NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Peter Tobin
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2017
Peter Tobin is one of the most notorious serial killers in the UK. From 1991 – 2006 he raped and murdered three young girls, Dinah McNicol, Vicky Hamilton and Angelika Kluk. Yet even prior to these horrific murders he had a history of violence, raping two 14-year-old girls and leaving them for dead. Luckily they survived.
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#2 - Ann Maguire
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 11/12/2017
The tragic story of Ann Maguire, who was stabbed to death by a pupil while teaching a Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds.
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#3 - Gemma McCluskie
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 11/19/2017
Examining the murder of EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie, who was killed by her older brother in the east London flat they shared in 2012.
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#4 - Stepping Hill
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 11/26/2017
An inside look at the series of mysterious deaths that occurred at the Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in 2011.
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#5 - Stephen Wright
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 12/3/2017
A closer look at the crimes of Steve Wright, who was dubbed 'The Suffolk Strangler' after murdering five women in Ipswich in 2006.
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#6 - Stephen Port
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 12/10/2017
A chilling look at the crimes of Stephen Port, the east London serial killer who poisoned four young men with lethal doses of a date rape drug.
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#7 - The Omagh Bombing
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/8/2012
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- 6.6/1019 votesLoading...
#8 - Stephanie Slater
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/2008
Estate agent Stephanie Slater was abducted in 1992 whilst showing a man around a house. For eight days she was locked in a makeshift coffin, raped and tortured before remarkably being released after a £175,000 ransom was paid by her boss. In this episode Stephanie relives her experience, giving detailed accounts of the time as well as how her life changed after the incident. We also reveal an exclusive interview with her father and police who were involved in the case.
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#9 - Sarah Payne
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/2008
Eight year-old Sarah Payne's disappearance and murder shocked the nation.
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#10 - Wrongly Released
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2017
In this special episode, we focus on those criminals who have been brought to justice for one crime only to be released to commit further terrible acts. We speak to legal professionals to discover if the system is at fault or have these killers exploited legal loopholes. We talk to victims and relatives of killers who preyed on their loved ones – if the perpetrators had been kept inside – would their loved ones still be alive? And we discuss with campaigners what can be done to ensure the justice system can both rehabilitate but also ensure our safety.
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#11 - John Sweeney
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2017
Double murderer, John Sweeney, brutally murdered two of his girlfriends, dismembered their bodies and dumped them in canals. Handed two life sentences he was told he will die in prison. In a macabre twist, a key detective on the case tells how Sweeney allegedly hid clues to his killings in abstract paintings he produced, and how FIVE other girlfriends of his are currently missing as well.
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#12 - The Murder of Jill Dando
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 4/3/2011
The unsolved murder of TV presenter and newsreader Jill Dando, who was shot outside her house in Fulham, London, in 1999.
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#13 - Stephen Lawrence
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 4/22/2013
Documenting the landmark case of Stephen Lawrence, who died at the hands of a racist gang on 22 April 1993 while waiting for a bus in Eltham, south-east London.
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#14 - Manchester
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 11/5/2017
For the first time since the terror attack in May 2017, we hear from the survivors, victims' families and emergency responders about that tragic night.
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#15 - The Crossbow Cannibal
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/18/2012
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- 7.1/1020 votesLoading...
#16 - Harold Shipman
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2008
General Practitioner Harold Shipman was convicted of killing 15 patients in 2000. An official report after his sentencing took that figure to 215. He was sentenced to life in prison and committed suicide in his cell 2004. This exclusive documentary lifts the lid on the shocking discoveries made by his colleagues in early 1998; how police were alerted but the killer was left to murder three more women before finally being arrested in September 1998.
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#17 - The Moors Murders
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/2015
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady were convicted of murdering five young boys and girls between 1963 and 1965. Until 1985 both killers maintained their innocence, but eventually confessed and led police to all but one of the bodies – Keith Bennett, who remains missing until this day. We investigate the brutal murders through relatives and officers, and look into new information held by Bennett’s brother that could finally reveal his resting place.
