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Midsomer Murders has been a fan favourite on ITV for more than two decades now and the newest season of the detective show returned at the beginning of this year. However, after so many years on the channel, viewers have been going back through old episodes and think they have spotted a strange coincidence involving DI Tom Barnaby’s (played by John Nettles) wife, Joyce (Jane Wymark).

Midsomer Murders fans are patiently awaiting new episodes after the first couple of the latest season aired earlier this year on ITV.

The show is currently taking a long break and so viewers have been left between episodes two and three of series 21.

It’s not yet been confirmed when the next instalment will air, but old episodes from the previous series are being shown on ITV3 regularly each week.

However, with so many episodes being repeated this has given viewers the chance to really hone in on the little details and some fans have become suspicious of DI Barnaby’s wife and just how involved she has been in her husbands’ cases over the years. 

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Joyce was always the type of wife to make sure she was always up to date with what her husband was up to, and as a staple part of the village, she knew everything she needed to about the people she lived with. 

But fans think there could be a lot more to Joyces’s character than ever met the eye in the earlier seasons. 

Some viewers now believe Joyce could have actually been a killer that was never caught. 

One viewer took to Reddit with a theory about the detective’s wife, but was she completely innocent? 

The viewer explained: “Just a thought, but has anyone timed from the start of each programme episode S1 to 20. 

“When the first murder occurs and made like a timeline as such. I know there is an overall body count but not sure of the above.

“Also Joyce is definitely the killer or in partnership as pointed out by many. Joyce, Barnarby and the daughter take turns in the killings. But give each other alibis. 

“Then any apparent DNA evidence is either stolen from, say a previous minor crime out of police evidence. 

“Then especially Joyce befriends an innocent person to acquire DNA/fingerprints to make them look like they are the suspect to allow for the family tradition to carry on the family legacy. 

“They also make it look like one of them could be in danger, especially I believe Joyce therefore supporting the theory of a murdering partnership but removing any suspicion from themselves.”

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Joyce was always an iconic character on the ITV show, appearing in more than 80 episodes of Midsomer Murders, but could this be true? 

Was DI Barnaby too close to the cases to spot anything was out of the ordinary? 

This isn’t the first time viewers have questioned Joycce’s intentions as fans on Twitter have also questioned her motives.

One fan said: “Has anybody ever counted how many murders Joyce was connected to?”

Another viewer responded: “I was thinking she has minions, underlings to do her dirty work. She pulls strings and makes secrets known to just the right people to drive them over the edge.

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“But her hands are always clean; she’s at home, trying to make a balanced diet for her dutiful husband. 

“But every once in a while, she likes to see the fruit of her handiwork and assure her alibi.”

“Notice whenever she witnesses something, she’s rather cool and sends her husband off; she knows “he has work to do,” they added.

“And when Tom finally figured it out that it was his wife all along, he had to choose between love and duty,” it concluded.

Midsomer Murders can be streamed on ITV Hub.

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