On Friday 13 April 1973 the bodies of three children were found impaled on garden railings in Worcester. The murderer? The family’s lodger and babysitter David McGreavy.
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. The culprit, Armin Meiwes was to become known as The Cannibal of Rotenburg.
For twenty six years the public believed that two children found dead in Epping Forest in 1970 had died of exposure. Then in 1996 a convicted child murderer, Ronald Jebson, called police from Wakefield Prison – he had information about the murder of the Babes in the Wood.
In 1962, James Hanratty was hanged for the murder of Michael Gregsten but was there enough evidence at the time?
Fred Dinenage takes a fresh look at the murders that shocked Britain in the twentieth century and the killers that committed them... Fred is the Kray's official biographer and a journalist reporting serious crimes for over forty years. He knows that with certain crimes the myth can take over from the reality of what actually happened. Fred meets with the people whose lives were affected by the crimes, experts in the case and journalists from the time. Leading criminologist Professor David Wilson features in each episode giving his valuable and fascinating insights into each killer. Using criminology, forensic science and other modern techniques, Fred dissect the crimes to understand the motive, method and impact they had then and still have even now.