Seasons & episodes
1 season · 8 episodes
Episode 01
No Borders
In 2010 when Vitalija Baliutaviciene, a Lithuanian living in Peterborough did not return home after work, her 9-year-old son contacted police. Her ex-husband who had been convicted for violent behaviour towards his wife was contacted but was in Lithuania. But phone records, AMPR cameras and Dover CCTV told a very different story.
Episode 02
Blood Brothers
In December 2005, 30-year-old Andrew Scanlan was reported missing from his home in Peterborough. Vague witness reports put police on a false trail until an eyewitness account placed Andrew with his two half brothers on the evening he was last seen. The police investigation revealed a murderous plot that would deliver a prison cell confession and lead them to Andrew’s body, dismembered in two shallow graves deep in Aldershot woods.
Episode 03
The Severance
Kathy Goble had worked at a clothes shop in Charleston, West Virginia for 10 years, and was last seen on 24 April 2010 on the shop’s CCTV after leaving work. After being reported missing by her family, her phone and keys were found at her boyfriend’s house and her locked car found abandoned along Interstate 64. Her mysterious disappearance drew no answers from detectives until two years later when a garden excavation in Kathy’s home town revealed a shocking discovery.
Episode 04
The Puzzle
December, 1999, restaurateur, Rumel Bakar left his Raj Douth restaurant in Lincoln at 9pm telling his staff he would be gone 15 minutes; he never returned. After Rumel’s family offered a reward for his safe return, the restaurant received an anonymous phone call. Police surveillance identified two potential suspects Mark Falco and Billy Wharton. The following investigation led detectives on an extraordinary trail of multiple burial sites and dismembered body parts from the wild coastline of Lincolnshire to the English Channel.
Episode 05
Lost in the Wild
In December 2004, the family of Fred Moss, a traveller from the Stansted, Essex was reported missing. As hundreds of the traveller community descended on rural Essex in search of the missing 21-year-old, the police came under increasing pressure to find answers but Fred Moss had vanished without a trace. 4 days later his beloved dog was found starving, lost and wandering on a road 16 miles from Fred’s home. A call for witnesses brought forward Christopher Nudds, a local pest controller and friend of Moss. His account of last seeing Fred the day before he went missing didn’t match the account from Fred’s aunt and when Nudds found Fred’s missing car a day later both the police and the travellers began to suspect Nudds knew more than he was revealing. What followed included an abduction, a shallow grave, an extraordinary second murder and one of the British police’s largest scale manhunts.
Episode 06
The Collectors
A look at the Mansfield murders that went unnoticed for years. Neighbours thought the Wycherleys had sold up, until someone made a shocking confession.
Episode 07
The Burning Suitcase
A driver gets a shock when he sees two suitcases on fire at the back of his lorry. And things get worse when they turn out to contain parts of a body.
Episode 08
After Dark
The parents of teenager Ericka Brown cling to the hope she has run away when she vanishes in West Virginia. But eight days later, police discover a terrible secret.
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