Meet, Marry, Murder - Season 1, Episode 51 - Farquharson - Full Episode | Forensic Files

[Music] keith farquharson a man who could be trusted he was a retired police inspector
and he had a part-time job i think driving kids on a school bus but not everybody saw him as a solid
citizen he should never have been in the role of police officer he's narcissistic he's misogynistic and
he's abusive some said he was a man with a one-track mind i think farquharson really did enjoy
having sex with strangers i think he enjoyed affairs i think he enjoyed the whole power play sexually
in 2019 a jury was asked if keith farquharson had used his power to murder his wife
it's not a quick process strangling someone was this all a ghastly mistake his contention was that he hadn't
deliberately killed his wife that there had been a terrible accident is a policeman
innocent or guilty of the murder of his wife [Music] in 2019 ian duggard a senior scottish
legal counsel took a call which would place him at the heart of legal proceedings against a one-time senior
policeman i was instructed by the solicitor in aberdeen to represent keith what farkerson
duggard and others would learn was a story of love deceit marriage and murder [Music]
keith and alice farquharson were married in 1986. to neighbors and friends they were the sort of people anyone would
want to live near keith for carson was a cop in aberdeen started his career in the 80s
neil lancaster also a one-time cop now lives in scotland and recognises farquharson's career trajectory
he held various positions in the police and rose to the rank of inspector so managerial
rank a man who would have to be good at his job to get there and helping him the
woman he married he'd been married to alice for 33 years alice is lovely she's just one of those
humans that you're drawn to he had a house where he lived with his wife he had three grown-up children between 1986
and 2000 alice appears devoted to the children indeed children are at the center of her life alice is reported to
be a loving mother and dedicated professional working in the classrooms with small children she
works at a school and all the little children there just adore her she's a very warm caring empathic human she gave
up so much of her time to create the local school library apparently the school library was non-existent when she
joined and she from a volunteer basis made it happen on the surface alice and keith appeared to
be a good match both working to better their family and community but their personalities couldn't be more
different alice parquason was the antithesis of her husband people said that he thought he was god's gift to
women alice was the complete opposite alice was the kind of person who was anything but narcissistic she was giving
and she was kind and she was generous and she was so giving she was willing to hero
worship farkasan and that's what he really needed from a partner around 2007 farquharson was discovered
by alice to be having an affair she thought it was not the first and not one he ever fully walked away from
the liaison which he had said had broken off and which i think he explained had broken off had in
some way resumed or to some extent had resumed throughout the 33 married years heath
appeared to focus on keith specifically his love of policing fast cars and motorbikes
and other women as for farguson's choice of profession farcason that that personality that
i'm in charge i'm wonderful i'm arrogant he was always going to go into a role that probably had a uniform
and probably put him in charge or control of people so the police was a natural choice for somebody like him
human rights lawyer harriet wistrich who campaigns for women's rights within the
criminal justice system believes that policing can attract men with a certain sense of entitlement there's no doubt
that policing attracts some men who are attracted by having power having the power and also the status of a police
officer and also to some degree the impunity of a police officer in the early 1980s police forces across the uk
were being changed renewed reformed farquharson became a cop in the newly established grampian police force which
brought together smaller forces from across aberdeenshire initially he was very successful
keith for carson is a man who shot up the ranks in the aberdeen police force in the
police force in aberdeen you have to be motivated you have to be single-minded and you have to be very very determined
to achieve those ranks he was famous for his sexual behavior people especially women i think referred to him
as a bit of a pervert actually he probably didn't see himself in that way at all he probably thought that he was
some kind of casanova but people like farkasen often don't realize how their behavior is being received constantly
making lewd remarks constantly allegedly engaging in lewd behaviour suggestive he
wouldn't last five minutes in today's police force for women working in the police and i can
say this because i am a former police officer feel under an awful lot of pressure to
take that abuse to be one of the lads to prove they're good enough to do the job
somebody like him is gonna get away with his misogyny in the police at that time
30 years ago the sort of disciplinary consequences for police officers for certain
misbehavior is is alarmingly inconsequential in the background at home alice farquharson was doing her best to raise
her children and keep her family together she's going to remain happy about that in within the relationship
and happy that her husband going around sexually harassing his colleagues what it what it suggests to me is he had
complete control over that woman he could do what he wanted he'd go where he wanted he could have a relationship
after a relationship and she simply had to quote unquote grin and bear it but in
1998 farquharson finally took things too far he was in his late 40s by this point
he was an inspector his senior position in the police in aberdeenshire he wrote a really disgusting
poem to a female member of staff now this cd poem that he sent to this police officer was called gasping for it
she didn't take it well at all and reported it was not a poem to a lover it was a poem to a young
impressionable and intimidated female police officer the woman police officer would tell a court
that she was frightened about the implication of the poem and the intention of the author the poem was
sexually explicit she feared farquissen could find out when her husband was to be on duty and might arrive at their
home looking for sex it was an act that spoke volumes about how farcan saw himself if that behavior
happens uh by a police officer within the police it's it's it's clear that he he he feels uh entitled and immune to
some degree from being held accountable but on this occasion held accountable he
