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Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook

Sender:Crime & Investigation

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S03E06 - "The Monster of Worcester"

Ausgestrahlt am Dec 10, 2013, 9:00 PM

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Beschreibung

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 Krays 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 in to each killer. Using criminology, forensic science and other modern techniques, Fred dissects the crimes to understand the motive, method and impact they had then and still have even now.

Details

Status
Beendet
Sprache
English
Laufzeit
60 min
Erstausstrahlung
May 1, 2011
Beendet
December 10, 2013
Sendeplan
Tuesday um 21:00

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Episoden (3 Staffeln · 22 Episoden)

Jack the Ripper

Fred 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.With interviews from historian John Bennett and author Linda Stratmann, we tell the story of life in the East End and what could have led to some of the most horrendous murders of the 19th Century.

Nov 5, 2013

60 Min.

Moors Murders

The 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.Nearly fifty years later, Fred Dinenage meets Ian Fairley one of the police officers from the original investigation and interviews Father Michael Teader, Myra Hindley's Roman Catholic Priest. He asks who were this young couple whose mug shots have haunted the public for so many years and why hasn't the body of victim Keith Bennett, ever been found?

Nov 10, 2013

60 Min.

Hanratty

In 1962, James Hanratty was hanged for the murder of Michael Gregsten but was there enough evidence at the time?Fred Dinenage interviews his brother Michael Hanratty and Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC about the prospect of his underlying innocence. John Kerr, the first person on the scene, describes the appalling sight he discovered whilst wo

Nov 19, 2013

60 Min.

Babes in the Woods

For 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.Fred Dinenage interviews Metropolitan police officer, Declan Donnelly, who finally solved the case and meets the family of victim, Gary Hanlon, to find out why they never believed that two children would just lay down and die.

Nov 26, 2013

60 Min.

The Cannibal of Rotenburg

In 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.Fred Dinenage travels to Germany to meet Armin's childhood friend Manfred StĂĽck and asks leading experts on the case: What would make one man want to eat another?

Dec 3, 2013

60 Min.

The Monster of Worcester

On 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.Fred Dinenage discovers the critical mistake that cost the children their lives and asks what caused the babysitter to embark on such a barbaric killing spree.

Dec 10, 2013

60 Min.

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