True Lives Videos

In the early 1980s, Susan poisoned her husband Michael with weedkiller, believing she had committed murder. The case, set in Essex, details her alleged poisoning of him during a nearly year-long period of evasion, leading to a police investigation.

A 1994 documentary explores cases where women faced murder charges after enduring prolonged domestic abuse, with legal battles highlighting systemic failures in addressing coercive control and trauma. It questions whether self-defense laws adequately protect victims of sustained abuse.

In the 1980s, Bruce Peter Lee confessed to 25 arson-related murders, while Barry Prudom hid for two weeks before taking his own life during a manhunt. Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, terrorized northern England for five years, killing over 20 women. Michael Sams' 1982 kidnapping and ransom demand ended in a failed police operation tracking financial trails.

Sheriffs investigating a missing wife and mother's 10-year disappearance uncover a linked threesome relationship and a deathbed confession from the offender, revealing the case's complexities.