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Unsolved murders of four Northern Ireland women to be examined in Netflix series

Netflix is set to broadcast a crime series examining the unsolved murders of four young Northern Ireland women over a period of more than 40 years. 

The deaths of Lisa Dorrian, Inga Maria Hauser, Arlene Arkinson and Marian Beattie are revealed in detail in The Murder in The Badlands as their families continue their search for answers and justice.

Initially broadcast on BBC One NI, a global audience will now be able to watch the four part series which forensically rebuilds the time-line of the murders of the four women and the investigations that followed.

Each episode features insights from surviving family members, police officers, journalists and criminologists.

Lisa Dorrian

Lisa Dorrian disappeared after a party at a caravan site in Ballyhalbert, Co Down, on February 27, 2005
Lisa Dorrian disappeared after a party at a caravan site in Ballyhalbert, Co Down, on February 27, 2005

The Bangor shop assistant, who was 25, went missing after a party at a caravan site in Ballyhalbert on February 27 2005. It is believed she was murdered that night or in the early hours of the following morning.

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Police believe the young woman was murdered. However, no-one has ever been charged and despite repeated appeals, her body has never been found.

Arlene Arkinson

Arlene Arkinson (15) from Castlederg in Co Tyrone, went missing in 1994 following a night out in Co Donegal.
Arlene Arkinson (15) from Castlederg in Co Tyrone, went missing in 1994 following a night out in Co Donegal.

Arlene Arkinson (15), from the village of Castlederg in Co Tyrone, disappeared in August 1994 following a night out at a disco at Bundoran in Co Donegal. 

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Despite extensive searches, Arlene’s remains have yet to be found.


Inga Maria Hauser

Inga Maria Hauser went missing after she arrived in Larne on April 6 1988
Inga Maria Hauser went missing after she arrived in Larne on April 6 1988

The 18-year-old German backpacker was found dead in a remote part of Ballypatrick Forest on the outskirts of Ballycastle, Co Antrim on April 6, 1988. 


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She had travelled by ferry from Scotland to Northern Ireland and was intending to travel to Belfast and Dublin, Police say she had been subjected to a vicious and ruthless assault. 



Marian Beattie

Marian Beattie was murdered in March 1973
Marian Beattie was murdered in March 1973

Marian Beattie, from Portadown, Co Armagh was 18 when she was killed in March 1973.

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Her remains were found in a quarry between the villages of Augnacloy and Ballygawley, 30 miles from her home, close to a dance hall she was attending.

Murder In The Badlands will be screened on Netflix from October 10.