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 (10)
1. The Hotelier and the Hitman
Aired 8 September 2020 • 60 min
An arrogant Bournemouth hotelier called Peter Taylor gets away with murdering his wife in 1982; but when he conspires to kill his son-in-law nine years later, his luck runs out.
2. Brides in the Bath
Aired 15 September 2020 • 60 min
George Smith, an Edwardian man who married a string of women, only to drown them in a bath and steal their money, was eventually caught and hanged in 1915.
3. Roderick and Mark Newall - Jersey
Aired 22 September 2020 • 60 min
In 1987, two brothers from a well-to-do family killed their parents in such brutal fashion that it still haunts the people of Jersey to this day.
4. Massacre at Red Gables Hotel
Aired 29 September 2020 • 60 min
Former military commander Neil Rutherford unleashes terror on the unsuspecting guests of a remote Welsh seaside hotel in 1976, before turning the gun on himself.
5. Robert Dixon - Little Ross
Aired 6 October 2020 • 60 min
The discovery of the body of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish island of Little Ross in 1960 prompts a massive man hunt for his killer, assistant lighthouse keeper Robert Dickson.
6. Robert and Sonny Mone - Dundee
Aired 5 January 2021 • 60 min
For Dundees most infamous father-son pair, killing was a competition, and between them murdered seven innocent people from 1967 to 1979.
7. Hassan Shatanawi
Aired 12 January 2021 • 60 min
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.
8. The Seaside Lady Macbeth
Aired 19 January 2021 • 60 min
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.
9. The Last Taxi Rider
Aired 26 January 2021 • 60 min
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.
10. The Mystery of the Man in the Woods
Aired 2 February 2021 • 60 min
A young man, Tyrone France, becomes embroiled in Newport's drugs underworld, meeting a disastrous end in a remote forest clearing in 1996.