Coronation Street isn't the safest place to live at the moment with another serial killer roaming the cobbles. After Pat Phelan and Richard Hillman, we have bogus businessman Stephen Reid.
For months he's been plotting and scheming and bumping off those standing in his way on the ITV soap. It's a wonder his own mother Audrey Roberts is still alive.
It seems his fiancee Elaine Jones is his current target. Her son Tim Metcalfe thwarted their plans to elope in Las Vegas, but his interest was piqued again after she confided about needing pills for high blood pressure. After he announced that he had asked solicitor Adam Barlow to draw up a prenuptial agreement to 'take money out of the equation', he was seen filling in a life insurance policy for his future bride.
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Stephen brutally killed Underworld client Rufus Donahue by drowning after he had blackmailed him into giving him 50 per cent of the factory's Nippersnapper profits. In a shocking flashback scene he spiked Rufus' drink with LSD, pushed him into his home swimming pool, and held his head under the water.
Last year he killed Leo Thompkins after he was about to expose him as a conman. He then murdered Leo's dad Teddy after he worked out that he had done away with his son.
And now, because everything in soap happens for a reason, he was seen glaring over at his former fling Jenny Connor and her new flame Owen Longford as they flirted in the Rovers Return. Stephen should have been joining in the chat about fascinators in the Rovers Return with Elaine and their families, but he seemed to be more fascinated with Underworld buyer Owen.
Corrie fans are wondering when Stephen's killing spree will come to an end. "So Halloween will be fun when all the cast come back as Ghosts. 'DEADNATION STREET," commented soap watcher Tony Broadhead on the Coronation Street fan chat Facebook.
Jenna Wilson asked: "When is he going to be found out?" And Ursula Pearson remarked: "There will be nobody left on Coro Street soon. We've already had Geoff controlling Yasmin not that long ago." But Susan Thornton said: "I just love Stephens antics he makes the show worth watching."
Other fans reckon Elaine should be the one to bring about his downfall. Claire Hill said: "Hope Elaine kills Steven and do us all a favour." And Jacqueline Bond wrote: "I hope she brings him down."
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