November 2, 1993 • 30m
It was a crime that shattered America. A case so improbable that nobody ever dreamed it could happen. Despite a ransom being paid,...Read more
November 9, 1993 • 30m
He started out as a violent street thug, but soon became a ruthless leader, who rose to the top of the Mafia. He always kept one s...Read more
November 16, 1993 • 30m
On St Valentine’s Day 1929, the brutal massacre of six gangsters in a Chicago warehouse signalled the emergence of Al ‘Scarface’ C...Read more
November 23, 1993 • 30m
His name struck fear into the hearts of New Yorkers and brought terror to the streets. He unleashed all his hatred on the one grou...Read more
November 30, 1993 • 30m
Within weeks, the hillsides around Los Angeles became the scene of a terrible carnage - more than ten strangled corpses. The polic...Read more
December 7, 1993 • 30m
In the world of gangsters, he was notorious, ruthless, a man destined to become a legend. He turned to crime out of boredom and so...Read more
December 14, 1993 • 30m
Charles Manson was the ultimate hippie leader with a difference. Together with his cult followers he pioneered a new revolution - ...Read more
December 21, 1993 • 30m
It was a crime that defied the imagination. In November 1978, deep in the jungles of Guyana the Rev Jim Jones gathered nearly 1,00...Read more
December 28, 1993 • 30m
American army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald seemed to have everything going for him, good looks, charm, a commission in the Green Beret...Read more
January 4, 1994 • 30m
He was young, handsome and successful - the ideal of American manhood. But when his wife was found battered to death, for him the ...Read more
January 11, 1994 • 30m
In June 1946 after six years of war a girl was found whipped and murdered in a cheap London hotel. The hunt was soon on for a suav...Read more
January 18, 1994 • 30m
Women began to disappear in the Seattle area in the first half of 1974. Almost on a monthly basis after that other women mysteriou...Read more
January 25, 1994 • 30m
He was the double murderer who insisted on being executed. The question always remained: how badly did he want to die, and why? It...Read more
February 1, 1994 • 30m
He was a man determined to demonstrate his German purity. In 1934 he became a member of the SS. He killed not only Jews en masse, ...Read more
February 8, 1994 • 30m
Seven bodies were found in the crawl space under his home. Eight more were quickly uncovered in other parts of the house, some in ...Read more
February 15, 1994 • 30m
As civil war raged across Russia in 1918, the deposed Tsar and his family were imprisoned. On 16th July they were massacred and bu...Read more
February 22, 1994 • 30m
When an unassuming US doctor living in London in 1910 fell in love with his secretary, he was tied to a wife who he hated. His sol...Read more
March 1, 1994 • 30m
In 1963 a mail train was ambushed in England. In one of the largest robberies ever, the gang got away with more than £2.5 million ...Read more
March 8, 1994 • 30m
For three years Albert DeSalvo stalked the streets of Boston, leaving behind him a hideous trail of human destruction. It was a cr...Read more
March 15, 1994 • 30m
In 1949 John George Haigh escorted Mrs Olivia Durand-Deacon down to his factory in Crawley, where he shot her in the head and then...Read more
March 22, 1994 • 30m
He had an obsession with disinfecting his flat. When he moved out, four bodies were discovered there and two more in the garden. W...Read more
March 29, 1994 • 30m
When the kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl was linked to the brutal murder of three British subpostmasters the police knew they wer...Read more
April 5, 1994 • 30m
In late October 1964, thieves stole 22 gems from New York City’s Museum of Natural History. Three of the stones were so famous the...Read more
April 11, 1994 • 30m
Despite a massive police operation, he seemed to anticipate their every move. He loved to taunt and mock the detectives and killed...Read more
April 18, 1994 • 30m
It was the first in Britain for centuries. In a cruel and callous kidnapping a woman became the innocent victim of mistaken identi...Read more
April 25, 1994 • 30m
The reign of terror that followed the first murder of a Leeds prostitute in 1975, cut a trail of fear across northern England. The...Read more