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After Philip Manning killed his ex-wife dead in a vengeful rage on Christmas day and hospitalised her boyfriend, he led police on a chase across the country.

Just before Christmas 1994, heavily tattooed Jason Mitchell strangled pensioners Arthur and Shirley Wilson, before returning to his father's house and dismembering his body.

Brian Bishop was shot and killed in a shoot-out with an armed robber as they returned to a stash point piled high with cash stolen from multiple post offices along the coastline.

Retired doctor Alexander Wood and his wife Dorothy, both in their late seventies, were battered to death and hacked with a hammer in Dundee by Henry John Gallagher.

Miles Wiliam Gifford believed his parents owed him everything, and would stop at nothing to get what he needed for the lavish lifestyle he craved.

Robert Mochrie killed his wife Catherine and their children James, Sian, Luke and Bethan in July 2000 at their home in Barry.

When Michael Barber finds his wife Susan in bed with another man, she realises she has to take drastic measures to stop him leaving, but no one could suspect how far she would go.

When Danny Dyke tried playing the hardened drug dealer, he found himself in over his head, but it was his murderers ended up having sleepless nights.

When Margaret McOnie is found dead on the cliff tops a nationwide manhunt followed. Her murderer would soon be revealed as a deadly conman and a double murderer.

A two year investigation into the random murder of Margaret Wilson, would lead police on one of the most complex and fascinating murder investigations in recent memory.

A young man, Tyrone France, becomes embroiled in Newport's drugs underworld, meeting a disastrous end in a remote forest clearing in 1996.

Port Talbot taxi driver Linda Thomas made a fatal journey one night in 1973, when she picked up a homicidal homeless drifter called Trevor Howell.

A scandalous love triangle between a beautiful socialite Alma Rattenbury, her young gardener George Stoner and estranged husband Francis cast a shadow of disrepute and death over 1930s Bournemouth.

Having brutally murdered his wife in 1993, Hassan Shatanawi thought he had effectively made her vanish from the face of the earth but he made one crucial oversight.

For Dundees most infamous father-son pair, killing was a competition, and between them murdered seven innocent people from 1967 to 1979.

Elderly couple Benjamin and Dorothy were killed in their own home in one of the most terrifying home invasions ever seen.

Looking back at the case of the murderer Graham Fisher, who stabbed and then ate two of his young victims in the summer of 1998.

The case of Steven Grierson, a serial killer who murdered four teenagers and terrorised dozens of others, becoming known as the Sunderland strangler.

The case of Charlotte Pinkey, a woman who disappeared in Ilfracombe after going to a party and never returning.

A profile of the prolific young serial killer Stephen Akinmurele, who was only 21-years-old when he murdered his victims.

The case known as the Garage Murders, which sparked a nationwide manhunt that saw Terry Clifton repeatedly evade the police before he was jailed for murdering two mechanics.

Looking at the case of the 'Vampire Killer' Mathew Hardman, who cut out the heart, and then drank the blood of 90-year-old Mabel Leyshon of Anglesey in 2001.

When Joan Stirland's son Michael O'Brien murdered Colin Gunn's nephew in 2003, she and her husband's lives were in danger. They went on the run, but their son's past soon caught up with them.

The case of Paul Longworth, who murdered his wife by strangling her with sailing rope and arranging her body in their home, then claimed it was suicide.

Michael Ross was just 15-years-old when he shot Shamsuddin Mahmood in the face and fled, but police caught up with him a decade later.

The case of the killer Malcolm Green, who murdered women and dumped their dead bodies in bags.

A secret love triangle led to Jack Campbell murdering his love rival in a siege which shook Orkney Island.

A profile of the serial killer John Cooper, who murdered four hikers and terrorised camp sites for decades, raping and robbing campers.

Looking back at the case of Lithuanian murderer Vitas Plytnykas, who killed a fellow worker in Scotland, leaving her severed head to be found on a beach.

True crime author Geoffrey Wansell looks into the case of a killer whose violent fantasies lead him to pray on vulnerable people.