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Michael Winner's True Crimes

Film director Michael Winner examines real-life police investigations in this topical and highly successful true crime series.
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  1. S1 E1 - The Village Murders
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    June 5, 1992
    26min
    TV-14
    In the 1980s, Colin Pitchfork raped and murdered two girls in Leicestershire. This is the story of the case that changed the course of criminal history when, for the first time, genetic DNA fingerprinting was used to identify the killer.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Lady and the Baroness
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    June 12, 1992
    26min
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    This is the fascinating case of a high society family fraud.
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  3. S1 E3 - Rachel McLean
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    June 19, 1992
    26min
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    This is the story of how brilliant detective work trapped the killer of 19-year-old Oxford University student Rachel McLean.
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  4. S1 E6 - The Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Job
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    September 5, 1992
    26min
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    A dramatized recreation of an audacious armed robbery. This is the story of how detectives tracked down handsome Italian playboy Valerio Viccei, the mastermind behind one of the biggest bank robberies in history.
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  5. S1 E7 - Murder by the Sea
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    September 19, 1992
    26min
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    In the early 1980s, Susan Barber partied for nearly a year, thinking she had gotten away with the murder of her husband, Michael, after she poisoned him with weedkiller.
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  6. S1 E8 - A Twist in the Tale
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    September 12, 1992
    26min
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    A Surrey businessman was kidnapped and then tethered to a tree in the Devon countryside for five days.
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Content advisory
Flashing lightsviolencesubstance usesmokingsexual content
Subtitles
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Directors
Kathryn WolfeTerry IlandNigel Miller
Producers
Jeremy PhillipsSimon ShapsJohn Parrish
Studio
FilmRise
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