Season 1 (1980)
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Episodes 7
1
Murder at the Savoy Hotel
July 20, 1980
• 1h
The story of Marie Marguerite Fahmy who shot dead her Egyptian husband in 1923 at London's Savoy Hotel.
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2
Not for the Nervous
July 27, 1980
• 1h
The story of Kate Webster, a maid who killed her employer Julia Thomas in Richmond in 1879.
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3
Lucky, Lucky Thirteen!
August 3, 1980
• 1h
The story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain.
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4
Killing Mice
August 10, 1980
• 1h
The story of Mary Pearcey, who murdered her employer and baby in 1890.
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5
Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday
August 17, 1980
• 1h
The case of Charlotte Bryant, who was hanged for poisoning her husband with weed-killer.
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6
Miss Madeleine Smith
August 24, 1980
• 1h
The story of Madeleine Smith, a respectable spinster who was accused of killing her lover in 19th-century Edinburgh. The case was famously found to be "not proven".
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7
Suffer Little Children
Season Finale
August 31, 1980
• 1h
The story of 'baby farmer' Amelia Dyer, convicted in 1896 of the murder of several children in her care.
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