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Britain's Most Evil Killers S09E08 (Nov 26 2024)
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00:12In December 2012 in Omar, Northern Ireland,
00:16alarm bells began ringing for the family
00:18of 34-year-old Charlotte Murray.
00:23Charlotte lived quite a distance from her family,
00:25but she never missed a birthday or Christmas.
00:29Charlotte's fiancée, Jonny Miller, told her worried family
00:33she'd simply walked out two months earlier.
00:38Charlotte's just taken off. She's vanished.
00:41She leaves her dog, her beloved dog, Bella, leaves her car.
00:47Months turned to years, and Charlotte Murray did not return.
00:52Nor were there any signs of life.
00:55She hadn't registered a mobile phone.
00:58She hadn't used a bank account.
01:00As detectives continued to dig,
01:03they realised Charlotte's boyfriend was not the jilted fiancée
01:07he was pretending to be.
01:09What seemed like quite deliberate attempts to cover up
01:14and to suggest that she was still alive.
01:17But he was determined to get away with it.
01:21And he was very calm afterwards.
01:23This is a dangerous person.
01:25Though Charlotte Murray's body was never found,
01:28in 2019 her fiancée, Jonny Miller,
01:31was finally proven to be one of Britain's most evil killers.
01:36And it's the only killer's.
01:37And the only killer's.
01:38I don't know if I can't believe it.
01:40I don't know if I can't believe it.
02:02Johnny Miller's conviction for murdering Charlotte Murray
02:05was without precedent in Irish legal history.
02:10It was Northern Ireland's first ever nobody murder conviction.
02:16It changed the landscape of possibilities.
02:20You know, people just weren't going to get walking away
02:23just because it didn't just fill, tick every box.
02:27Dig deeper and deeper, and you keep digging
02:30until you get the facts.
02:32Charlotte's family is now working with Northern Ireland's
02:35Justice Minister on new legislation that will put pressure on killers
02:40to reveal where their victims' remains can be found.
02:44Losing a loved one in any circumstance is very difficult.
02:48But for these families, they have no certainty
02:51as to what happened or how it happened or why it happened.
02:54They've never had that closure.
02:56I would hope that the law and the processes that we're putting in place
02:59would help the families in being able to find the truth about their final orders
03:04and be able to locate the remains so that they can have a burial.
03:07Charlotte might never be found,
03:10but at least that law will be introduced
03:13and people will be dissuaded from doing this
03:16because they know they will never get out if they do it.
03:21It's the last bit of power he has over the family.
03:25I'm not telling you, and you can't make me.
03:28I'm still saying I'm innocent, even though I've been proven guilty.
03:34DS James Branigan, who was part of the team that brought Miller to justice,
03:39lives in hope that the killer might one day do the right thing.
03:44He's been convicted. He's had his appeal heard.
03:47His appeal has been rejected.
03:49You know, if he has any moral fiber in him,
03:52just put the family out of misery and let them know where Charlotte is.
03:56Only time will tell if Johnny Miller will end his silence
04:00and give Charlotte's family the closure they deserve.
04:04This killer's story begins on the 16th of January 1971.
04:10John Patrick Miller was born in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
04:17He's originally from Coleraine.
04:19His parents were very upstanding members of the community.
04:23He came from a very educated, privileged background.
04:27He was very, very fond of his parents and his sister.
04:31He seemed to have a stable upbringing at the time
04:33with that family.
04:34We don't know what went on in his life outside of the family setup.
04:38He was, by all accounts, a perfectly reasonable schoolboy.
04:42But he was also a very fine canoeist.
04:45And in fact, became an all-Ireland canoe champion.
04:48This is a considerable achievement.
04:50He then went on to become a chef
04:54and was working in various establishments over the years
04:58and never continued with the canoeing, even though he had a talent at it.
05:07One friend who worked with him said he was hard-working and likeable,
05:11never aggressive, never angry.
05:13He worked for a time in the very plush resort of Lusty Beg in Fermanagh,
05:20which is a really top of the range.
05:23And that's where they actually met.
05:25Charlotte was working there too.
05:27Johnny Miller and Charlotte Murray met in late 2010,
05:31and the 39-year-old chef very quickly became the center of Charlotte's world.
05:37I think what happened was literally a sort of spark of infatuation.
05:44It was really strong and powerful.
05:50Charlotte Murray hailed from County Tyrone, 25 miles from Lusty Beg.
05:56She was older of the two identical twins.
06:00Her sister was called Denise.
06:02They were the sixth and seventh children in an 11-children family.
06:07Born just two minutes apart in December 1978,
06:11the twins were inseparable growing up.
06:14They felt one another's pain and even got identical scars
06:18when they hurt themselves while playing.
06:21The two of them were wild kids at the time.
06:24They sound the same, looked the same.
06:28It was bizarre, but they were close.
06:30They were really, really close.
06:32Charlotte's twin described her as the louder, more confident one,
06:37always first on the dance floor.
06:39Perfectly happy girl.
06:43She could be the life and soul of the party when she chose to be.
06:46But potential fractures between Charlotte and her family
06:50always lay just below the surface.
06:54She was a much loved child at times she felt.
07:00There was more affection given elsewhere in the family,
07:03but she was a very much loved child, but drifted.
07:07She definitely did drift.
07:09I know she would have fallen out with siblings from time to time
07:14and would have been quite fractious relationship at times.
07:17And you look at when she was growing up as in the midst
07:19of what was going on here during the Troubles.
07:22So it was quite a chaotic life and children could get lost
07:26in that atmosphere at that time, and she did.
07:29In her twenties, Charlotte experienced some trouble with her mental health.
07:37She was getting treatment.
07:39She was being looked after by medical professionals,
07:43but it looked like she was getting onto a more stable footing.
07:46She was a hard worker, very hard worker, never out of a job for long.
