Crime

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This is the Zodiac Speaking
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This is the Zodiac Speaking

This is the Zodiac Speaking explores America’s most famous unsolved murders through a fresh perspective by individuals who worked on the Zodiac killer investigation. The Zodiac terrorised California in 1969 with a serie...
The World’s Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
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The World’s Most Expensive Stolen Paintings

Art critic Alastair Sooke investigates the shadowy world of art heists. Although 47,000 pieces of artwork are reported missing every year, only the high-profile cases are publicised in the media. Many cases remain engulfed in...
Sex Crimes and the Vatican
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Sex Crimes and the Vatican

Sex Crimes and the Vatican by BBC Panorama investigates the allegations against the Catholic Church for covering up sex crimes. The film examines a secret document enforced by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger two decades before he b...
Unforgiven: The Boys Who Murdered James Bulger
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Unforgiven: The Boys Who Murdered James Bulger

Unforgiven: The Boys Who Murdered James Bulger examines the case of the two boys who abducted, tortured and murdered two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool in 1993. Killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson were only 10-years-...
One Minute to Nine
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One Minute to Nine

One Minute to Nine documents the story of the eighteen years of fear and marital abuse suffered by one woman which ultimately led her to killing her husband. When Wendy Maldonado finally snapped in May 2005, she admitted to t...
Manhunt: Boston Bombers
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Manhunt: Boston Bombers

In April 2013, two bomb blasts caused carnage near the Boston Marathon finish line. The tragedy left three people dead, hundreds injured and a city traumatised. In under five days the main suspects – brothers Dzhokhar a...
The Iceman Tapes: Conversations With a Killer
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The Iceman Tapes: Conversations With a Killer

The Iceman is one of the most prolific killers in American history. Richard Kuklinski, dubbed The Iceman by police, was a freelance hitman who committed multiple high-profile murders for the mafia but otherwise lived a seemin...
Edmund Kemper: Co-ed Butcher
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Edmund Kemper: Co-ed Butcher

Nearly seven feet tall, and highly intelligent, Edmund Kemper aka the Co-ed Butcher brutally murdered and dismembered ten people between 1964 and 1973. His crimes often included rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia. In 1964, at...
The Perfect Crime: The Leopold & Loeb Trial
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The Perfect Crime: The Leopold & Loeb Trial

The disturbing story of how two wealthy and highly intelligent college students, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, murdered a 14-year-old boy called Bobby Franks in 1924 in order to prove that they could commit and get away wi...
Banaz: A Love Story
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Banaz: A Love Story

Banaz: A Love Story, directed by filmmaker Deeyah Khan, chronicles the life of Kurdish-British woman Banaz Mahmod and her eventual death at the hands of her own family. Her murder, labelled by her family as an “honour k...
Hunting the KGB Killers
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Hunting the KGB Killers

Hunting the KGB Killers follows the story of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko’s death in a London hospital following a mysterious poisoning through radioactive polonium. In his final days, he was able to give detai...
The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman
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The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman

The Iceman Confesses is a disturbing insight into the life of the mafia’s most prolific hitman. It provides a first person confessional by Richard Kuklinski, a family man who was also a notorious contract killer. In a chillin...