Bullseye serial killer John Cooper hated women so much that losing to one on the darts-based TV game show could have led him to murder, according to investigators who snared him.
His appearance on the show in 1989 helped finally nail him 21 years later when police carrying out a cold case review into the Pembrokeshire Murders used it to match him to a police sketch of the suspect.
The five-year probe led by Det Supt Steve Wilkins, which finally put Cooper behind bars in 2011 for two double murders in the 1980s, was dramatised in a gripping three-part ITV drama that ended last night after pulling in millions of viewers.
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