07:53She worked in the hospitality industry, either as waitressing
07:58or front of house or those sort of things.
08:02This was the young woman who, in late 2010,
08:05fell for Chef Johnny Miller on the resort island of Lusty Beg.
08:10In early 2011, 32-year-old Charlotte moved with Miller
08:16to a small village in County Tyrone.
08:19They then moved to Moy, where Johnny and Charlotte got a job in the Cohannon Inn.
08:29So they were both working together, living together,
08:32and living up in Roxborough Heights in Moy.
08:38Moy is a small village.
08:41It has a town square.
08:43It's really a pretty village, and the people are very close to each other.
08:48And everybody would be friends with everybody.
08:55In their new home, Charlotte set about making a life for herself with Miller.
09:00It seems to have been a good relationship to begin with.
09:05She described him as protective of her.
09:09She was clearly very, very entranced by Mr Miller.
09:14But she would have been very, I use this term respectfully, needy.
09:21She liked affection.
09:23And I think we all do.
09:25But she liked to have someone there caring about her, worrying about her, looking after her.
09:30She liked that.
09:31And she needed it.
09:32And that seemed to give her some stability.
09:35There was perhaps a darker side to the bond.
09:38Charlotte and her new boyfriend seemed to have quickly developed.
09:42The two of them moved quite quickly together, moved in together, worked together.
09:51It was very, very quick.
09:53She would have known nobody except him.
09:56All this happened within three months.
09:59And that's always a concerning sign, because it can suggest that there's a bit of control in that relationship.
10:07On the surface, though, Charlotte seemed settled.
10:10She got a little dog, Bella, her pride and joy.
10:13And the couple made new friends in the area.
10:17She was a regular in the local bar.
10:21She had a group of friends.
10:24On the 29th of February, 2012, leap year day, Charlotte actually proposed to Miller.
10:33She said about getting married, and he agreed.
10:36She chose the ring and the keypad for it.
10:39Charlotte seemed happy to be engaged, but her family was not invited to share in her joy.
10:46Despite living just 35 miles from Moy, they never got to meet her fiancé.
10:53There was some Facebook contacts and maybe the occasional phone call.
10:58But as far as the family knew, she was simply with a new bloke.
11:02She never took Miller to see them.
11:05When Charlotte Murray's family finally came face to face with Johnny Miller 13 months later,
11:14they would not be celebrating the couple's engagement.
11:17Instead, they'd be desperately searching for a missing person.
11:21In the spring of 2012, while living with her boyfriend Johnny Miller in the village of Moy in County Tyrone,
11:3933-year-old Charlotte Murray became increasingly isolated from her mother and siblings.
11:47I think there was some determination on the part of Johnny Miller to isolate and control Charlotte.
11:53There was one peculiar incident where Charlotte rang her mother when she was living with Johnny,
12:04and the mother recounts this conversation where the male voice in the background was saying,
12:10you know, they don't love you anymore.
12:12Now, how was she being controlled in that environment? We don't know.
12:17where she is responsible at all at all.
12:21Significantly, very shortly after Charlotte proposed to Miller, the twins fell out.
12:27The twins fell out.
12:30Working together, living together, socialising together,
12:33they were always together.
12:36The same group of friends, same group of everything.
12:39Charlotte probably couldn't have confided in anybody
12:41if there was an issue.
12:48Another concerning thing that we find out about Johnny Miller
12:51is that he was porn addicted
12:54and that he used to regularly seek the services of sex workers.
13:01Those things are really big red flags.
13:04You put those two things together
13:06and you probably have a man who's quite misogynistic.
13:15In the autumn of 2012,
13:17there was another troubling incident
13:19in Miller and Charlotte's relationship.
13:22In the middle of October 2012,
13:26she and Miller make a sex tape,
13:28obviously extremely explicit,
13:31which Miller then urges her
13:33to send to her ex-boyfriend in Belfast.
13:35The idea was to say, you know,
13:37which is mine now type thing.
13:40Given what we know about his behaviour,
13:44I would be very suspicious
13:46that Charlotte entered into that quite willingly.
13:50I think she probably didn't.
13:52He's also treating her almost as if she's a commodity,
13:56as if she's throwaway.
13:57If you really cared for and loved someone,
14:01you wouldn't put them in a position
14:03where they were doing anything
14:04that they felt very uncomfortable with.
14:06There did seem to be a jealous streak there at times,
14:12even though he played this very blasé.
14:15I don't know that he was in a protective way.
14:18I think it was more his male ego
14:19that she would dare see somebody else.
14:22It was around this time
14:26that Charlotte went to a professional
14:28to seek help for her mental health
14:31and to express misgivings
14:33about her relationship with Johnny Miller.
14:37Charlotte goes to see a doctor
14:39and says, I'm very depressed
14:41and I'm thinking of harming myself.
14:44It was a sort of appeal for help.
14:47She feels overwhelmed
14:48and she just needed space.
14:50But she tells the psychiatrist
14:52that she's not suicidal,
14:54she likes life
14:55and she wants to be part of it.
14:58She told the doctor
14:59that she wanted to leave Miller
15:01but was afraid of being alone.
15:05You can entirely understand those feelings.
15:09Like the moth and the flame,
15:10she can't quite tear herself away.
15:14A few days later, on the 20th of October,
15:18came an incident
15:19that exposed just how much
15:20the couple's relationship had soured.
15:24Charlotte Miller and their friend Ciaran
15:26go out to the pub for a drink.
15:29They were celebrating a birthday
15:31in Bishop's Bar.
15:36They all left together
15:37but they just went different ways.
15:40Charlotte and Ciaran
15:41ended up outside his house
15:43and at that point,
15:44they went into the house.
15:47Johnny Miller was disturbed
15:49when Charlotte didn't come home that night.
