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 published2019
  • CastTony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass
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.
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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.
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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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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: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?
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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: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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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