MIDSOMER MURDERS 'BODY COUNT'
A list of all the murders and the names of the victims that have occurred in 'Midsomer'
PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE POSSIBLE SPOILERS IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE EPISODES!
EPISODE 1
THE KILLINGS AT BADGERS DRIFT
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Emily Simpson |
Neck Broken by blow with a blunt instrument in her cottage (attempt
to make it look like suicide) |
. |
Bella Trace |
Shotgun blast while on hunt (actually occurred two years previously). |
. |
Dennis Rainbird/Mrs. Rainbird
|
A double murder. Hacked to death with blade. Mrs. Rainbird described
as having her head almost decapitated. |
. |
Phyllis Cadell |
. |
Committed suicide in police custody (hanged herself). |
Katherine & Michael Lacey |
. |
Shotgun in suicide pact. |
Total: 4 murders, 3 suicides
EPISODE 2
WRITTEN IN BLOOD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Hanlon (historical murder in 1955) |
Shotgun blast. |
. |
Gerald Hadleigh |
Bludgeoned with Candlestick. |
. |
Max Jennings |
Posioned drink. |
. |
Annoria Lyddiard |
. |
Fell from window. |
Total: 3 murders, including 1 historical + 1 accidental death
EPISODE 3
DEATH OF A HOLLOW MAN
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Agnes Gray |
Blunt instrument (crowbar). Body dumped in lake. |
. |
Esslyn Carmichael |
Slashed throat with razor on stage during production of play; safety tape having been removed by murderer. |
. |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 4
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Brenda Buckley |
Forced into road accident. Her car shunted under lorry. |
. |
Alan Hollingsworth |
Poisoned whiskey. |
. |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 5
DEATH IN DISGUISE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
William Carter |
. |
Broken neck after being pushed down stairs. |
Ian Craigie |
Carving knife thrown at him across a room. |
. |
Guy Gamelin |
Heart failure after pills withheld by murderer. |
. |
Total: 2 murders, 1 accidental death
EPISODE 6
DEATH'S SHADOW
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Felix Bryce (boy) |
. |
Accidentally hanged. |
Richard Bailey |
Decapitated by sword. |
. |
David Whitley |
Burnt to death in caravan. |
. |
Simon Fletcher |
Shot with bow and arrow. |
. |
Rev. Stephen Wentworth |
. |
Commits suicide by jumping off scaffolding on church steeple. |
Total: 3 murders, 1 accidental death, 1 suicide
EPISODE 7
STRANGLER'S WOOD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Carla Constanza |
Strangled with necktie. |
. |
Anna (au pair) |
Run over by car and then injected with pure liquid nicotine. |
. |
Dr. Aycott |
(unspecified) Killed in surgery which was set on fire. |
. |
Leonard Pike |
Slashed to death in shower. Throat lacerated. |
. |
3 girls (unamed) |
Strangled in wood (historical) |
. |
Total: 7 murders, including 3 historical.
EPISODE 8
DEAD MAN'S 11
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Matthew Draper |
, |
Quarry explosion. |
Tara Cavendish |
Bludgeoned to death with cricket bat. |
. |
Emily Beavis |
Pushed into quarry (occurred previously). |
. |
Charles Jennings |
Stabbed in back with ornate dagger at cricket match. |
. |
Trish Smith |
. |
Stabbed in struggle. |
Total: 3 murders, 2 accidental deaths
EPISODE 9
BLOOD WILL OUT
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Hector Bridges |
Shotgun. |
. |
John Smith (gypsy leader) |
Killed in caravan by hitting head on basin in struggle. |
. |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 10
DEATH OF A STRANGER
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Michael Darrow (tramp) |
Clubbed to death in pit after getting caught in animal trap. |
. |
Ben Gurdey |
Shotgun. |
. |
Spt. Ron Pringle |
Thrown from horse which had been doped. |
. |
Marcia Tranter |
Shotgun. |
. |
Graham Tranter |
. |
Suicide. Hanged himself. |
Simon Tranter (historical) |
Unspecified. Occurred years previously. |
. |
Total: 5 murders, including 1 historical, 1 suicide
EPISODE 11
BLUE HERRING
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Celia Armstrong |
Smoothered with pillow. |
. |
Mrs. Mortimer/Muriel Harrop/Madge Fielding |
. |
Murder suspected but later revealed to have died of natural causes. |
Total: 1 murder
EPISODE 12
JUDGEMENT DAY
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Mrs. Foster (Nanny) |
Stabbed with large kitchen knife (historical murder) |
. |
Peter Drinkwater |
Impaled with pitchfork. |
. |
Rosemary Furman |
Poisoned wine. |
. |
Samantha Johnston |
Stabbed to death. |
. |
Bella de Vere |
Suffocated with pillow. |
. |
Total: 5 murders, including 1 historical
EPISODE 13
BEYOND THE GRAVE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Marcus Lowery |
