017, details about Peter and Laura's marriage, such as domestic violence, were taken into account, and Peter was handed a life sentence without parole by the British Columbia Supreme Court in Kelowna. In 2021, however, the British Columbia Court of Appeals overturned his conviction and released him.
The events surrounding Laura Letts-Beckett's death remain questionable to this day, as does her husband's role in it.
The 70-year-old Peter currently resides in Belize in Central America as a free man and owns a catamaran despite being wheelchair-bound. He still maintains his innocence and says in the trailer:
"I did not kill Laura. I loved that girl and she loved me."
He claims his arrest to be the "biggest miscarriage of injustice in the world," while others strongly consider him guilty. Yet others are confounded and claim that Peter's story neither makes sense as the truth nor as a lie.
Catch all the details on In Cold Water: The Shelter Bay Mystery, streaming on Prime Video from November 12, 7 pm ET.
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