Episode 39, Season 3 - Colin Howell and Hazel Buchanan - Monsters in the Dark, Part 2

Previously on The Dark Side of Love, devout Baptist, Colin Howell, is having a steamy affair with the Sunday school teacher at his church, Hazel Buchanan.

Colin and Hazel’s spouses, Trevor and Lesley, are devastated by the affair, which seems to have no end in sight.

Until one dark night in May, when the lives of these four spouses change forever.

Listen to the episode HERE.

Photo caption (L-R): The back of Colin's car where he staged it so it seemed Lesley had taken her own life via carbon monoxide poisoning (credit: Belfast Live); Twelve Apostles, the row of cottages belonging to Colin's late father-in-law, and where he left Lesley and Trevor's bodies to be discovered (credit: Irish Times); After the affair with Hazel ended, Colin remarried American Kyle Jorgenson in 1997 and had five more children; she would later admit to knowing he murdered Lesley and Trevor, but stayed quiet because Colin threatened their children (credit: Crime World); Hazel remarried in 2005 to David Stewart, Chief Superintendent with the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) (credit: The Telegraph; Hazel during her 2011 trial (credit: The Guardian); The shocking and tragic death of his oldest son, Matthew, following a freak accident in Russia, is part of what prompted Colin to confess to murdering Lesley and Trevor almost twenty years later (credit: Belfast Live); Hazel's 'dream home' in on Ballystrone Road in Colerain; she was eventually ordered to sell the house to settle debts after wrongfully collecting benefits following Trevor's murder (credit: Belfast Telegraph); "The Secret" based on the book, "Let This Be Our Secret," became a massive success after airing on ITV (credit: IMDB)

Sources:

Let This Be Our Secret: The shocking true story of a killer dentist, his mistress, how they murdered their spouses - and how they almost got away with it by Deric Henderson