Four decades. Four innocent young women. Four brutal murders.
Lisa Dorrian, Inga Maria Hauser, Arlene Arkinson and Marian Beattie are names that dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons, and whose lives were each brutally cut short.
Lisa Dorrian - picture courtesy of the Dorrian family.
Murder In The Badlands, a new four part series for BBC Northern Ireland, will forensically rebuild the timeline of the murders of the four women and the investigations that followed.
Each episode features insights from surviving family members, police officers, journalists and criminologists.
Lisa Dorrian - picture courtesy of the Dorrian family.
Episode one will focus on Lisa Dorrian, a 25-year-old shop assistant from Bangor, County Down, who was last seen at a party at a caravan park in the village of Ballyhalbert in 2005. It features emotional interviews with Lisa’s family, including a powerful testimony from her sister and victims’ rights campaigner, Joanne Dorrian.
Pictured: (1 and 2) Sisters Joanne Dorrian and (3) Michelle Dorrian.
Lisa Dorrian with sisters Michelle & Joanne.
Lisa’s disappearance is one of the most high-profile unsolved murders in Northern Ireland. Over the past 17 years, police have followed multiple lines of inquiry, taken hundreds of statements and carried out more than 400 searches. They have also made several arrests but no-one has been charged with her murder.
PSNI Detective Superintendent, Jason Murphy.
Detective Superintendent Jason Murphy, who is leading the PSNI investigation, said he does not believe Lisa’s murder was pre-planned and remains "convinced that a small number of people hold the key" to her disappearance.
Murder in the Badlands
Begins Monday 14 March
BBC One Northern Ireland at 10.35pm
Also on BBC iPlayer
Lisa Dorrian.
Lisa’s father, John Dorrian.
The Dorrian family releasing doves.
Lisa Dorrian.
Following episodes in the series will examine the murders of Marian Beattie (1), Arlene Arkinson (2), and Inga Maria Hauser (3).
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