Beaten to death with slide projector. |
. |
James Tate |
Beaten to death (unspecified) |
. |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 14
GARDEN OF DEATH
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Cynthia Bennett |
Strangled with tights (historical murder) |
. |
Felicity Inkpen |
Hit over the head with shovel. |
. |
Elspeth Inkpen |
Force fed poisoned food. |
. |
Gerald Bennett |
Appeared to be suffocated? |
. |
Total : 4 murders
EPISODE 15
DESTROYING ANGEL
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Karl Wainright |
Suffocated with pillow. |
. |
Gregory Chambers |
Shot with bow and arrow. |
. |
Tristan Goodfellow |
Poisoned mushrooms. |
. |
Kenneth Gooders |
Crushed by falling drinks cabinet which had been unscrewed from wall. |
. |
Susannah Chambers |
Shotgun blast in chest. |
. |
Evelyn Pope |
. |
Suicide - overdose of pills. |
Total: 5 murders, 1 suicide
EPISODE 16
THE ELECTRIC VENDETTA
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Ronald Stokes |
. |
Had weak heart and accidentally electrocuted himself. |
Eddie Field (burgler) |
. |
Electrocuted whilst attempting to steal electricity from the mains. |
Steve Ramsay |
Electrocuted in wired pick-up truck. |
. |
Lloyd Kirby |
Thrown down stairs. |
. |
Dave Rippert |
. |
Killed in collision with combined harvester. |
Total: 2 murders, 3 accidental deaths (n.b. The death of Eddie Field was never made fully clear but appeared to be accidental)
EPISODE 17
WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Robin Wooliscroft |
Two blows to the head with a heavy spanner. Body dumped in Well. |
. |
Mary Mohan |
Pills forced down throat. |
. |
Total: 2 murders
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Dave Cutler |
Hacked to death, almost decapitated with machette. |
. |
Debbie Shortlands |
Hacked to death with machette. |
. |
Simon Reason |
Crushed by falling, heavy oak desk in warehouse. |
. |
Owen August |
Bludgeoned to death with walking stick. |
. |
Total: 4 murders
EPISODE
19
TAINTED FRUIT
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Melissa Townsend |
Deadly drugs injected into liver with syringe. |
. |
Adam Keyne |
Fell through sawn through beams in barn and onto plough. |
. |
Raif Kenning |
Injected with deadly drugs. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 20
RING OUT YOUR DEAD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Rev. Jonathan Ebbrel (historical) |
Murdered by bell ringers in 1860. |
. |
Greg Tutt |
Shot through heart. |
. |
Emma Tysoe |
Shot through heart at wedding. |
. |
Marcus Steadman |
Drowned. Pushed in river whilst having asthma attack. |
. |
Wing Commander Reggie Barton |
. |
Natural causes but a murder originally suspected. |
Total: 4 murders including 1 historical
EPISODE 21
MURDER ON ST. MALLEY'S DAY
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Archie Bellingham |
Clubbed with blunt instrument and thrown in lake. |
. |
Daniel Talbott |
Stabbed. |
. |
Dudley Carew |
Beaten around head and smoothered with a roller for good measure. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 22
MARKET FOR MURDER
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Majorie Emson |
Multiple blows to back of head with walking stick after falling down stairs. |
. |
Ginny Sharp |
Struck with ashtray and drowned in swimming pool. |
. |
Lady Lavinia Chetwood |
Pushed off roof of Stately home. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 23
A WORM IN THE BUD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Susan Bartlett (farmers wife) |
Rendered unconcious by concentrated valirium and drowned. |
. |
James Harrington |
Rendered unconcious by concentrated valirium in drink and then drowned. |
. |
Victoria Bartlett |
Shotgun blast. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 24
A TALENT FOR LIFE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Isabelle Hewitt |
Clubbed to death with stake. |
. |
Dr. Gough |
Clubbed to death with stake. |
. |
Keith Scholey |
Locked in walk-in freezer and suffocated. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 25
DEATH & DREAMS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Martin Wroth |
Drugged and blasted with shotgun which was rigged to look like suicide. |
. |
Tony Parish |
Drugged. Drowned in river and then hanged to look like suicide. |
. |
Gordon Leesmith |
Strangled |
. |
Dr. Moore's husband (historical) |
Revealed at end of episode to have been pushed off cliff. |
. |
Total: 4 murders including 1 historical
EPISODE 26
PAINTED IN BLOOD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Ruth Fairfax, also known as Angela Browning |
Stabbed in back on green with chisel. |
. |
Total: 1 murder
EPISODE 27
A TALE OF TWO HAMLETS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Larry Smith |
