Murder Maps

Part 1 of this two-part Jack the Ripper special. We reveal how the story was shaped by the press of 1888 and the true lives of the five women slain.

Part 2 of this two-part Jack the Ripper special. We reveal how the story was shaped by the press of 1888 and the true lives of the five women slain.

In the early twentieth century moving pictures had arrived. The cameras would be there to in 1911, to record The Siege of Sidney Street the first breaking-news story in history.

During the First World War Henri Landru would seduce lonely women and then they would vanish. Two women decided to pursue Landru.

The Hay Poisoner was the first and only person to be hanged in the UK. The evidence was mostly circumstantial and the scientific testimony remains disputed.

Amelia Dyer one of the most prolific killers in British history earned a living murdering babies. Dyer promised mothers that for a fee she would adopt their babies and raise them as her own.

There was a serial killer on the loose in Cleveland, Ohio in the 1930s. Here we investigate the unsolved murders committed by the Butcher of Kingsbury Run.

In Britain 1878 a widow was killed by her servant. Which struck at the heart of Victorian society, where the rigid divides between the classes.

Here we reveal how the notorious killer Mary Pearcey began an affair with her victim’s husband, how she inserted herself into the family’s life.