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      • The oft-cited observation by William Faulkner about the past never being dead (“it’s not even past”) might have served as a tagline for “Steeltown Murders,” a slow-to-accelerate but ultimately absorbing dramatic series about the virtual haunting of a small town—not in rural Mississippi, but industrial Wales, where the police are faced with a dilemma: Resurrect a 30-year-old cold case; remind their constituents they never managed to solve it the first time; dive into the probe with no guarantee...
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  2. Nov 27, 2023 · Steeltown Murders. Stream It Or Skip It. Philip Glenister and Scott Arthur star as Paul Bethell, who investigates the murders of three young women in both the Seventies and the Aughts.

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  3. It stars Philip Glenister and Steffan Rhodri as detectives investigating the real-life murders committed by Joseph Kappen in Port Talbot in South Wales. It premiered on 15 May 2023 on BBC One, with all episodes immediately available on BBC iPlayer.

  4. May 16, 2023 · This isn’t a nail-biting murder series so much as a sad portrait of a community in shock. This thought, though, has very much occurred to DC Paul Bethell, a conscientious young detective whose attempts to link the Llandarcy case to an earlier murder in Neath are systematically stamped on by his boss.

  5. Nov 23, 2023 · A slow-burn mystery series on Acorn TV toggles between 1973 and the early 21st century in its story of a serial killer and the quest to catch him.

    • Steeltown Murders True Story: What Inspired The BBC Drama?
    • How DNA Evidence Identified The Killer
    • How Accurate Is Steeltown Murders?

    The story of Steeltown Murders dates back to the summer of 1973, when the county of Neath Port Talbot suffered unspeakable tragedy as three local women were found dead. Sandra Newton was the first to be discovered, having disappeared on a five-mile walk home from her boyfriend's house. Two months later, Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd also never...

    Unfortunately, the DNA found on all three of the girls' clothes was not logged on the national database, meaning there was still no easy answer as to the identity of the so-called "Saturday Night Strangler". However, investigators wondered if they would be able to identify a child or relative of the offender using the sample that they had – a techn...

    The team behind Steeltown Murders told RadioTimes.com and other press that they carried out "meticulous" research into the case in order to bring it to the screen accurately. "Core to it all was the research that we did," said producer Hannah Thomas. "We worked with the actual police who were on the case – Paul Bethell and Phil Rees – who were ther...

  6. Steeltown Murders: Created by Ed Whitmore. With Philip Glenister, Steffan Rhodri, Scott Arthur, Sion Alun Davies. Three murders - unsolved but never forgotten. Thirty years on, can DCI Bethall find the serial killer who terrorised 1970s Port Talbot?

  7. May 12, 2023 · Review at a glance. In South Wales in 1973, two teenage girls, Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd, leave a nightclub in Swansea but they do not make it home. Some time later, their bodies are...

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