I reckon It磗 about time l made an honest woman of you.
Not if your mother has anything to say about it.
- I was never good enough for you. - Hm.
I notice she gave the papers that school photo of you in the posh uniform.
Yeah. Did I ever tell you about...
How beautiful she looked at the prize-giving? How the lads said she looked like a star? Yes.
Yeah.
But I never told you about after.
After the prize-giving.
I don磘 know why you go on about it. You were only at that school two minutes.
All the lads were giving her wolf whistles from the dormitories.
I was walking me mum and dad to the gates.
Mum was being coy, waving to the lads.
She didn磘 want them to know we didn磘 have a car and we were going to catch the bus.
Just as we got to the gates...
...the lads, they all saw it.
The wind blew her wig off.
You磖e kidding me? Blew her wig off?
- It wasn磘 funny, Moyra. - I磎 sorry.
My dad ran down the road to try and get it back.
Mum just stood there. I didn磘 know she had no hair.
Well... Dad tried to help her put it back on but he got the parting all wrong.
Underneath all that glamour she was... ugly.
Like she was someone I never knew.
Did all the kids see it?
Hm.
Did she ever mention it again?
I磛e never said anything... but It磗 always been obvious to me.
I mean... I just thought it was old age.
How long has she been bald then?
I don磘 know. She never mentions it.
She still pretends - always telling me she needs a good shampoo and trim.
Just goes to show you, the Rita Hayworth of Warrington was really Yul Brynner in disguise.
Did you really mean it about getting married?
I love you, Moyra... I love you, Moyra Henson.
What do you say?
I磍l think about it.
Dl Mansell to interview room 4C.
Yeah. All right, we磛e all seen it.
We磛e all read it. I reckon it磗 not just me left with egg on my face.
It makes our surveillance lads look like a load of wallies.
Any word on what their readers?survey came up with, ma碼m?
For or against female DCis on Homicide?
Oooh!
Oh, you磖e a biased load of old chauvinists. And there磗 thousands more like you.
You could always get a job in pantomime.
- You shit!
It wasn磘 me, it was Frank.
Sorry to interrupt. You磖e wanted upstairs, top floor.
Oh, well, it磗 coming down faster than I gave them credit for.
- See you later. - Right.
Right, now you磛e all had a jolly good laugh, get your brains into this lot.
I want it all on the computer so we can cross-reference.
Check any murders that took place when Marlow was in the vicinity, all right?
- You wanted anything from Oldham. - Oh, thanks, love.
All right, settle down. I don磘 like this any more than you do.
Got any better ideas, sarge?
I love you. You know I love you. I wouldn磘... I wouldn磘 two-time on you.
Look, this...
Right, what are you having? I磎 buying.
- Cheers. - Thanks.
That磗 the good news.
But they磖e taking legitimate surveillance off Marlow.
So I磎 looking for four volunteers.
Excuse me.
And you磖e one.
No, no, no. I was going for a slash.
- No, no, no. - Tie a knot in it.
And you磖e two.
Who, me?
Yeah, come on, surveillance you know is a piece of piss.
Come on, boys.
Number three.
Yeah, all right.
- Paul, OK? - Right.
Good.
OK. Mine磗 a large G and T, thanks.
Orange juice, Sherlock?
Get some crisps.
How磀 it go? Was it all right?
Well, unless I come up with something soon... I磎 off the case.
He磗 never given an inch.
Mind your back, Maureen.
Help yourselves.
Cheers.
- Thank you. - There you go.
- What磗 this? - Skipper coughed up.
Go, go, go.
Cheers, skipper.
Cheers.
Oh, well, cheers, anyway.
Next round.
Look, why don磘 you lot go home and recharge your batteries?
Anyone for another drink?
Leave off. I磛e had enough liquid for one day.
I磎 off. My wife磗 mother磗 down.
She磗 gonna be up all night. She makes more trips to the loo than a plumber.
Let磗 go for a Chinese. You磖e working too hard.
Why not?
- Eat in or takeaway. - We磛e got cases to be looked into.
Oldham, Southport and we磖e checking another in Warrington.
Sorry?
Who do you want checking out the cases?
Just use anyone who磗 been cooped up here all day.
- They磍l need it. - OK.
I磍l take Oldham.
Muddyman, Lillie, Rosper磗 on Marlow.
That leaves er... Southport. Will you take Southport?
Er... yeah. Yeah, pin it up.
Right.
You磍l be able to retire on your overtime, love.
- Good night. - Night.
Come on, boss. Why don磘 you take a rest, too?
I磛e got more to lose, Maureen.
You know, we磛e only got three possibles out of... God, I磛e lost track of how many.
What磗 with Oldham? He got relatives up there?
- What? - Oldham.
Sergeant Otley asked for their files. I see he磗 going up there tomorrow.
All right if I go home now?
- Er... yeah, sure. - Night.
Good night.
- Good night. - Night.
Listen, I磎 sorry I was so late last night.
I磍l be home early tonight to set everything up for that dinner.
I磎 doing pasta with salmon and cream, OK?
Yeah, fine by me.
What about these? Do you think these will soften up by tonight?
Prawns and mayonnaise. Oh, mayonnaise. Mayonnaise, must not forget the mayonnaise.
Mayonnaise.
OK, I磛e got to rush off now. Give us a kiss.
Mm. If anyone calls me, l磍l be in Oldham, OK? Oldham.
Right, Oldham.
Oh, God!
It磗 my damn bleeper. Hold that.
Mind yourself.
Welcome to Manchester. Have a good journey, Inspector?
I磎 DC Jones, actually. This is Chief Inspector Tennison.
Good morning.
The factory closed down in 1984, then the tarts started bringing customers here.
I think some of them still do.
We got the phone call at 4:00 in the morning.
Some tramp had gone in to doss down for the night.
This is where they used to do the dipping.
The whole place used to be full of big vats.
They磀 hang the parts to dry up on these.
Jeannie Sharpe was over there.
Hands tied behind her back?
Face down, head towards us. She磀 been savagely beaten.
Her face was a real mess.
