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Introduced by renowned English actor Edward Woodward, In Suspicious Circumstances is an anthology of reenactments depicting real-life murder mysteries, some famous and some obscure, exploring cases with elements of miscarriage of justice, unsolved mysteries, and unusual circumstances, often spanning different historical periods.
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Edward Woodward
Storyteller
1994
In April 1879, Liverpudlian merchant James Maybrick is poisoned with arsenic. His wife Florence is found guilty but did she get a fair trial?
Evelyn Foster stops to pick up a man who's missed his last bus, but the part of the good Samaritan ends badly for her as she is killed.
With husband Percy away, Frederick Bywaters romances wife Edith Thompson. In 1922, Bywaters stabs Percy to death and both are hanged.
Having bought his title, Prince Ali Fahmy Bey falls for sex worker Marguerite, and marries her, the marriage is a disaster, and ends in murder.
Dr Robert Clements married three times for money. In 1940, he took a fourth bride but she, too, soon becomes ill.
In the winter of 1863, poverty is rife, soon after taking out an insurance policy on her mother Mary, Alice Hewitt stands accused of murdering her mother by arsenic poisoning.
Gangland boss Jim Colosimo is obsessed with singer Dale Winter so hires Johnny Torrio and Al Capone to deal with business.
In Edwardian Lancaster, the bodies of a respected family were exhumed, having died within one year of each other. Murder was suspected.
In June 1934, the body of Violet Kaye is found in a trunk, in Brighton. Kaye was in a violent relationship with drunk Tony Mancini.
Weldon Atherstone believes that his beau Elizabeth has been seeing his own son Thomas behind his back, when he aims to challenge the pair, tragedy strikes.
346 men who were shot at dawn during the Great War. James Crozier joined up at sixteen but suffering from shell shock he deserted.
Privates Wild and Crimmins go out drinking on the eve of the Battle of Somme, missing roll call and the battle the next morning.
1996
Jan 1926; Kathleen Smith meets Jack Derham but her husband Frank is determined to win her back.
1919; Arthur Goslett has two wives, Evelyn and Daisy. Daisy confronts him and he decides to murder Evelyn.
1865; Adolf Beck is identified as swindler John Smith. He is sentenced to twelve years. His name is finally cleared in 1907.
1909; George Storrs fears for his life but the police fail react to a ringing bell and he is found dead.
Sept 1911; Frances Orme was found dead at the Savoy, in Lucknow. Her friend Eva Stephens is put on trial for poisoning her.
1884; John Lee was due to hang for the murder of Emma Keyse but on three occasions it failed.
1560; Queen Elizabeth I's close friendship Robert Dudley is frowned on. When Dudley's wife dies, scandal threatens the monarchy.
1855 Glasgow; Madeleine Smith is the prime suspect in the murder of Emile L'Angelier, a man considered outside of her class, but whom she had an illicit affair with. L'Angelier is murdered with arsenic, arsenic that Smith was known to purchase.
Jan 1928; Harry Pace dies of arsenic poisoning. His wife Beatrice was released due a lack of evidence and the possibility Harry killed himself.
February 1882; Esther Pay is tried for poisoning Georgina Moore but acquitted due to faulty evidence.
1929; American stage actor Philip Yale Drew is accused of murdering a tobacconist, in Reading but he claims to have no memory.
August 1908; Major General Charles Luard is the prime suspect when his adored and much loved wife Daisy is killed. Charles receives a string of poison pen letters, and is driven to a tragic act.
1993
In May 1932, wealthy Elvira Barney and Michael Scott Stephens host a party. Next morning, Stephens is found dead and Barney will face trial.
Farmer's wife Margaret Dobson sets off to the local village at dusk, she never returns. Margaret is found dead, having been raped and murdered, 21 year old Country lad Robert Hoolhouse is arrested and charged.
In June 1931, model Starr Faithfull was found on a beach in Long Beach, New York. Despite a verdict of drowning, she was badly bruised.
After three months of courting, Herbert Bennett and Alice Meadows set a date for their wedding. Bennett, however, is arrested for the murder of widow Mary Hood, whose body was found on a beach in Yarmouth.
1991
Unsolved mystery of a Victorian poisoning.
An elderly woman is murdered.
Anthony John Maffia, aka The Magpie, is a thief of some notoriety—and a friend of The Krays—is killed, Stephen Crown Jewel is arrested, he claims Maffia was killed by three men, and that it was a gang killing.
1992
In 1949, showgirl Mollie Mozelle vanishes under mysterious circumstances.
In 1927, Maundy Gregory sold peerages on behalf the Liberal Party and was involved in a blackmail scandal.
In 1965, former boxer Freddie Mills was found dead, shot through one eye. The verdict was suicide but should it be murder?
In 1900, Louise Masset was executed for the murder of her 3-year-old child but was she really a victim of prejudice.
In 1928–29, three members of the Sidney family were poisoned. The Croyden Poisonings remain unsolved to this day.
The story of a murder in the immigrant Jewish community of East London, for which a flamboyant character known as 'The Australian' was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
