Dead in the Water
Director(s)Niamh Kennedy
Production year2023
Genre(s)Documentary
Approx. running minutes46m
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Classified date16/03/2023
LanguageEnglish
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.
additional issues
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 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.
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.
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.
Director(s)Niamh Kennedy
Production year2023
Genre(s)Documentary
Approx. running minutes46m
Classified date16/03/2023
LanguageEnglish
