17 year-old schoolgirl Melanie Road is murdered while walking home after a night out in the tourist city of Bath. Įpisode 1: All Hell Let Loose How do you find a killer from the past? 9 June, 1984. Listen to 'Catching Melanie's Killer' below - or listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Two new episodes will be released every Tuesday between 12 January and 2 February. It culminates in a moment of courtroom drama when Melanie's family confront the killer and lay bare what it's been like living with unanswered questions for three decades. It describes the wrong-turns, the false leads and fading hopes of a group of detectives who were told by a chief constable to drop the case. The podcast hears from the detectives involved and Melanie's family. In a new true crime podcast from ITV News, Catching Melanie's Killer explores the inside story of how detectives brought her killer to justice.Īcross eight episodes - with rare and revealing interviews - we have deathbed confessions, and scientific leads which prove to be too good to be true. What followed was an investigation which touched the hearts of many and consumed the lives of the detectives who worked on it.īut it would not be until 32 years later that Melanie's murder would be solved and her family would finally get the answers they craved. Melanie Road was found stabbed in the city in 1984. It was a story which gripped the nation - the murder of a 17-year-old schoolgirl on the streets of Bath.

Too good to be true 1984