She was naked up top. Found her shirt outside and her coat in here.
It磗 a nasty place to finish up.
These tarts bringing their blokes in here. Bloody well asking for it.
She was 21 years old, sergeant.
These friends of hers you want to talk to. "Slags" isn磘 the word for them.
Excuse me.
We clean the streets up and back they come like rodents.
Oh, sorry!
Anyway, we磖e all together just coming out of the pub.
It磗 like our local, you know.
Cheers. We磀 had a few.
Well, I hadn磘. I were on antibiotics.
You can磘 drink on them, it stops them working.
All right, Linda.
- Anyway, you know where the pub is? - No.
It磗 right on a corner and he were parked opposite.
Can you tell me what kind of car it was?
It were dark.
I suppose t碿ar were dark and all.
But it had a lot of shiny chrome on the front, you know.
Like a sort of bar stuck out with badges and stuff.
- He called out. - He called out?
So did he know her name?
I don磘 think it were her name. I think it were, "How much, slag? "
I said to her, hadn磘 she had enough for one night?
Yeah, but she was saving up. She wanted to emigrate.
That磗 right.
Anyway, sorry... So, you saw Jeannie cross the road.
Did you see her get into the car?
- Yeah, she got in. - I looked over, you know, to see.
But he was sort of turning, you know, like this.
You didn磘 see his face?
I saw the back of his head.
We never saw her again.
She had no-one even to bury her.
We had a whip-round.
Do you fancy a drink?
You don磘 mind being seen drinking with us, then?
Come on.
That磗 me and that磗 Jeannie.
- She was pretty. - She was lovely looking.
Suits you blonde.
I磛e gone back to the natural look, cost of hairdressing now.
They set you back 25 quid for streaks!
You know, we used to get cut price at our local, but they磛e gone unisex.
I can磘 stand having my hair done with a man sat next to me, can you?
All right, Lind?
I磛e got 15 minutes. The van磗 outside.
I磎 busy right now.
Sod off.
Cop.
Halfway To Paradise
Oh, cheers.
The barman says you missed the London Express.
There磗 one at 4:20.
Cutting it fine. I磛e got a dinner party.
So, do you recognise that man?
He磗 a bit tasty, isn磘 he?
What do you reckon?
He had dark hair.
You thought he had a beard.
Beard? You never mentioned it in your statement.
She couldn磘 get out the nick fast enough. They磖e bastards.
And I磍l tell you something for nothing.
They never gave a shit about Jeannie.
We磖e rubbish till they want a jerk-off.
And that big geezer that was doing the investigation...
Him... I磎 not saying any names, but...
Well, I will! John Shefford.
They got rid of him faster than a fart.
Didn磘 they?
Why was that?
I reckon they found out about him and Jeannie.
I mean, the next thing we knew he磗 on his bike, gone to London, the bastard!
But aren磘 all men?
I mean, we磛e got four kids between us, you know.
Jeannie never stood a chance.
Her foster dad was screwing her when she was seven.
She was out on the streets at 14.
And that Shefford... he used to tell her he磀 take care of her.
Well, he never found out who killed her.
And if you ask me, he never even tried.
She was strung up like a piece of meat hanging from a hook.
What?
How do you know that?
Well, the dosser who found her, he told me.
Er... this man, do you know his name?
He磗 dead, years back.
But he told me she was strung up by her arms... on a hook.
Have you got a cigarette?
No, no, no. Frank knows the restaurant. He磍l meet us there.
Yeah. Yeah, about ten minutes.
Bye.
- Do you know what time it is? - Yes. I磎 sorry. I missed the fast train.
Forget it. I cancelled dinner when you weren磘 here by seven o碿lock.
- We磖e eating out. - Oh.
You look knackered. You should go to bed.
But I磛e got all the food.
- Just forget it. - Oh, Peter, I磎 sorry.
So am I, Jane.
Just once I wanted you to do something for me.
I mean, this is important to me. My business is going down the tubes.
I have to go.
Don磘 you want me to come with you?
- No, I don磘! - Well, thanks a lot.
You know, I broke my neck trying to get here. - It磗 always you, isn磘 it, Jane ?
You, you, you. You don磘 care about anything else.
No, I磎 wrong. You care.
You care about your lads, you care about your rapists and your tarts.
Well, I磛e had it up to here.
Oh, well... I won磘 wait up, then.
Yeah, make a joke of it.
It磗 all right. It磗 for me.
Did it go all right last night?
Yeah, fine.
You磀 better answer that because if it rings again I磍l pull it off the wall.
All this because I didn磘 cook dinner?
Jonesy, I will be down in one minute. Just wait.
Look, can we talk about this tonight?
You think we have something to talk about?
Of course we do.
Well, what time do you get back?
I don磘 know.
Look, this is a very big case for me. My career is on the line.
Fine.
So I磍l er... see you when I see you.
You磀 better go.
If that磗 for me, I磛e gone.
Hello.
No, she磗 not here at the moment. Can I take a message?
Hello? Hello?
You can tell those rude bastards at your place I磎 not an answering service.
I live here.
I磍l see you tonight.
Still no trace of Marlow磗 car.
- Are you OK? - I want that bloody car found!
Trouble at home?
I got all of your shopping OK, didn磘 I?
Yeah.
My wife gave me an earful last night.
Dinner was a congealed cement mix.
At least when you get home, you get your dinner cooked.
I get home, I have to cook it myself.
God, the shit磗 going to hit the fan this morning.
Have you got an aspirin?
John Shefford was having a sexual relationship with the murdered girl.
- He says a pack of lies if John was alive- - Yeah but he磗 not.
He磗 dead, and you磖e still covering up for him.
One of Jeannie Sharpe磗 friends in Oldham told me...
that when her body was found it wasn磘 lying on the ground...
as had been previously reported,
But hanging up, she was strung up from a hook.
Now, somebody took that body down.
You can see from morgue photographs the bruises on her upper arms.
Did you get this in a statement made by the man who found her?
Be tough, he磗 been dead for years.
And going on the word of a tart six years later is a joke.
Is it?