Killed when bomb planted in summer house. |
. |
Frank Webster |
Electrocuted on excerise bike. |
. |
Danny Pinchall |
Drowned in cauldron of soup. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 28
BIRDS OF PREY
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Julian Shepherd |
Drowned in bath, body placed in car and dumped in lake to look like suicide. |
. |
Charles Edmonton |
. |
Natural causes? |
Edward Darwin |
Run over - died of injuries. |
. |
Major Hamilton |
Stabbed in chest with native spear. |
. |
Total: 3 murders, 1 natural death, n.b. It is never completely established whether Charles Edmonton died naturally or not.
EPISODE 29
THE GREEN MAN
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Eric Edwards (historical) |
Murdered with an axe + dumped in tunnel. |
. |
Simon Mayfield |
Caught in animal trap and shot in head with .22 rifle. |
. |
Stephen Curtis |
Hit on head and shot with .22 rifle. |
. |
Lillian Webster |
Shot in head with .22 rifle. |
. |
Total: 4 murders including 1 historical
EPISODE 30
BAD TIDINGS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Fiona Thompson |
Stabbed to death and dumped in field. |
. |
Dr. Charles Rust |
Stabbed to death in his cottage. |
. |
Jacob Stoke |
Stabbed and burnt to death in his hand-cart whilst in drunken stupor. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 31
THE FISHER KING
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Roger Heldman (historical) |
Murderer caused barrow to collapse burying him. |
. |
Gareth Heldman |
Bled to death after being stabbed in thigh with ancient spear. |
. |
David Hartley-Reid |
Shot with bow and arrow. |
. |
Dr. Lavery |
Hit over head with iron bar and fell into mill stream. |
. |
Total: 4 murders including 1 historical
EPISODE 32
SINS OF COMMISSION
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Richard Rackham |
Neck broken and thrown down stairs. |
. |
Neville Williams |
Hit with stone and knocked off roof in struggle. |
. |
Jezebel Tripp |
Impaled with tent peg. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 33
THE MAID IN SPLENDOUR
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Jamie Cruickshank |
Blasted with 12 gauge shotgun. |
. |
Stephen Bannerman |
Shotgun blast. |
. |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 34
THE STRAW WOMAN
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Alex Dakin (Curate) |
Drugged, put inside straw effigy and burnt to death. |
. |
Reverend Jim Hale |
Burnt alive after clothes sprinkled with phosphorous. |
. |
Liz Francis |
Knocked out with candlestick and burnt alive. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 35
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Patrick Pennyman (Funeral Director) |
Hit over head with funeral urn & wrists slashed. |
. |
Elizabeth Key |
Struck over head with spade and wrists slashed. |
. |
John Whittle |
Blow to head with railway track tool and wrists slashed. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 36
DEAD IN THE WATER
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Guy Sweetman |
Hit on the head twice with a piece of local stone, then held under water in The Thames until he drowned. |
. |
Total: 1 murder
EPISODE 37
GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Aunt Lydia |
Dies in hospital after being pushed down the stairs. |
|
Jennifer Carter |
Gun cartridge switched causing it to backfire. |
|
Ferdy Villiers |
. |
Suicide - shot himself (historical) |
Claire English |
|
Suicide - Car fumes - hose pipe connected to exhaust
whilst in woods. |
Total: 2 murders, 2 suicides (historical)
EPISODE 38
ORCHIS FATALIS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Madeline Villiers |
Poisoned by Hemlock |
. |
Henry Plummer |
Strangled with a wire, then hung in his shed.. |
. |
Munro Hilliard |
Impaled in the back by a gardening fork whilst relaxing in a deckchair. |
. |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 39
BANTLING BOY
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Bruce Hartley |
Hit over head with blacksmith's hammer in stable. |
. |
Dr. John Osgood |
Hit over head with same hammer after going outside to see who was vandalising his car. |
. |
Trevor Machin |
Hit over head with the hammer while taking out rubbish. |
. |
Joanna Craxton |
Also struck over head with the hammer in stable. |
. |
Total: 4 murders
EPISODE 40
SECOND SIGHT
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
John Ransom |
Hit over the head with a candlestick whilst in a drunken state after leaving pub. N.B. This sequence is quite cleverly shot in as much as the viewer is unaware that the victim has actually been struck. |
. |
Dr. Gregory Ransom |
Thrown down flight of stone steps. |
. |
Max Ransom |
