The extraordinary tale of deceitful compulsive liar John Christie, who murdered six women and stored them in his home in Rillington Place between 1943-53. Christie initially framed his neighbour, Timothy Evans, who was consequently hanged for the supposed murder of his wife and child, leading to a strong public outcry upon discovery and the eventual abolition of capital punishment.
The seemingly admirable and respectable middle class man, John Haigh, guilty of six grotesque murders in which each victim was drained of blood and later dissolved in acid. Haigh’s calculated disposal of the bodies was an attempt to acquire their wealth in belief that this would prevent any risk of conviction. Was he a blood thirsty Satanist or one of the most cunning and callous killers who would do anything for money to feed his greed for money.
Graham Young is the reoffending serial killer fascinated with deadly poisons and toxic chemicals who began his fatal experiments at the mere age of fourteen after poisoning his entire family. Released from jail 15 years later he up-scaled his study, this time lacing cups of tea with deadly poison to an entire factory of workers.
Scarred by a traumatic and unstable upbringing, Donald Neilson was the serial burglar turned masked murderer obsessed with weapons and military conduct. The meticulous nature to his three murders, became increasingly violent ending in the kidnapping and brutal murder of seventeen year old heiress Lesley Whittle.
The cold and heartless bigamist murderer George Joseph Smith who left his victims with broken hearts, empty bank accounts and in some cases, dead. Drowning three of his seven wives, which he married in only six years, Smith was eventually hanged for his murderous greed, after his seven aliases were finally connected. We’ll examine how the early use of forensics helped police unmask the killer
Fifteen year old killer Harold Jones brutally murdered two young girls in 1921 giving the reasons for the murders as a 'desire to kill'. After narrowly escaping prosecution on his first attack, Jones was eventually caught red handed when the mutilated body of his second victim was discovered in his attic. Not yet 16 Jones escaped hanging merely by the virtue of his age. We’ll examine new evidence that shows Jones may have later gone on to become ‘Jack the Stripper’, an unidentified serial killer in the 1960’s.
Derek Bentley, the nineteen year old executed at Wandsworth prison, for his part in the murder of PC Sidney Miles during a break in at a warehouse in Surrey. As a minor Bentley’s accomplice Christopher Craig, who actually shot the officer, escaped execution and a long sentence leaving Bentley alone to take the fall. With the help of Criminologist Professor David Wilson we’ll discover how his case changed the law.
A brutal crime of passion that gripped the nation and saw Ruth Ellis hanged after murdering her estranged lover at the violent climax of a destructive relationship fuelled by jealousy. We’ll examine what punishment may have been dealt out to Ruth had she committed the murder in today’s modern age.
Fred Dinenage looks back over the life of Lord Lucan; the aristocratic figure whose glamorous life became tainted by murder, mistaken identity and events that would launch the biggest manhunt in British history.
Fred Dinenage examines the horrific murders performed by Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel.
Fred Dinenage examines the brutal crimes of child killer Mary Bell.
Fred Dinenage investigates one of Scotland’s most enigmatic serial killers, Archibald Hall known as the Monster Butler.
Fred Dinenage looks back over the life of John Straffen; at the age of 21 he strangled two little girls but escaped the hangman’s noose due to his low IQ of just 58.
During the 1960's, fear spread through the local community of Cannock Chase.
Fred Dinenage follows the extraordinary tale of serial killer Patrick Mackay, who savagely murdered more than three people in cold blood.
Fred Dinenage looks back over the life and crimes of RAF cadet Gordon Cummins.
Fred Dinenage takes a journey back to the poverty stricken East End of 1888 and speaks to Ripperologists about the continuing fascination behind the Jack the Ripper mystery.
The Moors Murders is one of the most infamous murder cases of the 20th Century. Between the years 1963 - 1965 young couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted, assaulted and murdered five children in the Manchester area, burying four of them on Saddleworth Moor.
In 1962, James Hanratty was hanged for the murder of Michael Gregsten but was there enough evidence at the time?
For twenty six years the public believed that two children found dead in Epping Forest in 1970 had died of exposure. Then in 1996 a convicted child murderer, Ronald Jebson, called police from Wakefield Prison – he had information about the murder of the Babes in the Wood.
In Germany in 2002, a case came to light that shocked the world. A man in a rural German village had filmed himself dismembering, killing and eating another man. The culprit, Armin Meiwes was to become known as The Cannibal of Rotenburg.
On Friday 13 April 1973 the bodies of three children were found impaled on garden railings in Worcester. The murderer? The family’s lodger and babysitter David McGreavy.
TV presenter Fred Dinenage is the official biographer to the most infamous gangsters in British history, the Kray Twins. In this documentary Fred, for the first time, reveals the truth about his time with the Twins and their brutal lives.
Fred Dinenage reinvestigates the case of the Austrian family captor and rapist, Josef Fritzl.
