Murder by the Sea (2018)

Season 7

Presented by journalist and true crime author Geoffrey Wansell (and later by crime historian Dr Nell Darby), Murder by the Sea examines strange murders recorded at famous seaside resorts in the United Kingdom.
Where to Watch Season 7
10 Episodes
  • Craig Belcher
    E1
    Episode 1Craig BelcherThe 7th series opens with Nell Darby looking at the case of Kirsty Carver. Kirsty worked as a civilian employee of Humberside Police. After she disappeared police organised a search for her. Her killer would be revealed as Craig Belcher.
  • Stephen Jones: The Cop Turned Killer
    E2
    Episode 2Stephen Jones: The Cop Turned KillerFollowing the discovery of his affair with a much younger woman, police Sergeant Stephen Jones killed his wife Madeline with his truncheon in their garage at home. Police sergeant Stephen Jones, of Hawarden, had been hailed as a local hero for helping rescue a woman from a frozen pond when, only days later, his wife was killed in what appeared to be a car crash. But as forensics started to turn up some major inconsistencies, the ‘hero’ began to crumble under increased scrutiny.
  • The Woods Brothers: The Blood Brothers
    E3
    Episode 3The Woods Brothers: The Blood Brothers Elderly couple Benjamin and Dorothy were killed in their home in one of the most terrifying home invasions ever seen
  • Noreen O'Connor: The Evil Eye
    E4
    Episode 4Noreen O'Connor: The Evil Eye Marie Buls was an elderly woman in the care of wealthy spinster Noreen O'Connor. As time progressed O'Connor became convinced that Marie was possessed by the devil.
  • Hazel Williams: The Secret in the Cellar
    E5
    Episode 5Hazel Williams: The Secret in the CellarDefending herself against her husband Robert, Hazel Williams bludgeoned him to death. She then proceeded to hide his body in the cellar of their home in Penmaenmawr on the North Wales coast and told people he had left her.
  • Brian Donald Hume: On a Wing and a Prayer
    E6
    Episode 6Brian Donald Hume: On a Wing and a PrayerIn 1949, Donald Hume murdered his business partner Stanley Setty following an altercation in which the killer's dog was kicked. Setty was stabbed to death, his head and legs cut off and his torso dumped from a plane over the Essex marshes.
  • James McElroy: The Killer Who Turned on his Friends
    E7
    Episode 7James McElroy: The Killer Who Turned on his Friends Teenager James McElroy was on holiday with his friends, twins Mark and Michael Otter, in Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales in 1982 when he turned on the boys and murdered them with a shotgun before shooting himself.
  • Herbert Bennett: The Body in the Sands
    E8
    Episode 8Herbert Bennett: The Body in the Sands Herbert Bennett tired of his wife and strangled her with a bootlace in the sands off Yarmouth beach and was hanged for the crime.
  • Brian Moore: The Mad Dog Murder
    E9
    Episode 9Brian Moore: The Mad Dog MurderTeenager Clive Olive was a young member of the local biker gang the 'Sussex Mad Dogs', but after crossing gang leader Brian Moore, he found himself sentenced to death. Olive was lured into a van, badly beaten and dumped in the sea.
  • Marty Fenton: The Torquay Massacre
    E10
    Episode 10Marty Fenton: The Torquay MassacreTorquay businessman Martin 'Marty' Fenton fell out with the owner of the local casino John Tsigarides. He exacted his revenge with a murderous shooting spree that claimed 4 lives just days before Christmas in 1973.
 
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