In the summer of 1989 a husband and wife on vacation at their favorite hiking spot in Wales fall victim to a vicious killer. Years after the notorious crime, justice prevails but the total number of people murdered by one man, remains a haunting mystery to this day.
The Episode
- Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England): Murder of the loveliest couple, by Caroline Davies and Patrick McGowan.
- Daily Record (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland): Holiday couple shot by sadists, by Gary McWilliams.
- Sunday Telegraph (London, Greater London, England): Holiday killings plea.
- Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England): Son’s plea to cliff killer, by Patrick McGowan.
- Evening Chronicle (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England): Twenty quizzed over murder.
- The Guardian (London, Greater London, England): Police see 20 in hunt for coastal path killer.
- The Guardian (London, Greater London, England): Cash card clue to murder of holiday couple, by Tony Heath.
- Sunday Sun (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England): Six quizzed in clifftop murder probe.
- The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Clifftop killing forensic test.
- Atherstone Herald (Atherstone, Warwickshire, England): ‘Killer’ sighted in town, by Helen Machin.
- Carmarthen Journal (Carmarthen, Dyfed, Wales): Shoppers aid murder hunt.
- Evening Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England): Murders squad plea to holidaymakers.
- Birmingham Evening Mail (Birmingham, West Midlands, England): Couple’s clue to killer hope.
- Evening Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England): Families aid murder squad detectives.
- Evening Post (Reading, Berkshire, England): Double murder hunt at town’s railway station, by Tim Boone.
- Cambridge Evening News (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England): Police reveal new leads on double killing.
- Birmingham Evening Mail (Birmingham, West Midlands, England): Hiker clue in hunt for killer.
- The Observer (London, Greater London, England): Camper sought.
- The Daily Telegraph (London, Greater London, England): Holiday hunt for clue to couple’s shotgun killer.
- Carmarthen Journal (Carmarthen, Dyfed, Wales): Five new leads in Dixon murders.
- Evening Post (Reading, Berkshire, England): Dixons murder hunt stepped up, by Sue Marshall.
- The Guardian (London, Greater London, England): The riddle of smuggler’s bay, by Nick Davies.
- The Birmingham Post (Birmingham, West Midlands, England): Police dismiss SAS link with murders.
- The Daily Telegraph (London, Greater London, England): Man held over 1980s murders, by Sean O’Neill.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Mad Frankie taunts police over double murder, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Who killed the Dixons?, by Robin Turner.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Review of unsolved 1980s double murders, by WalesOnline.
- The Daily Telegraph (London, Greater London, England): Man held over four 1980s murders, by John Bingham and Richard Savill.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Date set for shotgun murders trial, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): John Cooper denies Scoveston Manor and Peter and Gwenda Dixon murders as trial starts, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): John Cooper trial for two double murders opens, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): John Cooper trial: Cold case review revealed new evidence, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): John Cooper trial: Glove fibres a link to murders, court told, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Man accused of Pembrokeshire murders ‘used to work for alleged victim’, by WalesOnline.
- Online (Cardiff, Wales): ‘Pungent smell of death’ led to coastal path bodies, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Jury visits cliff-top murder site, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Murder accused appeared on TV’s Bullseye, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Children of shot holidaymakers face murder accused in court, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Witness tells jury of dad on ‘shotgun walks’, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Shorts of accused John Cooper ‘had DNA of victim’ jury told, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): ‘Victim’s DNA on murder accused’s shorts’ say experts, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Pembrokeshire murders trial: Defence plays down forensic link, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Cooper ‘long suspected of the Dixon murders’, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff,Wales): Pembrokeshire murder trial hears Cooper told police he bought jewellery with spot-the-ball cash, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Jury hears transcripts of police interviews with suspect in double murder trial, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Cooper could not explain why murder victim’s blood was found in his home, trial hears, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Cooper denies son’s claims he would go for walks armed with shotgun, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Jewellery expert casts doubt on claims Cooper sold alleged victim’s wedding ring, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Jury in John Cooper trial retire to consider verdict, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): John Cooper found GUILTY of Pembrokeshire double murders, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): John Cooper verdict sees police open files on five other murders, by WalesOnline.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Two of Wales’ most notorious murderers appeal their convictions, by Robin Turner.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): John Cooper jury profoundly misdirected, appeal court hears, by Clare Hutchinson.
- BBC: John Pope and John Cooper lose murder legal challenges.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): ‘The moment Bullseye revealed the killer’: How shotgun killer John Cooper was caught, by James McCarthy.
- Wales Online (Cardiff, Wales): Detective reveals in TV special how he came face to face with notorious killer John Cooper, by Rachael Misstear.
- Herald Wales (Cardiff, Wales): The Dixon Murders: Did John Cooper work alone?, by HeraldWales.
- The Game Show Serial Killer: Police Tapes(Film). Directed by Sam Eastall and Mark Rossiter.
- Pembrokeshire Visitor’s Website
- Wilkins, Steve. Hill, Jonathan. The Pembrokeshire Murders.
- House of Commons Library. Homicide Statistics by Patsy Richards.
- Herald Wales: The Scoveston Murders: Following the Tracks, by Andy Chandler.