Murder by the Sea

Season 5

2020 · 10 episodes · 10h 0m in all

Episodes

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   1. The Hotelier and the Hitman

   8 Sept 2020 · 60 min

   An 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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   2. Brides in the Bath

   15 Sept 2020 · 60 min

   George 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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   3. Roderick and Mark Newall - Jersey

   22 Sept 2020 · 60 min

   In 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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   4. Massacre at Red Gables Hotel

   29 Sept 2020 · 60 min

   Former 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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   5. Robert Dixon - Little Ross

   6 Oct 2020 · 60 min

   The 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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   6. Robert and Sonny Mone - Dundee

   5 Jan 2021 · 60 min

   For 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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   7. Hassan Shatanawi

   12 Jan 2021 · 60 min

   Having 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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   8. The Seaside Lady Macbeth

   19 Jan 2021 · 60 min

   A 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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   9. The Last Taxi Rider

   26 Jan 2021 · 60 min

   Port 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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    10. The Mystery of the Man in the Woods

    2 Feb 2021 · 60 min

    A young man, Tyrone France, becomes embroiled in Newport's drugs underworld, meeting a disastrous end in a remote forest clearing in 1996.