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"Midsomer Murders" Strangler's Wood (TV Episode 1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The corpse of Monarch Tobacco's Brazilian cigarette model is found strangled with a necktie in the wood where several similar cases occurred some ten years ago, which Barnaby's predecessor George Meakham never solved.
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Strangler's Woods is the second episode of the second series of the popular British crime drama Midsomer Murders and was originally aired 3rd February 1999.
Carla Constanza, a very attractive Brazilian actress and model for the advertising face of Monarch Tobacco, is found strangled with a necktie in Ravens Wood. It is similar to the killings in the wood nine years ago. Is the Strangler back?
At the Fox and Goose hotel, the milkman delivers milk to Leonard Pike. In the woods, George Meakham walks out in the road. Bill Mitchell passes and almost hits the milk truck. Anna Santarosa brings in the milk at the Merrill house. Kate Merrill pours milk on her son's cereal. Kate asks her husband John Merrill where his watch is. David Merrill leaves the table without eating and runs to the shed to get his bike.
Boys are playing in Ravens Wood and David rides his bike through them on the way to school. The boys chase a ball and find the naked, dead body of Carla Constanza with a tie around her neck.
At the Barnaby house, Joyce Barnaby is preparing to leave to go take care of her mother. Cully is home to take care of her dad, Tom Barnaby.
DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Gavin Troy arrive at the crime scene. Dr. Dan Peterson is filling in for Dr. Bullard, who is on vacation. The police find the victim's clothes with labels from San Paolo and a wristwatch. Barnaby realizes the Ravens Wood area is the place known as "Strangler's Wood." Back at the police station, Barnaby shows Troy newspapers from nine years ago where 3 women were strangled and left in the woods. A German backpacker, an au pair and a hotel maid were raped and strangled in the wood, which was subsequently referred to by the locals as Strangler's Wood. The detective who handled the case nine years ago is George Meakham, Barnaby talks to him at Lawn Bowling. George tells Barnaby he won't get the perpetrator.
George goes home and tells his wife, Emily Meakham. He says he didn't tell the police anything. Meakham goes upstairs and opens a drawer full of ties. He wraps one around his neck and pulls the ends.
The detectives take the watch to a jeweler's. He identifies the purchaser of the watch as Kate Merrill.
•John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby
•Daniel Casey as Sgt. Gavin Troy
•Jane Wymark as Joyce Barnaby
•Laura Howard as Cully Barnaby
•Peter Eyre as Leonard Pike
•Kathleen Byron as Dorothea Pike
•Bill Mitchell-
•Dr. Ian Aycott
•Carla Constanza
•Anna Santarosa
•Attempted murder- David Merrill
•Leonard Pike raped and strangled 9 years ago-
The following actors and actresses who appeared in this episode have appeared in subsequent episodes
•Elizabeth Tyrrell - Death of a Hollow Man
•Peter Eyre - Picture of Innocence
•Nicholas Farrell - Drawing Dead
•Debbie Chazen - Midsomer Life
•Toby Jones - Dead Man's Eleven, Death of a Stranger, and Judgement Day
•The episode takes cues from the book and subsequent Hitchcock film adaptation Psycho. A serial killer lives with his mother and leaves women for dead in the same area, but while another woman was killed from being stabbed to death in the shower, by the killer posing as his mother, it's the mother in the episode who stabs the killer in the shower.
•The episode also alludes to Hitchcock film Frenzy, where a serial murderer rapes women and strangles them with neckties, but another suspect is set up to take the fall for the crime.
•Dorney Court is used as The Fox and Goose in this episode. It is also used in Bantling Boy, Secrets and Spies, Not in My Backyard and Drawing Dead.
•First appearance of Dr. Dan Peterson.
•John Nettles stated in an interview that this episode of Midsomer Murders was his favourite.
•Just before the scene where Mrs Merrill is meeting with Mr Mitchell, the location is established with a brief shot of a clubhouse for a golf course. This is the same course where James Bond played a round with Goldfinger.
Anthony Horowitz. Writer. Cast & Crew for Midsomer Murders 2x02 "Strangler's Wood".
STRANGLER'S WOOD. A young woman is found strangled in Ravens Wood. Bar naby discovers that she is Portuguese actress Carla Constanza, the flagship star for Monarch Tobacco's advertising campaign. Investigations lead Barnaby and Troy to the 'Fox and Goose' hotel where Carla stayed shortly before her death and to the home of John Merrill, one of ...
Strangler's Wood - Crew / Cast: Director: Jeremy Silberston, with: John Nettles (DCI Tom Barnaby), Daniel Casey (DS Gavin Troy), Peter Eyre (Leonard Pike), Kathleen Byron (Dorothea...
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Nine years after a series of unsolved murders at Midsomer Worthy, a new death which follows the same pattern (a girl is found strangled in the woods) leads to fears that the serial killer is back in business. Barnaby and Troy look out the old files in dealing with the first new murder - and then others follow.
