But it isn’t just DS Lisa Connor-Swain (Vicky Myers) and DC Kit Green (Jacob Roberts) on the case. As Metro‘s soap detective, I’ve been keeping my eye out for clues – as have fans of the ITV soap.
So, what do we know so far?
On the night of Lisa’s wedding to Carla Connor-Swain (Alison King), Theo was found dead by a terrified Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin).
He certainly had no shortage of enemies on the cobbles, having been exposed for abusing Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce) a few days prior.
But who finished him off?
The official suspects
Corrie very graciously provided us with a list of official suspects, and they aren’t surprising.
We have Summer Spellman (Harriet Bibby), Christina Boyd (Amy Robbins), George Shuttleworth (Tony Maudsley), Gary Windass (Mikey North), Danielle Silverton (Natalie Anderson) and, of course, Todd.
But who has the strongest motive? Who has a solid alibi? And, most importantly, whodunnit?
Summer Spellman
Poor Summer is currently staying at His Majesty’s pleasure while awaiting trial, having been charged with Theo’s murder.
To be fair, Lisa and Kit have quite a lot of evidence against her.
She has motive, no alibi, and physical evidence putting her in Theo’s flat on the night of the murder.
In her initial statement, Summer told police that the last time she’d seen Theo was days before he was found dead. However, this was thrown into question when the police found a brooch in the flat, which they later spotted her wearing in a photo from that night.
To make matters worse, George told Lisa he’d seen Summer walking away from the flat, which gave her enough evidence to arrest her.
Summer insisted that she was innocent, and claimed that Tyrone Dobbs (Alan Halsall) could corroborate that Theo was alive when she left the flat.
However, with Tyrone having lied to Lisa – more on that later – Summer was charged with murder.
A flashback revealed that she was telling the truth, and had left Theo alive – but was that the last time she saw him? Could she have caught up with him at the precinct and killed him later?
What the police don’t know is that she has a strong motive to kill him. She recently found out that he was responsible for Billy Mayhew’s death. Could she have killed Theo to avenge her father figure?
Christina Boyd
Christina has certainly sparked my suspicions since Theo’s murder, for several reasons.
Firstly, she was caught lying about her whereabouts in her initial police statement, something that seems to be a common occurrence in this case.
She was called back in for questioning when the police learned that the location of her car on the night in question contradicted her statement.
Though Christina told George that she had simply forgotten that she’d stopped for petrol, was she telling the truth?
She certainly seems to be going to extreme lengths to cover something up.
It was Christina who pushed George into reporting Summer’s lies – could she have been deflecting the heat onto someone else to cover her own tracks?
We’ve also seen her making mysterious phone calls, asking the person on the other end for help while she deals with her current ‘mess’.
Christina was one of the first characters to get bad vibes from Theo – could she have killed him after learning that her intuition was right?
