Robert Powell
Great Crimes and Trials (1993)
Season 3
Great Crimes and Trials is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial. Each episode is narrated by actor Robert Powell. In the United Kingdom the program is shown on weekdays on the Crime & Investigation Network. The first series was released on DVD by Columbia Tristar in 2005, and the third series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2011. The first and second series were released on video by Columbia Tristar in 1997.
Released Nov. 2, 1993
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Crime, Documentary, History
Keywords: imdb.serial-killer
Network: History
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Mark Chapman and the Killing of John Lennon
One man’s obsessive adoration of the world’s greatest rock star led to a transposition of personality and the death of John Lennon.
S3E2 - Gaston Dominici and the Drummond Murders
The brutal murder of Sir Jack Drummond and his family in the lonely Provencal countryside led to a sensational trial and the eventual sentencing of a peasant farmer to the guillotine.
S3E3 - Henry Lee Lucas - The Highway Stalker
S3E4 - Donald Hume - The Setty Case
S3E5 - John Duffy - The Railway Killer
S3E6 - Graham Young - The Compulsive Poisoner
S3E7 - Sir Harry Oakes - The Bahamas Murder Mystery
S3E8 - Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce)
S3E9 - Defeo and Benson - Inheritance Killers
S3E10 - Donald Merrett - The Murderous Buccaneer
S3E11 - Roy Fontaine - The Deadly Butler
S3E12 - Buck Ruxton - The Ravine Bodies Mystery
S3E13 - Leonard Lake and Charles NG - The Calaveras County Serial Killings
S3E14 - John Bodkin Adams and Other Infamous Doctors
S3E15 - Heidnick and Dahmer - Killers for Company
S3E16 - Judge Joe Peel and the Chillingworth Murders
S3E17 - Sacco and Vanzetti - Anarchy and Murder
S3E18 - The Trunk Murders
S3E19 - Browne and Kennedy and Other Police Killings
S3E20 - The Siege of Sidney Street
S3E21 - Leopold and Loeb
S3E22 - The Zodiac Killer and Other Unsolved Serial Murders
S3E23 - The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
S3E24 - Pol Pot and the Killing Fields of Cambodia
S3E25 - The Massacre at Malmedy
S3E26 - Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies
Network: History
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Nov. 2, 1993
Last Air Date: Sept. 23, 1996, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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