was farcerson claimed it had been a joke and apologized but was convicted of breaching the peace by causing his
female colleague fear and alarm he was fined 500 pounds and stripped of his inspector's badge and then demoted back
down to constable so you can imagine how serious it must have been deemed to have that there are
other ranks in between all the way down to constable it was deemed that serious ex-policeman neil lancaster knows the
ramifications of a demotion now this would have caused him a lot of problems and cost him a significant amount of
money demoted but not dismissed and still alice stayed loyal where was this mismatch of a marriage
headed like everybody else he would he was quite anxious um but he was looking for
advice he was looking for advice on what the legal criteria are for murder what other alternatives there might be what
defense he might have between 1998 and 2010 and despite keith's sexist and unfaithful behavior
the marriage of alice and keith ferguson was still going but it would be blighted
by deception infidelity and lies in 2008 alice discovers he's having an affair with women that he spends time
with at work so she's kind of trapped in this awful situation where day in day out she must
have spent her time wondering what he was doing and who he was with alice is humiliated she had been married to a
police inspector she once thought a pillar of the community now she was married to an adulterer who sexually
harassed junior colleagues but to alice there was very little she could do to change her situation
i think that women don't leave relationships like the quests and analysis because they can't see that
there would be an alternative they've been brought up in a way that suggests marriages for life to work hard to try
harder if it goes wrong and once you have children to remain married in spite of the pain that you're caused this
tends to be what a lot of women end up doing sacrificing their happiness sacrificing their own lives to some
degree because they believe marriage is something that you remain in for the rest of your life
feeling unable to leave alice may have hoped that the damage to a career her husband had worked incredibly hard to
build might be enough to change his behavior but farcason doesn't change despite having been demoted to constable
he's often in trouble at work for pestering women or inappropriate relationships
he somehow managed to avoid further reprimand for being one of a number of officers
who have been involved all together in a sexual encounter it's about seeing a woman as something to be used and even
though she's consenting to this you can see there's just no respect for her there is a childishness to for questions
behavior as well we know that he's engaged in a sexual liaison she's actually sleeping with several of his
colleagues tells us everything we need to know about keith farquharson and his attitudes to not only the opposite sex
but to the woman to whom he swore marriage vows again alice stands by her husband he's the father of their three
children she wants the marriage to work but rather than being shamed into good behavior
farquissen becomes increasingly cruel he is abusive emotionally he rejects her constantly he's very cold towards her
there are incidences where she says that she loves him he just groans he has affairs with other people this is a man
that was meant to protect and love her but actually it seems that all the work is done on her side
emotionally abusive at home engaging in high-risk behavior at work why did alice
not complain to her husband's bosses former top prosecutor nazia afzal has seen such cases before
i know this from experience just imagine being a victim of a police officers who
would be abusing you do you ring 999 or 111 or whatever it is do if you ring them up do you think that
that person on the end of the phone will keep this confidential or will they go and have a word with mr fox and say to
him your wife has just reported you so she would have been really reluctant to report anything that was happening to
her because she couldn't trust the system they don't have confidence that police will investigate it properly
because of the culture within policing and because because police officers are more likely
to be believed so there's less less effective investigation quite often throughout this time keith appears to
have learned nothing from his demotion and fine indeed the former inspector demoted to constable starts climbing the
career ladder again after the reprimand when he's coming back up the ranks he's still doing this and his poor wife who
is trying to live her life at home and make things work around them and i guess trying to make a life for herself given
how often a husband must not be home meanwhile at work more women begin to complain about his sexual misconduct a
motorcycle policewoman complains of him pestering her and says she's determined to take legal action by 2009 fortunately
things have started to change in the police force and sexual harassment is certainly not tolerated and women are
now being taken seriously about allegations so when a motorcycle police officer tells people that he's harassing
her this is obviously escalated the result of that complaint is suspension on full pay a second complaint and
ultimately this ends his career so finally all of those years later after all that
he has done his career as a cop comes to an end after more than 20 years in the police
force keith farquharson is finally suspended for sexual harassment he's forced to take early retirement
foxton is a really problem person he should never have been in the role of police officer he's
narcissistic he's misogynistic and he's abusive and not only that he is very willing and
time and time again does it crosses the line breaks the rules maybe even breaks the law
this is not the kind of person who should be given the powers that a police officer has
so what next for the farquissens alice continues her work at the local primary school her children are grown up now in
marriages of their own she hopes keith's retirement with a full police pension will allow the couple to
rekindle any romance they once had no longer tempted at work surely keith will choose to spend more time with her
keith has other ideas i think farquharson really did enjoy having sex with strangers i think he
enjoyed affairs i think he enjoyed the whole power play sexually and i think that comes down to the fact that he
maybe as he got older realized that he wasn't the powerful human being that he thought he was as a young man and
suddenly wanted to prove that more and more so i do think that for him sex is incredibly important
seemingly confident that alice won't leave him he continues to seek out adulation from others
for all all of his bluster and bluff farkason was a windbag of a man he was just full of falsity and full of drama
