Murder in the Badlands

Taal: NL
Categorie: reportage

4 A new series examining the stories behind the unsolved murders of four women across four decades in Northern Ireland. Arlene Arkinson, Lisa Dorrian, Marian Beattie and Inga Maria Hauser are all names that have dominated the headlines in Northern Ireland for all the wrong treasons. Four women whose lives were brutally cut short at the hands of merciless killers. This series will revisit these horrendous, unsolved murders to take the audience on a journey across the badlands in the four decades between 1973 and 2005. Behind each story is the bubbling context of the Northern Ireland of the time, a place engulfed in sectarian conflict. In 1973, the body of 18-year-old Marian Beattie was found at the foot of a cliff in a quarry up a narrow country road. In 1988, the body of 18-year-old German backpacker, Inga Maria Hauser was found at the end of a dark track within the most remote part of a forest. Fifteen-year-old Arlene Arkinson disappeared in 1994. Her remains are undiscovered, but are presumed to have been buried in one of the vast swathes of bogland on the Irish Border. Episode One tells the inside story of the murder and disappearance of Lisa Dorrian in 2005, containing powerful testimony from her sister and victims' rights campaigner, Joanne Dorrian. Produced by Finepoint Films and Cyprus Avenue Films Executive Producer: Mary McKeagney