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.