What Lies Beneath: A Son's Burden / Debbie & Andrew Griggs

For more than two decades, Debbie Griggs' disappearance haunted her family and baffled investigators. The devoted mother-of-three, who was pregnant with her fourth child, vanished from her home in Kent in 1999. As suspicion increasingly focused on her husband, Andrew, detectives painstakingly assembled a case without a body. Years later, shocking revelations would finally expose the truth and uncover the lengths one man was prepared to go to in order to protect his secrets…

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The Mansfield Murders / Patricia & William Wycherley - Part 2

William and Patricia Wycherley had not been seen for a decade and a half. Family, friends, doctors and financial institutions all assumed they were alive, enjoying a new zest for life during their later years, taking in the fresh air and sightseeing at seaside towns across the country. But the couple, who rarely socialised with anyone else, were not living the life of Riley. Far from it… (Part 2 of 2).

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The Mansfield Murders / Patricia & William Wycherley - Part 1

It was puzzling, to say the least. Following a tip-off, officers from the Nottinghamshire constabulary were dispatched to an address on Blenheim Close. Located in Forest Town, a former mining village in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the brick-built semi-detached two storey home sits on the corner of a quiet cul-de-sac close to public walkways and green grassland. On that autumn day in 2013, officers slowly filtered through the backdoor into the garden… (Part 1 of 2).

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The Killer Captain / The Death of Joanna Simpson [TWAU Plus]

Halloween 2010. Joanna Brown was waiting at her home in Ascot, Berkshire, expecting the return of her two children after they had been on a half-term visit to their fathers. She was in the middle of a costly divorce, and it was taking its toll on not only her but also her husband. When the children arrived, accompanied by their father, the brutal events that would follow are a stark reminder of how greed can cloud the mind, and the fog of madness can so easily seep in…

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