15:53And then he's ringing Charlotte,
15:54ringing, ringing.
15:56No answer.
15:58We know he was down knocking on the house.
16:02After searching the streets
16:03until four in the morning,
16:05Miller went home.
16:06Suspecting infidelity,
16:08Miller told friends
16:09this was the last straw
16:11for him and Charlotte.
16:13I suspect that he then
16:16really did lose his temper
16:19with her
16:20and that relationship,
16:21which had already been tense,
16:22was even tenser.
16:24It was a precarious moment
16:27for a woman with a jealous
16:28and controlling fiancée.
16:31That was potentially
16:33an incredibly dangerous situation
16:35for Charlotte to be in.
16:39Ten days later,
16:41Miller began telling
16:42his and Charlotte's friends in Moy
16:44that the engagement was off.
16:48Johnny was just telling them,
16:50oh, she's gone to Belfast.
16:51She's broke up.
16:52She's away.
16:54Charlotte seemed to have been planning
16:55to leave Miller.
16:57She had been for a job interview
16:58in Belfast.
17:00But had Charlotte really left
17:03for a new life in the capital?
17:06That would, you know,
17:08raise the hackles on my neck.
17:10If you're in a relationship
17:11with a controlling person,
17:13the most common trigger
17:15that predicts homicide
17:17is that you are attempting
17:19to leave them
17:20or you have left them.
17:2111 weeks later,
17:27in December 2012,
17:29in Omar County, Tyrone,
17:31Denise Murray expected
17:32to celebrate her birthday
17:34with twin sister Charlotte,
17:36just as they always did.
17:38The two were turning 34.
17:42Charlotte was not always
17:44in touch with them,
17:45but she never let
17:46a Christmas go by
17:47or a birthday go by
17:49that she didn't get in touch.
17:50That year,
17:52Christmas and the twins'
17:53birthday came and went
17:55without a word
17:56from Charlotte.
17:59There's not a sign of her.
18:00Nothing.
18:01She's disappeared.
18:03Such a large family.
18:05They all thought
18:05somebody else had been
18:06talking to Charlotte
18:07until it came to Christmas
18:08and then said,
18:09nobody's heard from her.
18:11And then that's what
18:12prompted them
18:13to start looking further
18:14into this themselves.
18:15And it was a blessing
18:16that she had,
18:17that family behind her,
18:18to ask those questions
18:19at the time.
18:21They then started
18:22contacting Johnny
18:23after that to see
18:24had he seen Charlotte
18:25when was the last time
18:26you saw her.
18:28Well, Charlotte left.
18:30Charlotte's just taken off.
18:31I don't know where she's gone.
18:32I'm not sure.
18:34Miller told Charlotte's family
18:36that she'd left him
18:37around Halloween 2012.
18:40He kept assuring
18:41it was all right.
18:42We've split up.
18:44What do you want me to tell you?
18:45No, she's not my problem anymore.
18:47Miller would say that,
18:48oh, she texted me
18:48the other day there.
18:49She's met some new guy.
18:51She was very flippant about it.
18:53I think at one point
18:54he suggests to them
18:55that she might have gone
18:56to Belfast to work
18:57in a call centre.
19:00January, February that year
19:01he arranged to meet them
19:03and brought them
19:04a box of her belongings
19:06which was really very little
19:08of her actual belongings
19:10and said that's all
19:11she'd left.
19:13Miller told Charlotte's family
19:15she'd left behind her car
19:16which by this time
19:18was long gone.
19:20He said that she told him
19:21to sell the car
19:22because she owed him
19:23rent money.
19:25She left her laptop.
19:26Anything of value
19:27she seems to have
19:27left behind.
19:28What really struck
19:30Charlotte's mother
19:31and siblings as strange
19:32was the fact she'd left
19:34her beloved dog behind
19:36in Moy.
19:37She never went anywhere
19:38without Bella, her dog
19:39and she was her pride and joy.
19:43This wasn't normal behaviour.
19:45Not normal for Charlotte.
19:47If it was Charlotte's car
19:48she would have taken it.
19:49If it was Charlotte's dog
19:50she would have taken it.
19:51Miller seemed very evasive
19:52not answering direct questions
19:56and just seemed very fidgety
19:58and edgy
19:58and didn't want to be there
20:00and it raised concerns.
20:04With horror
20:05Charlotte's family realised
20:07they couldn't find anyone
20:08who'd spoken to her
20:10in over five months.
20:12On the 13th of March 2013
20:14they reported her missing.
20:17Would the police manage
20:18to discover Charlotte's whereabouts
20:20and would she be found
20:21safe and sound?
20:23In May 2013
20:38Police Service Northern Ireland
20:40launched a missing persons inquiry
20:43to locate 34-year-old Charlotte Murray
20:46who hadn't been seen
20:47by her fiancé Johnny Miller
20:49since the previous October.
20:51Missing persons investigations
20:54are always complicated things
20:56because they
20:56the police quite rightly
20:58say well perhaps
20:59she just wanted to disappear
21:01perhaps she had enough.
21:04Often you don't really even know
21:06when someone was last seen
21:08particularly if people are lying
21:09or particularly if a lot of time
21:11has gone by.
21:11the public often
21:13trying to be helpful
21:14ring in tips
21:15and sightings
21:16and things
21:16which are very often wrong
21:18and leads the police
21:19into the wrong direction
21:20down the wrong path.
21:21Are they still alive?
21:22Did they go away
21:23of their own accord?
21:25When the police
21:26knocked on 42-year-old
21:27Johnny Miller's door
21:29this is exactly
21:30what he claimed
21:31had happened.
21:33Johnny in his first statement
21:34to police
21:35as a witness
21:36in March
21:37and said that
21:38no she'd just gone up
21:39to Belfast
21:40and then his
21:42his story was that
21:44while in work
21:45he got a text
21:45to say
21:46she was calling around
21:47to pick up more stuff
21:49and when he got home
21:50her stuff was gone.