Bludgeoned with heavy tree branch. |
. |
Total : 3 murders
EPISODE 41
HIDDEN DEPTHS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Jack Wilmot |
Hit over head with cricket bat and then dropped head first from roof onto concrete flag stones. |
. |
Otton Benham |
Drugged then staked out with arms and legs pinioned by croquet hooks on his own lawn which had been marked out as a target (see photo). Then bombarded with bottles of wine from a gaint catapult with his wheelchair bound wife forced to watch |
. |
Mike Spicer |
Death by claret! TV Quiz Master Spicer had his head thrust into a TV set from which the insides had been removed. The set was then slowly filled with bottles of wine by the murderer who taunted his victim with gameshow style questions until he eventually drowned in the wine. |
. |
Total : 3 Murders
EPISODE 42
SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Dexter Lockwood |
Crushed against towers of bottled sauce with a forklift truck before being thrown naked into a 200-degree sterilizer.
|
Total : 1 Murder
EPISODE 43
MIDSOMER RHAPSODY
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Arthur Leggott |
Skull cracked after being hit over the head with a torch.
|
. |
Owen Swincoe |
Thrown off bridge and drowned whilst drunk.
|
. |
Harvey Crane |
Decapitated by trip wire whilst on motorcycle.
|
.
|
Total : 3 Murders
EPISODE 44
THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Peter Cave |
Garotted |
. |
Caroline Cave |
Garotted |
. |
Harriet Davis |
Garotted |
. |
PC Colin Armstrong |
. |
Shot - historical |
Total: 4 Murders (including 1 historical)
EPISODE 45
DEAD LETTERS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Marion Slade |
Drowned. Head held under water whilst in a drugged state. |
. |
Mark Castle |
Throat cut whilst in a drugged state. |
. |
Dr. Wellow |
Stabbed to death |
. |
Bella Slade |
. |
Died after an abortion |
Total: 3 murders +1 accidental death - historic
EPISODE 46
VIXEN'S RUN
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Henry York |
Overcome by fumes and fell out of window when his cottage was set on fire. |
. |
Sandra Butler |
Shot in the forehead with a rifle |
. |
Sir Freddy Butler |
. |
Natural causes |
Total : 2 murders, 1 natural death
EPISODE 47
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Martin Barrett |
Blasted by a Shotgun |
. |
Total : 1 murder
EPISODE 48
FOUR FUNERALS & A WEDDING
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Mildred Danvers |
Poisoned brandy (Barbituates) |
. |
Rev. Anthony Gant |
Shot through the head with a rifle whilst taking part in Skimmington Ride. |
. |
Deaon Cathy Hewlett |
Hit over head with blunt instrument. |
. |
Vivian Marwood |
Suicide during incurable illness |
Total : 3 Murders/1 suicide
EPISODE 49
COUNTRY MATTERS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Frank Hopkirk |
Stabbed in heart with chef's knife after having a stroke. |
. |
Total : 1 Murder
EPISODE 50
DEATH IN CHORUS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Connor Simpson |
Bludgeoned to death by a fire iron |
- |
Sam Judd |
Fired at by a Shot Gun |
- |
Total : 2 murders
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Frances Trevelyan |
Clubbed to death with a saucepan |
- |
N.B. Murder does not take place within the timeframe of the episode
Total : 1 murder
EPISODE 52
DANCE WITH THE DEAD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Simon Bright |
Carbon monoxide poisoning. |
- |
Laura Sharpe |
Clubbed to death with blunt instrument. |
- |
Tony Kirby |
Stabbed twice with long bladed knife |
- |
Total : 3 Murders
EPISODE 53
THE ANIMAL WITHIN
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Rex Masters |
Drowned in weir after being knocked out with a torch. |
- |
Miles King/Eileen Carnack |
Double murder - both stabbed to death with kitchen knives. |
- |
Total : 3 murders
EPISODE 54
KINGS CRYSTAL
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Alan King |
Poisoned with powdered glass causing car crash in Shanghai |
- |
Peter Baxter |
Stabbed with masonic knife & body thrown in river. |
- |
Ian King |
Hanged from beam in barn whilst sedated with barbituates. |
- |
Total : 3 murders
EPISODE 55
THE AXEMAN COMETH
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Mimi Clifton |
Electrocuted with faulty rigged microphone whilst performing on stage. |
- |
Nicky Harding |
Suffocated by pillow whilst drunk (body left in car in swimming pool). |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 56
DEATH & DUST
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Dr. Alan Delaney |
Deliberate hit and run with pick-up truck. |
- |
Megan Mostyn's daughter |
- |
Appeared to die of natural causes although she was "helped along" by Delaney |
Total : 1 murder/1 death by natural cause?
