In Plain Sight

2017 • BBC Canada

5.0

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Season 1 episodes (3)

1 Episode 1

12/7/16

Peter Manuel, recently released from a nine year prison term for a series of sexual assaults, is determined to make Detective William Muncie, the man responsible for his incarceration, pay the price. After a further sexual attack on a young woman, Manuel elects to defend himself in court. Muncie is afraid this is the last time Manuel will ever leave a witness to testify against him, and he doesn't have to wait long to be proven right.

2 Episode 2

12/14/16

No arrest is made after Anne Kneiland's murder. Nine months later another family fall victim to a tragic attack. The husband and father, William, who was on a fishing trip at the time, is arrested. However, Muncie is convinced Manuel is the man behind all four murders. Muncie finally manages to cast enough doubt on Watt's arrest to have him released without charge, but can make no more headway on capturing Manuel. He has to watch and wait and before very long another young girl goes missing.

3 Episode 3

12/21/16

The day after Isabelle Cooke disappears, Manuel hands himself in to Muncie with an alibi for his movements of the previous twenty four hours. Four days later Peter and Doris Smart and their twelve year old son are shot dead in their beds, but the murderer makes a mistake. He steals. Muncie tells his team that Manuel has never mixed killing with stealing and if they can tie him to the theft they have got him. After his arrest Manuel points out to Muncie he can only be done for stealing, they don't have anything on him for the deaths. What Muncie needs is a full confession.

About this show

A three part True Crime Drama about Peter Manuel Scotland's first serial killer. On 11 July, 1958, Peter Manuel, was hanged at HMP Barlinnie, Glasgow. His sixteen-day trial had been a media circus, covered by the world's press. It was the first time British TV had covered a murder trial in this way. The official indictment was also a first for British legal history. Never before had one man been tried simultaneously for eight murders. During his 2 year killing spree, as a twisted form of revenge and proof of his own superior cleverness, Manuel made Detective William Muncie his Number One target audience; sent him birthday and Christmas cards; left him tantalising clues. Addicted to the limelight, Manuel was a high-visibility killer who thrived on the panic and press generated by his crimes. This will be an intensely dramatic re-telling of a unique period in British history.

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