Countdown To Murder

Documentary reconstructing the events that led to the horrific murder of Gemma McCluskie.

The series charting the final days, hours and minutes leading up to some of the UK’s most horrific murders of modern times continues. This episode focuses on the murder of a woman whose body was discovered in a chest freezer. Reports of a chilling and cold-blooded murder hit the headlines in 2010 when Rebecca Thorpe was found dead in a chest freezer at the back of the pubs he ran with her partner Michael Tucker. She had been shot in the back of the head while taking a bath. This documentary details the tragic events leading up to her death and looks at what led Tucker to commit such a dispassionate, execution style killing.

The horrific killing of 33-year-old Stacey Mackie shook the small Lake District town of Kendal when her supposed friend set her on fire. Stacey had overcome many obstacles in order to live an independent and happy life, but when she ended her friendship with Terrence Armer she sealed her own death warrant.

This episode focuses on Britain's youngest female double murderer, Lorraine Thorpe, who tortured and killed one female victim and murdered her own father.

This episode examines the case of Ty Medland, a man who murdered his young wife Sam by stabbing her repeatedly in a public square in Brighton.

Documentary about the murder of Carol Parks by her husband.

The murder mystery that gripped the nation - the case of 25-year-old Joanna Yeates.

The story of the 2009 murder of 65-year-old Maureen Cosgrove and what led her son-in-law George Maben to kill her. George fell in love with Maureen's youngest daughter and soon moved into her home, alongside Maureen's husband Terrence. The Cosgrove family had, had issues in the past and in 2007, the new couple moved to Ireland leaving two children in Maureen's care. But when Maben began showing his laziness and willingness to not do nothing to Maureen's daughter, the pair moved back home. When the daughter announced in 2008, she was pregnant, Maureen asked the couple to leave their home, trigging Maben's urge to murder her. In 2009, the crime was committed. Members of the immediate family and friends of Maureen discuss the brutal and calculated murder of a pillar of the local community.