21:51It appeared that Charlotte
21:53had also told
21:54other people in her life
21:55that she needed
21:56a change of scenery.
21:59On the 1st of November
22:005.15am
22:02Charlotte apparently
22:03posts on Facebook
22:04I've had enough
22:06I'm going away for a while.
22:08I think she says
22:08I'm pissed off with life.
22:10She also texts
22:11one or two friends
22:13saying I'm going away
22:14for a while
22:14and Miller claims
22:16that he's received
22:17texts from Charlotte
22:18saying that
22:19she's going away.
22:21Detectives needed
22:22to find out
22:23if Charlotte
22:24really had just
22:25left Moy
22:26of her own accord.
22:28She hadn't registered
22:29a mobile phone
22:29she hadn't used
22:30a bank account.
22:31Her lifestyle told us
22:32that she could not
22:33operate
22:34for any period of time
22:36without coming in
22:36contact with the state.
22:38She's not seeing
22:41any medical professionals
22:42she's not going
22:43to the dentist.
22:44The police also needed
22:46to rule out
22:47the possibility
22:47Charlotte had taken
22:49her own life.
22:52If anyone's ever
22:54had an episode
22:54in their life
22:55where they've been unhappy
22:56it seems
22:57often the leap is made
22:58that perhaps
22:59this is a suicide case.
23:02At the time
23:03we looked at it
23:04and if
23:04she had been
23:06severely depressed
23:07or suicidal
23:08at the time
23:09we were really
23:09focused on
23:10the fact
23:11she'd taken
23:12her own life
23:12but there was
23:13nothing there
23:14to tell us
23:15that this was
23:16what had actually
23:17happened to her.
23:18Charlotte's body
23:19wasn't found
23:21and it is
23:24quite difficult
23:25depending on
23:27how you plan
23:28to take
23:28your own life
23:29to make sure
23:30your body
23:31is completely
23:32hidden
23:32even if you
23:34jump off a boat
23:35into the sea
23:36and your body
23:37is completely
23:37hidden for a while
23:38it usually
23:40you know
23:40it will get
23:41found
23:41at some point
23:42it's a very
23:43very difficult
23:45thing to do
23:45to take your own
23:46life
23:47and for your body
23:48never to be found.
23:49No body
23:50had been found
23:51but nor was
23:52there any sign
23:53that Charlotte
23:54Murray was alive
23:55and living
23:56her life
23:56elsewhere.
23:59Once
23:59the proof
24:01of life
24:01inquiries
24:02had proved
24:02or shown
24:04no existence
24:05of this
24:06lady
24:06it then becomes
24:08a murder inquiry.
24:10And when
24:11the major
24:11investigations team
24:13took on the case
24:14the first person
24:15they looked at
24:16was the last
24:17person to have
24:18seen Charlotte
24:18alive.
24:20Johnny Miller
24:20was declared
24:21a suspect
24:22June 2013
24:23at that point
24:25you're able to
24:25then get warrants
24:27for the house
24:27there was
24:28searches done
24:29of the garden
24:29and forensic
24:31analysis done
24:32of the house
24:32and it was declared
24:33a scene.
24:36They find
24:38some blood spatters
24:39in the bathroom
24:41of the house
24:42they shared.
24:43The forensics
24:48took the house
24:49apart
24:50and found
24:51blood
24:51in the bathroom
24:53They actually
24:59unscrewed
25:00the
25:01waste pipe
25:02from the toilet
25:03took it off
25:04and there were
25:06little traces
25:06of blood
25:07in there
25:08and that was
25:08Charlotte's blood.
25:09They found
25:12a number
25:13of areas
25:15of blood
25:15which were
25:16down the
25:18panels of the bath
25:19there was crevices
25:20down the panel
25:21of the bath
25:21there was some
25:22in there
25:22Charlotte's blood
25:23there was blood
25:24underneath the
25:25waste pipe
25:26where it would
25:26have dripped down
25:27underneath the
25:29waste pipe.
25:30It was a find
25:32that suggested
25:32large quantities
25:34of blood
25:34had been spilled
25:36in that bathroom.
25:40Miller was
25:41questioned
25:41for a number
25:42of hours.
25:45And he repeats
25:46this rather strange
25:47story about
25:48she might have
25:48gone to work
25:49in Belfast.
25:50I find it
25:51really surprising
25:51that it happens
25:52quite often
25:53that it seems
25:54to be accepted
25:54that a woman
25:55who disappears
25:55has just gone
25:56off to start
25:57a new life
25:58somewhere
25:58and I wonder
25:59how often
25:59that actually
26:00ever really
26:00happens
26:00so it's
26:01bizarre to me
26:02that that's
26:02so easily
26:02accepted
26:03and I think
26:04it's often
26:04because judgments
26:05are made
26:06about a woman's
26:07lifestyle or past.
26:08He was also
26:09able to explain
26:10away the blood
26:11in the bathroom
26:12citing an accident
26:14that had happened
26:15shortly before
26:16Charlotte disappeared.
26:19Charlotte had a cut.
26:21She had seen
26:22the minor injuries
26:24unit.
26:25Now the cut
26:26was on the
26:27upper right
26:28buttock
26:29when she claimed
26:30she had sat
26:31on a light bulb
26:32and I don't know
26:35if that
26:36was ever
26:37proved to be
26:38anything
26:38other than
26:39what she said
26:39but she
26:40required
26:41stitches
26:42so it was
26:42quite a deep
26:43cut.
26:44Despite their
26:45suspicions
26:45the police
26:46did not have
26:47enough
26:47in July
26:482013
26:49to charge
26:50Johnny Miller
26:51with his
26:51fiancee's
26:52murder.
