The Chillenden Murders
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The brutal killings of Lin Russell and her daughter Megan, along with the attempted murder of 9-year-old Josie, in 1996, shocked the nation. A year after the event a local heroin addict, Michael Stone, was charged with their murders and received a life sentence. However, 20 years after conviction, Stone still maintains his innocence and questions remain over the conviction's validity. Now, a team of independent experts, with exclusive access to the vast collection of the original case files, will re-examine the evidence and see if there are new avenues to explore that could definitively uncover the truth, and along the way discover some new details that were never presented in the trial.