Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century

  • Premiered: Nov 1993
  • Episodes: 78
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • BBC
  • Unknown
  • Crime Documentary History

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Season 3
3x1
Mark Chapman and the Killing of John Lennon
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Jan 02, 1996
One man’s obsessive adoration of the world’s greatest rock star led to a transposition of personality and the death of John Lennon.
3x2
Gaston Dominici and the Drummond Murders
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Jan 09, 1996
The brutal murder of Sir Jack Drummond and his family in the lonely Provencal countryside led to a sensational trial and the eventual sentencing of a peasant farmer to the guillotine.
3x3
Henry Lee Lucas: The Highway Stalker
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Jan 16, 1996
Henry Lee Lucas was an American convicted serial killer whose crimes spanned from 1960 to 1983. He was convicted of murdering eleven people and condemned to death, although his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998.
3x4
Donald Hume: The Setty Case
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Jan 23, 1996
The discovery of a headless torso in the lonely Essex marshes sparked one of Scotland Yard's greatest forensic stories.
3x5
John Duffy: The Railway Killer
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Jan 30, 1996
A rapist-turned-murderer who started the biggest manhunt since the Yorkshire Ripper.
3x6
Graham Young: The Compulsive Poisoner
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Feb 06, 1996
The convicted poisoner who was "reformed" in Broadmoor only to strike again.
3x7
Sir Harry Oakes: The Bahamas Murder Mystery
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Feb 13, 1996
A British financier and socialite mysteriously murdered in the Bahamas.
3x8
Lord Haw-Haw: The Treason of William Joyce
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Feb 20, 1996
A prominent member of Oswald Moseley's Blackshirts before the Second World War, Joyce was the infamous traitor whose voice chilled London during the Blitz with the words "Germany Calling."
3x9
DeFeo and Benson: Inheritance Killers
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Feb 27, 1996
The story of two sons who murdered their family for their inheritance. One the crime sparked off the original "Amityville Horror."
3x10
Donald Merrett: The Murderous Buccaneer
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Mar 05, 1996
A unique case where a modern day gun-runner and drug-smuggler carried out a twenty-year crime spree murdering his wife, his mother-in-law, and even his own mother.
3x11
Roy Fontaine: The Deadly Butler
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Mar 12, 1996
The story of the killer butler of Kensington who murdered 5 people in the late 70s.
3x12
Buck Ruxton: The Ravine Bodies Mystery
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Mar 19, 1996
The discovery of body parts in a lonely Scottish river began a fascinating trail of detection. This led to a doctor who dismembered his wife and his children's nursemaid.
3x13
Leonard Lake and Charles Ng: The Calaveras County Serial Killings
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Mar 26, 1996
The story of a deadly serial-killing partnership. The true number of their victims has never been revealed.
3x14
John Bodkin Adams and Other Infamous Doctors
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Apr 02, 1996
A kindly Eastbourne doctor was arrested for poisoning wealthy old women for money. Although acquitted after an amazing trial, was he actually a mass murderer?
3x15
Heidnick and Dahmer: Killers for Company
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Apr 09, 1996
A Philadelphia murderer who ensnared his female victims one by one and locked them into a dark cellar. Also, the Milwaukee Monster who brutally killed young men for his manic desires.
3x16
Judge Joe Peel and the Chillingworth Murders
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Apr 16, 1996
Footprints in the sand, blood on some steps, and an empty Florida beach house after the disappearance of a local Judge were the only clues the police had to go on in this celebrated case.
3x17
Sacco and Vanzetti: Anarchy and Murder
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Apr 23, 1996
They avoided conscription in the First World War by fleeing to Mexico, and their political stance was that of anarchy. But did their politics make them into murderers?
3x18
The Trunk Murders
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Apr 30, 1996
Trunks left in railway left baggage departments eventually revealed their grisly secrets. Only when the police re-examined vital evidence did the murderers get caught. A breakthrough for early forensic science.
3x19
Browne and Kennedy and Other Police Killings
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May 07, 1996
Two criminals were trapped by a village "bobby" and decided to shoot him dead. The detection of the pair led to both going to the gallows.
3x20
The Siege of Sidney Street
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May 14, 1996
A robbery and the killing of three policemen by anti-Russian anarchists brought Home Secretary Winston Churchill and the Scots Guards onto the streets of London in the search for "Peter the Painter."
3x21
Leopold and Loeb: Killing for Thrills
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May 21, 1996
The story of two Chicago rich kids who killed for kicks and wrongly thought that they could get away with it.
3x22
The Zodiac Killers and Other Unsolved Serial Murders
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May 28, 1996
The San Francisco and New York Zodiac killers ended their reigns of terror without being caught, as did the man who became probably America's worst uncaught serial murderer - Seattle's "Green River Killer."
3x23
The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
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Jun 04, 1996
By the time he ran for President in 1968, JFK's brother had made many powerful enemies. When he was gunned down, apparently by a lone killer, many questions remained unanswered.
3x24
Pol Pot and the Killing Fields of Cambodia
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Jun 11, 1996
Pol Pot, born Saloth Sâr, was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who governed Cambodia as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1975 and 1979. During his reign, his .. show full overview
3x25
The Malmedy Massacre and Other Nazi War Crimes
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Jun 18, 1996
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3x26
Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies
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Jun 25, 1996
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