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When Stephen Seddon crashed his hired BMW into a canal, he was seen as a hero after rescuing his elderly parents from drowning. But just months later Stephen’s parents were found shot dead. It first appeared to police that his father had killed his wife then taken his own life. Detectives had to use all their skills to solve what the judge would call a ‘terrible and unnatural crime.’ Stephen stood to inherit £230,000 but appeared to have a cast iron alibi for the time the murder was committed. Detectives had to work extremely hard to gather the evidence to gain a conviction for Robert and Patricia’s murder.
During Christmas 2012, 76 year old Patricia Goodband vanished without a trace. Pat’s business partner and friend Chris Symons said he’d dropped her off at Milton Keynes train station so that she could visit a friend in the North for New Year. The murderer tried to throw police off the scent by sending texts from her phone. Detectives hunting for clues of Pat’s whereabouts hoped to find their answer within her diaries. But it would be another piece of written evidence that would give them their biggest breakthrough.
19 year old babysitter Katy Briscoe was stabbed 23 times and killed. Although, there were no immediate suspects, it was clear that Katy knew her killer and had willingly let them into the house. Detectives discovered that during the six months leading up to her brutal murder, Katy had been lured into a twisted virtual world, where no one was what they seemed and no one could be trusted.
Sasha Marsden was a typical 16-year-old. She enjoyed spending time with her friends and her boyfriend and she was always on her Blackberry messenger. Sasha was studying childcare at Blackpool and the Fylde College and was looking for a part-time job so she could earn some extra money. Little did she know that her new job as a cleaner at a local hotel would lead to her death at the hands of a sadistic killer, but who was responsible?
When Vitalija Baliutaviciene suddenly disappeared, she left her ten year old son sleeping. Alive or dead, the question of what had happened to Vitalija remained a total mystery. But by closely investigating modern technology, detectives found a breakthrough that would identify her abductor and offer an unprecedented and disturbing insight into his mind. Their investigation took them on a journey of obsessive jealousy.
When William Collis and his wife Georgina Ryder failed to return from a long camping holiday in Europe friends and family became suspicious. When detectives started to investigate, they found that all was not as it seemed in the couple’s marriage.As detectives pushed their inquiries they uncovered a web of lies, deception and a grisly murder. But who had murdered Georgina Ryder and what was their motive?