Now, you specifically requested that Oldham case.
You wanted to go up there because you knew Shefford was involved.
- Another lie. - I磛e got two options.
One is to consider some ulterior motive for these cover-ups,
Or else it磗 a case of "What磗 one dead prostitute? "
If high-ranking officers want to screw around...
- Come on. A lot of the lads fraternise with... - Fraternise? Fraternise? Christ!
Della Mornay was an informer.
She was also a known prostitute picked up and charged by John Shefford
- when he was attach to Vice. - That磗 enough.
What a perfect squad to put him on.
I don磘 have any details about any previous case up north.
I just wanted to check it out.
There was no ulterior motive.
So, what about Southport? Did you come up with anything from there?
We磖e still checking over the evidence.
Well, you磀 better get on with it.
I磍l be in the incident room.
I worked with a good bloke in Hornchurch.
Detective Sergeant Amson. Terence Amson.
That磗 the deal, is it?
George Marlow spent 18 months inside.
All of these cases were either before or after he was in jail.
He磗 still my only suspect for both cases and now, very possibly, Jeannie Sharpe, too.
I think we磛e got a serial killer.
Jane, this is your mother. Pam磗 had a girl.
She磗 8lbs 7 ozs and she磗 beautiful...
She was rushed into St Stephen磗 yesterday morning.
You can go and visit any time as she磗 in a private ward.
Well, that磗 the news so... goodbye, then.
Oh, give my love to Peter.
The one with the black hair and that white suit.
Oh, he磗 mental, that bloke.
Erm... Vic Reeves. Vic Reeves Big Night Out.
I don磘 think it磗 funny, though, really.
Morning, fellas!
Morning.
Are you going to do the whole block or just the garages?
Er... just this lot as far as we know, yeah.
Cos these aren磘 for residents, you know.
Council rents them out at cost.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah. Leave your car out round here and they call it Radio One.
It means you had one when you parked it.
I had one.
- It was nicked. - Your car was nicked?
Yeah, Rover P6, 3.5, automatic.
Nearly 20 years old, collector磗 item, you know.
- Did you leave it out? - Yeah.
Bodywork must磛e rusted up.
A bit of filler here and there.
Suppose some kids nicked it for a joyride.
Yeah.
Be stripped by now.
I had all my Royal Automobile Club emblems on a bar at the front.
Ah, well...
I磎 in the paint business.
This is typical of the council! Do you mind if I borrow your brush, see how it goes on?
Cheers.
Work out, do you?
- Yeah. - Look as if you do.
Which gym do you use?
Golds.
Oh, yeah?
This is rubbish.
It磍l be like the Forth Bridge. When you finish, you磍l have to start again.
It磍l all blister up.
Hello.
Look, I reckon we got off on the wrong foot.
So I磎 just going for a drink. Would you like one?
Has Super spoken to you?
No. I really didn磘 know about John磗 spot of trouble in Oldham, you know.
Yes, you did.
Look, I磎 sorry, Bill. You磖e off the case.
And I want the name of every officer on my team...
taking sexual favours from prostitutes.
Hello, Terry. It磗 good to see you.
And you. How磖e you doing?
I think I磎 doing OK.
- Where are we going? - The Scrubs.
Reg McKinney served time with Marlow in Durham.
He was picked up a few weeks ago for breaking and entering.
He磗 got one previous GBH, eight years, ?8 to ?6.
He磗 been in and out of nick since. Mostly small-time.
I was asking you where you met Marlow again.
Oh, yeah. Kilburn. He drove me back to my place.
It磗 a bit of a schlep.
I offered to get the tube, but he said it was OK as he had a lock-up.
- Lock-up? - He wanted to do some work on his motor.
What do you mean? Like a garage?
I dunno. The car was like an obsessi髇 with him.
- He mention where that lock-up garage was? - No.
I磛e got a terrible headache.
There磗 a call for DCl Tennison. He said it磗 urgent.
Never mind your headache, Reg.
Are you sure he never told you where that lock-up garage was?
Yeah.
- Two more check out. - Yeah?
Yeah. The girl in Warrington and the one in Southport have...
What look like identical marks on their arms.
DC Jones.
lt磗 Jane Tennison. We磖e on our way to Marlow磗 flat, Kilburn.
OK guv We磛e got the search warrart...
He磗 got a lock-up. Some kind of garage where he stashes his car.
Look for keys, anything that might fit that kinf of place.
Get his bloody floorboards up if necessary.
Now approaching the Harrow Road flyover.
We磖e coming off now. Should be at Marlow磗 flat in a couple of minutes.
This guy claims he can do sets with ?.50.
"Oh, yeah?" he says. "Well, here磗 a tenner says you can磘."
Oh, hello. Something磗 up.
- I don磘 believe this. - Open up!
Open up!
What are they after, then?
Me.
I磀 better get up there. Ta-ra.
We have a search warrant for these premises.
Oh, God. Let me see it.
Hello!
- When was this issued? - 11:30 this morning.
You want me?
I want that carpet put back! The hardboard round the back.
Front door, back door, window locks, Yale lock.
Car keys. Boot, ignition. Same on Henson磗 key ring, but no garage keys.
Why don磘 you just tell me what you磖e looking for?
Why don磘 you tell us? You know what we磖e looking for.
Yes, I know. You磛e been talking to the neighbours.
Look, I park my car outside. I don磘 have a garage.
You don磘 always park your car outside. We know that you do have a garage.
When it磗 not parked outside, it磗 because I磎 away on business.
I drive... Correction, used to!
Look, instead of all this, why don磘 you try and find my car?
We know that you磛e got a lock-up.
Oh, I磛e got a lock-up now, have I? A lock-up?
Look, I park my car at the back of the flats...
Nowhere else. How many more times?
We磛e got a witness.
Not that old bat from next door?
No. It磗 a friend of yours.
What friend? I haven磘 got any left because of you crowd.
Reginald McKinney.
You must be desperate.
Reg McKinney?
You must be out of your mind.
He contacted me when he got out of prison.
He hit me for 50 quid!
He磗 a known nutter!
