A Art Tv Review

Set in both 1973 and the early 2000s, Steeltown Murders focuses on the quest to catch the murderer of three young women in the Port Talbot area and the remarkable story of how, in the first case of its kind, the Mystery was solved almost 30 years ago. later using pioneering DNA tests. Rather than focus on the so-called Saturday Night Strangler, this true-to-life crime drama seeks to honor his 16-year-old victims, Sandra Newton, Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd, as well as their families and the tight-knit Welsh community shaken by their murders. Steeltown Murders inevitably has some of this archival material, as it is (in part) an account of the inquest into the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Llandarcy near Port Talbot in 1973; and yes, the senior cop in charge at the time has little idea of the possibility that he has a serial killer on his hands. This isn't so much a series of nail-biting murders as it is a sad portrait of a community in shock. This thought, however, h...