Former DCI Jackie Malton retraces the crimes of Donald Neilson, to discover how a robber became a calculating murderer, and the investigation that brought him to justice.
Former DCI Jackie Malton re-examines one of the most psychotic murderers in British criminal history, Robert Napper, and how an innocent man was imprisoned for his crimes.
Former DCI Jackie Malton interviews experts to learn how they joined forces to identify the skeleton of a woman no-one knew was missing, and bring her killer to justice.
Former DCI Jackie Malton, accesses 10 case files, revisiting the investigations with the police, detectives and other professionals who experienced them first hand.
Former DCI Jackie Malton re-investigates the murder of 20-year-old Suzanne Greenhill, a deaf woman living in a community cut off from the world.
Former DCI Jackie Malton looks into the case of British au-pair Louise Woodward, after a child she was looking after had been rushed to a hospital unresponsive.
Former DCI Jackie Malton revisits the case of a Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin, who had a criminal record dating back to his childhood.
Former Detective Chief Inspector Jackie Malton sets out to explore a rare case of filicide, when a parent murders their own children.
Former DCI Jackie Malton re-examines the crimes of two childhood friends, John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who became two of the most notorious murderers in British criminal history.
Former DCI Jackie Malton revisits the case of Neil Entwistle, a seemingly shy and unassuming man who murdered his wife and baby daughter in cold blood before fleeing the country.
Ex-DCI Jackie Malton speaks with investigators and witnesses from the 1969 disappearance of Muriel McKay, hoping to shed new light on the mystery. On December 29th , Muriel was kidnapped from her home in Wimbledon by two brothers from Trinidad & Tobago, Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein. Muriel was the wife of Rupert Murdoch’s top executive, and it transpired that her kidnappers mistook her for Anna Murdoch, the media tycoon’s wife—they had no idea that Muriel was just using the company car while the Murdochs were on holiday.
Jackie turns her attention to Fred and Rose West, an English couple who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in and around Gloucester. All of their victims were young and female—and included two of their own children. In most cases, the victims were picked up while hitchhiking or waiting for a bus, then they were raped, killed and buried under the house. Jackie returns to the now empty lot at 25 Cromwell Street to revisit the couple’s sickening crimes.
Jackie takes to the streets of Newport to cast her forensic eye over the 1988 murder of Danny Denbury. On 19th January 1988, Denbury was murdered in his home on Pillmawr Road by ex-soldier Christopher McGovern. Denbury, who was gay, took McGovern back to his home after a night out. McGovern later admitted that he had killed Denbury after the latter had propositioned him for sex. Denbury was found tied to a radiator, stabbed and battered to death. Jackie will speak with SIO Mark Waters, who led the investigation; Alyn Chown, CSI; Bernard Williams, forensic liaison on the case; and Detective Constable Kevin Price.
Jackie heads to the Midlands to retrace the steps that led police to arrest Alun Kyte, A.KA The Midlands Ripper. Kyte claimed his first victim, Samo Paull (20), in December 1993. Her strangled body was found in a ditch by a road near Swinford, Leicestershire. In March 1994, Kyte, a former lorry driver, murdered Tracey Turner (30), dumping her corpse on a grass verge near Bitteswell, about six miles from where Ms Paull had been found. Kyte was arrested and jailed for life. Jackie will speak to SIO Mick Creedon; Peter Priestley, interviewing officer; Paul Britton, criminal profiler; Orlando Elmshirst, CSI; and Phill Pyke, who led Operation Enigma into the unsolved murders of over 200 women.
Jackie is back on the beat in Newport, digging out the case file on a grisly murder that sent shockwaves through the town in 1992. Sian Collier (24) was the manager of a Ladbrokes betting shop who, on the 25th August 1992, was brutally murdered as she counted the day’s takings. The killer was Anthony Clapham (31), a debt-ridden gambling addict. Clapham waited until the other punters had left, then broke into Collier’s office, repeatedly stabbed her in the back and strangled her with a telephone cord, before making off with £400. He quickly fled to Dorset with his family, but was soon apprehended by police. Contributorsfor this episode are Ian Johnstone, Senior Inspecting Officer; Kevin Price, Deputy SIO on the case; Alun Chown, CSI; and Chris Parry, the crime scene manager.
Jackie takes on the infamous case of Myra Hindley. Hindley was an English serial killer who, with her partner Ian Brady, murdered five children in and around Manchester between June 1963 and October 1965. Hindley and Brady—who became known as the Moors Murderers because of their practice of killing and burying their victims on Saddleworth Moor—were arrested in 1965 and sentenced to life imprisonment.