Murdertown
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
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Throughout the early '90s young boys would be found dead after sniffing glue and being trapped in derelict buildings which caught fire. Cops soon found they were actually being systematically murdered by a man called Steven Grieveson.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
In 2000, a young woman is stabbed to death while walking her dog in a picturesque park in the town. A suspect is seen running semi-naked across the M1 motorway. It takes detectives weeks to identify the killer as a local man called Leon Amos.
In 1994, a gang kill a woman who manages a building society and tie up her husband, before robbing the building society of large sums of cash. But despite making a tearful plea for help, the injured husband's story doesn't tally.
Journalist Michael Scott Moore travelled to Somalia to research and report on the piracy crisis in the country, little did he know he would be captured and held in extreme conditions for over two and a half years by Somali pirates.
Crimes That Shook Britain lifts the lid on the biggest scandals ever seen and re-tells the stories of the worst crimes ever committed, through the eyes of the people placed right at the heart of the tragedies.
John Sweeney brutally murdered two of his girlfriends, dismembered their bodies and dumped them in canals. In a macabre twist, he hid clues in his abstract paintings, and five other girlfriends of his are currently still missing.
A chilling look at the crimes of Stephen Port, the east London serial killer who poisoned four young men with lethal doses of a date rape drug.
Doctor Harold Shipman was convicted of killing 15 patients in 2000, but he is thought to have killed up to 215. Discover how he was eventually caught by detectives.
An inside look at the series of mysterious deaths that occurred at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in 2011.
On 19 August 1987, Michael Ryan went on a bloody rampage in the village of Hungerford. Ryan shot and killed 16 people and his crime would change the face of Britain forever.
When Chris Regan started dating coworker Kelly Cochran, he knew she was married. But he had no idea of the wedding day pact she had made with husband Jason. Chris had become entangled in a love triangle that would see two people lose their lives.
When Adrian and Jane Goldsmith met they were both hoping for a second chance of happiness someone to grow old with. But police officer Adrian was a troubled man, plagued by paranoia and dark imaginings.
Rolf Harris became famous for his artwork and music, even painting a portrait of the Queen for the jubilee. But it all came crumbling down in August 2013 when he was accused of 12 assaults on girls as young as eight years old between 1968 and 1986.
The story of the Marchioness a pleasure boat that collided with dredger Bowbelle and sank within minutes resulting in the loss of 51 lives.
Gripping documentary examining the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old motorist Stephen Cameron during a motorway altercation in 1996.
With her husband Fred, Rose West brutally murdered ten girls between 1973 and 1979, making her one of the most high profile serial killers in the UK.
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