Fred Dinenage - Murder Casebook (2011)
Fred Dinenage takes a fresh look at the murders that shocked Britain in the twentieth century and the killers that committed them... Fred is the Kray's official biographer and a journalist reporting serious crimes for over forty years. He knows that with certain crimes the myth can take over from the reality of what actually happened. Fred meets with the people whose lives were affected by the crimes, experts in the case and journalists from the time. Leading criminologist Professor David Wilson features in each episode giving his valuable and fascinating insights into each killer. Using criminology, forensic science and other modern techniques, Fred dissect the crimes to understand the motive, method and impact they had then and still have even now.
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Episode 1 - Jack the Ripper
Release Date: 2013-11-05Fred Dinenage takes a journey back to the poverty stricken East End of 1888 and speaks to Ripperologists about the continuing fascination behind the Jack the Ripper mystery.
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Episode 2 - Moors Murders
Release Date: 2013-11-12The Moors Murders is one of the most infamous murder cases of the 20th Century. Between the years 1963 - 1965 young couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted, assaulted and murdered five children in the Manchester area, burying four of them on Saddleworth Moor.
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Episode 3 - Hanratty / The A6 Murder
Release Date: 2013-11-19In 1962, James Hanratty was hanged for the murder of Michael Gregsten but was there enough evidence at the time?
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Episode 4 - Babes in the Woods
Release Date: 2013-11-26For 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 – he had information about the murder of the Babes in the Wood.
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Episode 5 - Armin Meiwes
Release Date: 2013-12-03In 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. The culprit, Armin Meiwes was to become known as The Cannibal of Rotenburg.
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Episode 6 - Monster of Worcester
Release Date: 2013-12-10On Friday 13 April 1973 the bodies of three children were found impaled on garden railings in Worcester. The murderer? The family’s lodger and babysitter David McGreavy.