True Crimes – Season 1
Episodes
The Village Murders
In 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.
The Lady and the Baroness
This is the fascinating case of a high society family fraud.
Rachel McLean
This is the story of how brilliant detective work trapped the killer of 19-year-old Oxford University student Rachel McLean.
The Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Job
A 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.
Murder by the Sea
In 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.
A Twist in the Tale
A Surrey businessman was kidnapped and then tethered to a tree in the Devon countryside for five days.