Dark Land: Hunting the Killers

Cardiff schoolgirl Joyce Cox was only four years old when her body was discovered along a railway line, just a few hundred yards from her home in Whitchurch. For over 80 years, her story has been lost to history: lost to everyone but her family, who remain devastated and torn apart by her death. Can the Dark Land team help identify a potential suspect to present to the police?

The team revisit the case of Karen Price, a fifteen-year-old girl who disappeared after running away from care. Wrapped in a carpet and entombed in concrete in a Cardiff back garden, her murdered body lay undiscovered for eight years. Karen's skeletal remains were eventually discovered by builders, but detectives were unable to identify her.

In spring 1991, bagged-up body parts began appearing in roadside lay-bys across Gwent. At a loss to identify the victim, detectives set about using new forensic techniques and a pioneering series of appeals to the press to identify them.

Danny Dyke led a double life. By day, he worked part-time for Aberavon rugby club, but they had no idea he was also acting as a drug courier between London and Swansea, and was involved with drug gangs in both cities. When he went missing, the rumour was that he had been murdered. A burnt-out car was found, but no sign of Danny Dyke. A remarkable chain of events leads the police to a bleak hillside near Swansea, and a fragment of bone becomes key in the investigation.

The Dark Land team re-examine the murder of Suzanne Greenhill, a vibrant 20-year-old deaf woman from Newport. In 1988, she was found murdered at home, her body ghoulishly staged to represent the cover of an Iron Maiden heavy metal album cover.

During the Easter holiday of 1972, two men from Blaenavon were brutally murdered in a seemingly unprovoked attack. The killer was never caught and 50 years later, the murder remains unsolved. The team re-examines the case.