Murder, Mystery and My Family
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Two leading British criminal barristers re-investigate historic murder cases on behalf of a relative of the person convicted of the crime, presenting any new evidence to a judge for assessment.

  • Country of originUnited Kingdom
  • Year when published2020
  • CastTony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass
S4:E2
Bainbridge
The Barristers examine the case of a young off-duty soldier who was convicted of murdering a family friend in Bishop Auckland, County Durham on New Year's Eve in 1934.
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S2:E8
Sarah Chesham
Barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass investigate whether a young mother accused of poisoning her family in 1850 was hanged as a result of hearsay and gossip.
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S2:E7
Emily Swann
The barristers explore a case involving domestic violence, adultery, revenge and murder in a Yorkshire town in 1903. 125-years on the great-granddaughter of one of those convicted of murder.
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S2:E5
Leslie Stone
Saha and Jeremy examine the murder of a young woman in a local 'lovers lane' in Leighton Buzzard in 1937. Her ex-boyfriend was found guilty of her murder but his nieces believe he was innocent.
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S2:E9
Michael Gilligan
The barristers re-examine the violent attack on an Irish Catholic man by a rival gang in Darlington in 1875. They uncover a case of revenge, murder, secret societies and a deathbed accusation.
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S2:E10
Ethel Major
Sasha and Jeremy re-examine the poisoning of a man by his wife in 1930s Lincolnshire, a crime that was exposed by an anonymous note to the police. 84 years on the cousin of the woman hanged for the crime wants answers.
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S4:E5
Dumbleton
The barristers re-examine the case against a young farm labourer who was hanged for the brutal murder of a travelling watch repairman in 1880.
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S4:E6
Staunton
Jeremy and Sasha re-examine the complex case against a Victorian auctioneer accused, along with his brother and two others, of murdering his wife in 1877.
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S4:E7
Read
The barristers examine their oldest case yet - the murder of a military veteran by his estranged wife nearly 200 years ago. Ex-soldier James Read was reported missing by his wife Hannah, who became the prime suspect for his murder.
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S4:E8
Dainton
Sasha and Jeremy re-examine the drowning of a wife and mother in Victorian Bath in 1891, re-evaluating the chain of evidence that led to the conviction of her husband for her murder.
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S4:E9
Brown
The Barristers examine an infamous case of a Dorset housewife accused of murdering her young husband. They are keen to separate fact from fiction, as the story famously inspired Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
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S4:E10
Shaw
Sasha and Jeremy investigate their first Scottish case, the murder of a reclusive pensioner in 1952, for which two men stood trial but only one was executed.
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S2:E6
Harold Merry
The barristers examine the tragic case of a failed suicide pact in Birmingham in 1942 that left a young woman dead and her married lover convicted of her murder and hung.
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S3:E1
Thomas
The barristers investigate their oldest case yet, the drowning of a female passenger aboard a commercial narrow boat in Staffordshire in 1839, for which boatmen were convicted and publicly hanged.
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S3:E2
Brown
Sasha and Jeremy examine the mysterious murder of a Yorkshire farm owner in 1933. Had a love affair led to an employee shooting his employer and trying to destroy the evidence?
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S3:E3
Thorne
Jeremy and Sasha examine the case of a Sussex poultry farmer who buried the body of his fiancee under a chicken run in 1924, but claimed he hadn't killed her. His trial saw two eminent pathologists disagree over cause of death.
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S3:E4
Armstrong
The barristers examine the case of a lawyer and former army major who was hanged for poisoning his wife with arsenic in Hay-on-Wye in 1921.
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S3:E5
Waddingham
Sasha and Jeremy investigate the 1935 morphine poisoning of a resident of a Nottingham care home, for which the owner of the nursing home was convicted and hanged.
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