and charade he's lost his power he's lost his position where he could take advantage of the of the young wpcs or
the traffic wardens or whoever else however the problem we now have of course is that
keith requires isn't going to change still only in his 50s keith takes work to get him out of the house
having left the police in 2010 he started in a new job he was driving a school bus
some time after that he became a taxi driver where he used his own mercedes to take fares he actually has a mercedes
with a personalized number plate and that just shows you what the attitude of him is you know he
wants everyone to know that he's a taxi driver but he doesn't really need to be he can afford a really beautiful car and
a personalised registration but also gives him perfect access to women this is an opportunity to be around lots of
other women and that's something that we know is his trait keith continues to cheat
again alice has been this long-suffering loyal wife the entire time it must have been
another slap in the face because after we left the force i imagine she had hopes that they might retire and have a
life together one that she'd earned but no he abuses her trust once again and when
she finds out she still stays in 2016 alice texts her husband she says i love you just want you to love me too
but keith has no interest in changing and we know that he continues to grasp every opportunity he can for
infidelity we also know that he embarks upon an old affair or re-embarks upon an old affair
so a serious relationship he'd had back in the early 2000s in 2018 keith farquharson was watching
the rugby in a pub when he bumped into the woman that he had a relationship with 10 years earlier
they rekindle their romance keith burleigh tries to hide it even his children knew of his infidelity the
evidence had indicated that his wife had come across on his own phone some contact between himself and
someone with whom he'd started an affair something like 11 or 12 years earlier and which had then
resumed i think perhaps earlier in 2019 alice is devastated she starts searching
the internet for information about her husband's girlfriend after years of putting up with his controlling behavior
his abuse his affairs it all starts to come to a head for alice it all ends in the bedroom
and it ends with alice asking a question that one assumes she's asked many times
his version of events was that his wife had asked him whether um he still loved her
and i think he was a bit dismissive of the question just such a small question to get a small answer that meant so much
we know because he tells us this himself that for question his response is not yes i
love you or even you know what no i don't i'm going to release you from this hell of a marriage all he does is groan
it appeared from her investigations that she'd come across the information that perhaps the liaison which
he had said had broken off and which i think he explained had broken off had in some way um resumed or to some extent
had resumed and his um idea was that she had come by that information and perhaps
that was the reason for her question can you imagine how humiliating that is after all those years all those
indiscretions and the reality for her is that she's just enraged understandably alice was a little bit upset about this
and it's reported that she slapped him this is then started off a sequence of events that will lead to her death
after 33 years of humiliation and abuse alice stands up for herself and because she slaps him his response
is violent and he covers her mouth and she starts to scream he is quite tall i think um
and he used to attend the gym so i would imagine he's quite physically fit it ended with him putting two hands around
her throat and choking the life out of her after all those years that he put it through
hell whilst this looks like a moment of madness there are many options in those moments
that he has an opportunity to stop doing what he's doing it's not a quick process
strangling someone it's clearly going to involve a struggle and he doesn't choose
to stop the action it's a process focus and denies happened to this day yes the couple got into a
fight but there was a good reason for him putting his hands to her mouth he had been in an argument with his wife
which had developed a physical element about it in other words he had tried to physically stop
her from screaming or shouting i'm sure the record of the evidence is that he was doing that because he
didn't want the neighbors to be alerted by a noise from inside their house the noise inside the house ended in the
death of alice farkerson the report to the authorities comes from farkasen himself
farcan called the emergency services after he killed alice now he didn't have a lot of time to think about what he was
going to say to them he did think that perhaps the officers that turned up would be
people that he knew and he would have thought that perhaps he could talk them into
not looking where he knew they should look that they would perhaps believe him but he also had an intricate knowledge
of crime scene processing and crime scene management and how the whole process works so
he in fact was in a very good position to try and manipulate the situation as alice lies dead in the bedroom for keith
the question is now can he get away with murder by using the knowledge he had gained when a police officer as a police
officer expertise officer he would have known what the officers will look for when they arrive at a crime scene
and so when he was there presenting the story to them he did so knowing what the
questions they would ask because those are the questions he was trying to ask himself so he was clearly in a very
prime position to be able to try and pull the wall over their eyes and that i think
clearly enabled him initially uh to fool them into thinking this was just an accident when ambulance teams arrive
they find alice farquharson in her night dress lying on the floor of their bedroom
she is pronounced dead at the scene despite their life-saving efforts to paramedics farquharson appears irate
agitated he's hyperventilating farkson concocted a story he said that there'd been a bit of a struggle now he
claims he pulled her off the bed in order to give her cpr but as she did she banged her head on the floor and he's
probably quite plausible at that time he is a manipulative person so he will be behaving in a way that he thinks is
going to get the best result from the people he's standing in front of him and he knows how they think he knows who
they are he's worked he's worked with them and at first he was believed could the korea policeman put his 33
years in the force and the knowledge of what to say in such a situation to use could he get away with murder
in the immediate hours after emergency services had found alice farquharson dead in her bedroom it appeared as if