EPISODE 57
PICTURE OF INNOCENCE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Lionel Bell |
Strangled with cord of camera light meter/ |
- |
Steve Bright |
Strangled with cord. |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 58
THEY SEEK HIM HERE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Nick Cheyney |
Decapitated by guillotine on film set |
- |
Gwen Morrison |
Decapitated by guillotine |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 59
DEATH IN A CHOCOLATE BOX
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Maria Godbold |
Hit over head with winding mechanism |
Historical |
Jack Colby |
Land Rover forced him off road & then hit with winding mechanism |
- |
Eddie Marston |
Hit over head with winding mechanism |
- |
Gina Colby |
- |
Suicide |
Total : 3 murders including 1 historical + 1 suicide
EPISODE 60
SHOT AT DAWN
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Tommy Hicks |
Executed during World War I - 1916 |
|
Colonel Henry Hammond |
Shot in the head with WW1 revolver in his wheelchair which was then sent by remote control to crash into oncoming milk van. |
- |
Johnny Hammond |
Killed by machine gun fire rigged to activate when he opened his garage door. |
- |
Total : 2 Murders + 1 other related death
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Marina Fellowes |
Skewered to wooden panel by knife |
- |
Peggy Benson |
Stabbed through the ear with a hatpin |
- |
Robin Lawson |
Shot in the heart with an arrow. |
- |
Total : 3 Murders
EPISODE 62
MIDSOMER LIFE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Charlie Finleyson |
Died of heart attack in car after being chased through the woods. |
|
Guy Sandys |
Stabbed through the heart by paper pin. |
- |
Eleanor Crouch |
Pushed into drier and spun to death. |
- |
Frederick Tomlin |
Throat slit with knife |
Total : 3 Murders + 1 accidental death
EPISODE 63
LEFT FOR DEAD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Ron Wilson |
Pushed down the stairs |
- |
Libby Wilson |
- |
Died from natural causes |
Louise |
Stabbed with a knife |
- |
Jack Purdy |
Stabbed with a knife |
- |
Michael Wilson |
- |
Run over by car - historical |
Total : 3 Murders + 1 death from natural causes, 1 accident - historical
EPISODE 64
THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Jean Wildacre |
Poisoned by a deadly toxin secreted by a topical frog. Toxin was put on a blade in the 'Cabinet of Death'. |
- |
Hugo Cartwright |
Fell down drunk on glass contamined by frog toxin and was poisoned by it. |
- |
Aloysius Wilmington |
Hit on head with axe, then frog poison entered body through wound. |
- |
Tristan Balliol |
- |
Poisoned by frog toxin - accidental |
Total : 3 murders + 1 accidental death
EPISODE 65
DAYS OF MISRULE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Alex Grainger |
Clubbed to death with gun butt during fight. |
- |
James Parkes |
Stabbed with clasp knife during struggle |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 66
TALKING TO THE DEAD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Terence Lowler |
Stabbed to death |
- |
Colin Thomas |
Shot at close range with 12 bore shotgun during struggle |
- |
Molly Thomas |
Shot in the back with 12 bore shotgun |
- |
Lynton Pargetter |
Crushed to death in Iron Maiden |
- |
Cyrus Le Vana |
- |
Frightened to death |
Monks |
- |
Historic massacre of monks (unspecified no.) |
Total : 4 murders + 1 unexplained death
EPISODE 67
THE DOGLEG MURDERS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Ali Kingslake |
Hit over the head with a golf club and then battered with second club |
- |
Ed Monkberry |
Repeatedly stabbed |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 68
THE BLACK BOOK
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Felicity Law |
Throat cut after having been tortured on hot plate |
- |
Graham Spate |
Repeated blows to the skull with blunt instrument after being tortured with razor blade |
- |
Anthony Prideaux |
Throat slit with razor blade |
- |
Total : 3 murders
EPISODE 69
SECRETS & SPIES
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Geoffrey Larkin |
Stabbed in neck with corkscrew and lacerated with prehistoric animal skull |
- |
Nicky Fraser |
