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Catching a killer (ch4)

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Pinkbonbon · 13/01/2020 21:58

Anyone else watching this?!

Poor fella finally thought he had found love at 67 (kept a diary about how happy he was n everything) only to be poisoned by the bastard. Who then killed another person too.

Absolutely heart breaking.
Hope he never found out what was happening to him.

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JaneJeffer · 13/01/2020 22:02

It's unreal!

Did you think Ben was smirking when he was arrested?

FREEM · 13/01/2020 22:03

it's shocking.
yes i though he smirked

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Pinkbonbon · 13/01/2020 22:06

Yeah he did. That whole asking for a book thing too! Just f*cking unreal.

I was watching 'faking it tears of a crime the other day' and they pointed out liars often lick their lips to 'hold back the lies' ect n couldn't help but notice that too.

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Pinkbonbon · 13/01/2020 22:16

Damn just when you think the shocks are over. Hats of to the people who had to work this case. Think I'd be traumatised.

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Doyoumind · 13/01/2020 22:16

This guy is clearly a psychopath. What a piece of work.

SouthWestmom · 13/01/2020 22:18

Is love to know why no one thought to suggest a 26 yr old was unlikely to be that interested in a 67 year old or that being his student wasn't a great idea.

JaneJeffer · 13/01/2020 22:23

It's horrible Sad

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Pinkbonbon · 13/01/2020 22:24

Bigger age gaps sometimes in gay dating...?

I'm more curious as to how no one got the wiggs from him.

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Doyoumind · 13/01/2020 22:27

I am honestly gobsmacked by this guy.

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Pinkbonbon · 13/01/2020 22:29

Guys a sadist as well as a stone cold psycho.

I can watch most stuff n not much shocks me... but I think I'm gonna struggle to sleep tonight.

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Bearspears · 13/01/2020 22:34

It's horrible. And so very sad!

I wonder if he was responsible for any other deaths?!

Cocolapew · 13/01/2020 22:34

Me too Noeuf, did nobody think it was inappropriate or suspicious?

SouthWestmom · 13/01/2020 22:38

Cocole exactly - the vicar saying young men sometimes fancy old men, the family who don't seem to have had a clue, the uni/college and students aware he was living with a student, just why did no one think wtf?

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Pinkbonbon · 13/01/2020 22:38

Yeah wouldn't be surprised if he bumped off other ppl just for the fun/power n they haven't linked it to him because there wasn't the fraud aspect...

Curious to know what the role of the other guy was in all this...

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Bearspears · 13/01/2020 22:39

You've got to question the original investigation. Seems like poor police work that no one questioned the alcoholic angle.

Goneback2school · 13/01/2020 22:44

Nearly the most horrible thing was that clip of him taunting the older person with dementia into getting violent. Evil man.

FREEM · 13/01/2020 22:45

I.dont understand why he didn't have post mortem originally.
wpuldnt that have shown the drugs in his system

JaneJeffer · 13/01/2020 22:45

People probably thought it was odd him living with a younger man but what could they do?

Glad he got a lengthy sentence.

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Pinkbonbon · 13/01/2020 22:48

So apparently he was actually found not guilty of killing the later lady. And the other guy not guilty of anything.

Man I hope he spends the full 36 years behind bars.

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ShrekandDonkey · 13/01/2020 22:54

This is very close to home for me. DH is the best friend of the guy found not guilty. The programme could have shown so much more, Ben Field is a total psychopath.

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Pinkbonbon · 13/01/2020 22:59

I'd imagine he was just as taken in as everyone else. Lucky he lived to tell the tale.

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ShrekandDonkey · 13/01/2020 23:03

Oh most definitely.

NotSuchASmugMarriedNow1 · 13/01/2020 23:04

Absolutely heart breaking .

If he had just killed Peter he would absolutely have got away with it.

He got greedy though and tried to do it again.

MeanwhileAtNumber98 · 13/01/2020 23:08

The footage of the post mortem on Peter was really chilling. How sad for Annes family- they will know he murdered her but obviously it couldn't be proven. A brilliant programme.