When Missing Turns to Murder

British true crime documentary series using powerful and emotional testimony from families and friends when a missing persons enquiry turns into a murder investigation.

11 Votes (6.4)

2019 HD 45min United Kingdom English Returning Series
Crime Documentary
true crime british police

Credits:

Shaun Dooley

Narrator

S1E1 - Helen McCourt 2019-03-04

22-year-old insurance clerk Helen McCourt was returning home from work in Liverpool before going out on a date with her new boyfriend that evening. She got off the bus on Rainford Road in Billinge - just 500 yards from her home - and went missing.

S1E2 - Lorraine Benson 2019-03-11

In December 1988, 22-year-old Lorraine Benson arrived at Raynes Park tube station after going to a work Christmas party. Shed arranged to meet her friend Peter, but he wasnt there as planned. Peter was due to move to Australia the following day. Lorraine called Peters mother to ask where he was, and his mother told her that he wasnt back from meeting friends yet.

S1E3 - Natalie Hemming 2019-03-18

Young mother of three children, Natalie, was killed by her boyfriend Paul Hemming in their family home whilst her three children slept upstairs. He had a history of coercive control. Their 6-year-old son witnessed Natalies body wrapped in a rug in the lounge and it was his evidence that was used to charge him.

S1E4 - Wesley Neailey 2019-03-25

On June 5, 1998, 11 year- old Wesley waved goodbye to his mother Liz and rode off on his bike to go to the local shop to get some sweets, he was a popular lad and well-liked by the community. Liz reported him missing to the police when he failed to return home and it was getting dark.

S1E5 - Carole Packman 2019-04-01

In June 1985 Carole Packman left a note to say she was leaving the family home for good. Sam Gillingham was 16 when her mother, Carole Packman vanished from the familys suburban home in the seaside resort of Bournemouth. She remembers running up the stairs to check her parents room, as her father Russell looked on. Gazing at her mothers untouched belongings, he said: "Shell be back."

S1E6 - Danielle Jones 2019-04-08

School girl, Danielle Jones, aged 15, was last seen on the morning of June 18th, 2001 near her home in East Tilbury, Essex. Like hundreds of thousands of other children that day, she was on her way to catch the school bus. But Danielle never got on the bus and didnt arrive at St Cleres School.

S1E7 - Shafilea Ahmed 2019-04-15

Shafilea Ahmed was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in July 1986, to Farzana, when her taxi driver father was still married to a Danish woman, with whom he had a baby son. He married Farzana, his cousin, after bowing to pressure from a relative in Pakistan - ironically his own arranged marriage. The family moved to Warrington, a town with a small but well-established Asian community.

S1E8 - Jayden Parkinson 2019-04-22

17-year-old Jayden Parkinson met Ben Blakley when she was just 15 years old through her friendship with Bens younger brother. Jayden and Ben started a relationship when she was just 16. She had been living with her mother Sam but moved to a hostel which provided emergency 24-hour accommodation for 20 homeless young people, aged 16-25.

S1E9 - Evelyn Lund 2019-04-29

Evelyn Lunds first husband Arthur, a successful businessman, had died of cancer, leaving her a wealthy woman. Within 18 months, she had fallen for the charms of Robert Lund, a divorced tree surgeon. Her three daughters disapproved of the match, not least because Lund was living in a caravan when they met, and they thought he was only interested in her money.

S1E10 - Janet Müller 2019-05-06

Janet Muller was a bright and fun loving 21-year-old German exchange student studying at Brighton University. She had no previous history of mental illness but became unwell ahead of her final exams, and in March 2015, she was admitted to Mill View hospital in Hove after being found by the police at a bus stop in her night clothes.

S2E1 - Joanna Parkes 2023-04-11

Joanna Parkes from the Isle of Man, against the advice of everyone around her, marries a narcissistic British Airways pilot.

S2E2 - Mihrican Mustafa 2023-04-18

Mihrican ("Jan") Mustafa, a 37-year-old Turkish-Brit mother disappears.

S2E3 - Mark Cummings 2023-04-25

Mark Cummings, an 8-year-old boy vanishes from a high-rise estate in Glasgow, Scotland

S2E4 - Carol Taggart 2023-05-02

Carol Taggart, a mother in Fife, Scotland

S2E5 - Jamie Lavis 2023-05-09

Jamie Lavis, an 8-year-old boy in Manchester, England

S2E6 - Surjit Athwal 2023-05-16

Surjit Athwal returns to the house where her family had arranged her murder, then disappears.

S2E7 - Joe Pooley 2023-05-23

Joe Pooley, 22, of Ipswich, England disappears.

S2E8 - Louise Smith 2023-05-30

Louise Smith, after a childhood in and out of foster care, turns 16 and is only marginally supported by the government in halfway houses. Shady characters there draw her into a group of sociopaths who victimize her before causing her disappearance.

S2E9 - Debbie Griggs 2023-06-06

Debbie Griggs, a pregnant mother of three boys in Kent is taken from her children.

S2E10 - Adam Alexander 2023-06-13

Adam Alexander

S3E1 - Episode 1 2024-11-16

Five months after jovial London resident Sinead Healy disappears, her family finds law enforcement’s prime suspect impossible to accept.

S3E2 - Episode 2 2024-11-16

Investigators scour CCTV footage in their search for a Buckinghamshire student last seen returning home in a taxi after celebrating final exams.

S3E3 - Episode 3 2024-11-16

A divorced mother finds a boyfriend - but his dominating and abusive personality soon raises alarm bells and isolates her from her family members.

S3E4 - Episode 4 2024-11-16

After a week passes with no word from a Manchester woman to her family, a burnt body is discovered in an obviously staged, smoke-filled crime scene.