True Crime Documentaries
Detectives: Case Closed
For 40 years, the BBC’s Crimewatch has helped to track down criminals and put some of Britain’s worst offenders behind bars. This new true crime documentary series reveals the inner workings of the detectives investigating a range of complex cases featured on the show. Each episode includes interviews with officers, alongside crucial bodycam footage, forensic evidence and witness testimony.
Click for Murder
We all leave a digital footprint. Now they’ve become a critical forensic key to solving murder. Telling the inside stories of three individual landmark murder investigations, this ground-breaking true crime documentary follows detectives and digital forensics experts as they track suspects via their virtual trails. This is a new type of criminal chase, fueled by the traces of our high-tech lives.
Murder In A Teacup
When colleagues at a photographic equipment supplier started falling ill, many believed there was something harmful in the firm’s water supply. But when two men suffered slow and painful deaths, foul play was suspected. This true crime documentary looks at the case of the Teacup Poisoner, a young man with a violent and toxic past that the authorities mistakenly believed had been rehabilitated.
The Murder of Molly McLaren: Social Media Murders
Molly McLaren met Joshua Stimpson on romance app Tinder. In 2017, after dating briefly then separating, he was responsible for her death. An avid social media user, Molly documented their relationship online, but these sites not only played a role in bringing them together, but also allowed the killer to track her movements. To what extent was social media responsible for this despicable crime?
The Interview: Yulia Navalnaya
Alexei Navalny was President Putin’s most vocal critic. Poisoned by a deadly nerve agent and later jailed in Russia, Navalny died in February 2024 in one of the country’s most brutal penal colonies. As his memoir, Patriot, is published-including never-before-seen prison diaries-his wife Yulia tells their story to the BBC and explains why she would like to be President of Russia.