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Murder, Mystery and My Family
Mo-Fr 20:05
· Rerun Mo-We, Fr-Su
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
S3:E10
Calvert
Sasha and Jeremy examine the brutal murder of a 41-year-old landlady in Leeds in 1926, for which the prime suspect, a 31-year-old mother, was convicted and hanged.
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.
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?
S4:E1
Maybrick
Sasha and Jeremy examine an infamous Victorian murder case, where a young American woman was charged with poisoning her husband in Liverpool in 1889.
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.
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.
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.
S4:E3
FG Browne
Sasha and Jeremy reassess the case of a petty criminal who was sentenced to death for murdering a policeman in an Essex country lane in 1927.
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.
S4:E4
Lowson
Jeremy and Sasha re-examine a case from 1884 in which three men stood trial for the murder of a policeman, but only one received a death sentence.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.