Season 1 - Episode 7 [TWAU Plus]

The resort town of Morecambe is situated on Morecambe Bay, a popular seaside resort on the northwest coast of England. This town is home to the Stud Farm Holiday Park, a simple resort with lines of caravans, tents and mobile homes. Most people visit the park to be near the beach, whilst others are a permeant fixture who’d opted to rent or buy a caravan for low-cost permanent accommodation. Some of its residents have been living at the site for over 3 decades, but 2 unconnected knife attacks in two years left some locals thinking twice about remaining at the place they had so dearly called home…

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Season 1 - Episode 6 [TWAU Plus]

During the afternoon of February 19, 2008, a young schoolgirl was meant to return home after a school trip to a local swimming pool. Her disappearance united the community and ignited a nationwide search to find her. For three and half weeks, the complex twists and turns were featured daily on the front pages of national newspapers. Police came up empty-handed until their investigation would lead them, and the wrath of the UK press, to an address less than a mile away from the family’s front door… 

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Season 1 - Episode 5 [TWAU Plus]

Colchester is said to be the birthplace of some of the most famous nursery rhymes we are told as children to make us feel safe and lull us to sleep. However, in the spring and summer of 2014, this Essex town would get a sharp wake-up call as two brutal knife attacks would scare the public so much that people were afraid to walk home alone at night, and some were even too petrified to venture out their front door… 

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Season 1 - Episode 4 [TWAU Plus]

On the morning of Thursday, March 21, 2002, John Darwin took his red canoe, called the Orca, out for a paddle at the seaside of Seaton Carew in Hartlepool. After John didn't return that evening, an extensive search was undertaken across the coastline to find him. The wreckage of his canoe and a double-ended paddle were recovered but with no sign of John. A death certificate was issued and said he’d probably encountered difficulties and, as a result, most likely died at sea. However, the ocean was reported as being rather calm on the day of his disappearance. What at first seemed to be a simple death by misadventure, turned out to be more complex than first imagined…

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Season 1 - Episode 3 [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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Season 1 - Episode 2 [TWAU Plus]

On the evening of Saturday, September 11, 1971, a robbery was taking place on Baker Street in London. Months of planning had finally come to fruition, and Anthony Gavin, Reginald Tucker and Thomas Stephens were just hours away from getting the score of a lifetime. There was, however, one big problem. They were stuck in a tunnel they could barely fit through, and now they were struggling to breathe as it was filling with toxic fumes…

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Season 1 - Episode 1 [TWAU Plus]

On Thursday, January 14, 2016, Sadie Hartley, a 60-year-old mother of two, had spent the day at work. She arrived home in the early afternoon and then set off to her local stables. Later that evening, after returning home alone, there was a knock at the door. The scene that unfolded, though seemingly random in nature, was a targeted effort to end Sadie’s life. It's only when we see behind the curtain we begin to discover the transgressions of someone closest to her was the trigger for this tragic event…

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