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A Killer Makes a Call - Episode Guide

Season 1

Julie Dixon

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: May 21, 2024 (90 min)

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On 13th March 2011 a distressed 999 call comes in from Julie Dixon, partner of well-loved carpenter David Twigg. Julie is clearly in a state of shock as she tries to describe the attack by masked men and that her partner is locked in a storeroom that has been set on fire.

Although she has suffered burns she manages to escape to raise the alarm. The fire brigade arrive but unfortunately they can't save David. It's very unusual for a murder to happen in the sleepy Lincolnshire village of Burgh Le Marsh.

Friends and family rally ‘round to support Julie who is in a traumatised state. Nobody can understand why anyone would want to murder David. The local community are terrified, and police are under enormous pressure to catch the culprits quickly. Julie helps police with their enquiries and describes the attackers and the events that took place in detail.

As they start their enquiries the police discover that David's business was in serious debt. Could this be a factor in his murder? They start to pursue different leads: did he owe someone money? Was it a robbery gone wrong? Or a neighbour with a grudge?

But their investigation stalls and so they begin to relook at the case again, starting at the beginning with the person who made the 999 call – his partner Julie. This sends the investigation into an unexpected and shocking direction.

Collin Reeves

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: May 21, 2024 (60 min)

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Truck driver Collin Reeves calls the police and makes a sickening confession: he has stabbed both of his neighbours to death with a commando knife. But was is pre-meditated murder?

Dawn Lewis

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: May 21, 2024 (60 min)

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Glastonbury yoga teacher Dawn Lewis calls 999 and says that she has stabbed her lodger Glenn Richards in self-defence. Richards had a history of violence, so Lewis' story seems believable...

Lewis Daynes

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: May 21, 2024 (60 min)

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On 17th February 2014, 19-year-old Lewis Daynes calls the police to say he has stabbed 14-year-old Breck Bednar. Was this the culmination of a plan to take advantage of the younger teen?

Penelope Jackson

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: May 21, 2024 (60 min)

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When a retired accountant tells police she's stabbed her husband, she seems unrepentent. Did she snap under a weight of abuse?

Mark Terry

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: May 21, 2024 (60 min)

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Holiday-maker Mark Terry calls the police after his friend Gary Pocock is found dead on the beach, hideously beaten and unidentifiable except for a distinctive dragon ring he always wore.

Season 2

Robert Brown

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Feb 4, 2025 (90 min)

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This true crime series uses the recording of a 999 call as the starting point to investigate a murder. Each episode focuses on a different crime but in each case the person who made the 999 call turns out to be the killer. Robert Brown, a veteran British Airways pilot, calls the police. After much coaxing, he reveals that there has been a very serious domestic incident with his ex-wife, Joanna, and that one of them has been hurt. Officers visit her cottage. But she isn't there, and worryingly, they find blood spots on the driveway. Brown is arrested and interviewed. After three days of interrogation, Brown's solicitor reads a prepared statement in which Brown confesses to having killed her by accident but the truth is far more sinister. Robert Brown attacked Joanna with a claw hammer, striking her 14 times while their children were in the next room. Despite evidence pointing to the fact that Brown had planned the killing for weeks, a jury found him not guilty of murder, controversially convicting him of manslaughter, meaning he would be automatically released in just 13 years. Joanna's family and friends mounted a campaign to keep him behind bars.

Foster Christian

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Feb 11, 2025 (65 min)

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A panicked 999 call comes in from a man called Foster Christian, claiming he is being attacked in his own home. But later, survivor statements tell a very different story...

Robert Trigg

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Mar 4, 2025 (65 min)

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A 999 call comes in concerning a woman called Susan Nicholson. Her partner, Robert Trigg, says he woke to find her in a strange position and thinks she may have suffocated during the night after they fell asleep. The coroner agrees that she has suffocated, and records a verdict of accidental death. But things don't add up for Susan's family and they believe there must be more to the story. Her family discover this isn't the first time that Trigg has woken to find his partner has died after spending the night with him - history has repeated itself!

David Browning

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Mar 11, 2025 (65 min)

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David Browning, a married father of two, confesses that he has killed his boss, Jill. But he claims that he is not guilty of murder, on the grounds of diminished responsibility. 

Alan Jermey

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Mar 18, 2025 (65 min)

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Alan Jermey calls 999 to report that his home is on fire. When his partner Kirsty is found dead, he claims someone broke in and killed her. But evidence does not mount up in his favour. 

Stephen Port

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Mar 25, 2025 (65 min)

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A family refuse to accept son Jack died of an overdose, and undertake their own investigation. They identify a man with him the night that he died. Dots then connect four murders...

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