Series 1

Episode 1

S1 · E1 · 20/07/1980 · 1 h 00 min

Murder at the Savoy Hotel

The story of Marie Marguerite Fahmy who shot dead her Egyptian husband in 1923 at London's Savoy Hotel.

Episode 2

S1 · E2 · 27/07/1980 · 1 h 00 min

Not for the Nervous

The story of Kate Webster, a maid who killed her employer Julia Thomas in Richmond in 1879.

Episode 3

S1 · E3 · 03/08/1980 · 1 h 00 min

Lucky, Lucky Thirteen!

The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.

Episode 4

S1 · E4 · 10/08/1980 · 1 h 00 min

Killing Mice

The story of Mary Pearcey, who murdered her employer and baby in 1890.

Episode 5

S1 · E5 · 17/08/1980 · 1 h 00 min

Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday

The case of Charlotte Bryant, who was hanged for poisoning her husband with weed-killer.

Episode 6

S1 · E6 · 24/08/1980 · 1 h 00 min

Miss Madeleine Smith

The story of Madeleine Smith, a respectable spinster who was accused of killing her lover in 19th-century Edinburgh. The case was famously found to be "not proven".

Episode 7

S1 · E7 · 31/08/1980 · 1 h 00 min

Suffer Little Children

The story of 'baby farmer' Amelia Dyer, convicted in 1896 of the murder of several children in her care.