Nightmare in Suburbia

When Stephen Seddon crashed his hired BMW into a canal, he was seen as a hero after rescuing his elderly parents from drowning. But just months later Stephen's parents were found shot dead. It first appeared to police that his father had killed his wife then taken his own life. Detectives had to use all their skills to solve what the judge would call a 'terrible and unnatural crime.

19 year old babysitter Katy Briscoe was stabbed 23 times and killed. Although, there were no immediate suspects, it was clear that Katy knew her killer and had willingly let them into the house. Detectives discovered that during the six months leading up to her brutal murder, Katy had been lured into a twisted virtual world, where no one was what they seemed and no one could be trusted.

Sasha was studying childcare at Blackpool and the Fylde College and was looking for a part-time job so she could earn some extra money. Little did she know that her new job as a cleaner at a local hotel would lead to her death at the hands of a sadistic killer, but who was responsible?

During Christmas 2012, 76 year old Patricia Goodband vanished without a trace. Pat's business partner and friend Chris Symons said he'd dropped her off at Milton Keynes train station so that she could visit a friend in the North for New Year. The murderer tried to throw police off the scent by sending texts from her phone.

When Vitalija Baliutaviciene suddenly disappeared, she left her ten year old son sleeping. Alive or dead, the question of what had happened to Vitalija remained a total mystery. But by closely investigating modern technology, detectives found a breakthrough that would identify her abductor and offer an unprecedented and disturbing insight into his mind.

When she was seven years old, Annabelle Forest was taken to a quiet, leafy suburban cul-de-sac in a coastal town in Wales by her own mother. The innocent child could never have imagined that that visit to this quaint semi-detached house would herald the beginning of a depraved nightmare that would horrifically play out over a decade.