Who Killed Lucy Beale? - Latest theories, updates and spoilers (Merged)
With Billy being employed by Les, it seems like a subtle plot device for the murder storyline.
I still believe it must be one of the characters who are relatively new to the show IF it was a deliberate murder. It'd be too out of character for anyone else. Les and Aleks have always been my top two suspects. While I still firmly believe it could be Aleks (blood in the flat, shady, threatened Ian), his secret for the moment already seems to be revealed.
Les, on the other hand, has come into the show as a comedic character (so appears not at all threatening) and has fitted right in with the Walford community so no one has a grudge or even a disliking towards him and his wife. We already know he's shady with the whole business with Charlie - and he runs a funeral parlour.... Now that he's employed Billy (known to be a coward and a general moron), it seems like it's all been constructed for Billy to at some point find out that Les is involved with Lucy's murder and Les could possibly threaten Billy with Janet's life (or Lola's and Lexi's) and therefore Billy goes through turmoil of having to keep his mouth shut. Also, Billy turning out to be the hero of the investigation seems rather touching in a way considering everyone on the square ridicules him.
Also going back to the funeral parlour - it'd be quite a big twist if Les was actually a serial killer in order to fund his business.
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I still believe it must be one of the characters who are relatively new to the show IF it was a deliberate murder. It'd be too out of character for anyone else. Les and Aleks have always been my top two suspects. While I still firmly believe it could be Aleks (blood in the flat, shady, threatened Ian), his secret for the moment already seems to be revealed.
Les, on the other hand, has come into the show as a comedic character (so appears not at all threatening) and has fitted right in with the Walford community so no one has a grudge or even a disliking towards him and his wife. We already know he's shady with the whole business with Charlie - and he runs a funeral parlour.... Now that he's employed Billy (known to be a coward and a general moron), it seems like it's all been constructed for Billy to at some point find out that Les is involved with Lucy's murder and Les could possibly threaten Billy with Janet's life (or Lola's and Lexi's) and therefore Billy goes through turmoil of having to keep his mouth shut. Also, Billy turning out to be the hero of the investigation seems rather touching in a way considering everyone on the square ridicules him.
Also going back to the funeral parlour - it'd be quite a big twist if Les was actually a serial killer in order to fund his business.
;-) Who Do You THINK Killed Lucy Beale ? 1327 votes
Ian Beale
3%
53 votes
Peter Beale
10%
136 votes
Jane Beale
19%
263 votes
Lauren Branning
2%
38 votes
Abi Branning
21%
289 votes
Max Branning
2%
29 votes
Whitney Dean
3%
51 votes
Denise Fox
5%
72 votes
Ben Mitchell
2%
33 votes
Jay Mitchell
0%
10 votes
Phil Mitchell
0%
7 votes
Billy Mitchell
0%
6 votes
Lola Pearce
3%
50 votes
Lee Carter
1%
21 votes
Cindy Beale
10%
138 votes
Other (please specify)
9%
131 votes
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A few weeks ago she said she had a friend who survived cancer then died, then the other day Les said they had a son who died and then the same week they move onto the square Lucy dies...
Maybe Les knows Pam's dark side and the reason he got into the business was to cover for Pam.
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Pam finds out about the Les/Charlie/Nick situation,flips and kills Les too, meaning Charlie has to track down Nick to prove his innocents hence blowing the fake death of Nick
Drug related .
So it's a nod to the first EE murder (Reg Cox) as Nick turned out to be responsible for that too.
He's quite funny too that Coaker, especially with what he said about Billy having a mournful face!
What was that leak about awhile back, someone said les did it.
What leak? All I can find is that the bookies have made him favourite to be the killer.
There was some garbage about Pam and Les being serial killers, the whole article makes no sense and yet everyone on here bar me seems to be convinced it was true. That's why he became bookies favourite, loads of people on here had a flutter.
There was a story in the papers a few weeks ago that he killed Lucy, and is secretly killing people then doing their funerals.
To be honest, it was probably total rubbish, but ever since I can't shake it!
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s1hlht
Well there was something not right about "You Owe Me Fowler" - Nick Cotton's "death" so maybe its true but why would he do that?
If he is the killer and on that basis, I think EE have boobed because I thought they were trying to redress the balance that there isn't enough older characters in the programme anymore and there wasn't. I thought he and his wife along with Stan and a few others are good for the programme on the whole.
Thanks but who is the leak from? How did that person get the info? Someone who works at EE or is connected to someone who works there? Does this person do leak info in general?
I wasn't actually even aware of the "leak" when I wrote this. It's all my own theory.
The main points of the storyline are that everyone is a suspect and that it's the death of a central family member. Both of which would be trivialized if the culprit were a new, unrelated character who was killing indiscriminately. All this screentime spent on motives and lies would have been for nothing.
There are probably more efficient ways to profit from murdering people, too, whether or not you own a funeral business.
Same here.
People are just grasping at straws here - possibly to justify to themselves having paid out money they can ill-afford by betting on a supposed 'leak' now discredited and probably put around by bookmakers to snare the gullible.
We have seen Les conducting other funerals - Pat's, the one when he parked his hearse outside Ian's restaurant and the one that Billy assisted at recently. If he can afford to take on an assistant, business can't be so bad that he would resort to obtaining clients by murder. And it's a silly suggestion anyway.
I think he accepted a bribe to go along with Charlie's pretence that the body in the coffin was Nick Cotton, but do not think he is a murderer - or Pam is, come to that.