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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1987, two brothers from a well-to-do family killed their parents in such brutal fashion that it still haunts the people of Jersey to this day.

George Smith, an Edwardian man who married a string of women, only to drown them in a bath and steal their money, was eventually caught and hanged in 1915.

The case of Robert Henry Davies, who committed murder after a sexual assault investigation threatened to revisit sins from his past.

Dismembered bodies of two women are both found in car boots, the first at a train station, the second in a city.

When Linda Anders is found dead at home, her wheelchair-bound husband Malcolm claims an intruder broke in. Police findings quickly change the course of the investigation.

The murder of a part-time actress triggers a nationwide manhunt for a killer.

After a fire breaks out at a home, police receive a strange phone call that triggers a hunt for a killer.

A look back at the 1953 poisoning of Blackpool resident 79 year old Sarah Ann Ricketts by her new housekeeper , Louisa May Merrifield aged 49. Lousia was married to a much older man of 71 who was famously described as a simpleton , leaving the jury at Manchester Assizes unable to reach a verdict for his involvement. Louisa however was not so lucky and was dispatched by Albert Pierrepoint who coincidentally had honeymooned in the town.

The strange relationship between mother and son Penelope and Barry Rogers, with eyewitness reports of overly close contact, leading some to believe incest was a possibility, was overshadowed by a much more sinister crime. The two planned and eventually murdered Penelope's own mother Betty Guy, intoxicating her with booze and drugs before callously smothering her. A rare case of both a mother and son involved in matricide.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The discovery in 1961 by three cavers of a sack containing human bones in a disused lead mine close to the town of Caswell near the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, would finally resolve a mystery more than 40 years old. 

59 year old landlord Alec Warburtorn was savagely beaten, by what was in the view of the pathologist, most likely a hammer. His assailant David Ellis,41, then coolly drove the body over 140 miles to a disused quarry in North Wales that he had visited as a child, and thought was the perfect spot for disposing of his victim's body. He attempted a getaway to Northern Ireland by ferry, but was arrested there by the Garda after the victim was reported missing by his brother, some 3 days later. Most remarkably though, the heartless Ellis tried to claim self defence due to unwanted sexual advances from the older man, a claim that was not to sway the jury who were told by a forensic pathologist that the attack consisting of at least three heavy blows, was most likely from behind and there were no defensive injuries.

The case of John George Haigh, who came up with a plan for the 'perfect' murder when he was serving time in prison for fraud.