Fred Dinenage Murder Casebook

In 1962 James Hanratty was hanged for the murder of Michael Gregsten but was there enough evidence at the time Join Fred Dinenage as he interviews Jamess brother Michael Hanratty and lawyer Sir Geoffrey Bindman about the possibility of Jamess underlying innocence John Kerr the first person on the scene describes the appalling sight he discovered while working on Deadmans Hill

Host Fred Dinenage takes a journey back to the povertystricken East End of 1888 and speaks to Jack the Ripper specialists about the continuing fascination behind the Jack the Ripper mystery With interviews from historian John Bennett and author Linda Stratmann we tell the story of life in the East End and what could have led to some of the most horrendous murders of the 19th century

The Moors Murders is one of the most infamous murder cases of the 20th century Between the years 1963 and 1965 the young couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley abducted assaulted and murdered five children in the Manchester area Fred Dinenage meets Ian Fairley one of the police officers from the original investigation and interviews Father Michael Teader Myra Hindleys Roman Catholic priest

For 26 years the public believed that two children found dead in Epping Forest near London had died of exposure Then in 1996 a convicted child murderer Ronald Jebson called police from Wakefield Prison He had information about the murder of the Babes in the Wood Metropolitan police officer Declan Donnelly finally solved the case

In 2002 a case came to light that shocked the world A man in a rural German village had filmed himself dismembering killing and eating another man The culprit Armin Meiwes became known as the Cannibal of Rotenburg Fred Dinenage travels to Germany to meet Armins childhood friend Manfred Stück and asks leading experts on the case what would make one man want to eat another

On Friday the 13th of April 1973 the bodies of three children were found impaled on garden railings in Worcester a city in the West Midlands of England The murderer The familys lodger and babysitter David McGreavy Host Fred Dinenage discovers the critical mistake that cost the children their lives and asks what caused the babysitter to embark on such a barbaric killing spree