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Hello everyone and welcome to a new post. So, I have already looked into the murderers, methods and weapons in the Morse series. (Click HERE to read that post). I also did the same with the Lewis series. (Click HERE to view that post).
Now, i’m looking into the murderers, their victims and their weapon of choice. I hope you enjoy the post. If you do please consider leaving a like at the bottom of the page.
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SUICIDE (2). STRANGLED (12) SHOT (28) ACCIDENTAL DEATH (2) POISONING (5) DEHYDRATION (1) ACID (1) STABBED (12) ELECTROCUTED (3) BLUNT FORCED TRAUMA (6) THROAT CUT (6) DROWNING (7) CAR (3) HEROIN/DRUG OVERDOSE (6) EXPLOSION (1) TIGER (4) HAEMORRHAGE (1) HYPOGLYCAEMIC SHOCK (2) BEATEN TO DEATH (2) BROKEN NECK (2) FALL (2) PUSHED FROM A GREAT HEIGHT (2) ALCOHOL POISONING (1) CHOPPED TO DEATH (MEAT CLEAVER) (2) BOMB (1) ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK (1)
TOTAL NUMBER OF DEATHS: 115. (36 Episodes)
In the Morse series there were 103. In the Lewis there were 80. (Both 33 episodes).
Breaking it down by gender. Female Deaths: 31. Male Deaths: 84.
Female Murderers: 16. Male Murderers 36.
Fred Thursday killed two people. Mrs Coke-Norris (shot) from the episode Home. And, Raymond Kennet (stabbed) from the Exeunt episode.
Bra (1) Rope (3) Stocking (2) Scarf (1) Knife (1) Wire (1) Unknown Weapon (8) Gun (24) Shotgun (3) Poison (5) Acid (1) Screwdriver (!) Scissors (1) Knife (8) Steak Knife (1) Bayonet (1) Wood Chisel (1) Electricity (3) Hammer (1) Cosh (2) Cut Throat Razor (2) Water (7) Car (3) Drugs (6) Teas-maid (1) Tiger (4) Insulin (2) Meat Cleaver (2) Bomb (1) Nut (1)
SUICIDE (of course not murder but worth mentioning it as a death).
Pilot Episode (First Bus to Woodstock).
Rosalind Stromming.
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CONFECTION.
Rennet Bell, suicide by shotgun.
Rufus Bura, suicide. Slashed his wrists.
STRANGLED.
Pilot Episode. (First Bus to Woodstock).
Mary Tremlett. Strangled by Rosalind Stromming.
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FUGUE.
Evelyn Balfour. Killed by Mason Gull.
Mason Gull.
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SWAY.
Vivien Haldane. Killed by Roy Huggins. By stocking.
Mrs Shears. Killed by Roy Huggins. Strangled with a stocking.
Roy Huggins.
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NEVERLAND.
Chief Constable Standish. Killed by ACC Deare.
ACC Deare.
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CANTICLE.
Barry Finch. Killed by Emma Carr.
Emma Carr.
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PASSENGER.
Jilly Conway strangled by Noel Porter.
Anoushka Nolan strangled by Noel Porter.
Noel Porter. Killed the two above victims.
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QUARTET.
Werfeli garroted by the Russian agent.
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ORACLE.
Molly Andrews. Strangled. Neck broken. Killer Carl Sturgis.
Carl Sturgis.
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ZENANA
Manually Strangled. Killed by either Sturgis or Clemens.
SHOT.
Pilot Episode (First Bus to Woodstock).
Miles Percevil. Shot by Rosalind Stromming.
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GIRL.
Doctor Cartwright. Shot by Wallace Clark.
Rev. Monkford. Shot by Wallace Clark.
The murderer of the above two victims, Wallace Clark.
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HOME.
Georgina Barnard. Killed by Mrs Coke-Norris.
Ian Kerr. Shot by Mrs Coke-Norris.
Mrs Coke-Norris.
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NEVERLAND.
ACC Deare. Shot by Angela McGarrett.
Angela McGarrett.
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RIDE.
Joss Bixby/Charlie Greel is killed by a shotgun. Shot by Conrad Greel.
Conrad Greel. Conrad Greel is shot by The Great Zambezi.
The Great Zambezi.
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CODA.
Cedric Clissold. Killed by Paul Marlock.
Paul Marlock.
Ronnie Gidderton. Shot by Cole Matthews.
Cole Matthews.
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HARVEST.
Seth Chattox. Killed by Dowstable Chattox.
Dowstable Chattox.
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MUSE.
Joey Sikes. Killed by Ruth Astor.
Ruth Astor.
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CARTOUCHE.
Armand De Vere. Killed by Edmund Gordon.
Edmund Gordon.
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COLOURS.
Justin Farridge shot by Dr. Laidlaw.
McDuff shot by Dr. Laidlaw.
Dr Rex Laidlaw.
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QUARTET.
KGB agent shot by Miss Bagshot.
Miss Bagshot.
