Real Crime

Season 8

2009 · 8 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Rhys Jones: Caught in the Crossfire

   15 Jun 2009

   A young lad innocently walking home after his regular football practice, fatally caught in the crossfire of gang warfare. But the gang closes ranks, even when the distraught parents try to appeal to their humanity to name the killer.

2. 2

   2. Rachel Nickell: Case Closed

   22 Jun 2009

3. 3

   3. Sally Anne Bowman: Death on the Doorstep

   29 Jun 2009

4. 4

   4. Hannah's Killer: Nowhere to Hide

   6 Jul 2009

   When a Southampton couple loses their daughter to a vicious killer they embark on a grueling 5 year search to find him.

5. 5

   5. The Man Who Didn't Cry

   23 Jul 2009

   An Englishman and an American woman fall in love, and in what seems like a fairy-tale romance set up a marital home together in the US. But shockingly the wife and baby daughter are suddenly found shot dead. Was husband Neil involved?

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   6. A Shot in the Dark

   30 Jul 2009

   A lone farmer. A pair of young burglars. Shots fired. A 16 year old dead. An age-old debate reignited - how far could and should a person go to protect their own property.

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   7. The Tesco Bomber

   6 Aug 2009

   Police recall the search for the Tesco Bomber, a Bournemouth man who used the pseudonym Sally to demand money from the grocery store chain Tesco.

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   8. Bombers on the Run

   1 Dec 2009

   On 21st July 2005, four men carrying explosives tried to commit mass murder on London's transport network. When their bombs failed to go off, police faced a race against time to capture the men before they could strike again.