keith farquharson might get away with murder after all despite his faults this was an
ex-cop but he's not going to do this surely as a police officer he's not going to kill anybody
police officers at the scene initially thought this was a non-suspicious accident as a police officer expedience
officer ferguson would have had experience not necessarily of his own cases but of
hundreds of cases involving domestic abuse potentially homicides he'd have read about them he'd have been trained
about them he would have known what the officers will look for when they arrive at a crime scene and so
when he was there presenting the story to them about a shower accident he did so knowing what the questions they would
ask because those are the questions he was trained to ask himself they released the house back into the family which
really shouldn't have happened between 6 30 in the morning and nine o'clock farquharson was intent on manipulating
the inquiry if the police had thought that alice had been killed and had not fallen they
would have done something that's called locking down the crime scene that means that
straight away the scene is preserved in exactly the way it was found he would have been
removed he wouldn't have been allowed to touch anything at all they would have filmed
it they would have photographed it they'd have got the forensics teams in if they believed it was an accident none
of that would have happened and crucial evidence may have been lost and he would know that
so he was clearly in a very prime position to be able to try and pull the wall over
their eyes and that i think clearly enabled him initially to fool them into thinking this was just
an accident his was not a deceit that would take long to uncover he must have known that they would find
out that she'd been strangled but by saying it was an accident he bought himself a lot of time and he saved a lot
of evidence being collected it's immensely troubling that um when the police attended um
what we now know is a murder scene they quickly accepted his story and were prepared to put it down to
accident rather than what it was when a senior inspector arrived on the scene he
realized something was amiss i think some suspicions had been expressed by one of the attending police inspectors
and then the involvement of um criminal investigation department officers despite farkerson's insistence that his
wife fell out of the bed the inspectors realize that nothing keith is saying matches up with the evidence and demands
an immediate postmortem this was a post-mortem examination which necessarily involved
two doctors because there was a suspicion of a crime having been committed the pathologist said well hang
on a second it's all well and good saying she's banged her head but there's no sign of that what there is a sign of
however is strangulation big hand marks around her throat so it took the pathologist to step in and say
hang on a minute investigate this please because there's a crime here well anybody who's even
watched a crime film knows that the first thing that any pathologist is going to do is to look for the cause or
injury and that's going to be to do with her windpipe being crushed and also there'll be injuries and bruising around
her neck gradually police realized what had happened to alice in the last few moments of her life
this was no accident the post mortem showed that the version of events that farkerson had said was
not correct they found that she died by mechanical asphyxiation of her neck there were bruises on the face that
indicated that she was possibly strangled until she passed out and then ferguson held her nose and put his hand
over her mouth thereby suffocating her to death the death of alice farquharson after 30
years of marriage was now a murder investigation and one keith farquharson was not going to help with
as part of the inquiries ferguson's phone was seized by police they wanted to download it using a piece
of software so they could look at the contents however he refused to give them the pin initially and i think that that
presents enormous difficulties to investigators because the security of smartphones is so high farquison would
later claim that he was not trying to be obstructive there was i think a contention that he
couldn't provide the password for his telephone my recollection of his instruction on that was it wasn't a
deliberate obstruction on his part he had a number of different passwords for a number of different devices
um i'm sure he just had either given a single wrong digit or might have given some information which turned out to be
the wrong information others would perhaps see it differently though i understand that the police
were suspicious about that matter when police eventually got into the phone and were able to examine the
contents they found a huge number of highly sexual texts between ferguson and other women now to me this is just
another piece of evidence as to his character the messages also reveal just how hard
alice was working to keep her marriage alive they found messages from alice which were along the lines of i just
want you to love me messages from this poor deprived emotionally starved woman just desperate for something back from
her husband and those messages they came in between a host of sexually depraved text
messages sent by farquharson to various women so while his wife was asking him to love
her he was asking other women to do some very sorted things to him despite his best efforts to get away with murder
keith farquharson is arrested charged the first time i met him was in um the prison where he was
detained i knew about the um outcome of the post-mortem examination i had already received a draft of the
report by the pathologist and so by the time i spoke to him the cause of death was known his
contention was that he hadn't deliberately killed his wife that there had been a
terrible accident charged keith farquharson now stood accused of her murder on the day of the
of the offence itself he became involved in an argument which became physical between the two of them
and that her death was i think the consequence of his actions but his actions were never either
intended to kill or of a type which would have been so wickedly reckless that he didn't care whether she lived or
died keith farquharson was not giving up he argued he was not guilty of murder rather he was ready to admit to a lesser
plea he offered to plead guilty to culpable homicide which would probably equate to manslaughter
and his contention was that he was guilty of an assault on his wife in the course of the argument which had
taken place but culpable homicide is a lesser crime than murder so he defended the case on the
basis that the jury should convict him of culpable homicide because he didn't have the
requisite intention that you'd need to be convicted of murder there is a crucial difference between intending to
