Britain's Almost Perfect Murders - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
The Parachute Plot
Emile Cilliers tries twice to murder his wife, first with a gas leak, then by sabotaging her parachutes, until her survival exposes the plot.
The Firestarter
For years Carol Wray was seen as a fire survivor, until investigators uncovered a hidden pattern of arson that ended with her family dead.
No One Will Miss Him
Thomas Downey is murdered in Bath. DNA and CCTV lead to Darrell Richards being jailed in 2015.
The Angel of Death
Nurse Beverley Allitt murdered four children and harmed nine more in Lincolnshire, abusing trust until a pattern of deaths exposed her.
The Burning Man
In 1930, Alfred Rouse murders a drifter in Northamptonshire, and burns the body to fake his own death; but a witness, a wallet and a number plate convict him.
The Cop Turned Killer
Police officer Martin Forshaw kills fiancé, Claire Howarth, in Greater Manchester, just days before their wedding. His poor staging of a car crash led to a life sentence.
The Christmas Day Killing
Ex-soldier Jason Hill walks free after killing gangster Eugene Hinds in Leicester, boasting of the perfect murder. Hinds' friends gun him down in a club on Christmas Day.
The Deadly Gentleman
After assaulting Lily Morris in her bungalow in 1984, William Mottershead is caught by chance and convicted of murder. The Judge says he is never to be released.
The Doctor of Death
Dr Hawley Crippen flees to Canada but is caught and hanged for his wife Cora's murder in 1910. A discovery in 2007 suggests that the remains aren't hers.
Murder at the Farm
The story of what happened when five people died at White House Farm in Essex in 1985. Jeremy Bamber framed his sister for the murders, but silencer forensics and boasting were his undoing.
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