Murder by the Sea

Margaret Wilson, 66, is brutally murdered in a random attack when Derek Christian slits her throat with a knife he previously used to cut chips.

Margaret is found dead on the cliff tops near Tongue in north Scotland; she was seduced by Brian Newcombe who had beaten her to death with a rock and fled the scene.

Swansea steroid dealer, Danny Dyke was strangled to death by fellow dealers Jackie Welsby and John Wilson after he tried to collect a debt; his body was dismembered and dumped in the Black Mountains; his remains wouldn't be found for two years.

Susan Barber slowly poisoned her brutish husband Michael's pie and gravy with weed killer after he discovered her in bed with a younger man; she thought the case was closed, but after meeting a new suitor the past came back to haunt her.

After eleven days of radio silence, the Mochries were discovered dead in their home on a Sunday evening; Catherine and the children had been bludgeoned methodically to death by Robert, the father, who hanged himself.

Miles William Giffard beats his parents to death after they refuse to give him money; Giffard rolls their bodies over the cliff at the bottom of their garden before driving to London for a lavish weekend with his sweetheart.

Retired doctor Alexander Wood, 79, and his wife Dorothy, 78, described as well-nigh defenceless, were hacked and beaten to death at their home in No. 2 Roseangle when Henry Gallagher snuck into their house.

Brian Bishop, known as a "gentle giant," is shot and killed in a shoot-out with armed robber Colin Richards as Richards returned to a secret spot in Frinton-on-Sea where he stashed cash stolen from multiple post offices along the coastline.

Just before Christmas 1994, Mitchell strangled pensioners Arthur and Shirley Williams; a few days later police went to Mitchell's father's house and found Mitchell sitting in the dark, having killed his dad and dismembered his body.

Philip Manning shot his ex-wife, Margaret Whitcombe, dead in a vengeful rage on Christmas day and hospitalised her boyfriend, Neil Jones.