Murder by the Sea

After Andre Genestin's wife discovered he had been cheating on her, he murdered her and stored her body in a car roof box in the garden.

On Valentine's Day Paul Dyson strangled his partner Joanne Nelson to death before removing her body and making it look like she had just disappeared

Sidney Fox travelled the country swindling spinsters out of money and cashing stolen cheques, eventually leading to murder to claim his victim's life insurance

Paul Teed murdered 3 members of his family by beating them to death with a baseball bat a in a Hove nightclub over a dispute over money

The eighth series of the true crime documentary concludes by examining the crimes of Peter Moore, a man who turned to murder following the death of his mother. The cinema manager was dubbed "The Man in Black" and killed 4 men.

In order to avoid paying for an expensive divorce while having an affair with a much younger woman, Michael Peacock planned what he thought would be the ideal murder.

Percy Mapleton was looking for a way to a fast fortune, and identified Brighton bond trader Isaac Gold as his target, but a robbery on a moving train turned into tragedy. Prompted the first composite picture on a wanted poster in the UK.

This edition examines the murder of Jean Dicker, who was battered to death with a hammer at the hands of her son, Steven.

Torquay 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.

Teenager 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.

Herbert Bennett tired of his wife Mary Jane and strangled her with a bootlace in the sands off Yarmouth beach and was hanged for the crime at Norwich prison in 1901.

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.

After Philip Manning killed his ex-wife dead in a vengeful rage on Christmas day and hospitalised her boyfriend, he led police on a chase across the country.

Just before Christmas 1994, heavily tattooed Jason Mitchell strangled pensioners Arthur and Shirley Wilson, before returning to his father's house and dismembering his body.

Brian Bishop was shot and killed in a shoot-out with an armed robber as they returned to a stash point piled high with cash stolen from multiple post offices along the coastline.

Retired doctor Alexander Wood and his wife Dorothy, both in their late seventies, were battered to death and hacked with a hammer in Dundee by Henry John Gallagher.

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

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.

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.

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.

The case of Charlotte Pinkey, a woman who disappeared in Ilfracombe after going to a party and never returning.

The case of Robert Henry Davies, who committed murder after a sexual assault investigation threatened to revisit sins from his past.

The case of John Bodkin Adams, a trusted GP who befriended older patients and was often named in their wills after their deaths.

Dismembered bodies of two women are both found in car boots, the first at a train station, the second in a city.

A look back at the 1953 poisoning of Blackpool resident 79 year old Sarah Ann Ricketts by her new housekeeper , Louisa May Merrifield aged 49. Lousia was married to a much older man of 71 who was famously described as a simpleton , leaving the jury at Manchester Assizes unable to reach a verdict for his involvement. Louisa however was not so lucky and was dispatched by Albert Pierrepoint who coincidentally had honeymooned in the town.

The strange relationship between mother and son Penelope and Barry Rogers, with eyewitness reports of overly close contact, leading some to believe incest was a possibility, was overshadowed by a much more sinister crime. The two planned and eventually murdered Penelope's own mother Betty Guy, intoxicating her with booze and drugs before callously smothering her. A rare case of both a mother and son involved in matricide.

59 year old landlord Alec Warburtorn was savagely beaten, by what was in the view of the pathologist, most likely a hammer. His assailant David Ellis,41, then coolly drove the body over 140 miles to a disused quarry in North Wales that he had visited as a child, and thought was the perfect spot for disposing of his victim's body. He attempted a getaway to Northern Ireland by ferry, but was arrested there by the Garda after the victim was reported missing by his brother, some 3 days later. Most remarkably though, the heartless Ellis tried to claim self defence due to unwanted sexual advances from the older man, a claim that was not to sway the jury who were told by a forensic pathologist that the attack consisting of at least three heavy blows, was most likely from behind and there were no defensive injuries.

The discovery in 1961 by three cavers of a sack containing human bones in a disused lead mine close to the town of Caswell near the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, would finally resolve a mystery more than 40 years old. 

Looking back at the case of Lithuanian murderer Vitas Plytnykas, who killed a fellow worker in Scotland, leaving her severed head to be found on a beach.

Looking back at the case of the murderer Graham Fisher, who stabbed and then ate two of his young victims in the summer of 1998.

A profile of the serial killer John Cooper, who murdered four hikers and terrorised camp sites for decades, raping and robbing campers.

A secret love triangle led to Jack Campbell murdering his love rival in a siege which shook Orkney Island.

The case of Steven Grierson, a serial killer who murdered four teenagers and terrorised dozens of others, becoming known as the Sunderland strangler.

The case of Paul Longworth, who murdered his wife by strangling her with sailing rope and arranging her body in their home, then claimed it was suicide.

When Joan Stirland's son Michael O'Brien murdered Colin Gunn's nephew in 2003, she and her husband's lives were in danger. They went on the run, but their son's past soon caught up with them.

Looking at the case of the 'Vampire Killer' Mathew Hardman, who cut out the heart, and then drank the blood of 90-year-old Mabel Leyshon of Anglesey in 2001.