All Episodes of The Big Cases
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Season 1
N/A/100 votesKilling My Children's Abuser
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/2022
Sarah Sands stabbed to death a convicted paedophile who was accused of abusing three more young boys. BBC News can reveal, for the first time, that they were all her children. Now all three boys have become adults, they speak, alongside their mum about the killing, and subsequent events.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesGroomed, Radicalised, Gone
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/2023
The schoolgirl charged with terrorism, but found to have been exploited. Rhianan Rudd, 15, was the youngest girl to be charged with terrorism offences in the UK. She took her own life in 2022. Her mum says investigators should have seen her daughter as "a victim rather than a terrorist".
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Stephen Lawrence: The Sixth Suspect
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/26/2023
This BBC News investigation by reporter Daniel De Simone identifies a new suspect in the Stephen Lawrence murder. Stephen’s killing in 1993 changed policing and race relations in Britain forever, and its shadow hangs over the Metropolitan Police to this day. For decades, five men have been suspected of the attack, and in 2012 two of them were found guilty. Daniel De Simone has seen secret evidence and spoken to dozens of witnesses to publicly identify a sixth suspect for the first time. Evidence uncovered in this investigation also further implicates other suspects in the attack, and raises serious question of the police handling of the case over many years.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Unmasking a Fugitive
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 8/2/2023
The story of Nicholas Rossi - the US fugitive who came to the UK with a new identity after faking his own death. He claims he is called Arthur Knight and is a victim of mistaken identity, but a sheriff in Scotland is sending him back to Utah to face rape charges. We speak to the people who knew Nicholas Rossi in his previous life in America and chart his story from there to his discovery by police in a hospital bed in Glasgow.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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The Missing Mum
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 9/28/2023
This is the story of Linda Razzell who vanished on her way to work more than 20 years ago. Her husband was found guilty of her murder. Now, in 2023, will he reveal where her body is in order to be released on parole?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Killed By My Boyfriend
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 10/25/2023
The story of a young mum killed by her boyfriend of eight weeks. When Christopher McGowan was released on bail from a prison in Scotland, a court ordered he should stay at the home of his new girlfriend, Claire Inglis. He was a known criminal with a string of previous convictions and within weeks Claire was dead.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Executioner Next Door
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 3/8/2024
The quiet Irishman behind the high hedge had a history his neighbours could have never guessed: the man they knew as 'Frank' was really Freddie Scappaticci, a man with many secrets. Not only had he been an Irish Republican Army killer, he was at the same time an agent for the Army – perhaps their most important source inside the IRA, with access to their most sensitive secrets.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Crushed: The Six Year Nightmare
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/12/2024
Monika had moved to the UK from Poland for a better life. She had work, a new place to stay but then was hit by a drink driver. He served time for injuring her so badly she could never walk or talk again. Six years later, Monika died. It was time for justice, again.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Stabbed After School
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 11/1/2024
The shocking story of how a teenage relationship ended in murder. 15-year-old Holly Newton was stalked and murdered by her 'jealous' ex-boyfriend in Hexham in Northumberland. We speak to Holly's family and the police who pieced together what happened, and hear calls for a change to the law.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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My Husband the Monster
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 12/1/2024
The story of Gisele Pelicot has shocked the world. She's a wife and a mother who was drugged and then raped by strangers. All were invited to do so by her husband at their home in Avignon, France. The trial of Dominique Pelicot and fifty other men has led to a huge outpouring of support across France and beyond as Gisele refused to hide away as her life unfolded in court and in public.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
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The Mistaken Identity Murders
Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 12/19/2024
A shocking story of two teenage boys from Bristol, Max and Mason, who went out for pizza and never came home. They were killed in a case of mistaken identity. We hear from the families who have faced unimaginable loss and see the consequences of children carrying weapons on the street.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