26:53There was no
26:54smoking gun
26:55at that point.
26:56There was no
26:57motive at that
26:58point.
26:59They had very
27:00little to put
27:01persons.
27:04With no body
27:06and no definitive
27:07proof a crime
27:08had been committed
27:09police resources
27:10were diverted
27:11to other cases.
27:15In 2016
27:16when Charlotte
27:17had been missing
27:18for over three
27:19years
27:20DS James
27:21Brannigan
27:21joined the
27:22major investigations
27:23team.
27:25It was the
27:26first piece
27:27of work I was
27:27given back
27:28as a sergeant.
27:29I think
27:33missing persons
27:34cases are so
27:35difficult and
27:36you know just
27:37to acknowledge
27:37it is really
27:38difficult for the
27:38police as well
27:39because there's
27:40no evidence
27:40at all,
27:41there's no
27:41body,
27:42often there's
27:43no crime
27:43scene.
27:45But it was at
27:46that point I
27:47started to do
27:47more work into
27:48it.
27:48My attitude
27:49was people
27:50just don't
27:50vanish and
27:51disappear,
27:52something has
27:52happened.
27:53A visit to
27:54Omar made
27:55DS Brannigan
27:56even more
27:57determined to
27:58get to the
27:58bottom of
27:59Charlotte's
28:00disappearance.
28:03Even years
28:04later you
28:05see how much
28:06it was still
28:06impacting them.
28:07These are the
28:08people you're
28:08doing this
28:09for, not
28:10just Charlotte,
28:11they need
28:11the answers.
28:13First of all
28:14detectives needed
28:15to make sure
28:16Charlotte hadn't
28:17turned up
28:17living somewhere
28:18else in the
28:19last three
28:20years.
28:22The police
28:23carried out
28:24extensive proof
28:25of life
28:26inquiries,
28:27credit card
28:28transactions,
28:29sightings,
28:30everything.
28:30There were
28:31supposedly a
28:32number of
28:32sightings,
28:33one in
28:33Birmingham,
28:34one in
28:34Germany,
28:34all these
28:35different areas.
28:37There was
28:37some talk
28:39that she may
28:40have been
28:40alive and
28:40living in
28:41Dublin.
28:41that all had
28:44to be
28:44investigated to
28:45the nth degree.
28:46Plus, all
28:47these other
28:47Charlotte
28:48Murrays that
28:48appear around
28:50the UK and
28:51Ireland, they
28:51have to be
28:52spoken to.
28:53Who's that
28:53Charlotte?
28:54Is this our
28:55Charlotte?
28:55thousands of
28:56inquiries,
28:58thousands of
28:58requests off
28:59to councils,
29:00hospitals,
29:02police forces,
29:03banks,
29:04telecoms.
29:07Once satisfied
29:08that Charlotte
29:09was no longer
29:10alive, the
29:11next thing
29:12police needed
29:13to identify
29:13was a
29:14motive.
29:15If Johnny
29:16Miller had
29:17killed his
29:17fiancée, why
29:18had he done
29:19it?
29:20As detectives
29:20kept digging
29:21into Charlotte's
29:22final days,
29:23they made a
29:24disturbing
29:25discovery.
29:26There was
29:27intelligence to
29:28say that
29:29there was a
29:30certain individual
29:31had naked
29:32images of
29:33Charlotte.
29:34Two officers,
29:34all credit to
29:35him, went out
29:36to speak to
29:36this person,
29:37and he still
29:38had the
29:38phone going
29:40back five
29:40years.
29:41So suddenly,
29:42we had this
29:42phone with
29:43naked images
29:44of Charlotte,
29:45which were
29:45taken on
29:45the 20th
29:46of October.
29:47The 20th
29:48of October
29:492012 was
29:50just 11 days
29:52before Charlotte
29:53was believed
29:53to have
29:54vanished.
29:56Had Johnny
29:56Miller been
29:57aware of the
29:58photos of
29:58his fiancée
29:59taken with
30:00another man?
30:03Well, now,
30:04the police have
30:05something which
30:06they never had
30:06before, motive.
30:08What if
30:09Miller was so
30:09infuriated by
30:11those photographs
30:11that he decided
30:12to kill her?
30:13When detectives
30:15dived into
30:15Johnny Miller's
30:16computer, they
30:18discovered that
30:18on the night of
30:19the 31st of
30:20October to
30:21the 1st of
30:22November, he'd
30:23been very,
30:24very busy.
30:26Miller was
30:26online looking
30:27to sell the
30:28engagement ring.
30:30When questioned,
30:31Miller tried to
30:31claim he'd been
30:32sent the explicit
30:33images of
30:34Charlotte and,
30:35as a result,
30:36had decided to
30:37end their
30:38engagement.
30:40He was going
30:41to say,
30:41I saw the
30:41images, I was
30:42trying to sell
30:43the engagement
30:43ring.
30:44But there
30:45was an obvious
30:46flaw in his
30:47story.
30:49You did not
30:50get the images
30:51until 6 o'clock.
30:52So why are you
30:53trying to sell
30:53the engagement
30:54ring at 3 o'clock
30:54in the morning?
30:56The police found
30:57that Miller had
30:58been accessing
30:59dating sites just
31:01a couple of
31:02hours after
31:03Charlotte went
31:04missing.
31:05It sounds like a
31:06really strange
31:07thing to do.
31:09He wasn't
31:10worrying about
31:11where she was
31:11because he knew
31:13exactly where
31:14she was.
31:15They also
31:18found that
31:19Charlotte's
31:20Facebook post
31:22on the morning
31:23after her
31:24disappearance,
31:25which said
31:26that she was
31:26taking off,
31:27I'm pissed off
31:28with life,
31:29I want a new
31:29one,
31:30had been sent
31:31from an IP
31:32address identical
31:32to the one
31:33that Miller
31:34had been using
31:35searching dating
31:37sites that
31:38same day.
