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The Last Hours of Laura K

An immersive online murder mystery and ground-breaking digital experience placing the audience at the heart of the story.

The Last Hours of Laura K title - a face imposed over hundreds of CCTV screens
The project [...] challenges the traditional conventions of storytelling, and questions how we live our lives now.
β€” Kate Rowland, Creative Director, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Writersroom

Using 24 hours of footage from the fictional surveillance programme SATURNEYE, The Last Hours of Laura K is a disconcertingly intimate, unfiltered and impartial look into Laura’s last hours before her death.

The 24-hour video file is only half of the story. To find the killer, users have to immerse themselves in the characters’ digital lives via their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram profiles, looking for clues and motives seeded by our writers over months to help them identify the killer.

The Last Hours of Laura K launched on Monday 30 March 2015.

The Last Hours of Laura K - trailer

Awards

We're delighted to announce that The Last Hours of Laura K was shortlisted for and won the following awards:

  •  - shortlist
  • 2015  - Gold Award and People's Lovie
  •  at the South by SouthWest Festival - nomination
  •  at the 2016 International Format Awards - winner
  •  for Digital Creativity - nomination
  •  Best Game - nomination
  •  - Honoree

Format licensing

The format for The Last Hours of Laura K was licensed by  to Brazilian broadcaster  in 2017. Discussions are in progress with other territories.

Join the Investigation now

Join in The Last Hours of Laura K now at  

Can you work out who killed Laura, how and why?

The Last Hours of Laura K is available via , the home for new ideas from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

Confession video 

Exactly 2 years after The Last Hours of Laura K launched the killer recorded 

Laura's killer may have confessed but how and why did she do it? Submit your theories to info@saturneye.org 

We will be sharing a "How To Solve" video to all those who email us, so get guessing.

What is The Last Hours of Laura K?

"A Crowd-sourced investigation", "24-hour murder mystery", "The last day of a woman's life through every piece of public information"

The writers and producers of The Last Hours of Laura K explain the concept and how you can become part of the investigation:

What is 'The Last Hours of Laura K' and how do you get involved?

The Audience

The writers and producers of 'The Last Hours of Laura K' explain why they think this is an important story to tell now and why it replicates the way that many of the audience interact with media.

Why do we hope the drama will appeal and how will people get the most from it?

Developing the Idea

How did the project originate and what was the development process?

The project was originally inspired by the Edward Snowden quote, 'I don’t want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity, love or friendship, is recorded'. It aims to challenge the traditional conventions of storytelling, and question how we live our lives now.

The development of The Last Hours of Laura K began with a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Writersroom residential innovation lab, as the writers and producers explain.

How did the project originate and what was the development process?

Making it a Reality

What were the challenges?

The last 24 hours of Laura’s life were filmed over an extraordinary 16 days across London, from the Southbank to St Martins at Kings Cross, from Farringdon to Dalston by a small team.

The writers (Gabriel Bisset Smith, who also directs; Rachel De-lahey, who plays Laura Kitchens; Kenny Emson; and Ed Sellek) have also created over 40 character profiles on social media, as well as an alternative newsblog SP117.

All the narrative threads are there to be discovered...

What were the challenges?

How to Investigate a Suspect

Gabriel Bisset-Smith is a Writer and Director of the The Last Hours of Laura K.

In this handy guide he demonstrates how to investigate suspects from the captured video of Laura's last 24 hours by finding and exploring their social media profiles.

How to investigate a suspect

What is Saturneye?

A user-led interface that will revolutionise criminal investigation in the information age.

Key Locations and Who's Who

  • Check out our map of key locations during The Last Hours of Laura K to help with your investigations
  • Check out some of the key suspects and investigate them further through their social media

Find out more

Rachel DeLahay

Laura Kitchens

Susan Wokoma

Jess Manning

Tommy McDonnell

Jacob Taylor

Sam Pearl

Mel Delaney

Suzi Ruffell

Naomi Cooper

Richard Shanks

Owen Hughes

Christian Contreras

Eddie McVarish

Nigel Hastings

Francis Moxham

James Sobol Kelly

Lucan Bahadir

Daniel Abelson

Vik Hope

Maddie Rice

Deena Rashid

Luke Barnes

Lee Wise

Natalie Dew

Hannah Ε½áček

Michael Lyle

Dom Fritch

Syrus Lowe

Oladipo Yorke

Paul Joseph

David Odantzis

Jo Martin

Louise Manning

Ed Selleck

Simon Byrne

Phil Langhorne

Connor MacNay

Claire Brown

Cat Peake

David McCusker

Graham  Young

Marianne Chase

Rach Russell

Muzz Khan

Xavier Lucien (DJ)

Rachel Deering

Claire Hart

James Kermack

Richard Hart

Robert Cawsey

Joe Scott

David Mumeni

Ekin Suvari

Lainey Richardson

Billy Bliss

Claire Timmins

Emson

Preeya Khalidas

Hayley Temple

Elena Saurel

Sabrina Bahadir

Rachel Tyson

Lisa Hikson

Rebecca Pearson

Star Grace

Matthew Spencer

Mike Evans

Nick Lawson

Gabe

Iona Ramsay

Delaney

Kenny Emson

Paul Blundell

Shirani Bolle

Girl

Michelle Brooks

Cloakroom Attendant

Jon Davenport

Laura’s Neighbour

Marc Conneely

Man on train

  • Gabriel Bisset-Smith
  • Rachel DeLahay
  • Kenny Emson
  • Ed Sellek
  • Kate Rowland, Creative Director ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Writersroom

Executive Producer

Kate Rowland

Producer

Jon Davenport

Development Producer

Henry R Swindell

Director/Editor

Gabriel Bisset-Smith

Assistant Producer

Kenneth O’Toole

Associate Producers

Gabriel Bisset-Smith

Rachel Delahay

Kenny Emson

Ed Sellek

Director of Photography

Andy Hui

Production Coordinator(s)

Iona Ramsay

Michelle Brooks

Art Director

Kate Purdy

Digital Content Producer

Philip Mattison

DIT and Researcher

Robert Cambrook

Edit Assistant

Hakeem Kazeem

Camera Operator(s)

Marc Conneely

Jo Grace

Sound Recordist

Louis Innis

Assistant to Kate Rowland

Amanda Farley

Production Management Assistant

Laila Malik

Runner(s)

Maria De Ferry

Grace Bailey

Development Lead

Vincent Chan

Creative Consultant

Edward Fuller

James Cortez

Junior Developer

Post production services supplied by The Farm group

Extras supplied by Universal Extras

The Last Hours of Laura K

Radio Priest by Voodoo_Puppets

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Track Jack Yo Body Now by Track_Jackit

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Delete_me by Epsilon Not

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Music – Muscle & Long Live Still Life by Gwilym Gold

The Last Hours of Laura K trailer

Sick City by Gumbel

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Saturneye Video

Whiter Skies by Ketsa

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Brothers Café

City Cruises

County Hall

Day Lewis Pharmacy, Whitechapel

Department of Coffee and Social Affairs

Julia Geissler

Kentish Town Police Station

London Overground

London Underground

Namco Funscape

One Tun Pub

Rio Cinema

Spring Mews (Student) Ltd

Tipsy Dalston

1920 Bar

 Very special thanks to Jennifer Tuckett and MA Dramatic Writing, Drama Centre London. 

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