Murder by the Sea - Episode Guide

Stephen Akinmurele, Britain's most prolific young serial killer, was 21 when he murdered his victims, now described as one of the most dangerous men in British criminal history.

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.

Dubbed the ‘Vampire Killer', 17-year-old Mathew Hardman killed then drank the blood of 90-year-old widow Mabel Leyshon of Anglesey in November of 2001. He performed a gruesome ritual, cutting her heart out, placing it on a silver platter, and then drinking her blood.

After stabbing Leyshon twenty-two times, Hardman moved his victim's body to another chair, placed two candlesticks near her body, and set two pokers in a cross formation at her feet. Hardman made three gashes in Mrs Leyshon's leg and various other spots in an attempt to drain blood from her dead body. Failing to get enough blood from the stricken body, it is believed that Hardman went on to remove Mrs Leyshon's heart, wrap it in newspaper, and place it in a saucepan, which he put on a silver platter. Before doing so, he squashed the blood from her heart into the same saucepan, from which he then drank the blood.

When Joan Stirland's son Michael murdered Colin Gunn's nephew, she and her husband's lives were in danger. They went on the run, but their son's past soon caught up with them.

Paul Longworth murdered his wife by strangling her with sailing rope and arranging her body in their home, all whilst their children slept nearby, then claimed it was suicide.

Steven Grieveson is a serial killer who murdered four teenagers and terrorised dozens of others, becoming known as the Sunderland strangler.

Michael Ross was just 15 when he shot Shamsuddin Mahmood in the face and fled. When the police caught him a decade later, he was a Black Watch Sgt, guarding HM the Queen.

Dubbed the 'body in the bag' killer, Green murdered women and dumped their bodies in bags. It was the first time new advances in forensic face mapping were used for identification.

A secret love triangle led to Jack Campbell murdering his love rival in a siege which shook Orkney Island.

John Cooper was a charming hot gun serial killer who murdered four hikers and terrorised camp sites for decades, raping and robbing campers.

In the Summer of 1998, Graham Fisher stalked then stabbed young women before murdering and eating two of his victims.

Lithuanian Vitas Plytnykas worked as an agricultural migrant worker in Scotland. He murdered a fellow worker, leaving her severed head to be found by children on a Scottish beach.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

After a fire breaks out at a home, police receive a strange phone call that triggers a hunt for a killer.

When Pierre LeGris reports his wife Rui Li missing, police are instantly wary, and they uncover a tangled web of loyalty and deception.

The case of John George Haigh, who came up with a plan for the 'perfect" murder when he was serving time in prison for fraud.

Investigating the murders of two elderly women, a decade apart.

The murder of a part-time actress triggers a nationwide manhunt for a killer.

When Linda Anders is found dead at home, her wheelchair-bound husband Malcolm claims an intruder broke in. Police findings quickly change the course of the investigation.

Dismembered bodies of two women are both found in car boots, the first at a train station, the second in a city.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For Dundees most infamous father-son pair, killing was a competition, and between them they murdered seven innocent people from 1967 to 1979.

Having brutally murdered his wife in 1993, Hassan Shatanawi thought he had e?ectively made her vanish from the face of the earth but he made one crucial oversight.

A scandalous love triangle between a beautiful socialite, her young gardener and estranged husband cast a shadow of disrepute and death over 1930s Bournemouth.

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.

A young man, Tyrone France, becomes embroiled in Newports drugs underworld, meeting a disastrous end in a remote forest clearing in 1996.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

Just before Christmas 1994, heavily tattooed Jason Mitchell strangled pensioners Arthur and Shirley Wilson, before returning to his father's house and dismembering his body.

After Philip Manning killed his ex-wife dead in a vengeful rage on Christmas day and hospitalised her boyfriend, he led police on a chase across the country

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom

British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom

Defending herself against her husband Robert, Hazel Williams bludgeoned him to death. She then proceeded to hide his body in the cellar and told people he had left her

Donald Hume murdered his business partner Stanley Setty following an altercation that saw the killer's dog being kicked

Teenager James McElroy was on holiday with his friends, which became a nightmare when he turned on the boys and murdered them with a shotgun

Herbert Bennett tired of his wife and strangled her with a bootlace in the sands off Yarmouth beach and was hanged for the crime

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

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

Roger and Josie Hartland found themselves stalked by their new homes previous owner, a former resident of a Nazi breeding camp, producing children for Hitlers Aryan race.

Helen Torbet visited the Highlands every year, but over the years the son of its proprietors - Don MacMillan Junior - had developed an unhealthy obsession with her.

Sandra Parkinson was a vibrant young woman filled with potential. Working in Salcombe, her life was ended she was murdered in broad daylight just a few metres from a busy beach.

When Patricia Causley disappeared, her husband managed to convince police that she had walked out - a decade later, detectives piece together what had really happened.

Nora Trott, a much-loved member of her community, was savagely murdered. 27 years after her death, advances in DNA technology would allow police to find a suspect in her case.

Deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom. Michael Brown's frustrations at his inability to get a job drove him to murder

This episode examines the murder of Jean Dicker at the hands of her son, Steven

Percy Mapleton was looking for a way to a fast fortune, and identified Brighton bond trader Isaac Gold as his target, but a robbery on a moving train turned into tragedy.

A profile of Michael Peacock, who plotted to murder his wife in order to avoid a costly divorce.

Examining the crimes of Peter Moore, a man who turned to murder following the death of his mother.