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. Craig Belcher
Aired 6 September 2022 • 60 min
The 7th series opens with Nell Darby looking at the case of Kirsty Carver. Kirsty worked as a civilian employee of Humberside Police. After she disappeared police organised a search for her. Her killer would be revealed as Craig Belcher.
2. Stephen Jones: The Cop Turned Killer
Aired 13 September 2022 • 60 min
Following the discovery of his affair with a much younger woman, police Sergeant Stephen Jones killed his wife Madeline with his truncheon in their garage at home.
3. The Woods Brothers: The Blood Brothers
Aired 20 September 2022 • 60 min
Elderly couple Benjamin and Dorothy were killed in their own home in one of the most terrifying home invasions ever seen.
4. Noreen O'Connor: The Evil Eye
Aired 27 September 2022 • 60 min
Marie Buls was an elderly woman in the care of wealthy spinster Noreen O'Connor. As time progressed O'Connor became convinced that Marie was possessed by the devil.
5. Hazel Williams: The Secret in the Cellar
Aired 4 October 2022 • 47 min
Defending herself against her husband Robert, Hazel Williams bludgeoned him to death. She then proceeded to hide his body in the cellar of their home in Penmaenmawr on the North Wales coast and told people he had left her.
6. Brian Donald Hume: On a Wing and a Prayer
Aired 11 October 2022 • 47 min
In 1949, Donald Hume murdered his business partner Stanley Setty following an altercation in which the killer's dog was kicked. Setty was stabbed to death, his head and legs cut off and his torso dumped from a plane over the Essex marshes.
7. James McElroy: The Killer Who Turned on His Friends
Aired 18 October 2022 • 47 min
Teenager James McElroy was on holiday with his friends, twins Mark and Michael Otter, in Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales in 1982 when he turned on the boys and murdered them with a shotgun before shooting himself.
8. Herbert Bennett: The Body in the Sands
Aired 25 October 2022 • 47 min
Herbert Bennett tired of his wife Mary Jane and strangled her with a bootlace in the sands off Yarmouth beach and was hanged for the crime at Norwich prison in 1901.
9. Brian Moore: The Mad Dog Murder
Aired 1 November 2022 • 47 min
Teenager Clive Olive was a young member of the local biker gang the 'Sussex Mad Dogs', but after crossing gang leader Brian Moore, he found himself sentenced to death. Olive was lured into a van, badly beaten and dumped in the sea.
10. Marty Fenton: The Torquay Massacre
Aired 8 November 2022 • 60 min
Torquay businessman Martin 'Marty' Fenton fell out with the owner of the local casino John Tsigarides. He exacted his revenge with a murderous shooting spree that claimed 4 lives just days before Christmas in 1973.