Coastal Killers

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.

George Smith was an Edwardian man who married a string of women under different alias's only to drown them in a bath and steal their money. Eventually he was caught and hanged in 1915.

In 1987, two brothers from the Newall family killed their parents in such brutal fashion that it still haunts the people of Jersey to this day. In the hunt for early access to their inheiritance they ruined their chances of ever seeing a penny of it.

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.

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.

Dundee-born Robert Mone was convicted of murder after holding a class of schoolchildren at gunpoint in 1967 and shooting their pregnant teacher dead.

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.

In November 1934, 18-year-old George Stoner answered an advertisement to become the Rattenbury family's chauffeur-handyman but nine months later after a love affair he would be on trial at the Old Bailey for his life.

The fatal journey of Linda Thomas, a Port Talbot taxi driver who, in 1973, picked up the wrong passenger, a homicidal homeless drifter called Trevor Howell.

A young man, Tyrone France, becomes embroiled in Newport's drugs underworld, meeting a disastrous end in a remote forest clearing in 1996. With his remains destroyed the police were initially stumped, how could they possible catch the killer?