Murdertown

**Murdertown** is a British produced True crime shows.

## Premise

In a gripping ten part series, Murdertown puts location centre stage. Each episode sees Katherine Kelly tell the compelling, step-by-step story of how one extraordinary murder was solved and how it fit a disturbing wider pattern in one particular city.

With interviews from victims, witnesses and police officers, Murdertown tells the story of some of the most shocking murders in the UK and examines the impact they had on local communities around them. It’s the series that makes murders feel real; they happened in a street, a railway, a park…you’ve actually been to.

## Episode list

* Series 1
* Series 2

Series 1:

1. **Hull**
2. **Dartford** - This episode examines the murder of Claire Tillman in Dartford, Kent, and the impact it had on the local community.
3. **Dundee** - This episode looks at the crimes of Robbie McIntosh and features an interview with one of his victims, who miraculously survived his attack.
4. **Barnsley** - This episode examines the murder of a 69 year old man in Barnsley. With no signs of forced entry or motive, police are at a loss, until CCTV footage reveals something unexpected.
5. **Pontypridd** - This episode looks at the case of a butcher in Pontypridd, who decapitated a woman and kept her head as a souvenir.
6. **Tamworth** - This episode looks at the murder of 17-year-old Heather Tell in Tamworth.
7. **Watford** - This episode examines the case of Anne Cook who was stabbed to death by Leon Amos as she walked her dog in Watford.
8. **Huddersfield** - This episode looks at the case of David Mitchell, who murdered his convicted paedophile lover and dumped the body in a Huddersfield canal.
9. **Sunderland** - This episode examines the crimes of Steven Grieveson, aka the Sunderland Strangler.
10. **Brighton** - This episode looks at the case of a murderer in Brighton who confessed to his crimes at a tarot card reading.

Series 2:

1. **Portsmouth** - Katherine travels to Portsmouth to learn about Allan Grimson, a former Royal Navy petty officer who murdered two men on 12th December of 1997 and 1998 and may have killed others on the same date each year.
2. **Wrexham** - Following his release from prison Jordan Davidson burgled retiree Nicholas Churton at knife point, threatening him but leaving him unharmed. Days later Churton's bloody and beaten body was discovered in his home.
3. **Middlesborough** - The story of Reginald Wilson, who planned to carry out the perfect murder. He selected Dr David Birkett to be his victim and posing as a courier entered his home killing him with a hammer. But Wilson made a fateful mistake.
4. **Ipswich** - The story of Britain's youngest female double-killer. 15-year-old Lorraine Thorpe befriended two alcoholics and got them to help her torture and kill Rosalyn Hunt. The trio then turned their attention to Lorraine's own father Desmond.
5. **Darlington**
6. **Bristol**
7. **Greenock**
8. **Nuneaton** - In Nuneaton, we hear from David Freeman, who's younger sister Naomi Smith was tragically murdered on her way to post a letter, as he tells us of the family's quest for answers about who could have done this to her.
9. **Grimsby** - Devastated father Keith Vincent retells the story of the sequence of events that led to his son Adam living on the streets of Grimsby, and the circumstances which eventually led to his brutal murder at the hands of a notorious drugs gang.
10. **Croydon** - Airing as a part of domestic violence awareness week - this film tells the dramatic and shocking story of Mario Celaire - a man who viciously assaulted two women he claimed to love.