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Season 2022

  • S2022E01 The Murder of Sabina Nessa

    • April 9, 2022
    • BBC News

    Primary school teacher Sabina Nessa was killed at random by a man with a history of violence.

  • S2022E02 Stabbed in a Sanctuary

    • April 15, 2022
    • BBC News

    Sir David Amess MP was murdered by an IS fanatic, at a meeting in a church in Southend-On-Sea in Essex, UK.

  • S2022E03 The Abuser Working for MI5

    • May 21, 2022
    • BBC News

    This is the story of a dangerous MI5 agent, which the government tried to keep secret.

  • S2022E04 27 Years to Catch a Killer

    • June 25, 2022
    • BBC News

    Rikki Neave left for school but never came home. Decades on his killer has been jailed.

  • S2022E05 Logan Mwangi: A Boy Betrayed

    • July 2, 2022
    • BBC News

    Logan Mwangi was five years old when he was murdered by the people he trusted.

  • S2022E06 Deadly Browsing: The Lorry Driver

    • July 29, 2022
    • BBC News

    How a lorry driver, looking at dating sites while driving, went on to kill three.

  • S2022E07 My Baby: Taken, Failed, Killed

    • August 7, 2022
    • BBC News

    Leiland-James was taken from his mother in hospital and placed in care. He went on to be killed by the woman who wanted to adopt him.

  • S2022E08 The Suitcase Murderer

    • November 5, 2022
    • BBC News

    Revealing the killer who decapitated her friend and dumped her body.

  • S2022E09 Catching The Cult Movie Killer

    • November 10, 2022
    • BBC iPlayer

    Jacqueline Kirk was badly disfigured after being set alight in 1998 by her ex-boyfriend Steven Craig. She then died in 2019 from complications relating to the injuries she suffered.

  • S2022E10 The Doorstep Murder

    • November 26, 2022
    • BBC News

    It's one of Scotland's longest unsolved murder cases. Alistair Wilson was shot on his doorstep almost 20 years ago. Are police any closer to finding who killed him and why?

  • S2022E11 Killed Walking Home

    • December 14, 2022
    • BBC iPlayer

    Zara Aleena was killed walking back from a night out by a sexual predator, only recently released from prison, labelled a "danger to any woman".

Season 2023

  • S2023E01 Groomed, Radicalised, Gone

    • January 3, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    The schoolgirl charged with terrorism, but found to have been exploited. Rhianan Rudd, 15, was the youngest girl to be charged with terrorism offences in the UK. She took her own life in 2022. Her mum says investigators should have seen her daughter as "a victim rather than a terrorist".

  • S2023E02 Killing My Children's Abuser

    • January 7, 2023
    • BBC News

    Sarah Sands stabbed to death a convicted paedophile who was accused of abusing three more young boys. BBC News can reveal, for the first time, that they were all her children. Now all three boys have become adults, they speak, alongside their mum, about the killing, and subsequent events

  • S2023E03 Found Under the Floor

    • February 10, 2023
    • BBC News

    The story of Bennylyn and Jellica who were murdered after starting a new life in the UK.

  • S2023E04 Twenty Minutes Of Terror

    • February 24, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    A gunman kills five people within minutes. Could the shootings have been prevented?

  • S2023E05 Homegrown Terrorist

    • March 11, 2023
    • BBC News

    How was Salman Abedi from Manchester radicalised to the point where he could kill, and could the Manchester Arena bombing have been stopped?

  • S2023E06 The Lie That Destroyed a Town

    • March 17, 2023
    • BBC News

    The story of false accusations about being the victim of a grooming gang and how it sent shockwaves through a small town in the North of England.

  • S2023E07 Caught In The Crossfire

    • April 3, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    Nine year old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed when shots were fired into her family home.

  • S2023E08 30 Years For Justice

    • May 23, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    Nikki Allan's murder shocked Sunderland. Why did it take so long to catch her killer?

  • S2023E09 Killed on Christmas Eve

    • July 7, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    Elle Edwards was shot dead as she celebrated Christmas Eve, in a murder that shocked the UK. We follow her dad Tim as he deals with the devastation of his daughter’s death.

  • S2023E10 The Killing in the Lane

    • July 12, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    Lilia Valutyte died from a single stab wound in her chest. Her killer was found unfit to plead, but a jury determined in a trial of the facts he killed the nine-year-old.

  • S2023E11 Killed on Duty

    • July 27, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    Sgt Matt Ratana was shot and killed on duty by a handcuffed prisoner just three months before he had been due to retire.

  • S2023E12 Deadly Influence

    • September 1, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    The story of a social media influencer, her mum and a murder plot.

  • S2023E13 The Missing Mum

    • September 26, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    This is the story of Linda Razzell who vanished on her way to work more than 20 years ago. Her husband was found guilty of her murder. Now, in 2023, will he reveal where her body is in order to be released on parole?

  • S2023E14 The Commons Criminal

    • October 11, 2023
    • BBC iPlayer

    The MP who rose from obscurity to being imprisoned for fraud. The story of Jared O'Mara.

