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Emilia travels to the Yorkshire town of Rotherham to uncover the details of a horrific double murder separated by more than two decades. In April 2019 the body of Alena Grlakova was discovered by police after she had gone missing on Boxing Day.
In 2015 a man visits a tarot card reader. Within an hour she�s dealt out the death card and he�s confessed to a murder. When cops arrive they discover he�s been living at home with his victim�s body for days.
When a young woman goes missing on Valentine�s Day, detectives turn to a pollen expert, who pieces together fragments of evidence to find her body.
In 1993, 16-year-old Claire Tiltman is found dying by the roadside. Her killer disappears into the night. More than 20 years later, Colin Ash Smith is finally brought to trial. Jurors hear of how he knew Claire, and even went to her funeral.
Aged 15, Robbie McIntosh walked into a fish and chip shop to announce that a woman had been killed on the iconic Law Hill. Police revealed the victim had been stabbed dozens of times. But they never imagined that the culprit was the teenager.
In 2015, a 69-year-old man is found stabbed in his home. At the scene, forensics uncover a receipt from a nearby cashpoint. CCTV at the bank reveals a woman using the victim's card to withdraw cash. Who is she? And how does she relate to the murder?
In 2014, a woman goes missing after a night drinking in the local pubs. CCTV finds her walking home arm in arm with another drinker. He just happens to be a former butcher. Police soon realise he has put his trade to use by dismembering his victim.
In 1994, a gang kill a woman who manages a building society and tie up her husband, before robbing the building society of large sums of cash. But despite making a tearful plea for help, the injured husband�s story doesn�t tally.
In 2000, a young woman is stabbed to death while walking her dog in a picturesque park in the town. A suspect is seen running semi-naked across the M1 motorway. It takes detectives weeks to identify the killer as a local man called Leon Amos.
In 2014 a sex offender called Robert Hind goes missing from a bail hostel. Cops fear he�s absconded to commit crime. The town is scoured. But then the cops learn that the sex offender hasn�t absconded - he�s been murdered.
In May 1996 the murder of Stephen Cameron hit newspaper headlines as one of the first examples in the UK of a road rage killing. Emilia visits the town of Swanley to uncover the details of this tragic case.
In April 2015, 24-year-old student Karen Buckley went missing while on a night out in Glasgow. Emilia visits the location where Karen was last seen, the Sanctuary nightclub, and learns about the investigation that tried to find her.
Emilia visits Peterborough, where a young woman, Sally Ann McGrath, went missing in 1979, having last been seen in the city centre. It took nearly eight months for her body to be found, after police assumed she had simply run away.
The quiet seaside town of Mablethorpe was an unlikely location for what appeared to be an organised hit on a couple in their 50s. Emilia travels to the Lincolnshire coast to learn about the violent murders of Joan and John Stirland in 2004.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.