Those close to a killer tell the story of Murder. Sons and daughters, best friends and chief interrogators, lawyers and murder victims join a line-up of story-tellers which will move, shock and fascinate.

Evil Up Close

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Reality • 2023 • 13

Greg Baker was a mathematician and calligrapher, and a devout Christian. He was disabled and reliant on caregivers. One of those was Thelma Yvonne Purchase, who took his life to get her hands on his money.

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10-year-old Karen Pedley was hailed a hero when she saved her family from a fire. That event triggered a lifelong obsession, one which would lead to her setting alight the nursing home where she worked.

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Lakhvir Singh enjoyed cooking for Lucky Cheema, the man she loved. But when he left her to marry a much younger woman, Singh made the couple a meal that would turn out to be the last Lucky ever tasted.

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Chef Philip Rolph was besotted with waitress Georgina Henshaw. But Phil realised she was using him for his money, and Georgina bragged to a friend that she was planning to kill him.

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Nanny Yoselyn Ortega had been looking after Kevin and Marina's three children. One day, plagued by psychotic thoughts and hearing voices, she snapped, with devastating consequences for two tiny lives.

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Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham were both outsiders from troubled homes. They felt they understood each other when no one else did. Together they made a plan to get rid of the mum and sister Kim resented.

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Dubbed 'the vampire killer,' teen Mathew Hardman thought that taking a life would make him immortal. His victim was an elderly neighbour. After stabbing her, he removed her heart and drank her blood.

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Troubled teen Alyssa Bustamante was a self-styled 'bad girl' who said she wanted to know how it felt to kill. She gave in to this curiosity and murdered her nine-year-old neighbour Elizabeth Olten.