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Murder, Mystery and My Family
· Rerun Sa 12:35
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 published2018
- CastTony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass
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?
S1:E6
Mary Jane Bennett
Sasha and Jeremy re-investigate a murder case from 1900 in Great Yarmouth. A woman who was staying in the seaside resort under an assumed name was found dead on the beach.
S1:E1
Charlotte Bryant
Sasha and Jeremy re-investigate the case of Charlotte Bryant, tried, convicted and hung for poisoning her husband Frederick with arsenic in Dorset, in 1935. Could it have been an accident?
S1:E2
Devlin and Burns
The team review the infamous case of prolific petty thieves Edward Devlin and Alfred Burns, who were sentenced to death for the 1951 murder of Beatrice Rimmer in Manchester.
S1:E3
Alfred Moore
Two top criminal barristers re-investigate the trial, conviction and execution of Alfred Moore for shooting dead two police officers in a police cordon surrounding his farmhouse in 1951.
S1:E4
John Dickman
The case of the last man to be hanged at Newcastle Prison, John Dickman, is re-examined by the team. The local bookmaker was convicted of shooting dead a man on a train.
S1:E5
Edith Thompson
In 1922, Edith Thompson and her lover are convicted of the brutal murder of her husband Percy. In 2017, her cousin Nicki questions how safe the original convictions were.
S1:E7
William Burtoft
Jeremy and Sasha examine an alleged false confession that led to the hanging of William Burtoft for the brutal murder of Frances Levin in her Manchester home in 1933.
S1:E8
Annie Louise Kempson
The barristers scrutinise a violent burglary in 1931 that led to 54-year-old widow Annie Louise Kempson being bludgeoned and stabbed to death in her Oxford home.
S1:E9
Michael Davies
Jeremy and Sasha examine a gang-related murder in Clapham Common in 1953 that left one teenager dead and another one facing the hangman's noose.
S1:E10
John Twiss
Jeremy and Sasha investigate a rural case of murder in County Cork, Ireland in 1894. John Twiss was hanged for the murder of James Donovan but protested his innocence to the end.
S2:E2
Styllou Christofi
Barristers re-investigate the murder of a young German woman at the hands of her Greek-Cypriot mother-in-law in Hampstead in 1954. The murdered woman's son believes his grandmother was the victim of a miscarriage of justice.