Melanie Road's life ended on her way home from a nightclub in Bath in 1984. She had been out with her boyfriend and friends, but Melanie did not make it back home later that night. A milkman found her body the following day. In a gripping ten part series, Murdertown puts location centre stage. Each episode tells the compelling, step-by-step story of how one extraordinary murder was solved and how it fit a disturbing wider pattern in one particular city. With interviews from victims, witnesses and police officers, Murdertown tells the story of some of the most shocking murders in the UK and examines the impact they had on local communities around them.