Name: Crime Story
Released: 1992-09-18T00:00:00.000Z

Available on Prime Video, BritBox

This compelling series features dramatic reconstructions of some of Britain's most notorious crimes - a collection of cases that each demonstrate how truth can be stranger than fiction.

Drama · 1992 · 51 min

EPISODE 1

All Good Friends - The Case of The Handless Corpse

A sinister case of intrigue, drugs and death. In 1979 two divers discovered the body of a young man in a flooded Lancashire quarry. The body was weighted down and both hands had been removed at the wrists.

50 min · Sep 17, 1992
EPISODE 2

Gone Too Far: The Mystery of Mrs Muriel McKay

Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her home in Wimbledon on 29th December 1969 and her body was never found. The media was enlisted to try and help the police to find her. But the police blamed the media involvement for their failures.

50 min · Oct 22, 1992
EPISODE 3

Wallpaper Warrior

John Shrapnel and Mark McGann star in this dramatisation of one of the most intriguing crime stories in British criminal history. There is rivalry at Kirtleton Hall as two members of staff compete to rob the house, which results in a fatal shooting.

50 min · Oct 1, 1992
EPISODE 4

Deadly Obsession

A story of jealousy and unrequited love which led to murder, based on the true story of Kathleen Calhaem, a respected business woman from Cheddar in Somerset. The murder was brutal and sinister involving battery and repeated stabbing.

50 min · Oct 15, 1992
EPISODE 5

The Britoil Affair

A cunning plan to defraud one of the world's largest oil companies of more than £20 million is the subject of this programme. This is a story of intrigue and provides a dramatic reconstruction of a case that captured Europe's headlines.

50 min · Nov 6, 1992
EPISODE 6

A Question of Identity

Erwin van Haarlem (Bernard Hill) is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a mission to track down supporters of the dissident group, Chapter 77.

49 min · Nov 13, 1992