31:40Cell site
31:40analysis also
31:42cast doubt
31:43on the
31:43goodbye messages
31:44Charlotte had
31:45apparently sent
31:46in the days
31:47after Halloween.
31:49You can see
31:50when Charlotte
31:51went to Belfast
31:51on the 30th of
31:52October,
31:53she went up
31:53for a job interview.
31:54You can see her
31:55car and phone
31:55going up to
31:56Belfast.
31:57You can see her
31:57car and phone
31:58coming back down,
32:00connecting to the
32:01cells as she
32:02came back down
32:02to Moy.
32:04When she
32:05disappeared,
32:06her phone
32:07didn't leave
32:07Moy.
32:08so we
32:09believe it
32:09was Johnny
32:10making these
32:11texts,
32:12closing her
32:12life down
32:13and texting
32:14her friend
32:15Michelle to
32:17say,
32:17I'm taking
32:17time out
32:18and I'll
32:19give you a
32:19shout at
32:20some point
32:20in the future.
32:21So Michelle
32:22then would
32:23stop looking
32:23for her.
32:26Circumstantial
32:27evidence was
32:28stacking up
32:29against Johnny
32:29Miller,
32:30but there was
32:31still no
32:31smoking gun.
32:33Would it be
32:34enough to
32:35persuade a jury?
32:36He was
32:37a callous
32:38killer.
32:51On the
32:5224th of
32:53October 2017,
32:55almost five
32:56years after
32:57Charlotte Murray
32:58was last
32:58seen alive,
33:00her fiancé,
33:0146-year-old
33:02Johnny Miller,
33:03was charged
33:03with her
33:04murder.
33:06The news
33:08was a
33:08bombshell
33:09for the
33:09small
33:10community
33:10of Moy
33:11County Tyrone
33:12where Miller
33:13and 34-year-old
33:14Charlotte
33:15had lived.
33:17Shock was
33:18the big
33:18thing because
33:19nobody expected
33:20it to be
33:20murder.
33:21Missing,
33:23runaway,
33:24probably thought
33:24all sorts of
33:25things, but
33:26nobody expected
33:26it to be
33:27murder and
33:27I don't think
33:28anybody expected
33:29it to be
33:29Johnny,
33:31the Johnny
33:31in the
33:32village because
33:34he was very
33:34likeable.
33:34Everybody
33:35knew him
33:36and he
33:37carried on
33:37living there
33:38mixed with
33:39the same
33:39people and
33:42probably felt
33:42quite sorry
33:43for him because
33:45it just cleared
33:46off and left
33:46me with half
33:47the rent and
33:48left me with
33:48her dog.
33:50I do find
33:51that people
33:51are often very
33:52quick to
33:52believe what
33:54a man says
33:54about a
33:55woman and
33:55to make
33:56assumptions
33:56about a
33:57woman based
33:57on past
33:58behaviour or
33:59history,
34:00lifestyle,
34:00anything like
34:01that.
34:01I suppose
34:02that's partly
34:03because it
34:03is quite
34:03a huge
34:04cognitive
34:05leap that
34:05a man
34:06that you
34:06know and
34:06you care
34:07about could
34:07have a
34:08violent
34:08side.
34:12The trial
34:13begins at
34:13Dungannon
34:13Crown Court
34:14on the
34:1511th of
34:15September
34:162019
34:17and Miller
34:19pleads
34:19not guilty.
34:23Journalist
34:24Tanya Foles
34:25attended every
34:26day of the
34:27trial as
34:28did Charlotte's
34:29grieving family
34:30including her
34:31identical twin
34:32Denise.
34:35Every time we
34:36were talking
34:36about Charlotte
34:37and you
34:38looked to
34:38your left
34:39you'd have
34:39sworn she
34:40was sitting
34:40in the
34:41gallery.
34:42She was
34:42so like
34:43her.
34:45The atmosphere
34:46it was
34:47frightening at
34:48times.
34:49You have
34:49the dock
34:50and you have
34:51the gallery
34:51where the
34:52families are
34:53and they're
34:53keeping them
34:54very much
34:54apart.
34:56One side
34:57fighting for
34:58his innocence
34:58one side
34:59fighting for
35:00a verdict
35:01of guilty.
35:06The
35:07prosecution
35:08argue of
35:09course
35:09that the
35:11photographs
35:12the naked
35:13photographs
35:13are the
35:15motive that
35:16Miller has
35:17used and
35:17there was a
35:18marvellous
35:18phrase used
35:20by the
35:20prosecution
35:21at one
35:21point said
35:22they were
35:22the last
35:23straw you
35:24were being
35:24shown as
35:25a cuckold.
35:26our main
35:28evidence was
35:29his statement
35:29and the
35:30cell site
35:31information
35:31we had.
35:32The fact
35:32that we
35:33could prove
35:33she's no
35:34longer alive
35:34and she
35:36has not
35:36left the
35:36Moy, she
35:37did not
35:37leave the
35:37Moy.
35:38He's saying
35:39she left
35:39in a van,
35:40he's saying
35:40she left
35:40to go to
35:41Belfast.
35:42We can
35:42prove she
35:42never left
35:43and her
35:43phone never
35:44left Moy.
35:44what he
35:46was doing
35:46on the
35:4731st on
35:47his computer
35:48we can
35:49see image
35:49by image
35:50of a
35:50screenshot
35:51of his
35:51machine
35:51of what
35:52he's doing.
35:53He's up
35:53all night
35:54working on
35:54his computer
35:55he's trying
35:56to sell
35:56an engagement
35:56ring.
35:59Fascinatingly
35:59when she
36:00disappeared
36:002012
36:01Miller had
36:03bought
36:03an axe
36:04and a
36:05saw
36:05as what
36:06he said
36:06was a
36:07Christmas
36:07present
36:07for his
36:08father.
