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- Presented by journalist and true crime author Geoffrey Wansell (and later by crime historian Dr Nell Darby), Murder by the Sea examines strange murders recorded at famous seaside resorts in the United Kingdom.
- Dorothea Puente runs a boarding house in Sacramento for the elderly and vulnerable, but her motives are far from honorable when it is discovered that she has murdered nine people.
- Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and weird sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s.
- Since the dawn of civilization, mankind has created treasures that celebrate and revere their leaders.
- Investigative reporter Louise Shorter hosts this true crime series looking at both sides of some of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Louise and experts look at what went wrong and how it was put right.
- The Real Prime Suspect is a case of life imitating art imitating life. Former Met detective Jackie Malton - the real-life inspiration for DCI Jane Tennison from Prime Suspect - retraces notorious murder cases from the UK and US.
- A group of the world's leading forensic psychologists and psychiatrists come together to share their own first-hand experiences and insights into the mind of a serial killer. Making a Monster takes viewers on a journey through the psyches of the most notorious serial killers of all-time. Through the lens of some of the world's leading forensic psychiatrists and psychologists, each episode tells the story of a killer's life - from cradle to grave. With the use of psychological formulas, the experts endeavour to explain how monumental life events can lead people to commit the most appalling of crimes. The series explores the psychology of serial killers by the men and women who have sat face to face with evil.
- Criminologist Prof David Wilson conducts a series of interviews with convicted murderer Bert Spencer, the man suspected of - yet never charged with - killing paperboy Carl Bridgewater in 1978
- Documentary looking at one of the most high-profile miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Colin Stagg was wrongly charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992, it would take 14 years for the real culprit to be caught.
- This remarkable film follows the story of Jackie Saleh as she is reunited with one of her children three decades after they were kidnapped and taken to Yemen. Jackie has lived through every mother's worst nightmare. Back in 1986, her world was shattered when her husband abducted her three young daughters from their home and took them to Yemen. Her youngest daughter, Safia, was just a toddler. Now, over three decades on, Safia is finally coming home and Jackie travels to the airport to meet the daughter she doesn't really know. Safia doesn't speak English and is coming to Cardiff with her husband and four children - four grandchildren Jackie has never met. Safia and her family have suffered in the civil war in Yemen, including their house being bombed. Can mother and daughter start to make up for a lost childhood and begin a new relationship?
- Documentary following an investigation to solve the 'Jack the Stripper' murders, the biggest unsolved serial murder case in British criminal history.
- Since the 1940's the British Government has been investigating the Flying Saucer phenomenon. High ranking military and government personnel, speak out for the first time, offering unique eye witness accounts and inside information.
- A four-part TV series exploring the lives and tragic deaths of four Welsh personalities who sought fame and fortune in Hollywood. Starlet Peg Entwistle gained notoriety in 1932 by becoming the first person to commit suicide by jumping from the Hollywood sign. BAFTA-winning actress Rachel (This Sporting Life) Roberts overdosed in 1980. Mervyn K. Griffiths, former butler to silent movie queen Mary Pickford, kept a secret diary on the star and, after her death, hawked it around US publishers. And Richard Marquand, director of Return of the Jedi and Jagged Edge, died of a stroke at the age of 49.
- Declassified FBI documents trace an 11-year investigation of rumors that Hitler survived Germany's defeat in 1945, escaping via U-boat to Argentina.
- Former DCI Jackie Malton retraces the crimes of Donald Neilson, to discover how a robber became a calculating murderer, and the investigation that brought him to justice.
- The Case of Theresa Riggi.
- Welsh-born starlet Peg Entwistle sought fame and fortune in 1930s Hollywood. She found only alcoholism and depression. Frustrated that her hoped-for career was seemingly going nowhere, she committed suicide by jumping from the Hollywood sign. In death she found a form of stardom she could never have anticipated - the infamy of being the first person to kill themselves by jumping from the famous Los Angeles landmark
- The case of John Bodkin Adams, a trusted GP who befriended older patients and was often named in their wills after their deaths.
- The case of John George Haigh, who came up with a plan for the 'perfect' murder when he was serving time in prison for fraud.
- Dismembered bodies of two women are both found in car boots, the first at a train station, the second in a city.
- After a fire breaks out at a home, police receive a strange phone call that triggers a hunt for a killer.
- The case of John George Haigh, who came up with a plan for the 'perfect' murder when he was serving time in prison for fraud
- The murder of a part-time actress triggers a nationwide manhunt for a killer.
- When Linda Anders is found dead at home, her wheelchair-bound husband Malcolm claims an intruder broke in. Police findings quickly change the course of the investigation.
- The case of Robert Henry Davies, who committed murder after a sexual assault investigation threatened to revisit sins from his past.
- An arrogant Bournemouth hotelier called Peter Taylor gets away with murdering his wife in 1982; but when he conspires to kill his son-in-law nine years later, his luck runs out.
- British seaside towns have a dubious reputation for hosting the most remarkable crimes. Murder by the Sea looks at the deadly tales from the coastlines of the United Kingdom.
- When the body of homeless teenager is found behind a Blackpool hotel, police soon come to realise that the most dangerous type of killer is on the loose - one who attacks complete strangers.
- When a trunk is left at a hotel, with the address of a missing woman's parents inside, police become suspicious. Where could the successful chorus girl have gone?
- When tenants at a house receive a note from their live in landlord to say that he has had to rush away and to leave the rent with a named tenant, suspicions are raised.
- When a change of will is followed by a sudden death, a local GP raises his suspicions with the police. The police question whether those who were meant to help the victim had actually caused her demise.
- The case of Charlotte Pinkey, a woman who disappeared in Ilfracombe after going to a party and never returning.
- Former military commander Neil Rutherford unleashes terror on the unsuspecting guests of a remote Welsh seaside hotel in 1976, before turning the gun on himself.
- In 1987, two brothers from a well-to-do family killed their parents in such brutal fashion that it still haunts the people of Jersey to this day.
- Just before Christmas 1994, heavily tattooed Jason Mitchell strangled pensioners Arthur and Shirley Wilson, before returning to his father's house and dismembering his body.