Dr John Bodkin Adams: Angel of mercy?
STORY SO FAR For decades, the UK’s most successful and wealthy doctor had been receiving anonymous letters accusing him of being a killer. But was the GP really bumping off his patients..? THE CASE...
View ArticleAlma Rattenbury: Scandal and murder at the Villa Madeira
THE STORY SO FAR A tale from the archives. Alma’s exciting marriage had turned stale and loveless. Then she’d started a passionate affair with her chauffeur. Soon her husband was dead. But who killed...
View ArticleJames Camb: The porthole murderer
THE STORY SO FAR Beautiful actress Gay Gibson, 21, was enjoying life onboard the luxury liner whisking her from South Africa to England. But en-route, Gay vanished. And soon, a young deck steward was...
View ArticleEdith Thompson: innocent dreamer or evil murderer?
THE STORY SO FAR Edith Thompson was different to the average middle-class woman living in the 1920s – she was educated, well-read, spoke French and had a young lover – but would she kill to be with...
View ArticleRosina Ann Cornock – A very kinky killer?
THE STORY SO FAR When ambulancemen and police answered a 999 call in the early hours of the morning in December 1946, they got a lot more than they bargained for – a husband dead in suspicious...
View ArticleFatty Arbuckle: Cheeky chappie or killer rapist?
THE STORY SO FAR Movie star Fatty Arbuckle had everything. Fame, money and adoration. But one night, everything went very wrong. THE CASE Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was always destined for big things....
View ArticleMurder in the skies? The case of Jack Gilbert Graham and flight 629
THE STORY SO FAR A terrible air crash, 44 innocent victims, miles of wreckage strewn across the countryside. Was this a tragic accident that no-one could have foreseen? Or could one man really have...
View ArticleFlorence Maybrick: Arsenic and evil?
A young wife, a lover, a dying husband – but was it murder? THE STORY SO FAR Florence Chandler was swept off her young feet by the older, wealthy tycoon James Maybrick. But a whirlwind romance soon...
View ArticleMurder most miserly? The poisoner Frederick Seddon
THE STORY SO FAR The year was 1910. When Frederick Seddon took in a lodger, it seemed like good financial sense. He was a well-known businessman and always had a nose for making money, but when his...
View ArticleDr Sam Sheppard: Did the doctor do it?
His wife was dead upstairs, but did Dr Sam have blood on his hands? THE STORY SO FAR When his pregnant wife was murdered, Dr Sam Sheppard told the police a mysterious intruder had done it. But was he...
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