Synopsis
Each episode presents a new true crime case, modern or historical. Michael Winner hosts, providing exposition through voiceovers due to low production values. He often delivers a patronizing moral conclusion.
Episodes
1E1The Village MurdersIn the 1980s, Colin Pitchfork raped and murdered two girls in Leicestershire. This is the story of the case that changed the course of criminal history when, for the first time, genetic DNA fingerprinting was used to identify the killer.26m2E2The Lady and the BaronessThis is the fascinating case of a high society family fraud.26m3E3Rachel McLeanThis is the story of how brilliant detective work trapped the killer of 19-year-old Oxford University student Rachel McLean.26m6E6The Knightsbridge Safe Deposit JobA dramatized recreation of an audacious armed robbery. This is the story of how detectives tracked down handsome Italian playboy Valerio Viccei, the mastermind behind one of the biggest bank robberies in history.26m7E7Murder by the SeaIn the early 1980s, Susan Barber partied for nearly a year, thinking she had gotten away with the murder of her husband, Michael, after she poisoned him with weedkiller.26m8E8A Twist in the TaleA Surrey businessman was kidnapped and then tethered to a tree in the Devon countryside for five days.26m
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