Prof Alexander Richmond shot by Albert Mullion.
Albert Mullion.
Karl Pfuscher shot Russian agent.
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ICARUS.
George Fancy shot by ?????????
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APOLLO.
Eric Gidby. Shot by Hildegard Slayton.
Hildegard Slayton.
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CONFECTION.
Greville Cresswell, shot by Rennet Bell.
Mandy-Jane Bell shot by her husband Rennet Bell.
Rennet Bell.
Killed by the vet’s gun that he uses to put down horses. Killed by Isla Fairford.
Isla Fairford.
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Degüello
Jago shot by Ronnie Box.
Ronnie Box.
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SCHERZO.
A taxi driver Dudley Lunn. Shot. Killed by Ifan Roberts.
Father Frances Mahoney is shot by Ifan Roberts.
Commodore Maynard. Shot by Ifans Roberts.
Ifan Roberts.
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PRELUDE.
Mickey Flood shot. Never revealed who killed him but may have been DI Lott.
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HOME.
Shot by Fred Thursday.
ACCIDENTAL DEATH.
GIRL.
Margaret Bell. Heart attack caused by amphetamines supplied by Derek Clark. He was unaware of her heart condition.
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ZENANA.
Nancy Deveen is one of the ‘accidental’ victims. Apparently hit her head on a large bust.
POISONING.
FUGUE.
Grace Agnes Madison. Killed by Mason Gull.
Mason Gull.
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NEVERLAND.
Dr Fairbridge. Killed by Angela McGarrett.
Angela McGarrett.
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ARCADIA.
Miss Lorraine Figgis. Murdered by the artist Simon Hallward, Verity Richardson and Ayesha. Poisoned with arsenic.
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CARTOUCHE.
Ronald Beavis murdered by Edmund Gordon. Method, poisoned with strychnine.
Leslie Garnier murdered by Edmund Gordon. Method, poisoned with cyanide.
Edmund Gordon.
DEHYDRATION.
FUGUE.
Benjamin Nimmo. Killed by Mason Gull.
Mason Gull.
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ACID.
FUGUE.
Daniel Cronyn. Killed by Mason Gull.
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STABBED.
ROCKET.
Percy Malleson. Killed by Reg Tracepurcel. Screwdriver through the skull.
Reg Tracepurcel.
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SWAY.
Norman Parkis. Killed by Roy Huggins. Stabbed with a pair of scissors.
Roy Huggins.
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NEVERLAND
Alderman Gerald Wintergreen. Stabbed by Angela McGarrett.
Angela McGarrett.
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MUSE.
Dr. Robin Grey. Murdered by Ruth Astor. Stabbed in both eyes with a steak knife.
Adrian Croxley is stabbed to death by Ruth Astor.
Ruth Astor.
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CARTOUCHE.
Liam Flynn stabbed by an unknown assailant.
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PASSENGER.
Lloyd stabbed by Cromwell Ames.
Cromwell Ames.
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COLOURS.
Jean Ward murdered by Dr. Rex Laidlaw. Stabbed with a bayonet.
Dr Rex Laidlaw.
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ICARUS.
John Ivory stabbed by Mrs. Seymour.
Mrs. Seymour.
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Degüello.
Osbert Page. Stabbed with an wood chisel and died from massive haemorrhage. Killed by one of McGyffin’s thugs.
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RAGA.
One of the five Asian men is stabbed to death.
Gary Rogers is stabbed by Asian thugs.
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EXEUNT.
Raymond Kennet, nickname Tomahawk. Stabbed with his own knife by Fred Thursday.
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TERMINUS.
Professor Patrick Stanton stabbed and died through loss of blood. Killed by either Hilda Bruce-Potter, or Linda Travers or John Peckett.
ELECTROCUTED.
ROCKET.
Lenny Frost. Killed by Reg Tracepurcel.
Reg Tracepurcell.
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ZENANA.
Pippa Tetbury. Killed by either Violetta or Ludo.
Mrs Bright electrocuted. Killed by Ludo.
Ludo.
BLUNT FORCED TRAUMA.
HOME.
Prof. Coke-Norris. Killed by Mrs Coke-Norris. Hammer.
Mrs Coke-Norris.
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TROVE.
Frida Yelland. Killed by Tony Frisco using a cosh.
Pettifer. Killed by Tony Frisco using a cosh. However, the fatal blow may have been his rooftop fall and landing on a car.
Tony Frisco.
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NEVERLAND.
Eric Paterson. It’s never made clear who killed him but we did see three police officers beating him up.
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HARVEST.
Matthew Laxman. Killed by Seth Chattox.
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EXEUNT.
Professor Edwin Robert Bevin. Tripped on the stair carpet. Then Bludgeoned. Killed by John Bingley.
John Bingley.
THROAT CUT.
NOCTURNE.
Adrain Weiss. Killed by Terence Black. Cut throat razor.
Maud Ashenden. Killed by Terence Black. Cut throat Razor.