Take a look at his record.
He磗 been in and out of institutions since he was a kid.
Reg McKinney - a friend of mine?
Come on, please!
Look, I haven磘 got a lock-up, and I haven磘 got a garage.
If I had, maybe my car wouldn磘 have been nicked.
And that磗 the truth.
Wait. I磍l give you a bowl.
I want everything put back as it was.
Cups on the left, saucers, plates, side plates, glasses.
Oh, God. I don磘 believe it.
Look at this place! It磗 a complete mess.
So, Terence, now you磛e met him face to face, what do you think?
What do I really think?
I think, if he磗 lying, he磗 the best I磛e ever come across.
The best.
Yeah.
First time tonight I磛e got doubts.
It磗 just here on the right.
So what do you think about John Shefford?
As a suspect?
He was a crack officier.
He was also in the vicinity for Karen, Della and Jeannie Sharpe.
Yeah.
So we磛e got to check him out.
We磛e got to check him out on the two murders that just came in.
Yeah, I know.
But I磎 gonna say something you磖e not gonna like. Watch it.
I know, I know.
There磗 only so far l磎 prepared to go with this.
I don磘 like this any more than you do.
But we磛e got to check him out.
Just keep quiet about it.
So you pull Shefford磗 record sheets...
first thing in the morning. OK?
Yeah.
You磛e had Sergeant Amson asking for John Shefford磗 record sheets.
Are you that desperate, you want to make DCl Shefford a suspect?
Look, sir, only Sergeant Amson was...
is privy to my personal suspicions...
- and until I have verification... - I磎 bloody giving it to you! Back off.
If you had one viable piece of evidence against Shefford,...
you should have brought it to me.
I checked out the Jeannie Sharpe case.
John Shefford was not the first man at the scene of the crime.
If the body was moved...
then it must have been done without his knowledge.
Don磘 harp back about the diary, cos that磗 sorted and Otley磗 paid for it.
Don磘 try and do my job, Inspector.
Sir, we磛e had two new cases, one in Warrington, one in Southport.
One of the girls had bruises to her upper arms.
Marlow was in the vicinity for both.
And Shefford wasn磘.
Because I checked.
I am sorry, sir, but under the circumstances...
Under the circumstances, l am bringing in DCl Hickock.
Sir, you cannot replace me. Not now, not at at this stage of the investigation.
What stage?
You磛e got nothing.
Wasting your time running around the countryside,
Trying to rake up dirt on one of the best officers I have ever worked with.
You want some advice?
Put in for a transfer.
I want you off the Marlow case.
I want everything that went down at Marlow磗 flat on my desk this afternoon.
Yes, sir.
Terence!
Can I have a word?
We磛e got another one. Blackburn, 1987.
That makes it almost one a year, apart from the time Marlow was in jail.
Oakhill and Haskins are over at Marlow磗.
The rest are mustered, apart from these three.
What磗 this?
Otley coughed up.
These are the blokes that are fooling around with the toms.
They磍l be with the Chief in the next five minutes.
And then join us in the incident room.
Right.
Let磗 get started. Get as much as we can in before lunch, eh?
Um...
did the Chief say anything about Shefford?
No.
But he is in the clear on all the new cases.
He may have done a surface job on the Jeannie Sharpe murder,
But then he wasn磘 DCl on the case, was he? So we can磘 put it all down to him, can we?
- I磎 glad. - Yeah?
Really, I am, even though it磗 got me right in it.
As a matter of interest, did you know that the Chief and Shefford were like that?
They played golf together every weekend. No, not at Sunningdale.
Kernan was Shefford磗 guvnor when they were on Vice together.
Oh, God.
Guv.
Sorry I磎 late, but I磛e been upstairs.
Can I have a bit of hush, please!
Right, I磛e not exactly had the "You磛e got 24 hours" scene...
I磛e had my knuckles rapped for off-duty leg-overs.
She磗 got eyes in the back of her head, that bird.
I got a result. I got a warning. Listen, there磗 a rumour Hickock磗 taking over.
- He磗 in, she磗 out. - Hickock磗 taking over.
Aw, no! Hickock磗 taking over. She磗 out, he磗 in.
- She got him off. - She磗 being changed?
- Andy. - What磗 going on?
I磍l tell you later, all right?
So, now I want to go right back to the beginning.
Just... start again.
I mean, maybe we磖e just missing one thing, one little thing.
It磗 gonna whack us right between the eyes this morning.
OK. Right, Sergeant.
OK, lights.
Karen Howard.
Please note the marks to her upper arms.
Look at the way the rope has been tied around her wrists.
Now we come to our second victim, Della Mornay,
Who was killed approximately six weeks prior to Karen.
Yeah, looks like the foxes had a go at her.
But look at her upper arms.
Almost identical marks.
Now we come to Jeannie Sharpe.
We磛e had this photograph blown up because you磍l see...
...to the left here...
...faint, but similar, marks.
And the fourth girl. Muddyman, you ready?
Yeah.
The fourth possible victim is Angela Simpson.
Jonesy, the video.
Her family sent us this video.
The victim was found in 1986, knifed in a local public park.
Angela was a hairdresser, well-liked, about to get married.
Now, George Marlow was found staying in the vicinity at a local B&B,
50 yards from the park gates and the area the body was discovered.
Phil?
No marks to the upper arms, but...
...the rope, the way the hands are tied was exactly the same as in victims one and two.
Have you tracked down the origins of that rope?
It磗 a perfectly ordinary rope. You can buy it anywhere.
So there磗 no lead on the rope, sarge. Geddit?
- Frankie. - Fifth victim.
Sharon Reid.
Now, she worked part-time at a local beauty salon.
The owner of the beauty salon said she left on the day of her death at 2:45pm.
Phil?
She wasn磘 found until 6:45pm that night.
Yes?
Beans, sausage, chips and a few onion rings, please.
Chicken, chips and beans, love.
What about the old one, the last one that came in - Ellen Harding?
She had the same rope marks.
Oh, come on! Give us a few more chips!
But they磛e not all got clamp marks.
