Real Crime(2001–)

Kenny Noye: A Face from the Past

After a fatal road rage stabbing, police hunt for the culprit, only to discover a face from the past - the man who had previously stabbed to death one of their officers.

Justice for Julie

The 800-year old double jeopardy law is thrown under the spotlight when the previously acquitted murderer of 22-year old Julie Hogg confesses to the crime. His mother believes the law should change so that he can face justice.

Crocodile Tears

Calculating killers who try to hide their guilt behind brazen public displays of grief and crocodile tears for the victims, often making cynical televised appeals for information and breaking down convincingly in front of the cameras.

Tracie Andrews Blood on Her Hands

Mr. Nice Guy

An amazing 33 years after 14-year old Roy Tutill was raped and murdered, forensic evidence finally leads to the 64-year old perpetrator.

Starring John Bindon

A documentary on the life of John Bindon, real-life London villain who took on acting roles after Ken Loach cast him as a crook in the film 'Poor Cow'. Thereafter he generally played variations on the same theme. Contributors include girl-friend actress Vicki Hodge,who was shocked by some of the things in which he involved her, 'geezer' actors George Sewell and Billy Murray and David Bowie's first wife,Angie,who was taken by his party trick - hanging several pint mugs off his member. Presumably this also appealed to Princess Margaret,with whom he stayed on Mustique,though her nervous staff kept quiet about his criminal connections. After being acquitted of murder Bindon died of AIDS at the age of fifty.

The Truth About the Babes in the Wood

The 1970 death of two children in a woodland copse, long-regarded by police as being due to hypothermia, is finally solved 30 years later when a prisoner confesses to murder.

Cracking the Killer's Code

The first ever use of DNA in a criminal case.

The Heiress and the Kidnapper

Angel of Death: The Beverly Allitt Story

The Hunt for Wearside Jack

I Was a Great Train Robber

Ben Needham: Somebody Knows

The Rachel Nickell Story

Who Killed the Pageant Queen? - Murder of JonBenét Ramsey

The Gang the Krays Feared

Justice for My Daughter

'Til Death Us Do Part

Jeremy Bamber

Love You to Death

Skydiver: Murder or Suicide?

The Caroline Dickinson Murder

The murder of a 13-year-old Cornish schoolgirl on a school trip to France sparks an international hunt for the man responsible for a string of other sexual assaults in a myriad of locations.

Rhys Jones: Caught in the Crossfire

A young lad innocently walking home after his regular football practice, fatally caught in the crossfire of gang warfare. But the gang closes ranks, even when the distraught parents try to appeal to their humanity to name the killer.

Rachel Nickell: Case Closed

Sally Anne Bowman: Death on the Doorstep

Hannah's Killer: Nowhere to Hide

When a Southampton couple loses their daughter to a vicious killer they embark on a grueling 5 year search to find him.

The Man Who Didn't Cry

An Englishman and an American woman fall in love, and in what seems like a fairy-tale romance set up a marital home together in the US. But shockingly the wife and baby daughter are suddenly found shot dead. Was husband Neil involved?

A Shot in the Dark

A lone farmer. A pair of young burglars. Shots fired. A 16 year old dead. An age-old debate reignited - how far could and should a person go to protect their own property.

The Tesco Bomber

Police recall the search for the Tesco Bomber, a Bournemouth man who used the pseudonym Sally to demand money from the grocery store chain Tesco.

Tobin: Portrait of a Serial Killer

As serial killer Peter Tobin awaits his third murder conviction, investigators from the British television series Real Crime look back at his twisted life.

Death on Duty: PC Sharon Beshenivsky

The murder of PC Sharon Beshenivsky

Murder of a Father

Yvonne Fletcher: Justice Betrayed

Revisiting the 1984 murder of police officer Yvonne Fletcher, and the political ramifications involving the Libyan regime.

Bringing Down the Gooch

The inside story of how a specialist police team brought down Manchester's most notorious gun gang.

Britain's Biggest Heist

Another massive heist - this time the biggest cash one in British history, that of £53 million from a security depot. The apparently-impregnable fortress was a supplier cash to shops and banks.

The Black Cab Rapist

The Game Show Killer

The Jigsaw Murder

The story of the 2009 murder of North London businessman Jeffrey Howe by Stephen Marshall.

Fallen Angel

About Hells Angel Gerry Tobin, who was murdered by members of rival motorcycle gang the Outlaws on the M40 while traveling back from the Bulldog Bash festival in England in August 2007.

Murder at Harvey Nicks

The story of Clare Bernal who was shot dead at the Harvey Nichols store in London's Knightsbridge by her stalker.

The Fight for Sarah's Law

Serial Killer on Camera

Colin Ireland had a rather more sinister than normal new year's resolution - to become a killer. Going to a bar to see if he got approached by another man, when he did, this started the spree which made him known as 'The Gay Slayer'.

The 30 Year Secret

The sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed leads to a miscarriage of justice when a simple naive lad is made the scapegoat and wrongly-imprisoned for 16 years. 31 years later DNA found the real killer.

The Hunt for Mr. Swirl

Canadian teacher killing kids with a swirl as his face

A Very Special Constable

Revealing the inside story of the police investigation into the murder of Special Constable Nisha Patel-Nasri in May 2006, as they uncover a shocking tale of greed, lust and the ultimate betrayal.

Death of a Hostess

The disappearance of Lucie Blackman, a young British woman working in Tokyo, leads to the apprehension of a prolific serial rapist.

Suffolk Strangler

Cat and Mouse Killer

When a wife and mother goes missing, her husband derives a sadistic pleasure in playing games with the media, until it finally transpires that he had killed her.

Diamond Geezers

The biggest heist in Britain's criminal history - stealing the Millenium Star Diamond - is met by the biggest Flying Squad operation also in Britain's history.

Killer on the Run

What seems like a simple Bank Holiday arrest for car theft, turns into the horrific slaughter of a police officer and an American fugitive on the run from justice.

The Angel of Death

Following the past episode focusing on Beverley Allitt, this one looks at two more dangerous members of the profession which we literally trust with our lives - Harold Shipman and Colin Norris.

James Bulger: A Mother's Story

Denise Fergus, whose 2-year-old son James was abducted, tortured, and murdered by two 10-year-olds in 1993, reflects on the case and her own life over the ensuing 15 years.

Death on the Bay

Illegally smuggled into the UK and forced to work in Morecambe as cockle-pickers, 23 Chinese people tragically drowned to death one devastating day in 2004.