Terence Black.
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ORACLE.
Throat cut by mystery man or woman. Killer never made clear.
MUSE.
Simon Lake. Throat cut by Ruth Astor.
Ruth Astor.
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TERMINUS.
Ben Bishop as Norbert ‘Nobby’ Hobbs’s. Throat was slit. Killed by either Hilda Bruce-Potter, or Linda Travers or John Peckett.
Lawrence Yeager’s throat slit. I don’t know which one killed him. Killed by either Hilda Bruce-Potter, or Linda Travers or John Peckett.
DROWNING.
Killed by drowning. It’s never made clear who killed George but we have to assume it’s the same people who killed Paterson.
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GAME.
Prof. Richard Neilson. Killed Dr Broderick Castle.
Ms Porfrey.
Edison D. Smalls.
Tessa Knight.
All the above four killed by Dr Broderick Castle.
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STRIKER.
John Paul Martinelli killed by drowning. Killed by George Sellars.
George Sellars.
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UNIFORM.
Paul Baynard. Killed by the Debonairs. They hit him with their car and knocked him off his motorbike. Thinking he was dead they threw him into the river. But he wasn’t and so drowned.
The Debonairs.
CAR.
RIDE.
Jeannie Hearne. Murdered by Conrad Greel.
Conrad Greel.
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PYLON.
Of course not murdered in the true sense. Probably not even manslaughter. The car driver who hit her is Maggie Skynner.
Maggie Skynner.
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APOLLO.
Professor Adam Drake. Hildegard Slayton cut the brake line and removed the brake fluid.
Hildegard Slayton.
HERION OVERDOSE. (Not a murder, per se).
RIDE.
Student at Carlyle College.
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ICARUS.
Roundtree. Killed by John Ivory or Heroin overdose?
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PYLON.
Stanley Clemence overdosed on spiked heroin.
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CONFECTION.
Drug taker died by overdose. herion laced with quinine. He choked on his own ‘vomitus’.
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Degüello.
Junkie killed by the heroin laced with Quinine.
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PRELUDE.
First named as Edward Thomson. Then Ronnie tells Endeavour and Fred that his real name is Andrew Lewis. A Heroin and barbiturate overdose but not self inflicted. The killer is never revealed. It may have been DI Lott.
EXPLOSION.
ARCADIA.
Simon Hallward. Explosion caused by teasmaid. Murdered by Ayesha.
Ayesha.
TIGER.
PREY.
Killed by a tiger. However, Georgina Mortmaigne is partly to blame. She doused Dr Lorenz’s handkerchief with female tiger musk in the hope that the tiger would kill him but unfortunately Ingrid borrowed the hankie.
The birdwatcher Dr Moxem.
The young boy at first deemed to have drowned, Ricky Parker.
Dr Hector Lorenz.
HAEMORRHAGE.
CANTICLE.
Reverend Golightly. Killed by Emma Carr. Emma put laxative in the chocolates which led to the reverend having heart failure which resulted in the haemorrhage.
HYPOGLYCAEMIC SHOCK.
LAZARETTO.
Mr Greely. Killed by Nurse Jo-Beth Mills.
Terence Bakewell.
Staff Nurse Jo-Beth Mills killed both people above.
BEATEN TO DEATH.
PASSENGER.
Burt Hobbs Beaten to death by unknown assailants.
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UNIFORM.
Hugh Sellers. Beaten to death but also stabbed in the neck with a bottle. Killed by Kenneth Prior/Sellers.
Kenneth Prior/Sellers.
BROKEN NECK.
QUARTET.
Joe Dozier died of a broken neck. Killed by Elsie Dozier????
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ZENANA.
Bridget Mulcahy was killed by Carl Sturgis.
Carl Sturgis.
FALL.
Died from a fall. Christine Chase.
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EXEUNT.
Dr Rupert McMurdo. Fell from a train. Though he is the second victim Endeavour encounters, McMurdo died before Professor Bevin. We never see Dr McMurdo. Killed by John Bingley.
John Bingley.
PUSHED FROM A GREAT HEIGHT.
ORACLE.
Dr Benford. Killed by Professor Blish. Pushed off balcony.
Professor Blish.
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UNIFORM.
Raymond Swann also known as Raymond Astin. Killed by Kenny Prior/Sellers.
Kenny Prior/Sellers.
ALCOHOL POISONING.
ORACLE.
Abraham Petrovski is found dead. Died of alcohol poisoning. Maybe.
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MEAT CLEAVER.
Mr Aziz killed with a meat cleaver. Killed by Rafiq Sardar.
Oberon Prince killed by Rafiq Sardar using a meat cleaver.
Rafiq Sardar.
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BOMB.
Maggie Widdowson killed by a parcel bomb. Killed by Robert Fenner.
Robert Fenner.
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ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK.
PRELUDE.
Margeaux Quincannon. Anaphylactic shock from a nut allergy. Killed by Mabs Portman.
Mabs Portman.
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