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Fred Dinenage investigates 1940s murderer John George Haigh, who notoriously dissolved his victims' bodies in acid.
Fred Dinenage explores the crimes of Graham Frederick Young, who laced an entire factory's tea with deadly thallium.
Fred Dinenage examines the crimes of Brides in the Bath Murderer and bigamist George Joseph Smith, who drowned his three wives between 1912 and 1914.
Fred Dinenage investigates the crimes of meticulous masked killer Donald Neilson.
The extraordinary tale of compulsive liar John Christie, who murdered six women and stored them in his home in Rillington Place.
Just 15, Harold Jones was too young to hang for murder in 1921. Could he have become notorious 60s serial killer Jack The Stripper?
Found guilty of shooting a PC during a burglary in 1952, Derek Bentley hanged for murder. His execution would help to change the law.
Presenter Fred Dinenage reflects on the story of Ruth Ellis, who was found guilty of the murder of her estranged lover. She was hanged for the offence in 1955, the last woman to suffer such a fate in the United Kingdom.
Author Fred Dinenage, who wrote the Kray twins' autobiography, recounts the time he spent with them and presents their true story, meeting some of the gangsters' contemporaries.
Fred Dinenage looks back over the life of Lord Lucan; the aristocratic figure whose glamorous life became tainted by murder, mistaken identity and events that would launch the biggest manhunt in British history. Lord Lucan's life had gone from gambling, parties and weekends in the country to a bitter divorce, a custody battle for his children and huge debts. His only way out was to murder his wife - instead he murdered the nanny when he mistook her for Lady Lucan. He then attacked his estranged wife who managed to escape with severe injuries. Meanwhile Lord Lucan was making his own exit; he disappeared after the attacks, only visiting a friend briefly, he was never seen again. There have been many reported sightings around the world but the Lord Lucan mystery continues...
Fred Dinenage examines the horrific murders performed by Scottish serial killer Peter Manuel. Manuel was hanged at the age of 31, convicted of 7 murders but suspected of many more. He was a cold ruthless killer with no motive and an in controllable rage... who just wanted to be the centre of attention.
Fred Dinenage examines the brutal crimes of Child Killer Mary Bell. At just 11 years old Mary Bell shocked the country when she was convicted of strangling two young boys aged just 3 and 4. What made this child commit such horrific acts and can children who have murdered change?
Fred Dinenage investigates one of Scotland's most enigmatic serial killer - Archibald Hall, known as the Monster Butler. Hall's lust for a luxurious lifestyle turned him from a conman into a callous murderer.
Fred Dinenage looks back over the life of John Straffen; at the age of 21 he strangled two little girls but escaped the hangman's noose due to his low IQ of just 58. After six months at Broadmoor Straffen escaped and committed a third murder on another young girl in a local village. This time he was reprimanded in maximum security prisons and remained so for the next 55 years. Straffen died in prison in 2007 but continues to carry the title of Britain's longest serving prisoner.
During the 1960s, fear spread through the local community of Cannock Chase. Children were being snatched from the streets, sexually assaulted and murdered. Fred Dinenage re investigates the brutal killings that sparked one of the biggest manhunts in police history, and led to the conviction of Raymond Leslie Morris. Fred meets detectives Conrad Joseph and John Farrall who worked first hand on the child killer hunt and finds out with Professor David Wilson how difficult putting together a photofit of a killer is.
Obsessed with the Nazi regime and known for torturing animals, Patrick Mackay was certified a psychopath at seventeen. Later, he started befriending elderly people before brutally murdering them and then sitting with their bodies as they died. He was convicted of murdering three seniors, though he confessed to having many more victims.
Fred Dinenage looks back over the life and crimes of RAF cadet Gordon Cummins. During the London Blitz of 1942, terror stalked the war torn streets. It was not just the horror of German bombs falling from the sky... the fear was created by a spree killer. It just one week four women were brutally killed and two women attacked. Not since Jack the Ripper had there been such a gruesome spate of murders... earning Cummins the title... The Blackout Ripper.
Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook reinvestigates the most infamous murders from the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries, exploring them from a modern perspective.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted, assaulted and murdered 5 children in the Manchester area, burying 4 of them on Saddleworth Moor. 50 years later, Fred Dinenage asks who were this young couple whose mug shots have haunted the public for so many years?
This episode investigates the story of the alleged ͚A6 murderer James Hanratty and explores the arguments for and against his conviction for murder and rape in an A6 layby.
For twenty six years the public believed that two children found dead in Epping Forest in 1970 had died of exposure. Then in 1996 a convicted child murderer, Ronald Jebson, called police from Wakefield Prison.
In Germany in 2002, a case came to light that shocked the world. A man in a rural German village had filmed himself dismembering, killing and eating another man. Armin Meiwes was to become known as The Cannibal of Rotenburg. In this special episode Fred Dinenage travels to Germany and asks leading experts on the case: What would make one man want to eat another?
On Friday 13th April 1973 the bodies of three children were found impaled on garden railings. The murderer? The family's lodger David McGreavy. Fred Dinenage discovers the critical mistake that cost the children their lives and asks what caused the babysitter to embark on such a barbaric killing spree.
The actions of Austrian family captor and rapist Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter in his cellar for more than two decades, fathering seven of her children. Fred Dinenage meets those who knew him, and talks to leading criminologist Professor David Wilson, in a bid to uncover what drove him to his terrible actions.
