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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 1 - The Murder of Sabina Nessa
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    #1 - The Murder of Sabina Nessa

    S1:E1

    Primary school teacher Sabina Nessa was killed at random by a man with a history of violence.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 2 - Stabbed in a Sanctuary
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    #2 - Stabbed in a Sanctuary

    S1:E2

    Sir David Amess MP was murdered by an IS fanatic, at a meeting in a church in Southend-On-Sea in Essex, UK.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 3 - The Abuser Working for MI5
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    #3 - The Abuser Working for MI5

    S1:E3

    This is the story of a dangerous MI5 agent, which the government tried to keep secret.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 4 - 27 Years to Catch a Killer
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    #4 - 27 Years to Catch a Killer

    S1:E4

    Rikki Neave left for school but never came home. Decades on his killer has been jailed.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 6 - Deadly Browsing: The Lorry Driver
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    #5 - Deadly Browsing: The Lorry Driver

    S1:E6

    How a lorry driver, looking at dating sites while driving, went on to kill three.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 7 - My Baby: Taken, Failed, Killed
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    #6 - My Baby: Taken, Failed, Killed

    S1:E7

    Leiland-James was taken from his mother in hospital and placed in care. He went on to be killed by the woman who wanted to adopt him.

    Director:Unknown
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  7. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 8 - The Suitcase Murderer
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    #7 - The Suitcase Murderer

    S1:E8

    Revealing the killer who decapitated her friend and dumped her body.

    Director:Unknown
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  8. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 9 - Catching The Cult Movie Killer
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    #8 - Catching The Cult Movie Killer

    S1:E9

    Jacqueline Kirk was badly disfigured after being set alight in 1998 by her ex-boyfriend Steven Craig. She then died in 2019 from complications relating to the injuries she suffered.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 10 - The Doorstep Murder
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    #9 - The Doorstep Murder

    S1:E10

    It's one of Scotland's longest unsolved murder cases. Alistair Wilson was shot on his doorstep almost 20 years ago. Are police any closer to finding who killed him and why?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 11 - Killing My Children's Abuser
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    #10 - Killing My Children's Abuser

    S1:E11

    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
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  11. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 12 - Killed Walking Home
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    #11 - Killed Walking Home

    S1:E12

    Zara Aleena was killed walking back from a night out by a sexual predator, only recently released from prison, labelled a "danger to any woman".

    Director:Unknown
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  12. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 13 - Groomed, Radicalised, Gone
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    #12 - Groomed, Radicalised, Gone

    S1:E13

    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
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  13. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 14 - Found Under The Floor
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    #13 - Found Under The Floor

    S1:E14

    The story of Bennylyn and Jellica who were murdered after starting a new life in the UK.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 15 - Twenty Minutes of Terror
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    #14 - Twenty Minutes of Terror

    S1:E15

    A gunman kills five people within minutes. Could the shootings have been prevented?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 16 - Homegrown Terrorist
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    #15 - Homegrown Terrorist

    S1:E16

    How was Salman Abedi from Manchester radicalised to the point where he could kill, and could the Manchester Arena bombing have been stopped?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 17 - The Lie That Destroyed a Town
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    #16 - The Lie That Destroyed a Town

    S1:E17

    The story of false accusations about being the victim of a grooming gang and how it sent shockwaves through a small town in the North of England.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 18 - Caught In The Crossfire
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    #17 - Caught In The Crossfire

    S1:E18

    Nine year old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was killed when shots were fired into her family home.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 19 - 30 Years For Justice
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    #18 - 30 Years For Justice

    S1:E19

    Nikki Allan's murder shocked Sunderland. Why did it take so long to catch her killer?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 20 - Stephen Lawrence: The Sixth Suspect
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    #19 - Stephen Lawrence: The Sixth Suspect

    S1:E20

    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
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  20. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 21 - Sunshine Scammer
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    #20 - Sunshine Scammer

    S1:E21

    Lyne Barlow is a bogus travel agent from County Durham, conning hundreds of holidaymakers and her family in a £2.6 million scam, which also saw her lie about a cancer diagnosis.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 22 - Killed on Christmas Eve
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    #21 - Killed on Christmas Eve

    S1:E22

    Elle Edwards was shot dead as she celebrated Christmas Eve, in a murder that shocked the UK. We follow her dad Tim as he deals with the devastation of his daughter’s death.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 23 - The Killing in the Lane
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    #22 - The Killing in the Lane

    S1:E23

    Lilia Valutyte died from a single stab wound in her chest. Her killer was found unfit to plead, but a jury determined in a trial of the facts he killed the nine-year-old.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 24 - Killed on Duty
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    #23 - Killed on Duty

    S1:E24

    Sgt Matt Ratana was shot and killed on duty by a handcuffed prisoner just three months before he had been due to retire.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 25 - Unmasking a Fugitive
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    #24 - Unmasking a Fugitive

    S1:E25

    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
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  25. The Big Cases Season 1 Episode 26 - Deadly Influence
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    #25 - Deadly Influence

    S1:E26

    The story of a social media influencer, her mum and a murder plot.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Murder of Sabina Nessa" is the worst rated episode of "The Big Cases". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/9/2022. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Stabbed in a Sanctuary".