Sat, Nov 10, 2012
During the 1960s, fear spread through the local community of Cannock Chase. Children were being snatched from the streets, sexually assaulted and murdered. Fred Dinenage re investigates the brutal killings that sparked one of the biggest manhunts in police history, and led to the conviction of Raymond Leslie Morris. Fred meets detectives Conrad Joseph and John Farrall who worked first hand on the child killer hunt and finds out with Professor David Wilson how difficult putting together a photofit of a killer is.
Mon, Dec 9, 2013
On Friday 13th April 1973 the bodies of three children were found impaled on garden railings. The murderer? The family's lodger David McGreavy. Fred Dinenage discovers the critical mistake that cost the children their lives and asks what caused the babysitter to embark on such a barbaric killing spree.
Sat, May 14, 2011
Scarred by a traumatic and unstable upbringing, Donald Neilson was the serial burglar turned masked murderer obsessed with weapons and military conduct. The meticulous nature to his three murders, became increasingly violent ending in the kidnapping and brutal murder of seventeen year old heiress Lesley Whittle.
Mon, Dec 2, 2013
In Germany in 2002, a case came to light that shocked the world. A man in a rural German village had filmed himself dismembering, killing and eating another man. Armin Meiwes was to become known as The Cannibal of Rotenburg. In this special episode Fred Dinenage travels to Germany and asks leading experts on the case: What would make one man want to eat another?
Sat, Nov 17, 2012
Obsessed with the Nazi regime and known for torturing animals, Patrick Mackay was certified a psychopath at seventeen. Later, he started befriending elderly people before brutally murdering them and then sitting with their bodies as they died. He was convicted of murdering three seniors, though he confessed to having many more victims.
Sat, Nov 3, 2012
Fred Dinenage looks back over the life of John Straffen; at the age of 21 he strangled two little girls but escaped the hangman's noose due to his low IQ of just 58. After six months at Broadmoor Straffen escaped and committed a third murder on another young girl in a local village. This time he was reprimanded in maximum security prisons and remained so for the next 55 years. Straffen died in prison in 2007 but continues to carry the title of Britain's longest serving prisoner.
Sat, Nov 24, 2012
Fred Dinenage looks back over the life and crimes of RAF cadet Gordon Cummins. During the London Blitz of 1942, terror stalked the war torn streets. It was not just the horror of German bombs falling from the sky... the fear was created by a spree killer. It just one week four women were brutally killed and two women attacked. Not since Jack the Ripper had there been such a gruesome spate of murders... earning Cummins the title... The Blackout Ripper.