True Crimes
1992 · 2 seasons · 14 episodes · Ended
Crime, Documentary
TMDB 7.0 · 2 votes
Each episode presents a new true crime case, modern or historical. Michael Winner hosts, providing exposition through voiceovers due to low production values. He often delivers a patronizing moral conclusion.
Episodes
- S01E01The Village Murders1992-06-0526m
In the 1980s, Colin Pitchfork raped and murdered two girls in Leicestershire. This is the story of the case that changed the course of criminal history when, for the first time, genetic DNA fingerprinting was used to identify the killer.
- S01E02The Lady and the Baroness1992-06-1226m
This is the fascinating case of a high society family fraud.
- S01E03Rachel McLean1992-06-1926m
This is the story of how brilliant detective work trapped the killer of 19-year-old Oxford University student Rachel McLean.
- S01E06The Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Job1992-09-0526m
A dramatized recreation of an audacious armed robbery. This is the story of how detectives tracked down handsome Italian playboy Valerio Viccei, the mastermind behind one of the biggest bank robberies in history.
- S01E07Murder by the Sea1992-09-1126m
In the early 1980s, Susan Barber partied for nearly a year, thinking she had gotten away with the murder of her husband, Michael, after she poisoned him with weedkiller.
- S01E08A Twist in the Tale1992-09-1226m
A Surrey businessman was kidnapped and then tethered to a tree in the Devon countryside for five days.