- All right, Jane? - All right?
- What have you got, gorgeous? - Look on the board!
Come on, Burkin.
Marlow was in the vicinity of all six girls. That磗 good enough for me.
I磛e been watching him for weeks, right? He磗 a really friendly bloke.
He chats to us every day.
Just because he was in an area...
it doesn磘 mean to say he磗 done every homicide since 1984.
Any money you want, take any salesman from the northern area,
One that磗 done the northern circuits like Marlow, you磍l find a corpse, right?
Now, if you ask me what this morning磗 film show was about,
Is that there磗 too many tarts being knocked off and no suspects.
He reckons Marlow磗 not our man.
All I said was he seems like an OK bloke.
And maybe from the word go, we磛e been wrong.
- OK, I don磘 think he did it. - He磗 got his opinion.
We磍l find that bastard磗 lock-up. He lied about that.
Will DCl Tennison please report to the main administration desk.
DCl Tennison to the main administration desk, please.
Sounds like the boss has got the big boys pulling the rug on her.
Coffee all round?
- Please. Cheers. - I磍l get 磂m.
Lillie, coffees.
- It was his turn anyway. - Too right.
DCl Tennison, please report to the main administration desk.
Well?
The Super磗 in with the Commander and a big red-headed bloke.
Hickock.
You磖e being bing-bonged all over the station.
Am I?
Well, they磖e just gonna have to find me, aren磘 they?
So, we磛e got six victims. No set pattern, no obvious connection between them.
They don磘 look alike, they磖e not the same ages,
They磖e not in the same professi髇,
They haven磘 been killed in the same manner.
I don磘 know. Maybe I磛e got it wrong.
But George Marlow was in the vicinity for all six.
In the case of Karen, we磛e got a witness that states...
she heard a man call out her name.
It磗 the same with Jeannie.
The other one, the little one, Angela, now, she was killed in daylight.
It磗 some distance from the shrubbery to the pathway.
Unless someone knew her name, called out her name for her to come across...
The other one, the one that was raped... Pauline Gilling.
She said that she heard Marlow call out her name. He knew her name.
So we磛e got two toms.
We got a hairdresser, we got a schoolgirl.
How did he know their names, if he knew them?
Boss... I think...
I mean, it may be off the wall.
Listen, my love. I磎 right up against it. What have you got?
Well, I did a bit of checking.
You see, it all sort of falls down with Gilling.
She was the florist.
But with the others, there is a link. It was mentioned once.
You mean with Marlow?
No, it磗 not to Marlow. It磗 to his wife.
Can I have a bit of hush, please?
Moyra, Marlow磗 common-law wife, when she was brought in for questioning,
On her statement, she put herself down as unemployed.
Yeah? Quiet, please!
She was brought in for prostitution 15 years ago...
and there磗 no further record, but...
And this is the link, apart from the florist lady.
On the old charge sheet, Moyra Henson...
stated she was a trainee beautician, freelance.
They do hair, some work in salons, beauty parlours.
When Moyra travelled around the north with Marlow,
She could磛e done some work, and Marlow met the girls that way.
Yes! Good on you, Maureen!
Guv, I磛e checked on Marlow磗 past addresses.
They lived in Maida Vale/Kilburn for three years.
Before that, they had a council flat in Somers own...
which is not far from St Pancras.
Now, Marlow had the same car for 12 years.
- The brown Rover. - Right.
What if he had a lock-up close to his previous address?
You know those garages we磖e doing up?
Marlow said he磀 been after one, but they磖e leased out privately by the council.
Maybe he kept the old garage as he couldn磘 get one in Kilburn.
Boss, you磖e wanted upstairs. You here or not?
No, I磎 not! Let磗 go get that hard-nosed cow.
Erm, no, no, no, she磗 not. She hasn磘 been here for at least half an hour. Try the pub.
What磗 the matter with you? What are you looking?at?
- Come on. - Don磘 touch me!
Excuse me.
I磎 sorry. I...
I don磘 understand. Don磘 you want me as well?
No. Not tonight, George.
She磗 in 4C. Everyone磗 ready.
Yeah? Well, I磎 not.
- Has the Super gone yet? - Yeah.
Wish me luck.
I磎 still waiting on that information about Karen Howard.
What磗 that?
You asked me for some photographs model photographs taken over the past year.
Yeah, right.
Her mother磗 gonna send them over by courier.
How are we? All right?
Got everything? Cigarettes? Lighter?
Go on.
Now, you were brought into the station on 17 January this year. Is that correct?
If you say so.
And er... is this your statement?
Yessss.
In it, you state that you are unemployed.
Yes.
Well, we have a previous statement from you dating back to 1975,
When you were brought in and charged with soliciting.
At that time you stated your professi髇 as trainee beautician.
Yeah? So what?
Did you also do a hairdressing course?
No.
So you磖e not a hairdresser?
No. But I once had a Siamese cat.
So you are a freelance beautician.
Yeah, you know, manicures, hands, facials.
Do you use a moisturiser?
Do you work as a beautician?
Why don磘 you tell me what you want to know all this for?
Think George is a transvestite now, do you?
Your common-law husband is still under suspici髇 of murder.
We need answers to certain questions to help us eliminate him from our enquiries.
You don磘 want to eliminate him. You want me to incriminate him.
Would you tell me, please, where you were on these dates?
March 15, 1984.
No ruddy idea. Ask me another.
2 January, 1985.
23 July, 1986.
9 October, 1987.
I dunno. I磍l have to look in my diaries.
These were dates when George was travelling in Oldham, Warrington, Burnley, Rochdale.
Well, in that case, wherever he was, I was. I always travel with him.
So you磖e sure you were with George on those dates?
I travel with him. I stay with him.
Doing freelance work as a beautician?
Yeah, I do a bit.
Like facials, manicures, that sort of thing?
Yeah. There磗 no law against that.
But there is when you磛e been claiming unemployment benefit.
Not declaring income.
Not paying income tax. There is a law against that, Moyra.
It磗 nothing. Just a bit of cash in hand. Pin money.
But that磗 illegal, Moyra.
