Real Crime

The terrifying story of Jeremy Bamber, an apparently devoted son who in 1985 murdered his parents Nevill and June, his adopted sister Sheila and the latter's six-year-old twins at their remote Essex farm. Key witnesses, detectives, the trial judge and Bamber's closest surviving family speak openly about one of the most shocking incidents in the annals of British crime.

The investigation into the murder of Oxford University student Rachel McLean, who disappeared in 1991. Her jealous boyfriend was apparently the last person to see her alive, but his claim that she'd been meeting another man raised the suspicions of the police, who soon had him in their sights as the prime suspect - and decided to involve the media on a massive scale to help crack the case.

Investigation throwing light on the unsolved 1996 murder of six-year-old American beauty pageant queen JonBenet Ramsey, whose body was found in the basement of her family home. It appeared that the police officers of Boulder, Colorado, were so obsessed with pinning the blame on the victim's own millionaire parents that they ignored DNA evidence pointing to a much more likely suspect.

How a specialist police team used hi-tech surveillance, DNA evidence and CCTV footage to bring the leaders of a notorious Manchester gang to justice. The programme uses police videos, interview tapes and forensic materials to offer an insight into the investigation, and reveals how the arrest and subsequent sentencing of Colin Joyce and Lee Amos led to a 90 per cent reduction in gun crime in the city.