Heinz Poisoning

In the 1980s, cases of consumer terrorism had reached a peak. You may have heard about the Tylenol murders in America. Seven people lost their lives when they consumed tablets from bottles purchased in chemists and supermarkets. They had no way of knowing the pills they swallowed were randomly laced with potassium cyanide. A few years later, the United Kingdom had its own scare when lethal contaminants were hidden in everyday products…

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Planning Row Killer Albert Dryden / The Murder of Harry Collinson - Part 1

On a smallholding in the North-East of England, a three-year planning dispute between a former steelworker and the local council was streamed live to millions of homes across Britain. The confrontation, which left one man dead and two injured, would result in a police siege against a gunman who had amassed an armoury of weapons that included a cannon that was ready to be mounted to the front of a car... (Part 1 of 2).

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The M50 Murder / Marie Wilks / Eddie Browning

Just before sunset on Saturday, June 18, 1988, a local patrol car slowed as it travelled eastbound along the M50 motorway. Walking along the hard shoulder was a young girl carrying a baby. The officer pulled in and asked if the girl was alright. Eleven-year-old Georgina explained that she was looking for her older sister, Marie. Their car had broken down a little way up the road, and Marie had left to use the emergency phone some time ago — but she had not come back…

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Modern Slavery Ring / The Rooney Family

The Rooney Family lived on a travellers’ site in Drinsey Nook, Lincolnshire. They splashed out on plastic surgery, driving top-of-the-range BMW cars, while wearing expensive Rolex watches and designer outfits. They enjoyed luxury holidays to Mexico, Barbados, Egypt and Australia. An aerial shot of the land where they lived, pictured green fields surrounding a collection of single-story red brick homes with a few dilapidated caravans nearby. The reasons the Rooneys were able to enjoy the extravagancies they did, lived in those caravans...

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False Witness / Anthony Mycock / Anne Fitzpatrick

Anne Fitzpatrick, a market stallholder, lived with her Yorkshire terrier on Church Lane in Moston, Manchester. On the evening of May 30, 1983, at 11:30 pm, the 29-year-old dressed in her pyjamas, secured the front door of her flat and got into bed. She switched off her bedside light and drifted off to sleep. Anne was abruptly woken in the early hours of the morning by her dog barking loudly. In the darkness, she saw the outline of someone standing in the doorway of her bedroom…

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Unsolved / Valerie Graves

Overlooking an estuary, the small village of Bosham, West Sussex, sits on the South coast of England. Located a few miles south from the built-up village centre, a sizeable six-bedroom property called ‘Hove To’ on Smugger’s Lane lies off the beaten track, affording a view of a natural inlet of Chichester Harbour. On December 30, 2013, a woman was found dead in one of the downstairs bedrooms…

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