Coastal Killers

Roger and Josie Hartland thought they had found their dream retirement home by the sea. But they soon found themselves stalked by the properties previous owner, Wanda Chantler. When the couple wouldn't sell the house back to Wanda she returned, shotgun in hand and murdered them both.

Helen Torbet visited the same Scottish Highland guest house every year, Unbeknownst to her, over the years the son of its proprietors- Don MacMillan Jr - had developed an unhealthy obsession with her. When she rejected him, he brutally murdered her.

Sandra Parkinson was a young woman with her whole life in front of her. Working at the seaside idyl of Salcombe, her life was ended she was murdered in broad daylight just a few metres from a busy beach. She was killed by Alan Conner, a drifter who was camping in the local woodlands.

When Patricia Causley disappeared without trace, her husband Russell managed to convince police that she had walked out on the family. Ten years would pass before detectives managed to piece together what had really happened...

Nora Trott was a much-loved member of her community who owned the local dress shop. Whilst running errands for a friend one evening she was savagely murdered. Yet her killer went uncaught for over two decades, her death casting shadow over the community.

Michael Brown was a man who had struggled all his life, held back - he believed - by the fact he was only five feet tall. One day his frustrations boiled over when he walked into the Torquay job centre and shot dead four members of staff, before turning the gun on himself.

Jean Dicker believed her son Steve was doing a loving thing , when he moved in following the death of her husband. But tensions in the house began to rise. One day whilst hanging a picture, Steve snapped following criticism by his Mother.

Percy Mapleton was a desperate man looking for a way to a fast fortune. When all of his get rich quick schemes failed he decided to turn to robbery - and identified Brighton bond trader Isaac Gold as his target.

Michael Peacock was having an affair with a much younger woman and had decided he didn't want to pay for a costly divorce from his wife Barbara. He plotted what he believed to be the perfect murder.

By day Peter Moore was a mild mannered cinema owner. By night he was a violent rapist and murderer who killed 4 men and brutally assaulted many more. Moore's reign of terror ended after the North Wales Police mounted their biggest ever man hunt.