Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed?
2019– · BBC One · 45 min · 4 seasons
S04E05 · Lowson
Fri, 23 July, 8:00 pm
The barristers revisit a fascinating case from 1884 in County Durham where three men stood trial for the murder of a policeman, yet only one man faced the death sentence.
About
Murder, Mystery and My Family: Case Closed? follows Jeremy Dein and Sasha Wass – two of Britain's leading barristers – as they revisit historic cases investigated on Murder, Mystery, and My Family.
In each episode the barristers reunite with the family at the heart of the case to explore how the investigation and judge's verdict from the original programme impacted their lives.
Episodes
- E01
Maybrick
Mon, 19 July· 45 minThe barristers revisit their inquiry of an infamous Victorian murder case, where a young American woman was charged with poisoning her husband in Liverpool in 1889.
- E02
Waddingham
Tue, 20 July· 45 minThe barristers revisit their investigation into the poisoning of a care home resident in Nottingham in 1935, for which the victim's nurse was convicted and hanged.
- E03
Brown
Wed, 21 July· 45 minThe barristers revisit their investigation of an infamous case from 1856 that inspired Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
- E04
Staunton
Thu, 22 July· 45 minThe barristers revisit their investigation into a case of starvation and neglect that saw a husband stand trial for the murder of his wife in 1877.
- E05
Lowson
Fri, 23 July· 45 minThe barristers revisit a fascinating case from 1884 in County Durham where three men stood trial for the murder of a policeman, yet only one man faced the death sentence.
Cast
Sasha Wass
Sasha Wass
Jeremy Dein
Jeremy Dein
Tony Hirst
Narrator