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25 years of crimes and deaths

Lou|13:45 UK time, Monday, 25 January 2010

Shock! Horror! There's been a murrrrrrrder on the Square. You don't say. EastEnders wouldn't be the same without sins and corruption - It's what grips us on the edge of our seats... and makes us shout at the TV screen (well, that and footie).



How many crimes and deaths can you think of over the years? 18? 28? 48?



Try a WHOPPING78 (and counting!)

Eddie Royle, Phil Mitchell, Ian and Cindy Beale

What's your favourite crime or biggest death? What deadly moment gripped you?



See our fatal photo gallery of some of the greatest corrupt crimes and deaths from over the years. It's almost offensive.

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Comments

  • Comment number 1.

    Biggest death : Hmm either Archie's death by the bust of dens by Pauline's doorstop .



    Fav crime : I don't know would you call the riot a crime? As I really enjoyed that lol



    Does anyone know why the death map hasn't been updated with trina , Owen and Archie's deaths?

  • Comment number 2.

    Biggest death for me is a toss up between archies and danielles. Danielles the most emotionally draining one haha and Archies for the who dunnit mystery :P



    As for favourite crime im not sure! there is way too many!!!

  • Comment number 3.

    Biggest death - Archie's death of course as it has had the longest cliffhanger ever!



    Fave crime - can't decide





    Also who is the person shusshing for the insider's blog icon? They look like they want to snog their finger by the way!

  • Comment number 4.

    ha, meg! it's our very own phantom hand-snogger!

  • Comment number 5.

    so sad for roxy and ronnie,glenda and the rest off the family the mitvhells have been throm i hard life lasat year about danielle and acrhie and when phli got shot

  • Comment number 6.

    fav death:It has to be nanna moon, it was so sad when she died on x-mas day!

    fav crime: dunno to many to pick!

  • Comment number 7.

    Fav Death (or not so fav as the case may be !)Tiffany Mitchell, Danielle Jones, Dennis Rickman (I met him!) and Jamie Mitchell, why do all my favorite characters keep being killed off its not fair!

  • Comment number 8.

    BLESS U SARAH U HAVE TO PICK SOME1 ELES LOL

  • Comment number 9.

    wow what can we say about eastenders.archie s murder,peggys leaving glendas arrival,roxy owns the vic, staceys rape, rickay and bianca s wedding no2[19 feb 2010 cant wait],amira to leave,ronnie roxy jack and janine are the most common names at the centre of attention always which we all love. and who canforget the legandary storyline of ronnie[samantha womack nee janus] and danielle who died in tragic curcomstances after been run over by janine.she died in ronnies arms on the 02 april 2009. the saddest doof doof of all.

  • Comment number 10.

    I do like Jack Branning Karl, but I seem to be a jinx on characters I like so he might get killed off now! :(.



    I am in a bit of a dilema now though because I am on going on a weekend away with the in-laws on 19 Feb and they dont like Eastenders they like that stupid coronation street and I have to go on this weekend away because its to celebrate a birthday, what do you think I should do to try to pursade them to let me watch it, I am the biggest Eastenders fan afterall!

  • Comment number 11.

    I think the biggest death is archies



    I wonder who dunnit hmmmm



    Cud it be jack ur ronnie ??????



    i wonder ? x

  • Comment number 12.

    To Sarah Gardom the biggest eastendersfann of all,

    Don't you have a dvd-recorder?

    And there is also the possibility to watch a missed episode on the internet.

    But if you really wish to watch the episode of Friday the 19th on that day, you must think of a good argument. Why not compare it to an important soccermatch? Wouldn't that be a good argument?

    And afterall what's the harm in watching the episode which only takes half an hour?

  • Comment number 13.

    Favourite crime that has to be a choice between Janine killing Barry and Lucas killing Owen.



    Favourite death; Well there are many indeed Nanna Moon, Dennis Rickman, Tiffany Mitchell, Danielle Jones. But mine is Pauline Fowler! The way she died was sad and dramatic as well.

  • Comment number 14.

    i think archies death is quit cool it is a mystery lv lozzie age 17 xx i love eattenders

  • Comment number 15.

    me love eatenders it is the best soap EVER XXXXXXXXX

  • Comment number 16.

    i think the best death was either archie or stella phils wife. i cant beleive stella was nasty to phils little boy.

  • Comment number 17.

    archie smurder,ronnieloses her baby,ian arrest,sam s arrested,roxy and sean wedding[aug 2008] roxy went missing[04july2008],all great doof doofs from michael[eastenders no1 fan]

  • Comment number 18.

    jack most hav killed achibald[archie] or sam or bradley orsean or stacey or maybe even the late danielle as an act of revenge for her bff stacey s rape. ronnie didnt kill archie ,she deeply misses him it is clear to alllllllllllllllllll.from michael

  • Comment number 19.

    for me the one that springs to mind is the Eddie Royle murder, which was the first EE whodunnit murder storyline, with Nick Cotton, Grant Mitchell and Clyde Tavernier all in the frame for quite a few weeks. In those days there were only 2 episodes a week as well. The scene where Dot Cotton discovers Eddie's body and shrieks "murder!" is an iconic EastEnders soundbyte. For my money though, the best death was the Halloween house explosion that killed Trevor - Mo's insane, deranged and somewhat enstranged husband. It also doubles up as one of the best "doof doofs", where almost rescued, he says to fireman Tom: "live to see another day eh..." cue jerry can explosion and BOOM!!!

  • Comment number 20.

    The 1 i remember is wen little den got killed of by jonny allen then sharon found out she was pregnant arrrrr blesssssssss... Thats the 1 4 me x

  • Comment number 21.

    Thanks for your comment Wellard1. Owen and Archie will be added to the Death Map asap. As soon as we iron out a technical hitch... they'll be there. :-)

  • Comment number 22.

    To Alisa Schaap, I do have dvd recorder and can watch it on the internet, but I prefer to watch it live. I will put a good arguement across because they like Doctor Who and if that was on that weekend I would have to sit through that for half an hour (yawn). I agree with the point you made it is only half an hour so if they dont let me watch it I will threaten to go home and ruin the weekend for them!

  • Comment number 23.

    Erm... Archie, it used to be when i remeber seeing the episode wher little den got killed. But archie is such a mind-boggling. And loads of people are DESPRITE to no who killed him, and btw I LOVE EASTENDERS! BIGGEST FAN! IF SOME ONE ASKED ME A QUESTION I NO THE ANSWER x

  • Comment number 24.

    steve owens car explosion was pretty memorable

  • Comment number 25.

    To Sarah Gardom,

    That certainly is a good arguement! I am sure you will be watching the Eastenders-episode on Friday the nineteenth of February!

    I wish you a good and wonderfull weekend!



  • Comment number 26.

    i found jamies death the most heartbreaking and eathels the most sweetest!