True Crime

Lured To Her Death: The Murder of Sasha Marsden

23m

Sasha Marsden was brutally murdered in a hotel, after being lured there with the promise of a job. Lucinda Herbert revisits this horrifying case, and meets a family member campaigning to keep her killer, David Minto, behind bars.

Mystery of Robert Hutchinson's disappearance

6m

Sunderland Echo reporter Kevin Clark tells the story of the disappearance of Sunderland dad Robert Hutchinson in 2014, and speaks to Robert's daughter.

True Crime Stories Portsmouth: The 'body-in-the-bag' killing

12m

The story of David Hilder, who killed and dismembered his friend, David Guy, in Southsea on 2012.

True Crime Stories: The Murder of Elle Edwards

12m

An innocent bystander, beautician Elle Edwards was shot dead at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey Village, Liverpool, on Christmas Eve.

Ashley Dale: An innocent victim of gun crime

12m

Ashley Dale was shot dead at her home in Old Swan during an attack in Liverpool - though police believe she wasn't the intended target.

Wearside Jack: A Lethal Hoax

12m

Sunderland Echo reporter Kevin Clark, with the help of author Dr Mark Blacklock, takes us through the case of 'Wearside Jack' John Humble - the Sunderland hoaxer who significantly derailed the investigation into the Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s and early '80s.

The Unsolved Murder of John Luper

24m

On Monday the 16th of February 2004, 57-year-old Leeds businessman John Luper was killed during a robbery at his home on Sandmoor Drive in Alwoodley. Over 20 years after his murder, the case is still unsolved, despite multiple appeals by his family and the police.

Craig Millar: The baby and the community

12m

The unsolved killing of teenager Jonathan Matondo

9m

True Crime Sheffield: How the murder of 16-year-old Jonathan Matondo - gunned down in a city park - shocked Sheffield.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

The Skull On Oxford Road

12m

A mini-documentary looking at the unsolved mystery of a skull discovered in a skip in Birmingham back in 2006.

The Murder of Shawn Seesahai

12m

Two 13-year-old boys - believed to be the youngest knife murderers in the UK - have been convicted of the brutal killing of 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai. This film looks back at the harrowing case, including interviews with Shawn's devastated parents and CCTV footage of him and his friends before the incident.

True Crime Stories: The murder of Tarek Chaiboub

11m

Tarek Chaiboub was just 17 years old when he was killed in broad daylight outside a barber’s on Spital Street, Burngreave, in July 2008.

Allan Bryant: family’s 10 years of heartache over missing Glenrothes man

12m

The tenth anniversary of the disappearance of Glenrothes man Allan Bryant has been marked with a renewed appeal for anyone to come forward with information which could finally end his family’s painful heartache.<br />

The history of Glasgow policing and the famous case of Oscar Slater

24m

Oscar Slater faced one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Scottish policing history. It is commonly believed that London was the first place in the world to have a police force but it was actually Glasgow.

London’s ‘sensational shootout’ that saw three policemen killed and criminals flee overseas

24m

We speak a to historian Andrew Whitehead about the most ‘sensational shootout’ the capital has ever seen. It includes the robbery of a jewellery store, Winston Churchill, a fire and the death of three policemen.

The Disappearance of Charlene Downes

52m

On the 20th anniversary of her disappearance, we take an in-depth look at the story of Charlene Downes who disappeared on 1 November 2003, when she was 14, from her home town of Blackpool.<br />

"I'm so sorry": Jailed lorry driver who killed three in crash

24m

A lorry driver who caused a collision which killed three people has spoken from his prison cell as part of a hard-hitting film by Durham Constabulary. The family of the victims and officers who were at the scene also have their say - due to distressing content, viewer discretion is advised.

True Crime Stories: How Nikki Allan's killer was finally caught

24m

Sunderland Echo reporter Kevin Clark tells the story of the long hunt for the killer of a young girl murdered in Sunderland in 1992, the innocent man tried for the crime, the grieving mother's battle for justice - and the conviction of the culprit more than 30 years later.

True Graveyard Stories: Murder by the seaside

17m

Lucinda Herbert visits the unmarked graves of a young mum who was butchered to death in her own living room, a woman killed in an air raid shelter on the prom, and a hotelier left with her 'head hanging off' after her husband slashed her throat.

Olivia Pratt-Korbel: Another innocent child taken by gun crime

12m

Nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was tragically killed on Monday 22 August 2022. She was fatally shot by Thomas Cashman at her home in Dovecot. Exactly 15 years since the murder of Rhys Jones, another innocent child's life, cut short by gun crime on the streets of Merseyside.

Fading Trails: The Unsolved Murders of Alice & Edna

12m

The investigation may have been scaled down, but the desire and determination to find who killed Alice & Edna remains as strong as ever within the force. The people of Birmingham need to know.

True Crime Stories: The murders of Blake and Tristan Barrass

12m

Sheffield was left in a state of shock and utter disbelief after learning that 13-year-old Tristan and Blake Barrass, aged 14, had been murdered. The case took another devastating turn when their parents, Sarah Barrass and Brandon Machin, were subsequently charged with, and pleaded guilty to, their murders.

