Reality series interviewing people/families who were victims of violent crimes or people who were friends / family of murderers and rapists and had narrow escapes
Richard Vernon and Michael Aldridge star as Home Office-appointed criminologists in this clever, humorous and highly original Granada series. Devised and co-written by the award-winning Robin Chapman – the creator of the series’ famous prequel The Man in Room 17 – The Fellows charts the continuing work and often strained relationship of Room 17’s former occupants Oldenshaw and Dimmock.
Now appointed to the Peel Research Fellowship at All Saints’ College, Cambridge, they no longer simply solve crimes, trap spies and hunt traitors; their new brief is to investigate the changing nature of crime, ultimately advising the police, legislature and government. But the familiar cat-and-mouse game with the criminal fraternity isn’t over yet, and and their ingeniously unorthodox tactics help to ensnare several lynchpins of organised crime – including infamous gangland boss Spindoe.
This gripping true-crime series explores cases of innocent people murdered in their own homes by someone they thought they could trust and, in some cases, had known for many years.
Cheshire, the north west of England, May 2013. When a French-speaking man contacts local police confessing to killing his housemate several years earlier, two detectives set out to discover the truth. The discovery of a body buried in a concrete tomb in a seemingly ordinary neighbourhood triggers an investigation that uncovers a shocking story of betrayal, deception and brutal murder.
A gripping true crime documentary series exploring notorious murder cases that transformed idyllic UK rural landscapes into crime scenes. Each episode features in-depth interviews, revealing the chilling stories behind the tragedies.
The village maniac Timofey from the village of Sosnovka is very fond of classical literature. So much so that he stages his murders based on the works of Bulgakov, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare and other book classics, but the local police cannot understand this. Olga, the investigator, becomes a ray of light in the dark kingdom for Timofey, who comes to Sosnovka from the city and immediately notices the literary background of the crimes. But the authorities do not want to listen to her guesses.
Witness the unboxing of real case evidence while hearing from the actual investigators, prosecutors, and witnesses. Full of twists and turns, each episode will connect the dots of seemingly unrelated evidence to tell the story of what happened.
The series is an adaptation of Mohammad Nazim Uddin best-selling eponymous novel. The story is about a sport-shooter who is forced into a life of crime and uses his shooting skills to assassinate.