Season 1

Examination of the police investigation into the murder of Rachel Nickell, who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common in 1992. A crime for which, at the time of this programme, no one had ever been convicted. Former Detective Inspector Keith Pedder, who has since left the force, discusses his controversial and widely criticised handling of the case, and one-time suspect Colin Stagg reveals how it affected his life

Ann Ming's campaign to change the ancient double jeopardy law, by which nobody can be tried twice for the same crime, following the acquittal of a Stockton man who later admitted murdering her daughter Julie Hogg

Calculating killers who try to hide their guilt behind brazen public displays of grief and crocodile tears for the victims, often making cynical televised appeals for information and breaking down convincingly in front of the cameras

The story of how double-murderer Colin Pitchfork became the first criminal to be snared by DNA fingerprinting. In the mid-1980s, Pitchfork raped and killed two Leicestershire schoolgirls, but despite exhaustive investigations evaded capture, largely due to a false confession and a bogus blood test which threw police off his scent until a chance remark in a pub redirected them to the true perpetrator of the crimes

For six months, nine-year-old David Stocker had been in and out of hospital with a debilitating but mystery illness. His condition baffled doctors at Great Ormond Street and he was put on a drip - but what the medical staff didn't know was that David was being slowly and systematically poisoned by his attentive but deranged mother, Petrina, a long-term sufferer of Munchausen's Syndrome. After David's death, Petrina was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to five years

How revelations by jailed paedophile Ronald Jebson finally allowed police to close the case of the infamous 'Babes in the Wood' murder in which the entwined bodies of two children were found in Epping Forest in May 1970. Lifer Jebson played an elaborate psychological game with the police, claiming to know the identity of the murderer before the truth finally emerged in 2000

The story of John Bindon, a man who successfully bridged the gap between royalty, the underworld and showbusiness. Mean and moody Bindon was spotted by Ken Loach and given a lead role in Poor Cow. Fame soon followed, but while he enjoyed the high life, Bindon never severed his underworld ties

How the hunt for the killer of Stephen Cameron on a slip road to the M25 in 1996 turned into a worldwide manhunt for notorious criminal Kenneth Noye. The programme follows the police operation to track down Stephen's killer, and the Kent Police officers involved talk for the first time about the final stakeout in Spain.

Documentary telling the story of Lee Harvey's murder at the hands of his fiancee Tracie Andrews, who was jailed for life in 1997. Featuring a dramatised account of their volatile relationship, plus interviews with friends and relatives of the couple, and police officers involved in the investigation

Thirty-year-old Carol Park, a teacher and mother of three, was brutally murdered by her husband in 1976. Gordon Park bludgeoned his wife Carol to death with an ice axe and dumped her weighted body in Coniston Water, one of the deepest lakes in England. Park lived with the secret for a remarkable 21 years. This is the story of a seven year police investigation to bring her killer to justice.

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