True Crime Stories: Edlington torture brothers

12m

True Crime Stories: Britain’s most notorious fugitive could be released

12m

Portsmouth killer Victor Farrant was Britain’s most notorious fugitive following brutal murder of Glenda Hoskins at Port Solent home in 1996. We speak to her family members as news breaks Farrant could soon be released after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

True Crime Stories: The killing of Marcia Grant

12m

Boy, 13, was being fostered by Sheffield mum Marcia Grant when he killed her with her own car.<br />

True Crime Stories: Aseel Al-Essaie: Gunned down in broad daylight

12m

Aseel Al-Essaie was shot dead in Sheffield in 2017 with what police described was a 'Dirty Harry' style weapon. Sarah Marshall looks back at the case.

Joanna Dennehy: Peterborough ditch murders

12m

Peterborough’s Joanne Dennehy is the first woman in the UK to be handed a whole life tariff by a Judge. The judge ordered that she should die behind bars for the brutal murders of three innocent men.<br /><br />

True Crime Stories: The Sunderland Strangler

12m

Sunderland Echo reporter Kevin Clark recounts the case of serial killer Steven Grieveson, who murdered four teenage boys in the early 1990s.

Cutting Deep: The Knife Crime Crisis

24m

Lucinda Herbert looks into the crisis of knife crime in the UK, and talks to one of the most hard-hitting anti-knife crime school teachers in the country.

Grief: The agony of knife crime in the Black Country

47m

In the heart-wrenching documentary 'Grief,' delve into the stark realities of knife crime gripping the Black Country as two grieving parents, a mother and a father, bravely share their haunting stories of loss.

The hunt for 'Noddy' Rice's killer

12m

Shields Gazette reporter Ryan Smith discusses the hunt for the killer of David 'Noddy' Rice in 2006, and speaks to Noddy's sister Shirley Rice about her long wait for closure.

Motive mystery of Tipu Sultan killing

12m

Shields Gazette reporter Ryan Smith looks at the case of the murder of Tipu Sultan in South Tyneside in 2015 - a crime for which two men were convicted and jailed, but whose motive has never been properly established.

True Crime Stories: The unsolved murder of Billy Sibbald

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It is one of the Capital’s most notorious unsolved murders. Billy Sibbald - an Edinburgh pub-owner was found dead in 2002 next to a motorway lay-by three months after he was reported missing. <br />

Edinburgh True Crime Stories: Murder of Caroline Hogg

8m

It was a sunny evening on July 8, 1983 when five-year-old Caroline Hogg – still wearing a pretty gingham dress from an afternoon party – was playing happily on Portobello Promenade.<br /><br />The lively youngster had begged her mother, Annette, for a few more minutes outside to go to the seaside swing park near her home.<br /><br />Witnesses would later report seeing her riding a <br />double-decker bus on a roundabout at the popular Fun City <br />fairground.<br /><br />But after it stopped, Caroline walked away hand-in-hand with a “scruffy-looking” man who had just paid 15p to the cashier for her turn as he stood nearby and watched.<br /><br />That happy little girl would never be seen again and, 30 years later, her murder continues to haunt Edinburgh and the minds of the detectives who finally caught her killer.<br />

True Crime Stories Portsmouth: The 'body-in-the-bag' killing

12m

Video story on David Hilder who killed and dismembered his friend, David Guy in Southsea on 2012

Portsmouth Crime Stories: The mysterious disappearance of Buster Crabb

13m

True Crime - Mysterious disappearance of Buster Crabb

Leeds Crime Stories: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Chadwick

12m

Leeds Crime Stories: The Unsolved Murder of Adam Chadwick - Abbey Maclure examines the 2008 Harehills murder of Adam Chadwick as his family continue to search for answers 15 years on.

Sheffield True Crime Stories: The murder of Patricia Grainger.

12m

Son's heartbreak as hunt for killer who murdered mum in Sheffield continues 26 years on.<br /><br />Patricia Grainger was killed on August 10, 1997, but despite a number of police appeals and rewards offered through the years nobody has yet been jailed over her murder.<br /><br />She was 25 years old when her body was found dumped under a discarded base at a brook behind homes on Deerlands Avenue, Parson Cross.<br /><br />The mum-of-one, who had learning difficulties, was from nearby Buchanan Road and had been missing for a number of days before her body was found by children playing in the brook, known as Sheffield Lane Dike or Tongue Gutter.

True Crime Stories: The murder of Michaela Hague

12m

Michaela, who was working as a prostitute when she was killed, was picked up by a man trawling the streets of Sheffield’s red light district.<br /><br />He picked the 25-year-old up in a car from Bower Street, off Corporation Street, in the city centre and drove her to a secluded car park nearby – opposite a pub known then as The Manchester, but which is now The Harlequin.<br /><br />An old-style blue Ford Sierra was seen driving away from where Michaela’s body was discovered by another sex worker, who raised the alarm.<br /><br />PC Richard Twigg was the first police officer to arrive at the crime scene and Michaela managed to pass on some valuable information about her attacker, which the police officer jotted down on his hand as he tended to her before she was rushed to the Northern General Hospital, where she died three hours later.

True crime: Lancashire's Handless Corpse

24m

When two amateur divers plunged into a water filled quarry near Chorley on a Sunday morning they were unaware of what they were about to uncover - or the consequences of the gruesome find.<br />Jeff Ashcroft and Ian Reading found the mutilated body of a man weighed down by bricks on 14 October 1979.<br />The murder investigation lead Lancashire police to an amazing journey as far afield as Australia.