Murder, Mystery and My Family

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy explore a classic whodunnit from 1922 in which a lowly pantry boy was charged with the murder of a titled lady in a London hotel.

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy reinvestigate a lethal shooting from 1937, when a barge captain was allegedly murdered by his best friend.

The barristers explore the notorious case of ‘The Man They Could Not Hang’ - a house servant accused of murdering his upper-class benefactor in Devon in 1884.

Jeremy and Sasha revisit a complex case from Victorian Britain that featured four suspects, two trials and ultimately just one man hanged for murder.

Sasha and Jeremy examine a case from 1882, where a wife was accused of murdering her husband with an arsenic-laced rice pudding that contained enough poison to kill fifty people.

Jeremy and Sasha reinvestigate a notorious case of matricide dating from the 1920s. Did flawed forensic evidence see an innocent man hanged?

Barristers Sasha and Jeremy investigate an infamous Scottish murder case from 1862, in which a compelling alternative suspect may have been the true killer.

Sasha and Jeremy explore a case in which the controversial killing of a police officer sparked the round-up of dozens of suspects and ended with three men going to the gallows.

Sasha and Jeremy explore a grisly Victorian murder case from 1863 in which a missing pocket watch proved to be the vital evidence that saw a man convicted and hanged.

The barristers investigate the mysterious shooting of a landowning farmer in rural Ireland in 1882. Could dubious eyewitness testimony have sent two innocent men to the gallows?