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Murder, Mystery and My Family
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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30 Days
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
S4:E10
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.
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.
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?
S3:E6
Greenwood
Jeremy and Sasha examine the violent assault and murder of a teenage girl in south east London in 1918 and how a button and a badge found near her body led to the conviction of a former serviceman.
S5:E1
Jacoby
Barristers Sasha and Jeremy explore a classic whodunnit from 1922 in which a lowly pantry boy was charged with the murder of a titled lady in a London hotel.
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.
S5:E3
Lee
The barristers explore the notorious case of 'The Man They Could Not Hang' - a house servant accused of murdering his upper-class benefactor in Devon in 1884.
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.
S3:E5
Waddingham
Sasha and Jeremy investigate the 1935 morphine poisoning of a resident of a Nottingham care home, for which the owner of the nursing home was convicted and hanged.