About this season
Presented by journalist and true crime author Geoffrey Wansell, Murder by the Sea examines strange murders recorded at famous seaside resorts in the United Kingdom.
Episodes (6)
1. Stephen Akinmurele
Aired 21 May 2018 • 60 min
A profile of the prolific young serial killer Stephen Akinmurele, who was only 21-years-old when he murdered his victims.
2. Terry Clifton
Aired 28 May 2018 • 60 min
The case known as the Garage Murders, which sparked a nationwide manhunt that saw Terry Clifton repeatedly evade the police before he was jailed for murdering two mechanics.
3. Mathew Hardman
Aired 4 June 2018 • 60 min
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.
4. Colin Gunn
Aired 11 June 2018 • 60 min
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.
5. Paul Longworth
Aired 18 June 2018 • 60 min
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.
6. Steven Grierson
Aired 25 June 2018 • 60 min
The case of Steven Grierson, a serial killer who murdered four teenagers and terrorised dozens of others, becoming known as the Sunderland strangler.