This drama-doc series takes you back in time to the most shocking and surprising murder cases in history.

On a hot summer's day in 1934, a horrifying discovery was made in the trunk at the luggage office of Brighton Train Station. Two days later, a similar case was found.

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The Brighton Trunk Murders

As police investigated the disappearance of a wealthy widow, Olive Durand Deacon, in early 1949, they could not have imagined the gruesome confession told to them.

The Acid Bath Murders

In the summer of 1953, the world watched Queen Elizabeth II crowned. The day before the coronation the body of a teenage girl was found floating in the River Thames.

The Towpath Murders

Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Great Britain. Her act of murder divided the nation.