Case 93 · Series 9, episode 3

The Requiem for the Dead

First broadcast 5 January 2022. Plot solution deliberately omitted.

WriterMichelle Lipton
DirectorJohn Maidens
Research stateExpanded case file

Spoiler-light premise

A convicted child killer returns to Kembleford and is murdered before revealing why he came back.

What to watch for

A missing body, a carved constellation and the victim's prison effects reopen the crime for which he served fourteen years.

Family secrets

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