36:10He bought
36:10items
36:11carpet
36:11cleaner
36:12and some
36:13tools
36:13over
36:15four days
36:16on the
36:16stand
36:17chef
36:17Johnny
36:18Miller
36:18tried
36:19to
36:19explain
36:19away
36:20all
36:20of
36:20the
36:21other
36:21inconsistencies
36:22in his
36:23stories.
36:25He was
36:26completely
36:27passive
36:28in the
36:29doc.
36:30He never
36:31showed
36:31any
36:32stress.
36:33He was
36:33completely
36:34relaxed
36:35in the
36:35witness
36:36box.
36:37He was
36:38so arm
36:39up on
36:40the back
36:40of the
36:40chair
36:40very
36:41casual
36:41you know
36:42I'm here
36:43to help
36:43very charming
36:45very
36:46I'm so
36:47likeable.
36:49Johnny
36:50Miller we
36:51know was
36:51an incredibly
36:52misogynistic
36:54and controlling
36:57predatory
36:58man but
36:59he was
37:00also
37:01quite
37:02charming
37:03when he
37:04he wanted
37:04to be
37:05and he
37:05could be
37:06friendly
37:06and he
37:06could draw
37:07people
37:07to him.
37:09on the
37:107th
37:10of
37:10October
37:112019
37:12the jury
37:13retired
37:14to consider
37:15its verdict.
37:17I'll never
37:17forget it
37:17because you're
37:18sitting waiting
37:18you can't do
37:20anything
37:20but you know
37:21you hardly
37:22sleep that night
37:22you're going
37:24over everything.
37:2545 minutes
37:26into the
37:27deliberation
37:27the next day
37:28his lawyer
37:29came running
37:30out and
37:30said
37:31Joey
37:32come on
37:32verdict.
37:34Johnny
37:35likes having
37:35a smoke
37:36looks at
37:37a cigarette
37:37very calm
37:39very very
37:40calm
37:40but there was
37:41something about
37:42his lawyer's
37:42face that made
37:43me think
37:43hey this is
37:44too quick.
37:45You're looking
37:45across the
37:46family
37:46they're all
37:48in tears
37:48at this point.
37:49in the
37:50dock
37:50Miller
37:51stood
37:51ready
37:52to hear
37:52his fate.
37:56How do you
37:57find the
37:57defendant
37:58on the
37:58charge of
37:59murder
37:59and they
38:01went
38:02guilty
38:02and he
38:05drops
38:05he just
38:06and drops
38:07into the
38:08seat
38:08his mother
38:09is in
38:10hysterics
38:11and two
38:12of Charlotte's
38:12family
38:13just
38:13little
38:14soft
38:14clap
38:15it was
38:16highly
38:17charged
38:18the relief
38:20is
38:21unreal
38:22years of
38:23work
38:23you see
38:23the family
38:24there
38:24in tears
38:26colleagues
38:27in tears
38:27and you
38:28see
38:28you've
38:29put all
38:30this work
38:30in
38:30to this
38:32or that
38:32family
38:33and
38:34it's just
38:35such a
38:36relief
38:36Miller was
38:41given
38:41life with
38:42a minimum
38:42of 16
38:43years
38:43Miller was
38:45then only
38:4548
38:46which
38:46theoretically
38:46means
38:47his
38:47eligible
38:48for parole
38:48in his
38:49mid
38:4960s
38:50in the
38:51wake
38:51of his
38:52conviction
38:53Charlotte's
38:54twin sister
38:55Denise
38:55and the
38:56family
38:57demand
38:58that he
38:59tell them
39:00what she
39:00did
39:01with
39:02Charlotte's
39:03body
39:03he
39:05steadfastly
39:06refused
39:06to do
39:07so
39:07they
39:10they are
39:10a family
39:10grieving
39:11they're
39:11trying
39:12to get
39:13closure
39:13they are
39:15struggling
39:15terribly
39:16and it's
39:17not going
39:17to be
39:17right
39:18until
39:18Charlotte's
39:19found
39:19and
39:20Charlotte's
39:21sister
39:21made a
39:22really
39:23emotional
39:24appeal
39:24do the
39:26right
39:26thing
39:26do the
39:27honourable
39:27thing
39:28tell us
39:29where she
39:29is
39:30and that's
39:31the way
39:32they're
39:32living at the
39:32minute
39:33Johnny
39:37Miller
39:37had
39:37however
39:38given
39:39detectives
39:40a clue
39:40they hoped
39:41might lead
39:42to
39:43Charlotte's
39:43remains
39:44we're about
39:48six miles
39:49outside
39:49Moy
39:50in
39:51a
39:51old
39:52quarry
39:52flooded
39:53quarry
39:53in
39:53Ben
39:54Burb
39:54which is
39:55just next
39:55to
39:55Ben
39:56Burb
39:56Priory
39:56he had
39:57said
39:57in his
39:58evidence
39:58that he
39:58was down
39:59here
39:59at
39:59half
39:59six
40:00the
40:00morning
40:00after
40:00she
40:01disappeared
40:01it's
40:02extremely
40:02isolated
40:03we
40:04first
40:04searched
40:05the
40:05ground
40:06area
40:06it
40:06was
40:07I
40:07believe
40:072018
40:09we
40:10were
40:10searching
40:10the
40:11bank
40:11of
40:12the
40:12quarry
40:12and
40:13we
40:14had
40:14divers
40:14in
40:15the
40:15quarry
40:15it's
40:18quite
40:19murky
40:19down
40:19there
40:19so
40:20they
40:20couldn't
40:20see
40:21much
40:21so
40:21we
40:21then
40:22had
40:22sonar
40:23at
40:23both
40:23wind
40:23with
40:23sonar
