Murderous History

Season 1

2021 · 6 episodes · 4h 24m in all

Episodes

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   1. London Blitz Killer

   25 Apr 2021 · 44 min

   A body in a bombed-out chapel reveals the true story of life during wartime, when not everyone kept calm and carried on. Some used the cover of the blitz and the blackout to carry out murderous deeds.

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   2. Chicago's White City Devil

   2 May 2021 · 44 min

   A serial killer thrives on the dark side of America's desire to build it bigger and better.

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   3. Edinburgh Body Snatchers

   9 May 2021 · 44 min

   In a divided city at the centre of the scientific Enlightenment, the elite turn a blind eye to poverty, injustice, and murder in the name of progress. During this time people were murdered and their bodies sold to science.

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   4. Berlin's Nazi Ripper

   16 May 2021 · 44 min

   How the terror and paranoia that marked Nazi rule let a serial killer get away with murder.

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   5. Britain's Killer Nanny

   23 May 2021 · 44 min

   A ruthless con artist capitalizes on the rigid moral and social codes of Victorian England.

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   6. Rio's Playboy Killers

   30 May 2021 · 44 min

   July 23rd, 1977. Claudia Rodrigues, the well-off sister of a popular actress, attends a party in a trendy neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. What happens next will spark a national scandal and become Brazil's crime of the century. Witness this high-profile case as it unfolds, featuring the playboy son of a watch company tycoon, the Jogo do Bicho mafia, lots of cocaine, and a successful local detective known as the "Brazilian Barretta," who must battle Rio's powerful and corrupt forces in order to bring Claudia's killers to justice.