Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

It’s 1901 and Boston is abuzz with gossip. A high-society man named Sumner Paine has just been arrested for chasing his daughter’s music teacher down the street with a pistol.

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Iain looks at a double murder case that revolves around a San Francisco church.

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A collection of precious jewels goes missing from New York’s Museum of Natural History. The thieves are smooth operators – but prosecutor Maurice Nadjari will stop at nothing to put them away.

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Iain looks at the story of Dr William Palmer, a man whom Charles Dickens described as “the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey".

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A strange kidnapping case in Tennessee leaves the FBI scrambling for answers.

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Today we’re heading to the Wild West to learn all about a famous 1870s outlaw – Sam Bass – and his gang, the Black Hill Bandits.

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Laura looks at the story of a prolific French fraudster: Thérèse Humbert.

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Seven prisoners escape a high-security facility in New Mexico. They’re armed – and extremely dangerous. Can the police catch them before anyone gets hurt?

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A 1900s case involving a high-society woman who gets caught up in a life of crime after a traumatic event.

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An office manager poisons two typists who work for him – one of whom he has been trying (and failing) to woo. Is it a tragic mistake? Or an act of pure evil?

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