Stabbed ? (unconfirmed) and lacerated with prehistoric animal skull |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 70
THE GLITCH
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Emily Harte |
Knocked off bycycle by car and then run over |
- |
Daniel Snape |
Knocked unconscious with wrench and put under car ramp |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 71
SMALL MERCIES
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Richard Tanner |
Stabbed with bodkin (small sharp tool) and staked out in model village |
- |
Christa Palfrey |
Impaled with home made trident |
- |
Harriet Compton |
Hit over head with hammer |
- |
Mary (former Guardian of Bernice) |
Historic - possibly posioned - unconfirmed |
Total 3 murders + 1 possible historic
EPISODE 72
THE CREEPER
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
David Roper |
Drugged with coedine tablets and suffocated with a pillow. |
- |
Dr. Sylvia Goring |
Blasted in throat at short range with shotgun. |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 73
THE GREAT & THE GOOD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Councillor Jim Hanley |
Throat cut with knife |
- |
Lawrence Mann |
Throat cut with knife |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 74
THE MADE TO MEASURE MUDERS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Sonia Woodley |
Struck over the head and then strabbed in churchyard with tailor's shears. |
- |
Rev. Moreland |
Struck over head and throat severely slashed with tailor's shears. |
- |
Gerald Woodley |
- |
Heart attack - allowed to die (delay in calling ambulance) |
Total : 2 Murders + 1 other death
EPISODE 75
THE SWORD OF GUILLAUME
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Hugh Dalgleish |
Decapitated with antique sword whilst riding on fairground ghost train. |
- |
Jenny Russel |
Decapitated with antique sword in her bedroom |
- |
Total 2 murders
EPISODE 76
BLOOD ON THE SADDLE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Faye Lennox |
Shot with Winchester 73 |
- |
Jack Fincher |
Roped around ankles and draggedto death by horseman. |
- |
Leo Fincher |
Shot with Wild West Colt |
- |
Fergal Jenner |
Stabbed in chest with Bowie knife |
- |
Total : 4 murders
EPISODE 77
THE SILENT LAND
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Gerald Ebbs |
Struck over head with stone edging from grave. |
- |
Jeff Bowmaker |
Thrust over balcony on old stairs. |
- |
Total : 2 murders
EPISODE 78
MASTER CLASS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Orlando Guest |
Struck over the head and hanged. |
- |
Father Gregory |
Throat slashed with blade. |
- |
Mad Molly |
- |
Commits suicide by jumping in the river. |
Total : 2 murders + 1 related suicide
EPISODE 79
THE NOBLE ART
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Solicitor - Giles Braithwaite |
Knocked unconcious with knuckleduster and suffocated. |
- |
Boxing Manager - Frank Bishop |
Knocked unconscious with knuckleduster and suffocated. |
- |
Iris Holman |
Suffocated. |
- |
Total : 3 murders
EPISODE 80
NOT IN MY BACKYARD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Maureen Stubbs |
Stabbed in the back with broken bottle. |
- |
Clifford Bunting |
Caught in electronic sliding door and choked to death. |
- |
Geoff Rogers |
Drugged with Ketamine and asphyxiated by being covered in concrete whilst in car. |
- |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 81
FIT FOR MUDER
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Lucy Potinger |
Drowned in flotation pool at Health Farm whilst under influence of drugs and drink. |
- |
Luke Archbold |
Crushed by exercise machine. |
- |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 82
DEATH IN THE SLOW LANE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Duncan Palmer |
Shot through head in vintage racing car. |
- |
Dave Doggy Day |
Impaled with starting handle from vintage car. |
- |
Thomas Brightwell |
Crashed car after brakes interfered with. |
Total: 3 murders including 1 historical
EPISODE 83
DARK SECRETS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Gerry Dawkins |
Hit overhead with rifle butt and placed in a canoe which overturns. |
- |
Mary Bingham |