And if you were always travelling with George,
You must have got quite a regular set of customers.
Look, just how long do you think it磗 gonna take us...
to find out exactly how much you were making?
You bastards never give anyone a break.
I磍l give you one, Moyra.
If... If you give us a detailed list of the salons...
you worked in and the street girls?names.
I磛e listed the salons, but that doesn磘 mean to say I work there regular.
Sometimes they don磘 have customers for me. It磗 mostly manicures.
What磗 this er... Noo Nails?
Yeah. It磗 American. Paint-on nails. Your own nails grow underneath.
Look.
Those look real, don磘 they?
Only that part of the nail, that磗 false.
See?
Did you do Miss Pauline Gilling磗 nails?
Look, love, I do God knows how many women磗 nails. I don磘 know all their names.
But surely you remember Pauline Gilling.
George was sent down for attempting to rape her.
No, no, no. And I know she lied. She lied.
She was all over him. She磀 been in the pub. She lied.
What about Della Mornay? Did you do her nails ?
No.
Take a look. Della Mornay.
I don磘 know her.
No?
You made a statement that George returned home on 14 January at 10:30
And did not go out again. Do you still stand by that statement?
Yes.
So what about the car, Moyra? The brown Rover?
Where磗 that car?
Look, we know he磗 got a lock-up.
It磗 just a question of time before we find it.
Look, this isn磘 on. I know my rights.
I磛e answered all your questions. Now I want a lawyer!
Well, just think about what I磛e said tonight.
I磍l no doubt need to speak to you again. Thank you. You may go.
Is that it?
I can go home now?
Yeah.
Here you are, love.
Come on, Moyra, tell me what happened.
The bastards are gonna get me for undeclared earnings, that磗 what.
They know I磛e been working and claiming the dole.
They kept you all night just for that?
There were a few other things.
What did she want?
Didn磘 she ask you about me?
What do you think?
What are you following me around for?
I just want to know what went on.
They wanted to know about that bloody florist.
Kept asking me about her.
I磛e stood by you, George...
but so help me God, if I find out you磛e been lying...
Run that bath for me.
I磛e never lied to you, Moyra.
You know that.
Where磗 the car, George?
It磗 stolen. I don磘 know where it is.
George, you came home that night without it.
I remember because your hair was wet. You said it had been raining.
Is it in a lock-up?
No.
They磖e gonna get you because of that bloody car.
And they can plant evidence.
And they磖e out to get you.
What did they say?
That bath磍l be running over.
What did they say?
Maybe they磛e already found it.
I dunno.
I磛e got problems of my own.
Boss?
Yeah?
You want to see the model agency磗 picture of Karen Howard?
- Uh-huh. - Incident room. Everyone磗 there.
I磍l be right with you.
Yeah, but the Super磗 in there.
Karen Howard. Look at her hands - long red nails.
That photograph was taken a week before she died.
And in this photograph, taken in sessions the day she died, short nails.
Get on to it. Check it out.
Jonesy, check it out with her flatmate first.
I wanna find out where she had those nails done.
I磎 sorry, guv. You wanted to see me?
Just a few moments.
Carry on.
Don磘 leave any stone unturned.
Check it out with her parents, boyfriend, agent, everyone.
Especially you three. Caplan, Rosper, Lillie, move it!
And, by the way...
...thanks, lads.
They backed you 100%, refused have Hickock take over.
That was on my desk when I came in. Every single man磗 signed it.
Did you know about it?
No. No, I didn磘.
Things have taken quite a turn, haven磘 they? You were lucky.
Luck had nothing to do with it.
The lads worked really hard.
Bring me all the new information as soon as possible.
Of course, sir.
DC Jones, Southampton Row Station here.
We need to know if Karen used a regular beauty parlour or salon.
Do you know if she had... What do you call 磂m?
Nail extensions.
Look, I磎 not gonna harp on about this,
But erm... I really appreciate your backing me up.
Boss, suspect磗 on the move and he磗 with his girlfriend.
The lads reckon something磗 going down.
I think this is it. I think we磛e got him on the run.
Thank you.
All right, let磗 go for it.
Yes. She used a regular beauty parlour in Covent Garden.
Frank, move it. Keep in radio contact.
DC Jones, Southampton Row Station here. Do you have a client named Karen Howard?
Haskons has been on. He磗 following Marlow and Henson down the Marylebone Road.
They had her down for a full day on 2 January,
The day before that modelling job where she had the long nails.
They didn磘 have her down for a manicure,
And they don磘 do those nails, whatever they are,
But one of the girls recommended a woman in Covent Garden market.
Shit! We磍l never get the car down there.
What you磍l have to do is jump out and run...
and I磍l meet you at Southampton Street. Now, move.
Just drop me off and get get me there alive, Frank.
- Can you give me some money? - What for?
- I need money for taxis and things. - Use the cards.
- I just need money. All right? - All right, all right.
You don磘 think I磎 a bottomless pit, do you?
Yeah, I do.
Here.
Is that all? Come on, you mean bastard, give me another 20.
Haskons, I磎 pulling in and leaving the car on Marylebone Road just beyond the underpass.
They磖e out of the taxi, going down Euston Square tube station. We磖e following.
- I磍l meet you at the Garden. - In that coffee bar on the left?
OK? Listen, don磘 spend all the money.
Excuse me, where do you think you磖e going?
They磛e split up.
Taxi!
Shit!
I磛e lost him.
Taxi!
Follow the cab in front.
I磎 right behind him.
Left again into Gordon Square.
Going across Gordon Square towards Euston Road.
He could be going to the station.
Yeah he磗 turrirg into Eustor Station...
I磎 at the taxi drop-off, right behind him.
The train now arriving at Platform 13...
is the delayed 7:40 Intercity from Manchester.
We apologise for the delayed arrival of this train...
This was due to essential track maintenance.
He磗 not going for a train. He磗 leaving the station.
He磗 moving like the clappers. I don磘 think he磗 sussed me.
The 11:00 from Milton Keynes?
The 11:00 will probably be your best bet, yeah.
