Steeltown Murders official trailer airing on BBC
True crime drama series Steeltown Murders started airing on May 15 on BBC One and the four-part series has also dropped on the BBC iPlayer as a boxset for audiences to binge.
Steeltown Murders comes from the makers of the ITV crime drama The Pembrokeshire Murders and again focuses on a Welsh community rocked by a series of senseless killings.
This time, Steeltown Murders places the focus on the killings committed by the ‘Saturday Night Strangler’ Joseph Kappen in Port Talbot in South Wales during the 1970s.
The case was unique in its use of DNA technology to catch the killer nearly 30 years after he strangled three teenage girls.
Where was Steeltown Murders filmed?
The BBC drama was shot in various locations in Wales between October and December last year.
Some of the locations included Neath and Swansea, while interiors were filmed in Cardiff.
In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Young Paul Bethell actor Scott Arthur spoke about the filming process on the hard-hitting drama.
He said: “We filmed quite a lot in Port Talbot down on the Sandfields estate and all across town really.
“Then we filmed in Neath, Swansea and then we did a little in Cardiff for some of the interiors of Paul and his wife’s house, so it was like a lovely tour of South Wales most days because we were staying either in Swansea or in Cardiff.
“It was really lovely, in the mornings, we’d be driving to set and you’d pass Port Talbot or you’d pass Neath and you’d kind of see the early beginnings of life.”
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Arthur, who hails from Llanelli, South Wales, added: “It was things like that that made you realise how important the story was because you saw these communities waking up almost and you wonder, ‘I wonder how they must have felt 28 years ago when all of this was going on as well?’”
The actor admitted he only heard about the Steeltown Murders from his grandmother several years ago and left shocked and horrified by the crimes.
However, he said it was only after landing the part of young police detective Bethell – the older incarnation is played by Life on Mars star Philip Glenister in the 2000s – did he really delved into the Saturday Night Stalker case.
Addressing the weather’s impact on the shoot, Arthur said: “Actually, it was alright. The first month of filming, it was weirdly warm.
“The first day on set, I had this turtle neck on with this leather jacket and costume had given us these under layers they normally give you when you’re filming and they think it’s going to be cold.
“We all put them on and we got up to the top of this mountain and we realised, it was 16, 17 degrees and we were very quickly rushed back to the caravan to get all our thermals off.
“It was lovely for the first month and then it started to go quite bleak towards the end of December.
“There were a few scenes, where we needed it to be quite bleak, and thankfully the weather kind of turned up for us. If you need rain, you go to film in Wales basically.”
Steeltown Murders airs on Mondays at 9pm on BBC One and is streaming as a boxset on the BBC iPlayer
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