Suffers heart attack after being crushed by huge pile of old newspapers. |
- |
The Bingham's son |
Related historic death: |
Total: 2 murders + 1 related historic death
EPISODE 84
ECHOES OF THE DEAD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Dianne Price |
Strangled and dumped in bath. |
- |
Fran Carter |
Strangled, dismembered and left in basket at railway station. |
- |
Len & Olive Merryman |
Clubbed to death with sledge hammer. |
Total: 4 murders
EPISODE 85
THE OBLONG MURDERS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Jeremy & Carolyn Lambert |
Rigged gas explosion on their boat. |
- |
Max Fuller |
Stabbed in heart. |
- |
Freddie Raft |
Stabbed in back |
- |
Total: 4 murders
EPISODE 86
THE SLEEPER UNDER THE HILL
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Alex Preston |
Blundgeoned with blunt instrument, disembowled and dumped in druid circle. |
- |
Leticia Clifford |
Stabbed multiple times (10) |
- |
Sgt. Trevor Gibson |
Stunned with hammer and drowned in a barrel of water. |
- |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 87
THE NIGHT OF THE STAG
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Peter Slim |
Shaken to death by vehicle used for pruning apples. Body later dumped in VAT of mulberry wine. |
- |
Rev. Conrad Walker |
Beaten to Death in with farming implements in his church. |
- |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 88
A SACRED TRUST
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Mother Thomas Aquinas |
Strangled in chicken coop. |
- |
Father James Behan |
Strangled |
- |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 89
A RARE BIRD
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Patrick Morgan |
Trapped in net, beaten with bramble beater and thrown in river. |
- |
Dr. Markham |
Trapped in net and blasted with shotgun. |
- |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 90
THE DARK RIDER
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Bentham DeQuetteville |
Fell off roof of manor having had a heart attack after being frightened by a headless horseman. |
|
Julian DeQuetteville |
Hit with huge log rigged on chain. |
- |
Sir Ludovic DeQuetteville |
Crushed by stone gargoyle pushed from roof. |
- |
Total: 2 murders (+ 1 accidental (debatable) victim frightened to his death
EPISODE 91
MURDER OF INNOCENCE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Giles Harrison |
Injected with lethal dose of morphine. |
- |
Kyle Gideon |
Injected in neck with lethal dose of morphine. |
- |
Caroline Garrett (Solicitor) |
Killed in rigged gas explosion. |
- |
Keith Mullery |
Life support switched off in hospital. |
- |
Daniel Denning |
Clubbed with rifle butt - Historic |
Total: 5 murders including 1 historical
EPISODE 92
DEATH & THE DIVAS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Eve Lomax |
Stabbed in the neck by two pronged carving fork to simulate vampire bites. |
- |
Cy Davenport |
Stabbed in back with carving knife and fell over stairway banister. |
- |
Colin Yule |
Suffocated by being wrapped as Egyptian mummy. |
- |
Total: 3 murders
EPISODE 93
WRITTEN IN THE STARS
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Jeremy Harper |
Clubbed with piece of meteorite rock. |
- |
Peter Groves |
Impaled with thrown spear |
- |
George Dormer |
Struck in throat by thrown moonstone disc causing cardiac arrest. |
- |
Mary Dutta |
Fell down stairs in scuffle. Accidental death, historical 15 years earlier. |
Total:
3 murders
Accidental death: 1
EPISODE 94
THE SICILIAN DEFENCE
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Edward Stannington |
Struck in back with ice pick. |
- |
David Farmer |
Strangled with climbing rope. |
- |
Total: 2 murders
EPISODE 95
SCHOOLED IN MURDER
VICTIMS |
MURDERS |
OTHER DEATHS |
Debbie Moffett |
Crushed to death by a giant round of cheese. |
- |
Oliver Ordish |
Found in woods, garrotted by cheese wire cutter and mouth stuffed with maggots. |
- |
Gregory Brantner |
Stabbed through the heart with a cheese needle. |
- |
Helen Caxton |
Hit with a wrench as she tended her cattle, then trampled to death by them. |
- |
Jim Caxton |
Trampled to death by cattle. |
- |
Total: 5 murders
FEBRUARY 2012
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