April 1, 1996 • 30m
Born in Nebraska, Charlie Starkweather was a dissolute teenager and self-styled rebel. He dreamt of becoming rich and of earning a...Read more
April 8, 1996 • 30m
In December 1971 the world was amazed when it was announced that author Clifford Irving would be collaborating with millionaire re...Read more
April 15, 1996 • 30m
On 10th March 1980, Jean Harris, headmistress of an exclusive East Coast girls school, drove to the house of her lover, Dr Herman ...Read more
April 22, 1996 • 30m
On 4th February 1974 Patricia Hearst the 19-year-old heiress to one of America’s largest media fortunes was kidnapped by an obscur...Read more
April 29, 1996 • 30m
In July 1966 alcoholic ex-marine Richard Speck woke up in Chicago after a night on the town and heard a radio report which sickene...Read more
May 6, 1996 • 30m
An habitual criminal from childhood, Caryl Chessman was also one of the cleverest of criminals. Condemned to death for repeated ra...Read more
May 13, 1996 • 30m
The murder of a policeman in Britain is still a rarity, but on 12th August 1966 the nation was shocked when three were gunned down...Read more
May 20, 1996 • 30m
After a desperate phone call appealing for help police raced to a remote farmhouse in Essex, to stop a hysterical young woman runn...Read more
May 27, 1996 • 30m
Hitler and his Nazi party dominated Germany for only 12 years. But during that short period they not only brought about a World Wa...Read more
June 3, 1996 • 30m
In April 1943, Berlin announced that the bodies of 3,000 Polish officers had been found murdered by the Soviets at Katyn Wood. Sta...Read more
June 10, 1996 • 30m
Mahatma Gandhi was revered as the father of modern India, whose campaign of non-violent rebellion finally persuaded the British to...Read more
June 17, 1996 • 30m
The last 1950s and 1960s were a time of turmoil in America as the Civil Rights movement fought against racial segregation. Its lea...Read more
June 24, 1996 • 30m
Few events have shocked a generation more than the murder of President John F Kennedy on 22nd November 1963 in Dallas. Young and c...Read more
July 1, 1996 • 30m
On 4th April 1962 James Hanratty was hanged for an apparently motiveless shooting of two lovers on the A6 main road near London. B...Read more
July 8, 1996 • 30m
During the five years from 1978 - 83 an unassuming civil servant who lived in the Muswell Hill area of London became Britain’s wor...Read more
July 15, 1996 • 30m
Although happily married, 25-year-old Charles Whitman was a worried man. He knew that he was in the grip of a terrible compulsion ...Read more
July 22, 1996 • 30m
One of North America’s largest security companies, Brinks, has always been a target for robbers. One of the most spectacular attem...Read more
July 29, 1996 • 30m
During a two year rampage, a sadistic serial killer broke into the homes of families throughout California. He raped, mutilated an...Read more
August 5, 1996 • 30m
On 19th June 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg walked to the electric chair in Sing Sing prison to become the first married couple i...Read more
August 12, 1996 • 30m
To this day, the exact fate of Jimmy Hoffa, one of the most corrupt and forceful US union leaders, remains a mystery. Hoffa had bu...Read more
August 19, 1996 • 30m
Dan White gave up his job with the San Francisco fire department to go into politics. Running on a strongly anti-gay platform he w...Read more
August 26, 1996 • 30m
The film ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ made a romantic myth of these two young Texans. In reality they were illiterate, unfeeling killers who...Read more
September 2, 1996 • 30m
Experience has taught the Atlanta police department to expect about eight child murders a year - usually within families and usual...Read more
September 9, 1996 • 30m
The Escapes from Alcatraz. Documenting some of the attempted escapes from the notorious US island prison in San Francisco Bay.
September 16, 1996 • 30m
Founded originally in the aftermath of the American Civil War as a defender of white southerners against the revenge of freed blac...Read more
September 23, 1996 • 30m
Originating as a resistance movement against Arab invaders in 9th Century Sicily, this secret society was brought to the United St...Read more