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Season 1

  • S01E01 Julie Dixon

    • May 21, 2024
    • My5

    In 2011 a distressed 999 call is made by Julie Dixon to say masked men have attacked, and her partner David is in a room on fire. But a different story later emerges...

  • S01E02 Collin Reeves

    • May 21, 2024
    • My5

    Truck driver Collin Reeves calls the police and makes a sickening confession: he has stabbed both of his neighbours to death with a commando knife. But was is pre-meditated murder?

  • S01E03 Dawn Lewis

    • May 21, 2024
    • My5

    Glastonbury yoga teacher Dawn Lewis calls 999 and claims that she has stabbed her lodger Glenn Richards in self-defence. Richards had a history of violence, so Lewis' story seems believable...

  • S01E04 Lewis Daynes

    • May 21, 2024
    • My5

    On 17th February 2014, 19-year-old Lewis Daynes calls the police to say he has stabbed 14-year-old Breck Bednar. Was this the culmination of a plan to take advantage of the younger teen?

  • S01E05 Penelope Jackson

    • May 21, 2024
    • My5

    When a retired accountant tells police she's stabbed her husband, she seems unrepentent. Did she snap under a weight of abuse?

  • S01E06 Mark Terry

    • May 21, 2024
    • My5

    Holiday-maker Mark Terry calls the police after his friend Gary Pocock is found dead on the beach, hideously beaten and unidentifiable except for a distinctive dragon ring he always wore.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Robert Brown

    • February 4, 2025
    • My5

    Veteran pilot Robert Brown calls the police, prompting an investigation. After three days of interrogation, Brown confesses to killing his ex-wife by accident - but the truth is far more sinister.

  • S02E02 Foster Christian

    • February 4, 2025
    • My5

    A panicked 999 call comes in from a man called Foster Christian, claiming he is being attacked in his own home. But later, survivor statements tell a very different story...

  • S02E03 Robert Trigg

    • February 4, 2025
    • My5

    A coroner records a verdict of accidental death for Susan Nicholson. But her family believe there is more to the story: it isn't the first time her partner Robert Trigg has woken to find his partner has died.

  • S02E04 David Browning

    • February 4, 2025
    • My5

    David Browning, a married father of two, confesses that he has killed his boss, Jill. But he claims that he is not guilty of murder, on the grounds of diminished responsibility. But how will the jury decide?

  • S02E05 Alan Jermey

    • February 4, 2025
    • My5

    Alan Jermey calls 999 to report that his house is on fire. When his partner Kirsty is found dead, Jermey claims someone broke in and murdered her. But the evidence does not mount up in his favour.

  • S02E06 Stephen Port

    • February 4, 2025
    • My5

    When a family refuse to accept their son Jack died of an overdose, they undertake their own investigation, and identify a man with Jack the night that he died. Dots are joined, connecting four murders.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Ben Lacomba

    • November 26, 2025
    • 5

    When 46-year-old mother-of-five Sarah Wellgreen vanished from her home, her ex-partner Ben Lacomba reported her missing. But almost immediately, detectives sensed that something wasn't right.

  • S03E02 Raoul Moat

    • December 3, 2025
    • 5

    This powerful documentary offers the most revealing TV account yet of the Raoul Moat case, when what began as a domestic dispute spiralled into one of the most intense manhunts in British history.

  • S03E03 The Murder of Muriel McKay

    • December 10, 2025
    • 5

    When 55-year-old Muriel McKay disappeared from her Wimbledon home in December 1969, her family were thrown into a nightmare that would change their lives forever.

  • S03E04 Andrew Griggs

    • December 17, 2025
    • 5

    When 34-year-old Debbie Griggs went missing from her family home in Deal, her husband Andrew insisted she had simply walked out, leaving her young children behind. But police sensed something was deeply wrong.

  • S03E05 Scott Walker

    • January 14, 2026

    The chilling story of the murder of 17-year-old Bernadette Walker, a vulnerable teenager who vanished, only for the truth to emerge that the danger she feared most was in her own home.

  • S03E06 Dale Cregan

    • December 24, 2025
    • 5

    In 2012 the murders of PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone shocked the UK. This programme traces the police operation that brought fugitive and convicted killer Dale Cregan into custody.

  • S03E07 Michael Clarke

    • December 31, 2025
    • 5

    In 2004, a crime of staggering brutality shattered a quiet community when Joan and Milroy Clarke were found stabbed dozens of times. And the horror only deepened when suspicion fell on their 20-year-old son.

  • S03E08 Emma-Jayne Magson

    • January 7, 2026
    • 5

    Emma-Jayne Magson reports her boyfriend James Knight is unwell, but when paramedics rush to the scene, he's found dead from internal bleeding. And later, as officers investigate, her story starts to unravel.