TRUE CRIME

TV GUIDE

Monday 5th October

CALENDAR

6.00 PM

JUDGE JUDY

Series 17, Episode 11

A man accuses his ex-lover of selling his car while he was incarcerated; she sues him for damages from an alleged assault.
Genre: Factual

6.30 PM

JUDGE JUDY

Series 17, Episode 12

A very independent woman admits that she is not controlled easily but was assaulted by her boyfriend; he says she hit him repeatedly.
Genre: Factual

7.00 PM

BORDER PATROL

Series 1, Episode 1

Mark and Tai find live lizards in a passenger's luggage; Shane and his dog Maggie search the mail for drugs; and an elderly visitor gets upset over mincemeat.
Genre: Factual

7.30 PM

BORDER PATROL

Series 1, Episode 2

Mark and Tori strip-search a drug suspect; and Brian finds a stash of cigarettes on a French yacht.
Genre: Factual

8.00 PM

UK CRIME FILES: MURDER: BURIED ALIVE

Stephanie Slater vanished while showing a house in Birmingham in 1992. Her kidnapper demanded £175,000, but the ransom drop failed, triggering an intense hunt to save her.
Genre: Factual

9.00 PM

UK CRIME FILES: DECEPTION, FRAUD AND MURDER

Brian Blackwell was 18 years old when he murdered his parents in their home in Liverpool in 2004. Nothing was going to get in his way.
Genre: Factual

10.00 PM

BRITAIN'S ALMOST PERFECT MURDERS

The Firestarter

For years Carol Wray was seen as a fire survivor, until investigators uncovered a hidden pattern of arson that ended with her family dead.
Genre: Factual

11.00 PM

DONAL MACINTYRE'S UK KILLER EVIDENCE

Killer in the Woods

Police investigate the murder of one of their own - PCSO Julia James. With no witnesses, they rely on the community for help.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE LONELY KILLER

Professor David Wilson revisits the case of Dennis Nilsen, who willingly confessed to the murder of 15 young men and delighted in sharing every detail with his interviewers.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: BLACKPOOL DOUBLE MURDER

Geoffrey Wansell explores two eerily similar murders that take place ten years apart in Blackpool: two elderly women are killed. Could a cut clothesline unravel this cold case?
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: CONFESSION OF MURDER

Sharon Carr murdered Katie Rackliff in Farnborough in 1992. Katie was found the next day, it took nearly five years - and Carr's own confession - to solve the case.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: MURDER OF INNOCENTS

Donal MacIntyre meets DCS Kate Meynell to discover how she solved the murder of virtually the whole of Leicester's Taufiq family.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: DEADLY TAXI DRIVER

Simon Toyne travels to Glasgow to uncover the case of taxi driver Catherine McChord, who was found murdered in her black cab in 1982.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE MURDER OF AN AUTHOR

Professor David Wilson explores the case of Ian Stewart, who murdered his fiancée Helen Bailey, concealing her body for months before being convicted of murder.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: LAST TAXI RIDER

Dr. Nell Darby visits how taxi driver Linda Thomas made a fatal error of judgement one night in 1973, when she was flagged down by a drifter.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE SHOE RAPIST

Simon Toyne travels to South Yorkshire to explore the bizarre case of a man dubbed 'The Rotherham Shoe Rapist', who left a town living in fear.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE TWILIGHT KILLERS

Professor David Wilson explores one of the youngest incidents of matricide in UK criminal history, when two lovers conspired to murder two family members in Spalding.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: DOUBLE MURDERS

Simon Toyne revisits a case involving an apparent suicide plot that unearthed in the rural villages of County Derry, when the bodies of a man and woman are found.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: MURDEROUS BIGAMIST

Geoffrey Wansell explores the case of Pierre LeGris, who reports his wife missing in Dorset and police are instantly wary.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

DONAL MACINTYRE'S UK KILLER EVIDENCE

A Grave Murder

A disappearance in Wrexham led to a covert probe that caught her colleague, securing murder conviction.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

