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Line of Duty returns
Bent coppers beware – Ted Hastings and the team are coming back for a seventh series of the BBC hit drama
Nov 19
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Stockwell tube shooting returns to haunt Met
A new Disney+ drama is set to reopen the controversy over the killing by police of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005
Apr 15
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Sixty years on – will the identity of London's Hammersmith serial killer remain a secret forever?
The body of Bridie O'Hara was found in 1965, but Scotland Yard's investigation never got close to trapping the man who killed her and five other women
Feb 28
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Sambre – a shocking case
This French TV drama shows how police apathy allowed a serial predator to terrorise women living along the Sambre river for decades
Feb 14
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The Pembrokeshire murders part 2
Years of John Cooper terrorising the Pembrokeshire coastal community with murder, rape and burglary was ended when police finally got the forensic…
Nov 27, 2024
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The Pembrokeshire murders part 1
The beautiful South Wales coast was the scene of a chilling campaign of murder, rape and terror for more than two decades
Oct 17, 2024
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Thieving was better than sex
New series Joan dramatises the life of a woman with more balls – and nous – than the male blaggers, geezers and wideboys we often see glamourised on TV
Oct 4, 2024
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Is true crime bad for us?
The genre is often condemned for being salacious and degrading. But last weekend's CrimeCon in London revealed the positive value of non-fiction crime
Sep 27, 2024
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What I read in Summer 2024
Sep 20, 2024
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The best true-crime doc now on TV is…
… The Body Next Door on Sky Documentaries (in the UK) is a well-made three-parter that tells an extraordinary, engrossing story
Sep 19, 2024
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55 years later, will Muriel McKay be found?
A shocking, callous kidnapping in 1969 left a legacy of pain and grief
Sep 5, 2024
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Three books – two I admired, one I couldn't finish
Two non-fiction crime books I read recently were fascinating and written with skill – while a third dismayed me
Aug 23, 2024
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After 49 years, the murderer of Eileen Cotter was caught
Two shocking deaths occurred during my schooldays in Highbury, London – one was recently solved, the other never has been…
Aug 8, 2024
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Why did Scotland Yard's biggest manhunt fail: Part 3
Dictatorial senior officers, information overload and bad luck defeated London's finest in the hunt for one of the capital's worst serial killers
Jul 25, 2024
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