Steeltown Murders is an upcoming four-part BBC One drama - on Monday at 9pm for 4 weeks
it will be on iPlayer 🙄🙄🙄 so no bingers please with spoilers if you can’t hold restraint 😂😂
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_One) factual drama television miniseries written by Ed Whitmore (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Whitmore) and directed by Marc Evans (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Evans). Starring Philip Glenister (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glenister) and Steffan Rhodri (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steffan_Rhodri)
as detectives investigating a set of murders in
Port Talbot (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Talbot) in
South Wales (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wales)
. It is scheduled to premiere on 15 May 2023 on
BBC One (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_One)
, with all episodes immediately available on
BBC iPlayer (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_iPlayer)
.
A brand new Welsh-made, true crime drama is coming to BBC (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/bbc) One this May, Steeltown Murders. Set in both the 1970s and early 2000s, Steeltown Murders is an account of how three murders in south Wales were solved
almost 30 years after they had been committed.
The drama centres on the hunt to catch the killer of three young women in the Port Talbot (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/port-talbot) area and the remarkable story of how - in the first case of its kind - the mystery was solved almost 30 years later using pioneering DNA evidence.
In September 1973, teenage factory workers Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd left the Top Rank nightclub in Swansea (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/swansea) together to try hitching a lift home.
But they'd never reach their destination. Instead their bodes were discovered the next day dumped in Neath Port Talbot (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/all-about/neath-port-talbot) woodland having been raped and strangled.
It was a hideous crime which left two families in mourning and an entire community in fear of where its perpetrator might strike next.
The resulting search for the culprit, Wales' very first documented serial killer (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/bbc-dark-land-how-wales-22751647), ended up becoming one of the longest-running murder hunts in this country's history.
Indee d it would take 30 years before officers finally unmasked the a man who'd come to be known as
The Saturday Night Strangler (https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/how-saturday-night-strangler-finally-15031305)
- and whom, it was discovered, was responsible for a third death.
Starring Philip Glenister from Life on Mars as DCI Paul Bethell and Gavin & Stacey's Steffan Rhodri as Phil ‘Bach’ Rees, the story will follow two timelines, the early 1970s and early 2000s, and the younger versions of the detectives are played by Scott Arthur (Good Omens, Borg McEnroe) and Siôn Alun Davies (The Sandman, Hidden).
Also featuring in the cast are: Keith Allen, Priyanga Burford, Sharon Morgan, Nia Roberts, Amy Morgan, Matthew Gravelle, Gareth John Bale, Elinor Crawley, Kriss Dosanjh, Oliver Ryan and Dyfan Dwyfor.