Name: Murderous History
Released: 2021-04-25T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Guy Walters, Joshua Levine, Iszi Lawrence

TV Show · Crime · Documentary

Explore extraordinary crimes throughout history, meet complex perpetrators, and see determined detectives crack the cases. Discover the wider social, political, and religious ideas at play, and get details from first-hand sources and media accounts.

2021 · 43m

Starring Guy Walters, Joshua Levine, Iszi Lawrence

EPISODE 1

London Blitz Killer

Discover the shocking evidence, uncovered by veteran detectives using pioneering new techniques at the time, of a brutal, cold-hearted murder covered up by the chaos of the Second World War siege on London.

43m
EPISODE 2

Chicago's White City Devil

Travel back to Chicago, circa 1893, as the city hosts the World’s Fair and women begin disappearing. Get the tangled story behind the mysterious H.H. Holmes and the secrets police uncovered about his famed “murder castle.”

40m
EPISODE 3

Edinburgh Body Snatchers

Discover how the thirst for medical knowledge in the 1820s drove the crimes of infamous serial killers and why pioneering Edinburgh anatomists were happy to turn a blind eye in the pursuit of progress.

43m
EPISODE 4

Berlin's Nazi Ripper

Travel to 1940s Berlin in the midst of the Second World War, where a series of murders threaten to shatter the Nazis’ image of a perfect society. Find out if one of the city’s leading detectives can catch the killer before he strikes again.

43m
EPISODE 5

Britain's Killer Nanny

Uncover how Victorian society’s stigmatization of the poor allowed an infamous baby killer to exploit the desperate and vulnerable for money, and meet the investigators who must delve into the murky underworld of “baby farming” to catch her.

40m
EPISODE 6

Rios Playboy Killer

Enter the world of 1970s Rio, where a young woman’s murder, potentially at the hands of a wealthy cocaine dealer, shines a light on the growing drugs trade in the city and police corruption during the military dictatorship.

40m