Murdertown
Katherine Kelly, Anita Rani and Emilia Fox travel around the UK to examine crimes that rocked a local community and shocked the nation.
Genre: Documentary
Cast:Katherine Kelly , Emilia Fox , Anita Rani , Christina Moore , Bernard Adams , Laura Connor , Yvonne Adams , Paul Barton , Ruth Tully , Frank le Duc , Lyndsey Kelly , Nigel Green
S3.E1 ∙ Milton Keynes
Rachel Manning had been to a 1970s-themed fancy dress party and Chicago's nightclub with boyfriend Barri White before going missing in the early hours of 10 December 2000. The teenager was found dead in undergrowth at Woburn Golf Club two days later. She had been strangled and her face disfigured with a steering lock, which was located 500m (546 yards) from her body.
S3.E2 ∙ Wakefield
In 1994, Wendy Speakes was targeted by sadistic killer Christopher Farrow as she got off a bus and walked to her home after work. He managed to trick his way into the 51-year-old's home.
S3.E3 ∙ Wigan
Tells the story of the murder of 15-year-old Louise Sellars, who went missing in 1995. The following day, her body was found five miles from her home in a field, strangled and severely beaten. Police immediately began questioning residents with a particular focus on the teenage population of Appley Bridge. The questioning allowed them to zero in on a suspect, Darren Ashurst, whose car was spotted on the evening in question, driving erratically.
S3.E4 ∙ Wishaw
17-year-old student Zoe Nelson was last seen on 22 May 2010 before residents reported seeing a fire in a nearby woods later that evening. The following day her body was found the next day badly burnt.
S3.E5 ∙ Bath
Melanie Road, 17, was murdered on her way home from a nightclub in Bath in 1984. She had been out with her boyfriend and friends, but Melanie had been sexually assaulted and brutally stabbed 26 times on her way back home. A milkman found her body the following day.
S3.E6 ∙ Southampton
Pennie Davis' body was found with multiple stab wounds in a field where she rode her horse in the village of Beaulieu on 2nd September 2014. The case centered on Mrs. Davis' relationship with Benjamin Carr, 22, the son of her estranged partner, who had "lasting hate and anger" towards her.
S3.E7 ∙ Oxford
Vikki Thompson went missing in Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, while walking her dog on 12th August 1995. The dog returned home without her, raising the alarm. After a frantic search, she was found alive but badly beaten - she died six days later in hospital.
S3.E8 ∙ Leicester
Police found 72-year-old Jane Hings' body on Sunday, September 24th, 2017. DNA samples found at the scene found a match for then 25-year-old Craig Keogh, who was subsequently arrested.
S3.E9 ∙ Lichfield
In July 1999, the remains of Wendy Upton were found in nearby woods; she was identified using dental records. Upton had been reported as missing nine months previously. At the time, police launched a major campaign to find the missing 40-year-old even staging reconstruction of her movements on the day she disappeared with the help of the local community.
S3.E10 ∙ Whitby
In April 2012, Dawn and George Kibble visited the flat of Dawn's sister Julie Davison, concerned for her well being after repeated phone calls went unanswered. On arrival, they found Julie's lifeless body on the blood-stained floor of her kitchen. She'd been attacked, stabbed multiple times, and left for dead.
