Marked as Solved: The Axe Murders of Brian Price and Susan Tetrault

Sinister South

This week, we kick things off with talk of fireworks, chaotic bonfire night crowds, and Hannah dropping some insanely awesome news (the kind that actually makes us both a bit emotional). But after that burst of brightness, we take a sharp turn — back to South London in the summer of 1986.

When a neighbour forced open the door to a flat on St Alphonsus Road, she walked straight into a scene of horror. Inside were the bodies of Susan Tetrault and Brian Price, brutally murdered as they slept. What first looked like a senseless act soon revealed a tangled story that stretched from Cornwall to Morocco, Cyprus to Clapham — a web of drug smuggling, unpaid debts, and brutal retribution.

In this episode, we unravel how their murders may be tied to another double killing three years earlier, and a mysterious “accident” that followed soon after. Five deaths. One network. And a case marked as “detected” — even though no one was ever found guilty.

Nearly forty years later, the files are closed. But the questions still aren’t.

Sources include:

https://inews.co.uk/culture/brian-price-susan-tetrault-axe-murder-3806356?srsltid=AfmBOooD1Sm6Qt59PBfdhibH6zfs77cdqvo28wFiJ3GJFkGz3x4RZl2u
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/grisly-gangland-axe-murder-couple-33722065
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/35831704/brian-price-susan-tetrault-murdered-axed
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-footsteps-of-killers/on-demand/76436-006
https://helios.iframe.thesun.co.uk/news/35831704/brian-price-susan-tetrault-murdered-axed

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