Rob Murphy

ITV News Correspondent Robert MurphyRobert Murphy  has spent more than twenty years covering some of Britain’s biggest crime stories. These include: the Salisbury Poisonings, the Emile Cilliers parachute inquiry, the Christopher Halliwell killings,  the investigation into Sir Edward Heath, the Anni Dewani honeymoon murder, the trial of Penelope Jackson and the trial by media of Christopher Jefferies.   

He wrote, presented and produced ITV News’ first two True Crime podcasts No Strings Attached and Catching Melanie’s Killer.   He has won the regional Royal Television Society Reporter of the Year award as well as several ITV News Group awards.

   He first book To Hunt a Killer co-written with Det Supt Julie Mackay was published by Harpercollins in June 2022.