• Director(s)

    Niamh Kennedy

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

TV Show

Dead in the Water

DEAD IN THE WATER is a British true crime documentary series; in this episode, 38 years after the murder of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton, Penny Farmer searches for Silas Duane Boston online. …

DEAD IN THE WATER is a British true crime documentary series; in this episode, 38 years after the murder of Chris Farmer and Peta Frampton, Penny Farmer searches for Silas Duane Boston online.

  • Director(s)

    Niamh Kennedy

  • Production Year

    2023

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary

references to drug misuse
Classified Date:
16/11/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
drugs
There are repeated verbal references to people smoking marijuana joints; there are also reference to people taking quaaludes, along with mention of nitrous oxide cartridges. We see reconstructions of people lighting and smoking what appear to be marijuana joints. There is discussion of drug dealing and news footage of the US 'war on drugs' which began in the 1970s.
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k') along with milder terms which include 'bullshit', 'asshole' and 'hell'. We are told that the bodies of a young woman and man were found in the sea, bound hand and foot and showing signs of torture and asphyxiation. A man recalls his father becoming a 'Jekyll and Hyde' character after drinking and says he became verbally abusive toward his children; it is implied he may also have been physically abusive. We see brief news footage from the Guatemalan civil war, showing police firing guns and kicking in doors. A man describes how he and his brother became excited at watching two women in bikinis kissing at a party when they were around the aged of 12 and 13; this scene is briefly reconstructed in an impressionistic way. There are undetailed verbal references to 'free love'. A man cleans a fish with a knife to prepare it for cooking, resulting in fleeting sight of blood. A white man mimics another man's patois as he describes a memory.
strong references to violence, sexual threat
Classified Date:
16/11/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A dramatised crime reconstruction depicts a pair of scared children watching their father repeatedly bludgeon a man using a wooden club. This is accompanied by detailed references to breaking the victim’s skull and to stabbing him with a fillet knife. Further references are made to a man tying up a couple and throwing them overboard into the sea.
sexual violence and sexual threat
During a dramatised crime reconstruction, a man heads into a cabin where a scared one woman is being held captive. This scene contains a clear sense of sexual threat and references are made to a child discovering the woman naked in the aftermath.
Verbal references are made to a man becoming physically abusive to his adolescent son. Further references to domestic abuse include those that discuss the murder of a woman at the hands of her husband. Bereaved family members of murder victims discuss their grief and the impact their loved ones’ deaths had on them. There is an isolated verbal reference to drug misuse. There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k'), as well as milder terms such as 'shit'.
references to sexual violence
Classified Date:
16/11/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
sexual violence and sexual threat
During a dramatised crime reconstruction, a scared child listens as a female is raped behind a closed door and we hear her cries and shouts for help. It is subsequently revealed that she was underage at the time of the assault.
There are detailed verbal references to the torture and murder of two people, alongside visual detail in brief crime reconstruction scenes. References are made to the domestic abuse a wife suffered at the hands of her husband which culminated in him shooting her. Infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms such as 'bastard' and 'asshole'. A brief moment sees a man smoking a joint and there are verbal references to drug misuse. Upsetting scenes depict relatives' grief as they mourn for their loved ones who were murdered in a brutal fashion. There is a brief suicide reference.
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  • Classified date

    16/11/2023

  • Distributor

    Raw TV Ltd

  • Language

    English