  • S2023E15 Killed By My Boyfriend

    • November 1, 2023
    • BBC Scotland

    The story of a young mum killed by her boyfriend of eight weeks. When Christopher McGowan was released on bail from a prison in Scotland, a court ordered he should stay at the home of his new girlfriend, Claire Inglis. He was a known criminal with a string of previous convictions and within weeks Claire was dead.

Season 2024

  • S2024E01 Killed In The Park

    • February 2, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death - two teenagers tried to get away with murder.

  • S2024E02 Held Captive And Left To Die

    • March 1, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    Shakira Spencer was 35 years old when her body was found by the police. She had been tortured and starved by people she considered friends.

  • S2024E03 The Executioner Next Door

    • March 8, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    The quiet Irishman behind the high hedge had a history his neighbours could have never guessed: the man they knew as 'Frank' was really Freddie Scappaticci, a man with many secrets. Not only had he been an Irish Republican Army killer, he was at the same time an agent for the Army – perhaps their most important source inside the IRA, with access to their most sensitive secrets.

  • S2024E04 The Nottingham Attacks

    • April 8, 2024
    • BBC One

    Barnaby Webber, Grace O'Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed in a series of stabbings by one man on the streets of Nottingham in the summer of 2023.

  • S2024E05 The Dance Floor Murder

    • April 8, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    The story of footballer Cody Fisher who was stabbed to death in a nightclub in Birmingham.

  • S2024E06 Killer In The Attic

    • April 12, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    When Michael Riddiough-Allen is stabbed to death outside a nightclub in Cornwall, armed police track down his killer to a nearby house where he was found hiding in the attic

  • S2024E07 The House Party Murder

    • May 3, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    How a house party turned into a murder scene - the fatal stabbing of Mikey Roynon.

  • S2024E08 Crushed: The Six Year Nightmare

    • June 12, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    Monika had moved to the UK from Poland for a better life. She had work, a new place to stay but then was hit by a drink driver. He served time for injuring her so badly she could never walk or talk again. Six years later, Monika died. It was time for justice, again.

  • S2024E09 The Abuser Headteacher

    • July 1, 2024
    • BBC One Wales

    North Wales headteacher Neil Foden abused children over a four-year period, but could he have been stopped?

  • S2024E10 Trying to Kill Holly

    • July 12, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    The case of a plot to kidnap, rape, and murder TV presenter Holly Willoughby.

  • S2024E11 The Sunshine Scammer

    • September 16, 2024
    • BBC Two

    Lyne Barlow is a bogus travel agent from County Durham, conning hundreds of holidaymakers and her family in a £2.6 million scam, which also saw her lie about a cancer diagnosis.

  • S2024E12 The Doping Ward

    • September 23, 2024
    • BBC Two

    The hospital unit where patients were drugged to keep them "quiet and compliant".

  • S2024E13 Unmasking a Fugitive

    • September 30, 2024
    • BBC Two

    The story of Nicholas Rossi - the US fugitive who came to the UK with a new identity after faking his own death. He claims he is called Arthur Knight and is a victim of mistaken identity, but a sheriff in Scotland is sending him back to Utah to face rape charges. We speak to the people who knew Nicholas Rossi in his previous life in America and chart his story from there to his discovery by police in a hospital bed in Glasgow.

  • S2024E14 The Student Who Never Came Home

    • October 7, 2024
    • BBC Two

    Murdered in France while on a university placement. Is it finally time for justice

  • S2024E15 Stabbed After School

    • November 1, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    The shocking story of how a teenage relationship ended in murder. 15-year-old Holly Newton was stalked and murdered by her 'jealous' ex-boyfriend in Hexham in Northumbria. We speak to Holly's family and the police who pieced together what happened, and hear calls for a change to the law.

  • S2024E16 Tortured Behind Closed Doors

    • December 17, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    The tragic story of Sara Sharif, who was just 10 years old when she was burned and beaten by her father and stepmother. Her body was found with dozens of injuries at the family home in Surrey.

  • S2024E17 Killed By Kids: The Machete Murder

    • December 19, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    What happens when kids become killers? The shocking story of two 12 year old school boys who brutally murdered Shawn Seesahai with a machete.

  • S2024E18 The Mistaken Identity Murders

    • December 19, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    A shocking story of two teenage boys from Bristol, Max and Mason, who went out for pizza and never came home. They were killed in a case of mistaken identity. We hear from the families who have faced unimaginable loss and see the consequences of children carrying weapons on the street.

  • S2024E19 Neighbour, Friend, Killer

    • December 20, 2024
    • BBC iPlayer

    Wendy Buckney knew about her neighbour Brian Whitelock's past and wanted to give him a second chance. But were opportunities missed to protect the public from this triple-killer?

  • S2024E20 My Husband the Monster

    • December 21, 2024
    • BBC News

    The story of Gisele Pelicot has shocked the world. She's a wife and a mother who was drugged and then raped by strangers. All were invited to do so by her husband at their home in Avignon, France. The trial of Dominique Pelicot and fifty other men has led to a huge outpouring of support across France and beyond as Gisele refused to hide away as her life unfolded in court and in public.

Season 2025

  • S2025E01 The Bus Stop Murder

    • April 5, 2025
    • BBC News

    The shocking story of Elianne Andam, a 15-year-old schoolgirl who was stabbed to death at a bus stop outside a shopping centre in Croydon, south London, in a row about a teddy bear.