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Murder, Mystery and My Family

Specials 2019 - 2021
TV-14

  • 2019-04-07T23:00:00Z on BBC One
  • 45m
  • 15h (20 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary, Crime
Two of the UK's top criminal barristers, Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein, explore historical murders where the convicted went to the gallows pleading their innocence, in a new series for BBC One Daytime. Investigating cases which bear all the hallmarks of a miscarriage of justice, they join forces with a living member of the convicted criminal’s family and a variety of specialist experts to re-examine the crime, evidence and trial. While the barristers employ modern forensic techniques to ask whether the original conviction was safe, the family member explores the social and historical context of the crime, and their ancestor's life. Jeremy and Sasha will then decide whether they believe they have a strong enough case to present to a senior Crown Court judge, who will then determine whether he believes the conviction was safe and should be upheld, or unsafe and could be re-opened.

20 episodes

Special 1 Case Closed?: Episode 1

  • 2019-04-07T23:00:00Z45m

Barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass revisit their examination of the murder case against Edith Thompson and discover that Edith has finally been laid to rest.

Special 2 Case Closed?: Episode 2

  • 2019-04-08T23:00:00Z45m

Barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein look back at their investigation of a murder case from the 1930s and discover that a family torn apart has finally been reunited.

Special 3 Case Closed?: Episode 3

  • 2019-04-09T23:00:00Z45m

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy look back at the questionable case against Alfred Moore. They find that Moore’s daughter is now more determined than ever to clear her father’s name.

Special 4 Case Closed?: Episode 4

  • 2019-04-10T23:00:00Z45m

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy revisit a seaside murder case from 1900 and catch up with the relative of the convicted man, who is now on the trail of a mysterious brother-in-law.

Special 5 Case Closed?: Episode 5

  • 2019-04-11T23:00:00Z45m

Barristers Jeremy and Sasha revisit a rural case of murder and moonlighting in Ireland in 1894 and discover that the convicted man’s relatives are hoping for an official pardon.

Barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein revisit the case of a wealthy female tenant, poisoned by her landlord following a financial deal made shortly before her death in 1911.

The barristers look back at the investigation of their oldest case yet, the 1839 murder by drowning of a female passenger aboard a commercial narrow boat in Staffordshire.

Barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein revisit their investigation into the mysterious murder of a Yorkshire farm owner in 1933.

The barristers return to the case of a Sussex poultry farmer who buried the body of his fiancee under a chicken run in 1924 but claimed to be innocent of her murder.

The barristers revisit the savage murder of a pub landlady in a sleepy Oxfordshire hamlet in 1922, which led to the unlikely conviction of a 15-year-old local boy.

Barristers Jeremy and Sasha look back at their investigation into the case of Edward Devlin and Alfred Burns and learn of mounting support for an official review of the case.

The barristers look back at the 1937 murder of a young lady in Leighton Buzzard, found strangled to death with her own scarf in an alley known to locals as ‘lovers' lane'.

Barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass look back at their investigation into the secret poisoning of a man by his wife in 1930s Lincolnshire, exposed by an anonymous note.

Barristers Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass look back at a case stranger than fiction: John Dickman, convicted of murder in 1910, became the last man to be hanged at Newcastle Prison.

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy look back at the case of a mother accused of murdering her family at the height of a poison panic in Victorian Britain.

The barristers revisit their inquiry of an infamous Victorian murder case, where a young American woman was charged with poisoning her husband in Liverpool in 1889.

The barristers revisit their investigation into the poisoning of a care home resident in Nottingham in 1935, for which the victim's nurse was convicted and hanged.

The barristers revisit their investigation of an infamous case from 1856 that inspired Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

The barristers revisit their investigation into a case of starvation and neglect that saw a husband stand trial for the murder of his wife in 1877.

The barristers revisit a fascinating case from 1884 in County Durham where three men stood trial for the murder of a policeman, yet only one man faced the death sentence.

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