7.8/1027 votesLoading...#1 - Wesley Neailey
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/25/2019
On June 5, 1998, 11 year- old Wesley waved goodbye to his mother Liz and rode off on his bike to go to the local shop to get some sweets, he was a popular lad and well-liked by the community. Liz reported him missing to the police when he failed to return home and it was getting dark.
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- 7.6/1023 votesLoading...
#2 - Carole Packman
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/1/2019
In June 1985 Carole Packman left a note to say she was leaving the family home for good. Sam Gillingham was 16 when her mother, Carole Packman vanished from the family's suburban home in the seaside resort of Bournemouth. She remembers running up the stairs to check her parents' room, as her father Russell looked on. Gazing at her mother's untouched belongings, he said: "She'll be back."
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- 7.6/1022 votesLoading...
#3 - Shafilea Ahmed
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/15/2019
Shafilea Ahmed was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in July 1986, to Farzana, when her taxi driver father was still married to a Danish woman, with whom he had a baby son. He married Farzana, his cousin, after bowing to pressure from a relative in Pakistan - ironically his own arranged marriage. The family moved to Warrington, a town with a small but well-established Asian community.
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- 7.6/1018 votesLoading...
#4 - Surjit Athwal
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 5/16/2023
Surjit Athwal returns to the house where her family had arranged her murder, then disappears.
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- 7.5/1031 votesLoading...
#5 - Helen McCourt
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/4/2019
22-year-old insurance clerk Helen McCourt was returning home from work in Liverpool before going out on a date with her new boyfriend that evening. She got off the bus on Rainford Road in Billinge - just 500 yards from her home - and went missing.
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- 7.5/1027 votesLoading...
#6 - Lorraine Benson
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/11/2019
In December 1988, 22-year-old Lorraine Benson arrived at Raynes Park tube station after going to a work Christmas party. She'd arranged to meet her friend Peter, but he wasn't there as planned. Peter was due to move to Australia the following day. Lorraine called Peter's mother to ask where he was, and his mother told her that he wasn't back from meeting friends yet.
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- 7.5/1026 votesLoading...
#7 - Danielle Jones
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2019
School girl, Danielle Jones, aged 15, was last seen on the morning of June 18th, 2001 near her home in East Tilbury, Essex. Like hundreds of thousands of other children that day, she was on her way to catch the school bus. But Danielle never got on the bus and didn't arrive at St Clere's School.
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- 7.5/1023 votesLoading...
#8 - Janet Müller
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/6/2019
Janet Muller was a bright and fun loving 21-year-old German exchange student studying at Brighton University. She had no previous history of mental illness but became unwell ahead of her final exams, and in March 2015, she was admitted to Mill View hospital in Hove after being found by the police at a bus stop in her night clothes.
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- 7.5/1015 votesLoading...
#9 - Louise Smith
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 5/30/2023
Louise Smith, after a childhood in and out of foster care, turns 16 and is only marginally supported by the government in halfway houses. Shady characters there draw her into a group of sociopaths who victimize her before causing her disappearance.
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- 7.4/1016 votesLoading...
#10 - Joe Pooley
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 5/23/2023
Joe Pooley, 22, of Ipswich, England disappears.
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- 7.4/1016 votesLoading...
#11 - Debbie Griggs
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/6/2023
Debbie Griggs, a pregnant mother of three boys in Kent is taken from her children.
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- 7.3/1025 votesLoading...
#12 - Jayden Parkinson
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/22/2019
17-year-old Jayden Parkinson met Ben Blakley when she was just 15 years old through her friendship with Ben's younger brother. Jayden and Ben started a relationship when she was just 16. She had been living with her mother Sam but moved to a hostel which provided emergency 24-hour accommodation for 20 homeless young people, aged 16-25.
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- 7.3/1019 votesLoading...
#13 - Jamie Lavis
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 5/9/2023
Jamie Lavis, an 8-year-old boy in Manchester, England
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- 7.2/1020 votesLoading...
#14 - Mark Cummings
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 4/25/2023
Mark Cummings, an 8-year-old boy vanishes from a high-rise estate in Glasgow, Scotland
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- 7.1/1019 votesLoading...
#15 - Carol Taggart
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 5/2/2023
Carol Taggart, a mother in Fife, Scotland
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- 7.0/1027 votesLoading...
#16 - Natalie Hemming
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/18/2019
Young mother of three children, Natalie, was killed by her boyfriend Paul Hemming in their family home whilst her three children slept upstairs. He had a history of coercive control. Their 6-year-old son witnessed Natalie's body wrapped in a rug in the lounge and it was his evidence that was used to charge him.
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- 7.0/1024 votesLoading...
#17 - Joanna Parkes
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 4/11/2023
Joanna Parkes from the Isle of Man, against the advice of everyone around her, marries a narcissistic British Airways pilot.
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- 6.8/1019 votesLoading...
#18 - Mihrican Mustafa
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/18/2023
Mihrican ("Jan") Mustafa, a 37-year-old Turkish-Brit mother disappears.
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- 6.2/1018 votesLoading...
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#20 - Evelyn Lund
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/29/2019
Evelyn Lund's first husband Arthur, a successful businessman, had died of cancer, leaving her a wealthy woman. Within 18 months, she had fallen for the charms of Robert Lund, a divorced tree surgeon. Her three daughters disapproved of the match, not least because Lund was living in a caravan when they met, and they thought he was only interested in her money.
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The Best Episodes of When Missing Turns to Murder
Every episode of When Missing Turns to Murder ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of When Missing Turns to Murder!
British true crime documentary series using powerful and emotional testimony from families and friends when a missing persons enquiry turns into a murder investigation.
Genres:DocumentaryCrime
Best Episodes Summary
"Wesley Neailey" is the best rated episode of "When Missing Turns to Murder". It scored 7.8/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/25/2019. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Carole Packman".