A man disappears without a trace in 2011, a murder inquiry is launched in 2015. What happened to Scott Fletcher?
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TEESSIDE TERRORS: Scott Fletcher
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TEESSIDE TERRORS: The Accusation
One conversation sets off a chain of events that leads to a vulnerable man being disembowelled with a bread knife.
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TEESSIDE TERRORS: Love Triangle
Love, it can be all-consuming and glorious, but it can also be to our detriment. What happens when you are so blinded by someone, that you go to grave extremes to make them look at you and no other?
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TEESSIDE TERRORS: The Loner
A gatecrasher attends a houseparty and within minutes begins to attack the women, they escape – but on their way to the hospital they remember the children sleeping upstairs.
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TEESSIDE TERRORS: Man in the Mask
For 14 months a community lived in absolute fear as a terrifying figure haunted the streets of Thornaby, prowling for young women on the street and attacking them in their beds.
A 3-year-old girl skipped the 20 metres from home to an ice cream van to buy an ice pop on a warm summers afternoon. She would never return.
Rosie Palmer was murdered in Hartlepool by her own neighbour, and it took police days to find her just metres from her own home.
She was always a bright, happy little girl who was full of life, never able to sit still as is the case with any three-year-old.
Captain James Smith
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Buried Alive
If we are to keep or friends close and our enemies closer; where are we meant to keep family. This is the macabre case of grandparents buried alive and found whilst still warm.
I touched it with my garden fork and found it was a hand.
Hannah Stirr
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Murder By Invitation
A man who strangled a woman to death had an extraordinary thing in his pocket as the police arrested him. An invitation to murder.
Frank Hatton was invited to murder a friend in the town of Middlesbrough during 1969.
When I came back from the public house she said that, because I told her she was silly and didn’t mean what she was saying, she had written it down because she did mean what she was saying.
Frank Hatton
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The Body Under The Bathtub
Julie Hogg had just seperated from her partner in 1989 and had a young son to provide for. the young mum left her littl boy with her mum as she did every evening she had work in a local pizza shop.
She then disappeared without a trace. Cleveland Police conducted a forensic search of her home in Billingham yet found nothing. 80 days later, her mum found her decomposing body under the family bathtub.
It took 17 years, almost three trials and a change of a 300-year-law to bring her murderer to justice.
I’m glad that the heartfelt campaign of Julie Hogg’s family, and others like hers, have been vindicated.
David Blunkett
Lady Justice True Crime 