You磍l be picked up the other end.
No, I磛e lost him. Sorry. He磗 on a No.18 bus.
Try and pick him up on the Euston Road, going east.
Jimmy, where are you? Can you see him?
I磛e got him. I磛e got him.
The bus is heading towards King磗 Cross. You should be able to see him.
There are garage lock-ups along the back of the station.
That磗 the 18. There磗 Jimmy now behind him.
Tony, you and Phil, get up to the lock-ups behind the station. Stake them out.
Harry, pick up your car and do the same.
He磗 got off the bus. He磗 heading for the station.
Looks like he磗 gonna do a runner back up north.
No, he磗 passed the station. Maybe going for a cab.
No... No, he磗 going up Pancras Road.
May be going for the lock-ups. I磎 following him.
He磗 not hanging about, neither.
He磗 not going in the lock-ups. He磗 going in a caff.
Phil, Tony, one of you take over.
He磗 ordered a cup of coffee.
He磗 chatting to the owner. They seem to know each other.
This girl, did you ever do her nails?
I really couldn磘 say. I do up to eight a day.
Look at her again. This girl was found murdered on 15 January this year.
Did she ever come to this stall?
January? I wouldn磘 have been here anyway.
I磛e got a friend who looks after the booth when I can磘 do it.
Guv Moyra Hersor takes over a booth ir Covent Garden
The woman who owns it says Moyra often had Marlow hanging around.
Karer could磛e had her nails dore here
That磗 how he knew their names. It磗 the two of them, then.
Let磗 check back when Moyra was first arrested for prostitution.
See if she was lying about not knowing Della Mornay.
Brian, it磗 Terry Amson.
Check out Moyra Hersor磗 file will you?
Rur a cross-refererce or it with Della Morray磗 Vice records
Ooh. I think he磗 on the move.
The owner磗 given him something. I can磘 quite see what it is.
He磗 leaving the cafe now.
It磗 keys. He磗 only given him some keys.
He磗 turning right, heading up towards the lock-ups.
Get your bloody car.
Jesus. He磗 stopped outside one.
He磗 going for it He磗 bloody going for it
Now, wait. Everyone wait.
Let him use those keys. Let him get in there.
He磗 got the key in the lock.
He磗 opening up.
He磗 in.
Go! Go!
Are you George Marlow?
My name is Dl Muddyman, Southampton Row Police Station.
I磎 arresting you on suspici髇 of murder.
- Moyra Henson? I磎 DC Baker Southampton Row Police Station. - Leave me alone.
OK, Moyra, I磎 arresting you. You don磘 have to say anything.
The painter.
No radio between the seats.
Get Forensic down here as soon as possible. Don磘 touch anything.
- Then get on to SOCO, see if you can get... - Oh, my God!
Jesus!
Bastard.
Right. Let磗 get on with it.
- Good luck, guv. - Thanks.
- Go for it, guv. - Thanks, Archie.
Mr Shrapnel, you磛e been made aware that your client is here to answer questions
and assist in the investigation into the murders of...
Karen Howard and Della Mornay.
Yes, that is correct. She is aware of that situation,
And is prepared to co-operate and assist in the investigations in any way
that does not or will not bring criminal proceedings against her
or instigate such criminal proceedings.
You gave George Marlow an alibi...
saying that he came home on the night of January 14 at 10:30pm
and did not go out again. Is it correct?
You have also assisted us in our enquiries before.
On that occasi髇, you were shown photographs of murder victims. Do you remember?
You stated that you had not met and did not know any of the women in the photographs.
On 14 July 1976, you and Della Mornay...
were on trial in Manchester Juvenile Court.
In early January of this year, Karen Howard came to a booth...
that you took over from Annette Frisby in Covent Garden.
You磖e not looking at the photographs, Moyra.
You don磘 want to look at Della?
Then look at Karen.
George called out to her.
He offered her a lift.
He then raped her, tortured her, mutilated her. He killed her.
Look. Look.
Hands tied behind her back. Look at the marks on her body.
Look at her, Moyra!
Your client, Mr Shrapnel, stands to be accused as an accessory to murder.
Do you want me to list what she can be charged with?
- Well, do you? - My client agreed to assist...
Your client has lied.
Moyra is George Marlow磗 common-law wife, and cannot be forced to testify against him.
- As you very well know, Inspector. - Get them to leave.
Just the women to stay.
I won磘 talk in front of them.
He did it to me once.
But I er...
...l didn磘 like it.
He tied my...
...hands.
A leather strap.
I didn磘 know!
I didn磘 know! God, I didn磘 know!
George Marlow did come home at 10:30, but...
...he went out again at 10:45... and she has no idea when he returned.
We磛e got him. We磛e got him.
Arnold.
Give us five minutes.
They磖e charging you on six counts of murder, George.
I don磘 know what磗 going on, Arnold.
On my mother磗 life, I haven磘 done a thing.
I know.
Now, what exactly have you said?
Oh, man. You ain磘 gonna believe this.
Have a look. It磗 a mask.
Jesus.
There磗 a handbag here. And a wallet. It磗 Karen Howard磗.
Here磗 the jacket.
Cos, it stinks in here. It smells like an abattoir. That heavy sort of stench.
It磗 caked in blood. Looks like dried skin.
The drain is clogged. Dried blood. See here, here.
Yeah.
This whole area will have to have swabs taken.
He must磛e used this to wash himself down afterwards.
Now, blood splatters there.
What have we here? Ah, yeah.
This looks like fingerprints.
Frank?
What you got?
It磗 been scrubbed. Smells musty.
Ah.
Your girl blonde?
This is a recorded interview. I am Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison.
Also present are Detective Sergeant Terence Amson and Arnold Upcher.
We are situated in Room 5C at Southampton Row Metropolitan Police Station.
The date is 8 March, 1991...
and the time is 6:15pm.
Would you please state your full name, address and date of birth?
George Arthur Marlow. 21 High Grove Estate, Kilburn.
Born in Warrington, 11 September, 1951.
Do you understand why you磛e been arrested?
I suppose so.
