Murder, Mystery and My Family
Mo-Th 18:05
· Rerun Mo-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
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?