The Moorland Letters - Trailer

Between 1978 and 1983, six people were found dead on the Derbyshire moors. At first the deaths were dismissed as accidents. Then the letters arrived.Signed only as “The Surveyor,” the messages contained ciphers, coordinates, and references to drowned villages and forgotten paths — a killer mapping his crimes across the landscape and daring police to follow.The case was never solved. The files were boxed, archived, and slowly vanished from public memory.Now, forty years later, The Moorland Letters reopens the investigation. Through interviews, lost records, and newly surfaced evidence, the series retraces the killings and the mythology that grew around them, asking whether the police missed a final point on the map — and whether one more victim was never officially recorded.Part true-crime documentary, part archival mystery, The Moorland Letters explores how stories disappear, and what remains buried beneath them.