Coastal Killers

After a traumatic break-up, Lee Baker set out for revenge. Taking his anger out on his ex-girlfriend's mother Baker decapitated his first victim, before embarking on a murderous crossbow spree through Southbourne, with chaos in his wake.

While in prison for fraud, John George Haigh came up with a plan for the perfect murder: by dissolving a body in acid, he would leave no trace of the crime. Believing that he couldn't be charged if there was no body, Haigh became one of the most infamous murderers of all time.

When Pierre LeGris reports his wife Rui Li missing, police are instantly suspicious - especially as he's yet to even check her place of work. They look for a body but uncover more secrets than they're anticipating.

Two eerily similar murders take place 10 years apart; two elderly women are stabbed and killed in their home. Could they be the work of the same person? Could similarities in the case - in particular a cut clothesline in each garden - unravel this cold case for the police?

It was the case that gripped the nation: a nationwide manhunt for a vicious killer who had slaughtered a part-time actress in a London hotel. But whilst Heath is on the run in Bournemouth, another woman meets a chilling end.

The Brighton Trunk Murders were two unrelated murders linked to Brighton. In both, the dismembered body of a murdered woman was placed in a trunk - the first at a train station, the second found during door-to-door police investigations in the city. Were they linked?

Although having committed a horrific murder in 1973, Robert Henry Davies served only 15 years and had made a new life for himself. Realising he was the subject of a sexual assault case that jeopardises his new life, Davies goes on the run, beginning a reign of terror against the family.

Bodkin Adams was a trusted GP with a dark secret. He had a habit of befriending older patients, and often benefitted from their wills after their deaths - which sometimes seemed sooner than expected. Eventually, gossip started to circulate about the doctor - but was this murder - or euthanasia?

Bodkin Adams was a trusted GP with a dark secret. He had a habit of befriending older patients, and often benefitted from their wills after their deaths - which sometimes seemed sooner than expected. Eventually, gossip started to circulate about the doctor - but was this murder - or euthanasia?

Charlotte Pinkney vanished in the early hours of February 28, 2004. Police launched a murder hunt when her handbag was found in near where she vanished. After almost a month of intensive searches - and despite no body being found - police arrested and tried 22-year-old scaffolder Nicholas Rose.