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The Man on TV: How a Dartboard Smile Hid a Killer
The Man on TV: How a Dartboard Smile Hid a Killer
A smiling face caught on television in spring 1989 sat in an archive for two decades, even though that same face had already killed twice; how could footage broadcast to millions mean nothing until it meant everything? What happened between a dartboard laugh and two bodies hidden under bracken that let a killer walk free for years?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the 1985 double murder at Scoveston Manor through the June 29, 1989 murders of Peter and Gwenda Dixon, and the decades-long trail of missed clues that finally linked a TV…
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