Murder by the Sea (2018)
Presented by journalist and true crime author Geoffrey Wansell, Murder by the Sea examines strange murders recorded at famous seaside resorts in the United Kingdom.
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Episode 1 - The Hotelier and the Hitman
Release Date: 2020-09-08An arrogant Bournemouth hotelier called Peter Taylor gets away with murdering his wife in 1982; but when he conspires to kill his son-in-law nine years later, his luck runs out.
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Episode 2 - Brides in the Bath
Release Date: 2020-09-15George Smith, an Edwardian man who married a string of women, only to drown them in a bath and steal their money, was eventually caught and hanged in 1915.
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Episode 3 - Roderick and Mark Newall - Jersey
Release Date: 2020-09-22In 1987, two brothers from a well-to-do family killed their parents in such brutal fashion that it still haunts the people of Jersey to this day.
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Episode 4 - Massacre at Red Gables Hotel
Release Date: 2020-09-29Former military commander Neil Rutherford unleashes terror on the unsuspecting guests of a remote Welsh seaside hotel in 1976, before turning the gun on himself.
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Episode 5 - Robert Dixon - Little Ross
Release Date: 2020-10-06The discovery of the body of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish island of Little Ross in 1960 prompts a massive man hunt for his killer, assistant lighthouse keeper Robert Dickson.
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Episode 6 - Robert and Sonny Mone - Dundee
Release Date: 2021-01-05For Dundees most infamous father-son pair, killing was a competition, and between them murdered seven innocent people from 1967 to 1979.
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Episode 7 - Hassan Shatanawi
Release Date: 2021-01-12Having brutally murdered his wife in 1993, Hassan Shatanawi thought he had effectively made her vanish from the face of the earth but he made one crucial oversight.
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Episode 8 - The Seaside Lady Macbeth
Release Date: 2021-01-19A scandalous love triangle between a beautiful socialite Alma Rattenbury, her young gardener George Stoner and estranged husband Francis cast a shadow of disrepute and death over 1930s Bournemouth.
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Episode 9 - The Last Taxi Rider
Release Date: 2021-01-26Port Talbot taxi driver Linda Thomas made a fatal journey one night in 1973, when she picked up a homicidal homeless drifter called Trevor Howell.
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Episode 10 - The Mystery of the Man in the Woods
Release Date: 2021-02-02A young man, Tyrone France, becomes embroiled in Newport's drugs underworld, meeting a disastrous end in a remote forest clearing in 1996.