This series tells the stories of those who paid the ultimate price for offending an obsessive lover. The six murder stories are told with key interviews from those closest to the case, including testimony from family and friends of the victims, and the investigating officers who tracked down the killers.
These tangled tales of forbidden love, lust, jealousy and deceit, have all the key ingredients of a classic murder story.
SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1: ZATOON BIBI
Tanveer Iqbal and Zatoon Bibi had an affair under the noses of their families. When he called it off, she vowed revenge.
SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2: PETER MORGAN
Millionaire Peter Morgan was infatuated with Georgina Symonds. Finding out if she felt the same led him down a dangerous path.
SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3: MARIAN CALIMAN
Marian Caliman used his charm and his DIY skills to win over fiancee Faye’s family. Then he betrayed their trust.
SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4: THELMA PURCHASE
Thelma Purchase was Greg Baker’s carer, confidante, even his lover. She was in the perfect position to cash in on his trust.
SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5: BEN LACOMBA
A meeting online led to Sarah Wellgreenn and Ben Lacomba making a life together. But how well did she really know him?
SEASON 1 - EPISODE 6: IAN PATON
Kayleigh Hanks and Ian Paton’s relationship was volatile - some would say toxic. Their love wasn’t enough to curb his violent ways.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 1: HARRY DHILLON
Spurned lover Harry Dhillon turns stalker, when Alice Ruggles ends their relationship. But the obsessive soldier wouldn’t take no for an answer and embarked on his final deadly mission.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 2: ASHER MASLIN
When Hollie Gazzard, a hairdresser with a bright future, parted ways with her controlling lover, she had no idea that a day of cutting at the salon would end with her being cut down.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 3: IAN STEWART
After falling in love with a fellow widower, author Helen Bailey thought she’d found her happy ending. But as she was planning their wedding, her fiancee was planning her murder.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4: ANTHONY DAVIS
When a successful businessman discovers his partner has been having an affair, he is overcome with jealousy and a night in the pub ends in tragedy. Her family would later uncover the truth about the man in their daughter's life.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 5: BEN BLAKELEY
Ben Blakely was a bad boy, it was the magnet that drew seventeen year old Jayden Parkinson to him. But the teenager had no idea just how bad her boyfriend was, until it was too late.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 6: OLIVIA LABINJO-HALCROW
A partnership formed through a mutual need to seek help for substance misuse. But the troubled lovers were doomed from the start and a series of escalating attacks on eachother, culminates in an alcohol-fuelled frenzy.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 7: JORDAN MONAGHAN
Evie Adams had a difficult start in life when she was taken into care. She yearned for the opportunity to replicate the loving family she’d found in her adoptive parents. The man in her life wanted nothing more than to tear it apart.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8: PAUL HEMMING
Mother of three; Natalie Hemming split up from her partner of ten years believing it would be amicable, for the children’s sake. But when the 31 year old disappeared without trace soon after, attention turned to her gilted partner; Paul Hemming.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9: ANTHONY ROBERTS
When Guida Rufino met Anthony Roberts she finally got what she had always longed for, a baby. Little did she know that only a few years later they would both end up dead in a frenzied attack that left a child without its parents.
SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10: JOHN LOWE
Living on a puppy farm was a dream come true for Christine Lee and her two daughters when they moved in with the owner; John Lowe. But that dream became a nightmare when they tried to leave years later.