Evil Up Close

Episode 1

Lakhvir Singh

Lakhvir Singh enjoyed cooking for Lucky Cheema, the man she loved and had been having an affair with for 16 years. But when he left her to marry a much younger woman, Singh made the couple a meal that would turn out to be the last thing Lucky ever tasted.

Episode 2

Georgina Henshaw

Chef Philip Rolph was besotted with waitress Georgina Henshaw. He wanted to marry her, and he thought she wanted the same. When Phil realised she was using him for his money, the expensive gifts dried up. That's when Georgina bragged to a friend that she was planning to kill him.

Episode 3

Karen Pedley

At 10 years old Karen Pedley was hailed a hero when she saved her family from a fire in their home. That event triggered a lifelong obsession, one which would lead to her setting alight the nursing home where she worked, with fatal consequences.

Episode 4

Yoselyn Ortega

New York nanny Yoselyn Ortega had been part of the Krim family for two years, looking after Kevin and Marina's three young children as if they were her own. One day, plagued by psychotic thoughts and hearing demonic voices, she snapped, with devastating consequences for two tiny lives.

Episode 5

Thelma Purchase

Greg Baker was a gifted mathematician and calligrapher, a devout Christianmuch loved on the community. He was also disabled, lonely, and reliant on the carers who came to his home. One of those was Thelma Yvonne Purchase, the woman who took his life to get her hands on his money.

Episode 6

Aaron Campbell

Sixteen year old Aaron Campbell didn't admit his horrific crimes until after his conviction. In the dead of night he abducted six year old neighbour Alesha MacPhail and carried her to a nearby wood, where he raped and murdered her. He was caught when his own mother inadvertently turned him in.

Episode 7

Kim Edwards

Sun, Mar 1, 2020

Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham's romance was like something from a teen novel. Both outsiders from troubled homes, they felt they understood each other when no one else did. Together they made a cold-blooded plan to get rid of the mum and sister Kim bitterly resented.

Episode 8

Stephen Hough

Sun, Mar 1, 2020

Stephen Hough got away with raping and killing 16 year old Janet Cummings for over 40 years. He fabricated an alibi for his horrific crimes and let an innocent man go to jail. But detectives never gave up; four decades later they made a breakthrough that saw Hough locked away.

Episode 9

Mathew Hardman

Sun, Mar 1, 2020

Dubbed the 'Vampire killer', teen Mathew Hardman thought that by taking a life he would become immortal. His victim was elderly neighbour, Mabel Leyshon; he'd once been her paper boy. After stabbing her to death he removed her heart and drank her blood, before placing a cross at her feet.

Episode 10

Alyssa Bustamante

Sun, Mar 1, 2020

Troubled teen Alyssa Bustamante was a self-styled 'bad girl' who boasted of loving knives, and said she wanted to know how it felt to kill. When she gave in to this curiosity and murdered her nine year old neighbour Elizabeth Olten, it devastated their rural farming community.