It is my duty formally to caution you and warn you
that anything you say may be used in evidence.
You have been arrested on suspici髇 of the murders of Karen Howard and Della Mornay.
Do you understand?
I磎 not guilty.
On the night of Karen Howard磗 murder
you claimed you were home by 10:30pm and did not go out again.
Correct?
Yes.
We took a statement at 3:45 this afternoon from your common-law wife Moyra Henson.
She says that you actually left the flat at 15 minutes to 11.
She had no knowledge of when you returned, but you returned home without your car.
It was not stolen from outside your block of flats, as you previously claimed.
It also does not have a radio between the front seats.
She磗 wrong. My car was nicked. I never went out again.
You have denied having had any previous contact with Karen Howard.
I never met her before that night she picked me up.
Miss Henson worked part-time in a booth at Covent Garden.
She admits that she knew Karen, gave her nail treatments
and that you were privy to those nail treatments and spoke to Karen.
Is that true?
No.
You have also denied knowing the second victim Miss Della Mornay.
However Miss Henson now says, that contrary to her first statement
when she too denied knowing Della Mornay, she was in fact lying.
So I suggest that you too are lying and that you did know Della Mornay.
I don磘 believe you play these games.
Moyra磗 scared to death that you磖e gonna arrest her for tax evasi髇...
for claiming unemployment benefit.
She磗 terrified of the police...
ever since she was picked up on a false charge of prostitution.
Well, you don磘 scare me.
I磎 innocent.
Did you clock the look he gave me? Straight at me.
Ah, the painter.
Freaked me out.
Didn磘 suss you, though, did he? "I like him".
Shut it, Kenneth.
Just let me have 10 minutes with him.
They ain磘 gonna get nothing out of him upstairs.
We should磛e smacked him when we picked him up.
Yeah.
Sick bastard.
This is taking too long.
Talk about a long day.
She must be knackered.
After what we found in that lock-up...
he ain磘 gonna admit to knowing his mother right now.
That shower curtain.
The smell, the stench of the place...
That blood on the walls.
Sick.
That wire brush.
How many of 磂m do you reckon he did in there?
All of the London girls.
Yeah?
Sick.
How many more times? I told you, I got an anonymous call.
I dunno who it was from, but it was a man.
He says to me that he knows where my car is. It磗 been on a TV programme, right?
It磗 been reported stolen, right?
- What time was that call? - I dunno. About 10 o碿lock!
Anyway, he says that he knows where my car is, gives me the tip-off.
He says that it磗 in King磗 Cross, in some guy磗 lock-up.
But you had a set of keys to that lock-up.
I know because the caller told me the keys were held at a coffee bar.
A Greek guy had them.
So I picked up the keys from the coffee bar. They weren磘 my keys!
And I didn磘 find my car, because just as I opened the door, the police picked me up!
Why do I have to repeat myself? I磛e told them all this before.
- The Greek man磗 name? - I don磘 know!
The caller just told me the address of the coffee bar!
Mr Stavros Hulenkinis has rented that lock-up to a John Smith for eight years.
After you picked up the keys from him this morning,
An officer took a statement from him.
Your friend also takes in certain items of dry-cleaning and laundry from you.
Is that correct?
Come on, George. How did you get Karen into that bed-sit? Did you use Della磗 keys?
You knew it would be empty, didn磘 you, because Della was already dead.
You磖e putting words into my mouth. I磎 not saying another thing.
Tell her that磗 enough.
I agreed to this interview and I磛e done nothing but assist you from the word go.
All right?
Now I want to go home.
That won磘 be possible, George.
I wanna have a piss, all right? I have to go to the toilet.
I want to phone my mother.
I磎 not having her reading that you磛e arrested me again. I wanna tell her.
I agree to a ten-minute break.
You are not be allowed to make any telephone calls or see your wife...
until this interview is terminated.
I will arrange for Miss Henson to call your mother.
No! I don磘 want Moyra talking to my mother!
This is a mess, isn磘 it?
All right.
I did it.
Would you repeat that?
You are still under caution.
I said I did it.
Sit down please, George.
What exactly did you do?
Karen...
Della...
Angela...
...Sharon...
Ellen...
...and Jeannie.
We need to take a break.
Amson: Baxter, cuff him.
The interview will be terminated at this point for a break.
The tape turn-off will be witnessed by Detective Sergeant Amson and Arnold Upcher.
The time is two minutes past ten, 8 March, 1991.
The aforementioned will remain in the presence of the recording machine...
to enable the prisoner, George Marlow, to be taken to use the toilet.
They can磘 possibly hold him any longer.
Frank, Tony.
You磖e not gonna believe this.
He磗 admitted it!
Oi! What磗 going on?
Our guvnor has only got our suspect to admit to six charges of murder!
Biggest case this station磗 ever had! Mine磗 a large Scotch! Yeah!
- Hello, Maureen. - Hiya, guv.
Um... any of those lads about?
No, I think they磛e all gone home.
Dl Jenkins wants the incident room cleared. Can you pop in before you leave ?
Oh, God. I don磘 believe it!
- Night. - Night.
Why was she born so beautiful?
Why was she born at all?
She磗 no bloody use to anyone
She磗 no bloody use at all
- Hip, hip! - Hooray
- Hip, hip! - Hooray!
- Hip, hip. - Hooray!
Oh, you bastards! I thought you磀 all pissed off home!
Yeah, we got him!
George Arthur Marlow...
you stand before this court, accused of six indictments of murder.
Count One: That you did, on 14 January, 1991,
Murder Karen Howard, contrary to common law.
Count Two: That you unlawfully took the life on 3 November, 1990...
of Della Margaret Mornay.
Count Three: You are also charged that on 15 March, 1984,
You murdered Jeannie Avril Sharpe.
Count Four: In January, 1985, you murdered Ellen Harding.
Count Five: That in July 1986, you murdered Angela Simpson.
And Count Six: In October 1987,
You murdered Sharon Felicity Reid.
George Arthur Marlow, having heard the charges against you,
How do you plead?
Not guilty, sir.
Silence, silence in court!