All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Serial Killers

    • BBC

  • S01E02 Killer Kids

    • BBC

    The cases of 10 year old killer Mary Bell; Lorraine Thorpe, at 16 Britain's youngest convicted female double murderer; and 14 year old "happy slap killer" Chelsea O'Mahoney.

  • S01E03 Killer at home

    • BBC

    The cases of Dena Thompson who poisoned her husband; Constance Kent who slit her step-brother's throat in one of Scotland Yard's first cases; and Theresa Riggi who killed her children rather than risk losing them in a custody battle.

  • S01E04 Snapped

    • BBC

    The cases of Jane Andrews, an assistant to the Duchess of York who killed her boyfriend; Kate Webster who hacked her boss to bits and made human lard; and Heather Stephenson-Snell who shot a man trying to prevent her committing murder.

  • S01E05 Dangerous to Know

    • BBC

    The cases of Pamela Gourlay who slit her neighbour's throat; Elizabeth Brownrigg who tortured orphans in her care and was publicly hanged; and Edith McAlinden, the architect of a triple murder in a Glasgow flat dubbed "The House of Blood".

Season 2

  • S02E01 Puppetmasters

    • BBC

    The cases of sexual sadist Claire Nicholls who tortured her husband to death; Nicole Hollinshead who ordered the murder of a suspected love rival; and East End gangster Linda Calvey, aka "The Black Widow".

  • S02E02 Children Who Kill

    • BBC

    The cases of Sharon Carr, a 14 year old sexual sadist; Kemi Adeyoola, who wrote and enacted a manifesto on killing elderly people; and Ruby Thomas, convicted of a vicious hate crime in London's Trafalgar Square.

  • S02E03 Red Zone

    • BBC

    The cases of Melanie Smith who killed a family over a neighbours' dispute; Fiona Donnison who killed her children to get back at her husband; and Tracie Andrews, who stabbed her boyfriend then claimed he'd been the victim of road rage.

  • S02E04 Mothers and Daughters

    • BBC

    The cases of Farzana Ahmed who ordered the honour killing of her daughter; friends Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme who killed the mother they thought was separating them; and Rekha Kumari-Baker who killed her two daughters out of jealousy.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Twisted

    • BBC

    The cases of Carol Croydon, Shauna Hoare and Karen Walsh who committed sexually twisted murders.

  • S03E02 Frenzy

    • BBC

    The cases of Harmohinder 'Mindy' Sanghera, who murdered her lover's pregnant wife; Sharon Edwards, who killed her husband after physically abusing him for years; and Rajvinder Kaur, who was driven to murder her mother in law.

  • S03E03 Revenge

    • BBC

    The cases of Susan Edwards, who killed her parents over a stolen inheritance; Rebecca Douglas, who murdered a teenage rival in London; and Holly and Ashleigh Robinson, who killed their own father after he and their mother separated.

  • S03E04 Murder for Money

    • BBC

    The cases of Ann Browning, who killed her lover for his money the day the moved in together; Dorothea Waddingham, who turned her house into a nursing home then murdered her clients; and Christina Button who killed her husband for his life insurance.