kill someone and doing something which might lead to their death without intending to kill someone
the former leads to a life sentence the latter offers sentencing discretion offenders can be out in a handful of
years and this was a suspect with a ready-made explanation for everything put to him by
the time i became involved in the case it was obvious that he had not told the truth to the various persons who'd come
around to his house in the first place a jury would soon be asked was keith ferguson a liar and a killer
keith farquharson went for trial at glasgow height court in april 2020. he was asking a jury to believe that he had
no intention of killing alice he stuck to the story he'd given into the police station this was an accident
was his story now this meant that his children had to come to court to give evidence can we imagine how difficult
that would be for them farquharson was also asking the jury to believe that this was a strong marriage
he and alice had got along fine i don't think he ever suggested it was an unhappy marriage
he gave evidence about his marriage when he was um in the witness box he i think he described it as a happy
marriage um the suggestion that he'd been unfaithful i suppose is is a feature but on the
other hand i think he explained that he had no intention of leaving his wife or divorcing her and he
was perfectly happy with his lifestyle during the trial focusing repeatedly broke down in tears telling the jury
that his attack on alice was totally accidental i thought she would calm down and then we could talk about it he told
them when he was giving evidence on his own behalf in the court proceedings that he burst into tears and
i've no doubt that he fully appreciated that what he had been responsible for in other words he admitted a
responsibility of some nature for his wife's death he had torn apart his family really he
had three children and um i suspect that the bond that existed between them is or was never going to be
repaired as for the reason that he wanted the jury to find him not guilty of murder
his argument was in general terms that he never intended to kill her that whatever he did and the physical attack
which he perpetrated by putting his hand over her mouth which was trying to stop her screaming
and the consequence of that had brought about her death so in many ways it was the fact that he didn't have the
necessary intent or the wicked intention to kill her or was acting with such wicked recklessness
that he didn't care whether she lived or died but the case put forward by the prosecution was that he knew exactly
what he was doing this was no accidental death he strangled her but he also smothered her so he made sure in every
way that alice couldn't breathe he was making sure she was gonna die he wasn't in the moment of passion just grabbed
her around the throat and accidentally she died takes quite a long time to strangle somebody
and he and he wanted her dead because he used two methods put his hand over her face and he
strangled her that's what the pathologist says on the 18th of february 2020 following a
five-day trial the jury had to weigh up the two arguments alice had died after an appalling
accident or she had been killed by her husband the jury returned their verdict in this
case he was found guilty of murder by a majority verdict so we have 15 members of the jury
and eight eight people voting for guilty would be a majority nobody ever finds out what the majority was on the 23rd of
march 2020 at the high court in glasgow he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 15 years he
showed no emotion when handcuffed and he didn't look at his children if i remember correctly i went down to the
cells to see him afterwards and just explain what procedures could take place thereafter but
yeah he was very upset he was narcissistic he was self-focused he was misogynistic
and when he was in court and finally all his power had been taken away all his status had been taken away and
even alice who hero worshipped him she wasn't even there anymore either oh he would have cried
tears of self-pity when sentencing keith farkerson lady stacy the judge commented on how far he
had fallen she told him you had been a police officer for many years it is distressing that a man who held
such a position could behave like this and commit such a serious crime what you did has destroyed your family
and taken away the trust children should have in their father farquharson appealed the verdict in 2021
if he was successful in appealing his conviction and the charge of murder was reduced to a
conviction for culpable homicide his sentence would not have been a life sentence with
the fixing of a number of years that he has to serve before becoming eligible for the parole board
so the nature of the sentence would change it wouldn't be a life sentence at the heart of the appeal case medical
evidence alice had not died due to being strangled but from a heart attack there was a possibility that she could
have suffered something called a reflex cardiac arrest and that was really what was the foundation of his argument that
he never intended to kill her so he had placed his hand over her mouth to restrict her breathing
i think it's fair to say his arm had gone across her neck at some point she had internal bruising or she had
bruising which wasn't visible on the surface of her neck but was discernible from an internal
examination suggestion was that the bruising wasn't of a type of such severity that it would
have been enough to compress and restrict her breathing the appeal was rejected parkerson's grown up children have no
mother and a father who will spend many years in prison it was a sad end to a case i have to say
he is the type of individual who fully appreciates i think what he had done wrong
keith fargerson will likely be released when he is 75 years old after 30 years as a serving police
officer 30 years where he routinely harassed female colleagues 30 years that ended with him murdering
his wife he will still receive his full police pension a fact which angers some campaigners for awareness of the dangers
of escalating abuse in the home it's a disgrace that someone like farkasan who has used people his entire life who
has been disgraced himself his entire life is going to come out of prison with hundreds of thousands of pounds of
police pension and probably live quite a comfortable retirement alice farquharson died aged just 56
strangled in her own home in her marriage bed by the person she trusted most the hardest thing about this case is
that alice deserved so much better not just at the end throughout her whole life with him you
think that she was holding out for the man that she loved to change to just give her back just a little bit of the
loyalty that she'd shown him and instead he killed her [Music] [Music] so [Music]
you

