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Murder, Mystery and My Family
Mo-We, Fr 21:00
· Rerun Mo-Th, 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:E9
Seddon
Was a wealthy female tenant poisoned by her landlord, to whom she had signed over her assets just before her death in the belief that he would look after her recently adopted 10-year-old son?
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.
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: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.
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.
S3:E8
Hewitt
Sasha and Jeremy investigate whether the shooting of a gentleman farmer in rural Staffordshire in 1893 was really carried out by the 19-year-old rabbit poacher who was hanged for the crime or if it was actually his father who was guilty.
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:E2
Smith
Barristers Sasha and Jeremy re-investigate a lethal shooting from 1937, when a barge captain was allegedly murdered by his best friend.
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: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.
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: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.
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.
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.
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.
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: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.
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: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.
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: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.
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: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.
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?