Michael Winner
Director
True Crimes (1992)
Season 1
Each episode presents a new true crime case, modern or historical. Michael Winner hosts, providing exposition through voiceovers due to low production values. He often delivers a patronizing moral conclusion.
Released June 5, 1992
Episode 26 min
None+
Genres: Crime, Documentary
Keywords: imdb.reenactment
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Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Village Murders
In the 1980s, Colin Pitchfork raped and murdered two girls in Leicestershire. This is the story of the case that changed the course of criminal history when, for the first time, genetic DNA fingerprinting was used to identify the killer.
June 5, 1992, midnight
S1E2 - The Lady and the Baroness
This is the fascinating case of a high society family fraud.
June 12, 1992, midnight
S1E3 - Rachel McLean
This is the story of how brilliant detective work trapped the killer of 19-year-old Oxford University student Rachel McLean.
June 19, 1992, midnight
S1E6 - The Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Job
A dramatized recreation of an audacious armed robbery. This is the story of how detectives tracked down handsome Italian playboy Valerio Viccei, the mastermind behind one of the biggest bank robberies in history.
Sept. 5, 1992, midnight
S1E7 - Murder by the Sea
In the early 1980s, Susan Barber partied for nearly a year, thinking she had gotten away with the murder of her husband, Michael, after she poisoned him with weedkiller.
Sept. 11, 1992, midnight
S1E8 - A Twist in the Tale
A Surrey businessman was kidnapped and then tethered to a tree in the Devon countryside for five days.
Sept. 12, 1992, midnight
Episode Runtime: 26 min.
Season Runtime: 156 min.
Released: June 5, 1992
Last Air Date: Sept. 12, 1992, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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