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Murder, Mystery and My Family
Mo-Fr 20:05
· Rerun Tu-Fr
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 published2019
- CastTony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass
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?
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.
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.
S5:E1
Jacoby
Barristers Sasha and Jeremy explore a classic whodunnit from 1922 in which a lowly pantry boy was charged with the murder of a titled lady in a London hotel.
S5:E2
Smith
Barristers Sasha and Jeremy re-investigate a lethal shooting from 1937, when a barge captain was allegedly murdered by his best friend.
S5:E3
Lee
The barristers explore the notorious case of 'The Man They Could Not Hang' - a house servant accused of murdering his upper-class benefactor in Devon in 1884.
S5:E4
Yarham
Jeremy and Sasha revisit a complex case from Victorian Britain that featured four suspects, two trials and ultimately just one man hanged for murder.
S5:E5
Lefley
Sasha and Jeremy examine a case from 1882, where a wife was accused of murdering her husband with an arsenic-laced rice pudding that contained enough poison to kill fifty people.
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.
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.
S5:E6
Fox
Jeremy and Sasha re-investigate a notorious case of matricide dating from the 1920s. Did flawed forensic evidence see an innocent man hanged?
S5:E7
McLachlan
Barristers Sasha and Jeremy investigate an infamous Scottish murder case from 1862, in which a compelling alternative suspect may have been the true killer.
S5:E8
Allen
Sasha and Jeremy explore a case in which the controversial killing of a police officer sparked the round-up of dozens of suspects and ended with three men going to the gallows.
S5:E9
Grime
Sasha and Jeremy explore a grisly Victorian murder case from 1863 in which a missing pocket watch proved to be the vital evidence that saw a man convicted and hanged.
S5:E10
Poff/Barrett
The barristers investigate the mysterious shooting of a landowning farmer in rural Ireland in 1882. Could dubious eyewitness testimony have sent two innocent men to the gallows?
S3:E6
Greenwood
Jeremy and Sasha examine the violent assault and murder of a teenage girl in south east London in 1918 and how a button and a badge found near her body led to the conviction of a former serviceman.
S3:E7
Power
The barristers investigate whether a canalside murder in 1927 by a man impersonating a police officer led to a miscarriage of justice. A young couple were stopped by a man claiming to be a policeman, who then attacked them.