[5][2] Samantha Gillingham, the couple's daughter who has campaigned for years to keep her father in prison, called the decision to hold a public hearing "momentous".
After her husband, Russell Causley, was caught faking his death off the coast of Guernsey as part of an insurance scam in 1993, he was convicted and jailed for fraud in 1995.
Despite the absence of any body or forensic evidence, the prosecution sought to convince the jury: that Carole Packman was no longer alive; that she had been murdered; and that her husband was the killer.
[17] Neil Gillingham was critical of the Prisoners (Disclosure of Information About Victims) Act 2020[18] legislation being passed through parliament and claimed it had been "watered down".
[20] In December 2020, the CEO of the Parole Board, Martin Jones, reinforced Neil Gillingham’s earlier warnings in a Sky News interview.
[33][34] Dorset Police subsequently confirmed that the case remained open and that they would be examining new evidence presented by Mark Williams-Thomas.
Episode 6 of When Missing Turns To Murder covers the Russell Causley case and is available to stream on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Apple TV.
[citation needed] Nine Lives Media produced Nightmare In Suburbia: the case featured in Series 3, Episode 3 titled Killing the truth which was initially broadcast in March 2011.
[citation needed] Monster Films produced Murder By The Sea Series 8 Episode 4 which is scheduled to be broadcast on Tuesday 31 January 2022 on CBS Reality and again on 1 February 2022.