Real Crime

The first ever use of DNA in a criminal case.

The 1970 death of two children in a woodland copse, long-regarded by police as being due to hypothermia, is finally solved 30 years later when a prisoner confesses to murder.

A documentary on the life of John Bindon, real-life London villain who took on acting roles after Ken Loach cast him as a crook in the film 'Poor Cow'. Thereafter he generally played variations on the same theme. Contributors include girl-friend actress Vicki Hodge,who was shocked by some of the things in which he involved her, 'geezer' actors George Sewell and Billy Murray and David Bowie's first wife,Angie,who was taken by his party trick - hanging several pint mugs off his member. Presumably this also appealed to Princess Margaret,with whom he stayed on Mustique,though her nervous staff kept quiet about his criminal connections. After being acquitted of murder Bindon died of AIDS at the age of fifty.

An amazing 33 years after 14-year old Roy Tutill was raped and murdered, forensic evidence finally leads to the 64-year old perpetrator.

Calculating killers who try to hide their guilt behind brazen public displays of grief and crocodile tears for the victims, often making cynical televised appeals for information and breaking down convincingly in front of the cameras.

The 800-year old double jeopardy law is thrown under the spotlight when the previously acquitted murderer of 22-year old Julie Hogg confesses to the crime. His mother believes the law should change so that he can face justice.

After a fatal road rage stabbing, police hunt for the culprit, only to discover a face from the past - the man who had previously stabbed to death one of their officers.

Focusing on the multiple murders of serial-killer Dennis Nilsen.

Dramatised documentary on Jane Andrews, a former aide of England's Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, who was convicted of killing her boyfriend Thomas Cressman in May 2001.

A girl is found dead at home after being married for less than a year. Suspicion falls on her husband's lover and her sister, but are they getting a fair trial when the media is whipped up into such a frenzy of excitement at the prospect?

The disappearance of University of Oxford student at St Hilda's, Rachel McLean

A series of nail bomb attacks take place in crowded areas of London, but just as the police think they have identified the targets, the bomber changes tack.

A young boy dies with a suspiciously large amount of salt in his system, and the question which must be answered is how it came to be there. Suspicion falls on his own mother.

Mother and daughter dog breeders are stabbed to death in a remote cottage in the Norfolk Fens, sending shock-waves through a sleepy area not used to such brutal crime.

Brian Blackwell was the son every parent dreams of having. Charming, confident and extremely clever: straight A grades at A-level meant he was about to embark on a medicine degree. But beneath all of the effortless success, was another story: Brian was gripped by a personality disorder, which made him obsessed with fantasies of power and brilliance. So when the 19-year-old student treated his girlfriend to a holiday of a lifetime in the US, with lobster, truffles and champagne, and a five-star hotel overlooking Central Park, suspicions began to be aroused. How had he found £30,000 to pay for the holiday? And where were his mother and father? The tragic story of how a seemingly "perfect" son took revenge on his parents when they discovered his spending habit was out of control. How he bludgeoned them to death one day; and calmly set off the next on a luxury trip to the States as if nothing had happened.

A series of coincidences lead to the unravelling of a string of deceptions by a conman and murderer.

21 years after she went missing, the body of a woman is found concealed in the depths of Coniston Water in the Lake District.

The murder of a 13-year-old Cornish schoolgirl on a school trip to France sparks an international hunt for the man responsible for a string of other sexual assaults in a myriad of locations.

In 2004, a British aristocrat vanishes on the French Riviera, but there is no body and no clues to his whereabouts.

Illegally smuggled into the UK and forced to work in Morecambe as cockle-pickers, 23 Chinese people tragically drowned to death one devastating day in 2004.

Denise Fergus, whose 2-year-old son James was abducted, tortured, and murdered by two 10-year-olds in 1993, reflects on the case and her own life over the ensuing 15 years.

Following the past episode focusing on Beverley Allitt, this one looks at two more dangerous members of the profession which we literally trust with our lives - Harold Shipman and Colin Norris.

What seems like a simple Bank Holiday arrest for car theft, turns into the horrific slaughter of a police officer and an American fugitive on the run from justice.

The biggest heist in Britain's criminal history - stealing the Millenium Star Diamond - is met by the biggest Flying Squad operation also in Britain's history.

When a wife and mother goes missing, her husband derives a sadistic pleasure in playing games with the media, until it finally transpires that he had killed her.

The disappearance of Lucie Blackman, a young British woman working in Tokyo, leads to the apprehension of a prolific serial rapist.

Revealing the inside story of the police investigation into the murder of Special Constable Nisha Patel-Nasri in May 2006, as they uncover a shocking tale of greed, lust and the ultimate betrayal.

Canadian teacher killing kids with a swirl as his face

The sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed leads to a miscarriage of justice when a simple naive lad is made the scapegoat and wrongly-imprisoned for 16 years. 31 years later DNA found the real killer.

Colin Ireland had a rather more sinister than normal new year's resolution - to become a killer. Going to a bar to see if he got approached by another man, when he did, this started the spree which made him known as 'The Gay Slayer'.

The story of Clare Bernal who was shot dead at the Harvey Nichols store in London's Knightsbridge by her stalker.

On 21st July 2005, four men carrying explosives tried to commit mass murder on London's transport network. When their bombs failed to go off, police faced a race against time to capture the men before they could strike again.

Police recall the search for the Tesco Bomber, a Bournemouth man who used the pseudonym Sally to demand money from the grocery store chain Tesco.

A lone farmer. A pair of young burglars. Shots fired. A 16 year old dead. An age-old debate reignited - how far could and should a person go to protect their own property.

An Englishman and an American woman fall in love, and in what seems like a fairy-tale romance set up a marital home together in the US. But shockingly the wife and baby daughter are suddenly found shot dead. Was husband Neil involved?

When a Southampton couple loses their daughter to a vicious killer they embark on a grueling 5 year search to find him.

A young lad innocently walking home after his regular football practice, fatally caught in the crossfire of gang warfare. But the gang closes ranks, even when the distraught parents try to appeal to their humanity to name the killer.

Gangsters Colin and David Gunn ran Bestwood, Notts, evading justice, aided by corrupt coppers. But when a Lincolnshire couple are brutally slaughtered it is the last straw, and the force up the ante, replacing Gunn Law with Law and Order.

Another massive heist - this time the biggest cash one in British history, that of £53 million from a security depot. The apparently-impregnable fortress was a supplier cash to shops and banks.

The inside story of how a specialist police team brought down Manchester's most notorious gun gang.

Revisiting the 1984 murder of police officer Yvonne Fletcher, and the political ramifications involving the Libyan regime.

The murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky

As serial killer Peter Tobin awaits his third murder conviction, investigators from the British television series Real Crime look back at his twisted life.

A man on the run after shooting his ex-girlfriend's partner dead, and blinding a policeman. Armed and dangerous, the police must find a way to try to take him in without any more lives being lost.

About Hells Angel Gerry Tobin, who was murdered by members of rival motorcycle gang the Outlaws on the M40 while traveling back from the Bulldog Bash festival in England in August 2007.

The story of the 2009 murder of North London businessman Jeffrey Howe by Stephen Marshall.