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12 Episodes 1994 - 1994
Episode 1
April 1879; Liverpool merchant James Maybrick is poisoned with arsenic. His wife Florence is found guilty but did she get a fair trial? 6 Jan 1931; Evelyn Foster drives a man to Ponteland. Hours later she is found badly burned on moorland.
Episode 2
Evelyn Foster stops to pick up a man who's missed his last bus, but the part of the good Samaritan ends badly for her as she is killed.
Episode 3
With husband Percy Thompson away, Frederick Bywaters romances wife Edith. In 1922; Bywaters stabs Percy to death and both are hanged. In 1923; courtesan Marguerite Alibert is on trial, at the Old Bailey, for killing husband Ali Fahmy Bey.
Episode 4
Having bought his title, Prince Ali Fahmy Bey falls for sex worker Marguerite, and marries her, the marriage is a disaster, and ends in murder.
Episode 5
Dr. Robert Clements married three times for money. In 1940, he took a fourth bride but she, too, soon becomes ill. In 1863, poverty was rife in mill towns. When Alice Hewitt takes out a life insurance on mother she finds herself arrested.
Episode 6
In the winter of 1863, poverty is rife, soon after taking out an insurance policy on her mother Mary, Alice Hewitt stands accused of murdering her mother by arsenic poisoning.
Episode 7
Chicago gangster "Big Jim" Colosimo was a big time gangster and made man by 1920. As the number of gangs grew Colosimo's nephew Johnny Torrio was anxious to take over and grow his uncle's business, but the only way to do that was to eliminate him. He couldn't do that to a blood relative, but Colisimo did die at the hand of another relative, believed to be Alphonse Capone. From 1920 - 1924 Johnny Torrio was head of the growing gang that he inherited from his Uncle "Big Jim". Johnny expanded into bootlegging and union racketeering. He was later badly wounded in 1924 during a war with Irish and Italian mobsters. Torrio retired and handed control to his nephew Al Capone, who was soon was ruling Chicago, becoming the most notorious gang boss in American history.
Episode 8
In Edwardian Lancaster, the bodies of a respected family were exhumed, having died within one year of each other. Murder was suspected when Margaret Bingham, her brother James and father William had died from arsenic poisoning. Sister and daughter Edith Bingham was put on trial for their murder, but what was her ultimate fate.
Episode 9
A bouncer at a Soho night club took up with Violette, a married woman 15 years his senior. They re-located to Brighton where she took to prostitution and he boasted and bragged to locals about non-existent acts of gang violence in the Soho underworld. Following a violent argument, Violette disappeared, but later parts of a dead woman's body were being found in several locations, however they were not Violette's: her body was found in a trunk in his flat. Returning to London, he took up with another girl and convinced her to lie in court if and when he was arrested. At his trial, what would the jury make of the evidence, given that he had boasted of killing her with a hammer. Was he just a boaster or an actual murderer?
Episode 10
Thomas Atherstone's behaviour had become more erratic and more deranged following a motoring accident, to the point that he believed that his former girlfriend Elizabeth has been seeing his son Thomas behind his back. He intended to cause grievous harm to the pair by sneaking into her house carrying a cosh and a gun, but before entering he was assaulted and ended up dead. It appears he met his death at the hands of an unknown assailant but the case remained unsolved.
Episode 11
346 men who were shot at dawn during the Great War. James Crozier joined up at sixteen but suffering from shell shock he deserted. Private's Wild and Crimmins get drunk on the eve of the Battle of Somme and get charged with cowardice.
Episode 12
Wild and Crimmins go out drinking on the eve of the Battle of Somme, missing roll call and the battle the next morning.