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The Richmond Murder

Crime

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Sep 8, 2015

Kate Webster found herself employed as a housemaid by Julia Thomas, but she resented the contrast between their social stations, resulting in murder.

Full Episodes

Season 5, 9 episodes

Jack the Ripper Part One,

Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial killer in history, murdered five women on the streets of Whitechapel. And he got away with it. How?

44m Sep 8, 2015

Jack the Ripper Part Two,

Part two reveals how the story we know today was shaped by the sensationalist press of 1888. We strip back decades of rumor and misinformation.

44m Sep 8, 2015

Houndsditch Murders,

Three officers were shot dead while trying to prevent a burglary at a jewelers in Houndsditch on the evening of the 16th of December, 1910.

44m Sep 8, 2015

Bluebeard Henri Landru,

The First World War took the lives of countless soldiers on the front line, but one man in Paris too old for combat saw this as an opportunity.

44m Sep 8, 2015

Herbert Armstrong Hay Poisoner,

Convicted in 1922 of murdering his wife with arsenic, Herbert Rowse Armstrong was the first and only solicitor to be hanged in the U.K.

44m Sep 8, 2015

The Baby Farmer,

Amelia Dyer preyed on disadvantaged mothers. But there was little hope of a future for babies that entered Amelia Dyer's home.

44m Sep 8, 2015

Cleveland Torso Murders,

A string of violent murders frustrates the Cleveland, Ohio, police in the 1930s. Despite a determined investigation, the killer was never identified.

44m Sep 8, 2015

The Richmond Murder,

Kate Webster found herself employed as a housemaid by Julia Thomas, but she resented the contrast between their social stations, resulting in murder.

44m Sep 8, 2015

Mary Pearcey,

The notorious killer Mary Pearcey began an affair with her victim's husband and inserted herself into the family's life. Was the husband involved too?

44m Sep 8, 2015