Keith Farquharson was a cop, an adulterer and a killer. When his wife Alice asked if he loved her, he responded with extreme violence.

Though wedded couples vow to stay together until death do they part, this new true crime series looks at what happens when a groom or bride causes their beloved's death.

Brief Summary

Keith Farquharson murdered his wife Alice after years of abuse, leading to a controversial trial and conviction for murder.

Key points

The Rise of Keith Farquharson. Keith Farquharson, a retired police inspector, had a troubling character marked by narcissism and abuse.
Alice's Devotion. Alice Farquharson dedicated her life to her family, despite her husband's infidelity and abuse.
The Fatal Confrontation. After years of humiliation, Alice confronts Keith, leading to a tragic outcome.
The Manipulation of the Crime Scene. Keith Farquharson attempted to manipulate the crime scene to avoid suspicion.
The Jury's Verdict. After weighing the evidence, the jury found Keith Farquharson guilty of murder.
The Death of Alice Farquharson. Alice Farquharson was found dead in her home, leading to a murder investigation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

He’s narcissistic, he’s misogynistic, and he’s abusive.

Describing Keith Farquharson's character.

0:32WatchJun 8, 2022

Tension

85/ 100High tension

More from True Crime Files

Solve the Crime

Read a real case one clue at a time, then see how your call held up against the investigators.