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#18 - Jeremy Bamber
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 4/10/2011
Investigation into Jeremy Bamber's brutal murder of his family in Essex in 1985. Sentenced for life, he still maintains he is innocent.
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#19 - Beverly Allitt
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/2008
Beverley Allitt was thought to be a 'model' nurse.
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#20 - The Murder of Rhys Jones
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/20/2011
The parents of innocent 11-year-old Rhys Jones, shot on his way home from football club in Liverpool 2007, speak about the harrowing day when they lost their son.
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#21 - Sally Ann Bowman
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/2012
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#22 - Clare Wood
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 9/21/2014
In April 2007, Clare Wood met George Appleton on a dating website and they embarked on a relationship together. Unbeknownst to her, Appleton was a criminal with a severe history of violence against women. Several months later Clare decided to end the relationship, but Appleton was furious and began to torment Clare at home. Although she was interviewed by police several times, Clare's pleas for help went unheeded and her burnt body was discovered at her home in Salford in February 2009. Appleton had raped Clare, and then strangled her to death before setting her body alight. A police man-hunt for Appleton ensued, but after 5 days he was found hanged in a derelict pub, escaping justice. After years of hard work, a group of campaigners – this included Clare’s father, politicians and journalists - successfully launched Clare’s Law, a renewed version of a national scheme that allows people to find out if their partners have a history of violence. The programme contains exclusive interviews with Clare's father, Home Secretary Theresa May, and journalists and police officers instrumental in changing the law to give domestic violence sufferers ‘the right to know’.
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#23 - Angus Sinclair
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2015
On an October evening in 1977, 2 girls were enjoying a night out in the World’s End pub in central Edinburgh. The following day, one body was found on a beach, the other in a field. The girls were seen leaving the pub with two men but the identity of the killer would remain a mystery for the next 30 years. In 2007, Angus Sinclair was charged with the girl’s murder after new DNA evidence linked Sinclair and his brother in law Gordon to the murders. However the trial sensationally collapsed when a piece of crucial evidence was withdrawn. Unbeknownst to the jury, Hamilton had a history of sex attacks starting at the age of 16 and culminating him serving a life sentence for the murder of a 17 year old woman in Glasgow in 1978. In 2014, following the development of new DNA technology, Prosecutors successfully applied for a change in a century’s old law of double jeopardy, consequently allowing the same man to be tried twice for the same crime. This time, the trial proved successful and Sinclair was jailed for a minimum of 37 years. He has been described as Scotland’s worst serial killer and the authorities believe he may well have been responsible for numerous other murders.
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#24 - Suzy Lamplugh
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/2015
Estate agent, Suzy Lamplugh, disappeared in July 1986 after going to meet a client at a house in Fulham. Witnesses said they saw her arguing with a man near the address and then getting into a car. She has never been seen since. For almost thirty years police have followed many lines of enquiry – one being to identify who ‘Mr Kipper’ is that she went to meet. So far they have reached a dead end. In 1994 she was officially declared dead, presumed murdered. The strongest theory to date is that convicted rapist and killer, John Cannan, killed Lamplugh. But as yet, this hasn’t been proven. Cannan is already serving a life sentence with the recommendation he never be released.
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#25 - Hungerford Massacre
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/2008
The Hungerford massacre shocked the nation in 1987 when the heavily armed Michael Ryan, 27, took to the streets and began firing at anyone in his path. By the end of the afternoon, the horrific massacre was finally over. Ryan had killed 16 people, including his mother, wounded 15 others and seriously transformed the lives of everyone who was unlucky enough to be there that day. The tragedy is told through the eyes of the people at the core of the killings; a survivor, heroes who tried to save lives, police and a nurse at the hospital.
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"Peter Tobin" is the worst rated episode of "Crimes That Shook Britain". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/5/2017. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Ann Maguire".