Coronation Street fans 'still think' they know who killed Joel Deering - and it's not Max or Lauren

Coronation Street fans 'still think' they know who killed Joel Deering - despite Max Turner and Lauren Bolton coming under suspicion. The young couple were the last suspects confirmed in the huge whodunnit storyline which has been ongoing since the solicitor's death.

As fans of the ITV soap know, Joel first went missing at the end of September. The news was revealed when he failed to show up to court where it was thought that he'd face comeuppance for some of his twisted crimes.

The police carried on investigating and it wasn't long before the case became a murder investigation after Joel's body was found floating down a river. But DC Kit Green later confirmed he'd been killed with a heavy weapon before entering the water and several Weatherfield residents have since been put in the frame.

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Earlier this week Corrie viewers saw Carla Connor leaving the factory on the night Joel disappeared. They previously thought she herself may have something to hide but as she called out to someone but those watching were shocked this time to see for the first time that it was Max Turner and Lauren Bolton outside No.8 Coronation Street in the dead of night putting a suitcase into the boot of David Platt's car.

It was then during Wednesday night's (November 13) trip to Weatherfield that DS Lisa Swain confided in Carla that she believed she was being framed by Joel’s killer, after she was arrested an questioned by Kit, and she was terrified that more planted evidence would turn up.

Using what she knows, Carla confronted Max and Lauren only for them to keep up their story that they were planning to do a runner to evade Joel. But the Underworld boss didn't believe them and went to the police before informing Lisa and Dee-Dee Bailey of what she'd done.

The race was then on to find Max and Lauren and with the latter believing they were planning to flee, Max was seen handing himself into the police. He was questioned by Kit and revealed how he had confronted him using Lisa’s CS spray, only to have been overpowered by Joel, who strangled him while holding him over the edge of a bridge.

Max recalled how he picked up a rock and hit Joel with it, before pushing his body into the river below and running off with his suitcase. Following his confession, Max was charged with murder but with Joel's killer set to be revealed later this week, is Max telling the truth.

Meanwhile, back at Dee-Dee’s flat, Lisa quizzed Lauren about Max's confession, asking her if she had anything to do with Joel’s death. Lauren insisted that she didn’t, before admitting that she suspected something strange was going on but had kept quiet because she loved Max.

But fans don't think it is Max or Lauren who were responsible for Joel's death as they remain suspicious of Kit - who arrived in Weatherfield earlier this year as the long lost son of Bernie Winter.

@The_cakebank said: "Surely it’s Kit? Why else would he have deleted his car records from the police database? #Corrie." @mikepriestley13 commented: "Well to say the killer is revealed on Friday I don’t think it was max. Makes me more suspicious that it’s Kit and kit will try and get max sent to prison as quick as possible to get himself off the hook. I could write this show. #Corrie."

@MissMusical101 wrote: "Why am I suss that Max didn't finish Joel off? I'm super suspicious about Kit... #Corrie." @ASuperGav posted: "It wasn’t Max, ffs. I’m convinced it’s Zodiac the Kit #Corrie." @RyanTheSoapking added "It's definitely Kit or Lauren after tonight's episode. I've said that it could be Kit for a while because he's made so many errors I knew from the moment he took Lisa off the case. #Corrie."