Murder In The Badlands: Episode One – The murder and disappearance of Lisa Dorrian
Arlene Arkinson, Lisa Dorrian, Marian Beattie and Inga Maria Hauser are all names that have dominated the headlines in Northern Ireland for all the wrong treasons. Four women whose lives were brutally cut short at the hands of merciless killers.
This series will revisit these horrendous, unsolved murders to take the audience on a journey across the badlands in the four decades between 1973 and 2005. Behind each story is the bubbling context of the Northern Ireland of the time, a place engulfed in sectarian conflict.
In 1988, the body of 18-year-old German backpacker, Inga Maria Hauser was found at the end of a dark track within the most remote part of a forest. In 1973, the body of 18-year-old Marian Beattie was found at the foot of a cliff in a quarry up a narrow country road. Fifteen-year-old Arlene Arkinson disappeared in 1994. Her remains are undiscovered, but are presumed to have been buried in one of the vast swathes of bogland or forestry on the Irish Border.
Episode One tells the inside story of the murder and disappearance of Lisa Dorrian in 2005, containing powerful testimony from her sister and victim’s rights campaigner, Joanne Dorrian.
