Murder

Fiz Stape to be attacked in jail

TV Gossip

6 Jul 2011

Coronation Street's Fiz Stape is to be attacked in jail. The former factory worker - who is wrongly put inside for the three murders, which were committed by her husband John Stape - is set on by a fellow inmate after Fiz (Jennie McAlpine) reports…

Fiz Stape to be charged with three murders

TV Gossip

18 Jun 2011

Coronation Street's Fiz Stape will be jailed for three murders. The factory worker (Jennie McAlpine) will be charged with killing Colin Fishwick, his mother Joy and Charlotte Hoyle after her serial killer husband John Stape (Graeme Hawley) escaped to…

Jennie McAlpine's Corrie confusion

TV Gossip

18 Apr 2011

'Coronation Street' star Jennie McAlpine gets confused by her own character's storylines. The actress - who plays Fiz Stape in the ITV1 soap - admits she is struggling to understand the plotlines which involve her and her on-screen murderer husband…

Denise Johnson sees evil Lucas get life sentence

TV Gossip

25 Feb 2011

EastEnders' Denise Johnson will see her evil husband handed a life sentence for murder. With the shaken singleton terrified about seeing the conniving killer - who brutally murdered his ex-wife Trina (Sharon Duncan Brewster), Denise's ex-husband Owen…

Corrie's Audrey Roberts to face prison?

TV Gossip

17 Feb 2011

Coronation Street's Audrey Roberts is terrified she is going to be sent to prison for murder. The salon boss - played by Sue Nicholls - is horrified when pensioner Enid Crump (June Broughton) drops dead in her hairdressing chair in the Weatherfield…

Coronation Street's Tracy Barlow to be murdered?

TV Gossip

14 Dec 2010

Coronation Street's Tracy Barlow will be left fighting for her life after an attempted murder on New Year's Eve (31.12.10). The bolshie baddie - who will sensationally return to the ITV1 soap on Christmas Eve (24.12.10) after being freed from prison…

First Word: Jeffery Deaver

The American mystery and murder author waxes lyrical

21 Aug 2009

First record you ever bought The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. Last time you were chatted up I had a marriage proposal from a woman I’d never met about two years ago at a bookstore in New York City. Does that count as chatting up? I declined.

Burke & Hare

1 Jun 2009

You wouldn’t want to bump into Burke and Hare on a dark night, but we still want to know all the gory details about their crimes. Kirsty Gibbins meets the man behind a brand new tour

The List of Adrian Messenger

27 Mar 2008

MURDER/MYSTERY (PG) 95min (Metrodome DVD retail) John Huston’s playful 1963 thriller is the solution to a regular trivia question at film quizzes: which movie features the combined talents of Kirk Douglas, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum…

Sleuth

13 Mar 2008

MURDER/MYSTERY (15) 132min (Paramount DVD retail) If you were a ‘bluddy idiot’, as Maurice Micklewhite might say, you could purchase both versions of Sleuth, which are being released on the same day, and then compare the two: this 1972 original…

Painkillers

16 Aug 2007

In Painkillers, Angela, a convicted killer, is interviewed by a journalist who is writing a book about women who kill. But after a turbulent start to their relationship, will the journalist ever get the information out of Angela that she needs or, more…

The Black Dahlia

Fade to black

1 Sep 2006

Fade to black - In anticipation of a new film based on Hollywood’s most notorious unsolved murder, Allan Radcliffe explores the ongoing fascination with the Black Dahlia mystery.