Barristers Sasha and Jeremy explore a classic whodunnit from 1922 in which a lowly pantry boy was charged with the murder of a titled lady in a London hotel
Leading criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC reinvestigate a lethal shooting from 1937, when a barge captain was allegedly murdered by his best friend. Felixstowe Docks, 1937. On 23 October the deceased body of barge skipper Albert Baker was found below deck aboard his vessel. He had been shot three times at close range with his own pistol, one that needed reloading after each shot had been fired.
The barristers explore the notorious case of ‘The Man They Could Not Hang’ - a house servant accused of murdering his upper-class benefactor in Devon in 1884.
Jeremy and Sasha revisit a complex case from Victorian Britain that featured four suspects, two trials and ultimately just one man hanged for murder.
Sasha and Jeremy examine a case from 1882, where a wife was accused of murdering her husband with an arsenic-laced rice pudding that contained enough poison to kill fifty people.
Jeremy and Sasha reinvestigate a notorious case of matricide dating from the 1920s. Did flawed forensic evidence see an innocent man hanged?
Barristers Sasha and Jeremy investigate an infamous Scottish murder case from 1862, in which a compelling alternative suspect may have been the true killer.
Sasha and Jeremy explore a case in which the controversial killing of a police officer sparked the round-up of dozens of suspects and ended with three men going to the gallows.
Sasha and Jeremy explore a grisly Victorian murder case from 1863 in which a missing pocket watch proved to be the vital evidence that saw a man convicted and hanged.
The barristers investigate the mysterious shooting of a landowning farmer in rural Ireland in 1882. Could dubious eyewitness testimony have sent two innocent men to the gallows?
Barristers Jeremy and Sasha look back at their investigation into the case of Edward Devlin and Alfred Burns and learn of mounting support for an official review of the case.
The barristers look back at the 1937 murder of a young lady in Leighton Buzzard, found strangled to death with her own scarf in an alley known to locals as ‘lovers' lane'.
Barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass look back at their investigation into the secret poisoning of a man by his wife in 1930s Lincolnshire, exposed by an anonymous note.
Barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass look back at a case stranger than fiction: John Dickman, convicted of murder in 1910, became the last man to be hanged at Newcastle Prison.
Barristers Sasha and Jeremy look back at the case of a mother accused of murdering her family at the height of a poison panic in Victorian Britain.
The barristers revisit their inquiry of an infamous Victorian murder case, where a young American woman was charged with poisoning her husband in Liverpool in 1889.
The barristers revisit their investigation into the poisoning of a care home resident in Nottingham in 1935, for which the victim's nurse was convicted and hanged.
The barristers revisit their investigation of an infamous case from 1856 that inspired Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
The barristers revisit their investigation into a case of starvation and neglect that saw a husband stand trial for the murder of his wife in 1877.
The barristers revisit a fascinating case from 1884 in County Durham where three men stood trial for the murder of a policeman, yet only one man faced the death sentence.