I didn't like the title of this two-part ITV documentary self-promoting their own fictionalised cold-case series "Unforgotten". Doing so seemed to me to cheapen the actual case presented here, reducing it to the level of a television drama series and disrespecting the real-life murder victim.
The case concerns the unsolved brutal murder in 1981, inside her own shop in Leyton Buzzard, of a lady called Carol Morgan. The prime suspect is her womanising husband Derek but he appears to have a concrete alibi on the night in question, having taken his two children by an earlier marriage to the cinema at the time. Confusingly, as things turn out, a witness belatedly appears and states he clearly saw Morgan in an adjacent street at around the correct time plus there's more contradictory evidence with this time a contemporary witness stating they saw a young man suspiciously exiting the scene too.
However, the only real suspect here is the husband, who we learn was having an affair with a married woman who he eventually moved in to his home and married not long after the killing. Whether his wife Margaret is involved in the conspiracy with him is still to be determined although in the evidence presented it's hard not to see her as complicit in the crime.
It's never asserted that Morgan actually killed Carol, the inference being that he perhaps hired some other younger person for the murder. If that is indeed true then the killer is clearly still out there, unpunished for this awful crime. It seemed strange to me that Morgan's two children, even while one of whom contributes a statement that he was a violent and sadistic father, weren't asked if he was actually at the cinema with them just to remove all doubt that he carried out the murder in person
Probably a good bit too long, nevertheless this was an involving production, highlighting the hard work and perseverance of the investigating team who collectively talk us through the ups and downs of the search for the killer. From picking the case up as cold in 2019 it took them fully 5 years to get their man to trial, some 43 years after the fact and while you sense the team's regret at not pinning a conviction on the wife, you nevertheless get the distinct impression that they were happy the main offender was sent down for life.
While some very slight doubts may remain as to Morgan's guilt, the slant of the programmes clearly points to his culpability. I personally go along with it although I didn't wonder why he hasn't since come clean to divulge the identity of the actual killer who butchered Carol Morgan to death.
