Jonathan Makepeace is a character appearing in the episode Orchis Fatalis of the ITV crime drama Midsomer Murders.
All his murders were to collect and try and keep for himself a priceless, one-of-a-kind Yellow Roth Orchid. He started by interrogating and murdering the procurer who bought back to Midsomer from Borneo, then two brokers of the orchid. His plan didn't work and he was arrested, the orchid being confiscated from his illicit possession.
Victims[]
- Madeline Villiers - Threatened to make her drink a bottle of hemlock unless she told who she sold the Yellow Roth Orchid to, then made to drink the bottle anyway.
- Henry Plummer - Strangled from behind with a dead orchid long leaf and then hung to make it appear as suicide.
- Munro Hilliard - Stabbed in the back with a pitch fork while sitting in his lounge chair and admiring the Yellow Roth Orchid, then had the orchid stolen.