DONAL MACINTYRE'S UK KILLER EVIDENCE

Killer Fire Starter

An attempt to destroy evidence and disguise the truth in New Cross is solved through forensic science.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

DONAL MACINTYRE'S UK KILLER EVIDENCE

Killer DJ

Shifting explanations and emerging evidence lead to the successful conviction of Michael Hardy in Manchester.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

DONAL MACINTYRE'S UK KILLER EVIDENCE

Killer in Hiding

A killer thought he had got away with murder in Cambridgeshire; forensic advances lead to a breakthrough.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

DONAL MACINTYRE'S UK KILLER EVIDENCE

Five Year Murder

The story of a case from Wigan that tested the limits of law and medicine in the relentless pursuit of justice.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE BODY IN THE SUITCASE

Professor David Wilson explores the case of Nathan Matthews, who murdered his stepsister Becky Watts in Bristol, with girlfriend Shauna Hoare convicted of manslaughter.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: MURDER OF RACHEL MANNING

Rachel Manning, 19, vanished after leaving a Milton Keynes nightclub in 2000. Wrongly convicted men were later cleared as new forensics exposed the real killer.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: SERIAL KILLER IN THE MAKING?

Jackie Malton revisits the case of Alun Kyte, the Midlands Ripper, who murdered two women near Leicestershire in 1993 and 1994.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE FEMALE KILLER

Donal MacIntyre meets Detective Chief Inspector Martin Brunning to discover how he solved the murders of three innocent men by Joanne Dennehy.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE LONGEST MURDER TRIAL

The story of the murder of Lynette White - how her death led to the longest murder trial in British history at the time, and how police work and DNA eventually led to her killer.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE RAILWAY KILLERS

Jackie Malton examines the case of John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who murdered three women across London in the 1980s before both were convicted in 2001.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: A RANDOM MURDER

Connor and Brandon Doran and friend Simon Evans murdered Kevin Bennett in 2014 after attacking him as he slept rough. Kevin later died in hospital, and all three were convicted.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE HEAD ON THE BEACH

Geoffrey Wansell revisits the case of the greed-driven Lithuanian ex-soldier Vitas Plytnikas and an accomplice who murdered Jolanta Bledaite in Scotland.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: TRACKING A SERIAL KILLER

The bodies of two men are found in neighbouring flats in Derby. A dangerous killer is on the loose and detectives need to act before more people die.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: THE CLIFF TOP KILLER

Geoffrey Wansell explores the story of John Cooper, who murdered four people on the Pembrokeshire coast. He was convicted decades later thanks to forensic evidence.
Genre: Factual

12.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: MURDER: BURIED ALIVE

Stephanie Slater vanished while showing a house in Birmingham in 1992. Her kidnapper demanded £175,000, but the ransom drop failed, triggering an intense hunt to save her.
Genre: Factual

1.00 AM

UK CRIME FILES: DECEPTION, FRAUD AND MURDER

Brian Blackwell was 18 years old when he murdered his parents in their home in Liverpool in 2004. Nothing was going to get in his way.
Genre: Factual

2.00 AM

BRITAIN'S ALMOST PERFECT MURDERS

The Firestarter

For years Carol Wray was seen as a fire survivor, until investigators uncovered a hidden pattern of arson that ended with her family dead.
Genre: Factual

3.00 AM

DONAL MACINTYRE'S UK KILLER EVIDENCE

Killer in the Woods

Police investigate the murder of one of their own - PCSO Julia James. With no witnesses, they rely on the community for help.
Genre: Factual

4.00 AM

48 HOURS

The Day My Mother Never Came Home

Reggie Reed has wrestled with the question of who murdered his mother decades ago. A fresh look at the evidence ultimately implicated Reed's father.
Genre: Factual

4.50 AM

CLOSE CALLS: ON CAMERA

Series 4, Episode 3

The tale of what happened when a huge tree fell while four children were playing in a park.
Genre: Factual