40:24so
40:24they
40:24mapped
40:25the
40:25whole
40:25bottom
40:25of
40:25the
40:26quarry
40:26but
40:27the
40:27dog
40:28gave
40:28the
40:28biggest
40:28indication
40:29up
40:29on
40:29the
40:29bank
40:29of
40:30human
40:30remains
40:31with
40:33strong
40:34signs
40:34that
40:34a
40:35body
40:35may
40:35have
40:35been
40:36disposed
40:36of
40:37at
40:37the
40:37quarry
40:37the
40:38decision
40:38was
40:39made
40:39to
40:40drain
40:40it
40:40and
40:43it
40:43was
40:43it
40:44was
40:44a
40:44long
40:44long
40:45wait
40:45watching
40:45it
40:46go
40:46down
40:46because
40:46we
40:46couldn't
40:46start
40:47searching
40:47until
40:47it
40:47was
40:47all
40:48drained
40:48there
40:48were
40:49bones
40:49found
40:50a lot
40:50of
40:50bones
40:51but
40:51all
40:52animal
40:52bones
40:52where
40:52people
40:53had
40:53discarded
40:53animals
40:54in
40:54here
40:54it
40:57was
40:57tense
40:57because
40:58the
40:58family
40:58were
40:58here
40:59a lot
40:59of
40:59time
41:00as
41:00well
41:00and
41:01we
41:01really
41:02were
41:02hopeful
41:03that
41:03her
41:04remains
41:04could
41:04be
41:04located
41:05here
41:05to
41:05give
41:06the
41:06family
41:06some
41:06closure
41:07from
41:10Charlotte
41:12after
41:13days
41:13of
41:14determined
41:14searching
41:15there
41:15was
41:16no
41:16resolution
41:17for
41:17Charlotte's
41:18loving
41:18family
41:19years
41:22later
41:22the
41:23search
41:23for
41:23Charlotte
41:23continues
41:24and
41:25those
41:25at the
41:26very
41:26top
41:26of
41:27Northern
41:27Ireland's
41:28government
41:28have
41:29dedicated
41:29themselves
41:30to
41:30the
41:31campaign
41:31for
41:32justice
41:32Charlotte's
41:34body
41:35has
41:35never
41:35been
41:35found
41:36to
41:36lose
41:37a
41:37loved
41:37one
41:38in
41:38such
41:39violent
41:40circumstances
41:41is in
41:41itself
41:42incredibly
41:43distressing
41:43but to
41:44have that
41:44pain
41:45and anguish
41:45compounded
41:46by the
41:46fact that
41:47you can
41:47never
41:48have a
41:48memorial
41:49for that
41:49person
41:50to not
41:50have the
41:51ability
41:51to be
41:52able to
41:52bury
41:53their
41:53loved
41:53one
41:53to not
41:54have
41:54the
41:54ability
41:55to
41:55take
41:56flowers
41:56on a
41:57birthday
41:57or
41:58to visit
41:59the
41:59grave
41:59side
41:59of
41:59Christmas
42:00it's
42:00incredibly
42:01distressing
42:02for
42:02families
42:02In
42:04the
42:04aftermath
42:05of
42:05Johnny
42:05Miller's
42:06conviction
42:07Charlotte's
42:08family
42:08is
42:08campaigning
42:09for
42:09new
42:10legislation
42:10that
42:11would
42:11force
42:12killers
42:12like
42:12him
42:13to
42:13reveal
42:14where
42:14they
42:14concealed
42:15their
42:15victim's
42:16body
42:16The
42:18families
42:18came to
42:19me
42:19here
42:20with
42:20a
42:20proposal
42:21for
42:21Charlotte's
42:21Law
42:21so we
42:22worked
42:22with the
42:23families
42:23very closely
42:24and looked
42:24at how
42:25at each
42:25stage
42:25of the
42:26process
42:26we would
42:27be able
42:28to
42:28incentivise
42:29for the
42:31perpetrator
42:31to actually
42:32tell where
42:34the body
42:35was and
42:35give the
42:36families
42:36that
42:36comfort
42:38and
42:39there's
42:40a
42:40sliding
42:40scale
42:41we're
42:41putting
42:41in
42:42place
42:42that
42:43the
42:43earlier
42:43that
42:43information
42:44is
42:44released
42:44to
42:45the
42:45families
42:45the
42:46more
42:46significant
42:47the
42:47consideration
42:47will
42:48be
42:48for the
42:48person
42:49in
42:49sentencing
42:50you
42:51have
42:52to
42:52understand
42:53this
42:53family's
42:53pain
42:54and
42:55if
42:55the
42:55only
42:55way
42:55to
42:55do
42:56that
42:56is
42:56to
42:56say
42:57to
42:57him
42:57your
42:58sentence
42:58might
42:59be
42:59somewhat
42:59reduced
43:00the
43:01family
43:02are
43:02willing
43:02to
43:02accept
43:03that
43:03by
43:05denying
43:06his
43:06guilt
43:07and
43:07refusing
43:08to
43:08reveal
43:08where
43:09Charlotte's
43:09body
43:10can
43:10be
43:10found
43:11Johnny
43:11Miller
43:12has
43:12denied
43:13his
43:13victim's
43:13family
43:14the
43:14opportunity
43:15to
43:15let
43:16their
43:16beloved
43:16daughter
43:17and
43:17sister
43:17rest
43:18in
43:19peace
43:19by
43:23ending
43:23his
43:24fiancee's
43:24young
43:25life
43:25then
43:26laying
43:26a
43:26trail
43:26of
43:27deception
43:27Miller
43:28has
43:28proven
43:29himself
43:29to
43:29be
43:30one
43:30of
43:30Britain's
43:31most
43:31evil
43:32killers
43:49more
43:53of
43:53others
43:56who
43:59will
43:59see you
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