To Catch A Serial Killer
If you’ve seen ITV’s recent, superb real-life crime drama, A Confession, you would certainly know who Steve Fulcher is. For those who don’t, he was a Detective Superintendent of Police in Wiltshire county, in England, who was in the spotlight in a missing girl’s investigation in 2011, and the subsequent trial. Without giving away too much, that investigation threw up uneasy questions about what should be the boundaries of ‘due process’ in the arrest and questioning of a suspect, and how much flexibility is it fair to accord to an investigating officer. To be clear, I’m not alluding to torture- just plain questioning.
It’s a thought provoking case. For those who are interested, especially those who can’t see A Confession anytime soon, or are simply short on time, I recommend a 2018 ITV documentary, To Catch A Serial Killer (not to be confused with the very different, CNN documentary of the same name). In some ways, it’s a better introduction to the case than A Confession.