Murder in Suburbia examines a classic love triangle that rocked suburbia and ended in murder and death for all three protagonists. Edith Thompson had an affair with lodger Fred that resulted in him killing her husband Percy. Although Edith did not participate in the murder, she was hanged for it. While The Blonde Assassin is a tale of sex, lust and jealousy as Ruth Ellis shot dead her unfaithful lover David Blakley outside the Magdala Pub in Hampstead on Easter Sunday. For this crime, she became the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
The Great Train Robbery took place in In August 1963, sixteen men pulled off one of the most daring crimes in British History. They hijacked and robbed ?2.6 million from a Royal Mail train in an extraordinary feat of meticulous planning. Death at the 'Blind Beggar' follows the crime that shot the Kray Twins to notoriety and led to the eventual downfall of their gang. The Blind Beggar, a pub in the heart of London's East End was the setting for the point blank killing of rival gangster George Cornell.
Dr Death follows the tale of a gruesome serial killer who used the cover of World War Two to get away with murder. Dr Marcel Petiot promised his 27 victims an escape from Nazi occupied France, but instead murdered them in cold blood in his home.The Monster at Montmarte is about the late 1980's which saw the colourful Montmartre district of Paris terrorised by a prolific killer, who targeted elderly ladies. The police finally tracked down and arrested a transvestite drug addict and his younger boyfriend.
The Clockwork Orange Murder is murder that led to the Stanley Kubrick withdrawing his film The Clockwork Orange from Britain during his lifetime. This copycat killing saw an elderly vagrant bludgeoned to death in a church graveyard - just like in the film. Part two is the Rhyl Mummy following a mummy discovery in a home. When Leslie Harvey decided to get his mum's house redecorated while she was in hospital, he hadn't bargained for discovering a twenty year old mummified body in the landing cupboard. The body was that of a former lodger of his mother's and it transpired that Mrs Harvey had been helping herself to the victims maintenance payments ever since.
In 1976 Peter Hogg killed his unfaithful wife Margaret, wrapped her body in a roll of carpet and dumped it in the Wast Water in Cumbria. The accidental discovery of the body seven years later led to Hogg's arrest and details of his 'awful marriage' coming to light. The Honeymoon Murder is about two wealthy Chinese newlyweds who arrived in the Lake District in 1928 to enjoy their honeymoon. Husband Chung Yi Mao became distraught when his wife's body was found dead in local waters. Despite his law degree, he slipped up when giving evidence to the police and it emerged that he had murdered her for her vast fortune.
The brutal murder of 22 year old maidservant Rose Harsent has remained unsolved for nearly a century. She was pregnant and her body was badly burned. A man was tried twice for her murder but never convicted. The events of that night still remain a mystery. Part two is about Alma Rattenbury who was accused of bludgeoning her husband to death with a carpenter's mallet, although ultimately it was her 18 year old garden boy and lover who was convicted of the murder. Three days later Alma committed suicide, unable to cope with her true love's gaol sentence. However, the true motive for the murder remains in doubt even after all these years.