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On November 4th, 1934, Dartmoor became the center of a chilling police investigation when a corpse was discovered in its desolate landscape. The mystery deepened alarmingly when another death surfaced just miles away. Together, these grim findings unraveled one of the most extraordinary and complex murder cases ever witnessed in Devon, marking a dark chapter in the region's history. Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl This film was first broadcast: 24 Jan 2003 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios. #documentary #crime #dartmoor

24th September 1975, A family was horrifically shot in the remote farm in West Chapple Farm. Many refer to it as "The Mystery of Devon". Who could have committed such a crime. Was it someone with a grudge against the family, A romantic encounter or was it someone with a more sinister motive? Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl This film was first broadcast: 2004 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios. #documentary #documentary #mystery #ourlife

Jack Shepherd, best known for his lead role in ITV's Wycliffe, investigates a death pact between lovers that ended in death in the second episode of new six-part Whodunit? Murder Most Foul. Did Flying Officer Croft pull the trigger on himself or did he decide that love was not worth dying for? Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl This film was first broadcast: 2004 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

Discover the mysterious world of psychic detectives, we look into the story of Nella Jones, a renowned psychic who collaborates with the Metropolitan Police to solve complex, unsolved cases. Discover the controversies and successes of blending psychic intuition with traditional police work. Are psychic insights the missing piece in criminal investigations? Michael Aspel introduces stories of the unexplained, told through eyewitness accounts and reconstructions. From ghostly experiences to miracle cures, strange phenomena such as sea monsters, alien abductions and near death experiences, and tales of the downright weird, the stories are certainly strange... but are they true? This film was first broadcast:15 Sep 1995 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios. #strangebuttrue #psychic #truecrime

This series examines six notorious murders in the region, the first of which examines whether Annie Hearn of Lewannick was a sweet widow or a cold-blooded killer. Did her desire for another woman's husband drive her to murder? Actor Jack Shepherd, TV's Wycliffe, examines some notorious real-life murder cases. As key events are reconstructed and scenes of crime revisited, Jack follows each investigation uncovering clues and motives and, where known, identifies the killer. This film was first broadcast: 2004 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl This episode focuses on the brutal murder of Edith Gleave, whose battered, sexually assaulted body was found dumped on wasteground, just yards from a police station, in Duke Street, Stockport, on September 3 1965. The 38-year-old - whose only son David had been in care for six weeks before her death - had been out with a group of workmates from Park Cake Bakeries in Oldham on the night of her murder. She was last seen leaving a hotel in the town with two men believed to be long-distance lorry drivers, who police suspected were her killers. The programme also probes the case of Lynne Trenholme, from Bury, who was stabbed to death. The 29-year-old came from a respectable family but led a double life as a masseuse and prostitute. One of her customers at Pinky's Massage Parlour in Chester, where she was known as 'Blondie', is believed to have killed her following a struggle, before fleeing from the building. This film was first broadcast: 25 Sep 2001 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

In the early 1980s, Bruce Peter Lee became the country's worst serial murderer, confessing to arsons which killed 25 people. How did he come to be caught, why did he confess and could it happen again? Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl Headline Crimes is a brand new six-part series that looks back at one of the iconic crimes that took place in the region through the eyes of those involved and asks what lessons can be learnt. 25 years ago Bruce Peter Lee became the country's worst serial murderer, confessing to arsons which killed 25 people. How did he come to be caught, why did he confess and could it happen again? This film was first broadcast: 02 Dec 2004 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

This programme re-examines the double murder of two sisters in the North West in 1956. Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl John McArdle presents this series where each week two murders which took place in the North West are examined, which despite the thorough investigations of the police at the time, have remained unsolved. This episode retraces the murder of two sisters in 1956, Margaret & Mary Ormisher, in Ormskirk. The programme also re-examines the murder of grandmother Shirley Leach in 1994 who was brutally murdered at Bury Interchange. This film was first broadcast: 21 Aug 2001 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

The story of the cop killer who evaded capture for 18 days. Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl Looks back at the 1982 manhunt for Barry Prudom, the multiple murderer who hid in North Yorkshire for two weeks before shooting himself when cornered. The case raised questions about the use of police firearms and the freedom of the press. This film was first broadcast: 25 Nov 2004 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

How detectives used strategy and skill to catch the killers of Becky Watts. Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl When 16-year-old Becky Watts went missing in 2015, it sparked a major police investigation and dominated headlines nationwide. Everyone was desperate to find the missing teenager, but only two people knew where she was - Becky's stepbrother Nathan and his girlfriend Shauna. Now, two years after Becky's body was found, ITV has unprecedented access to never-before-seen footage recorded by the police at the heart of the investigation, which reveals for the first time how the detectives used strategy and skill to catch Becky's killers. Featuring incredible video footage and new first-person testimony from the police, the documentary lifts the lid on the tactics that drove every step of this complex and tragic investigation and the 'cat and mouse' between the police and the suspects that played out in the interview room, and that caught the killers who thought they could get away with murder. show less… This film was first broadcast: 09 Nov 2017 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

How detectives used a strategic game and forensic science to solve a brutal murder case. Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl Surrey Police were faced with one of their most challenging murder investigations ever when a 52-year-old woman, with no enemies and no criminal connections, was found brutally murdered in her own home. Sharon's body had been found by her ex-husband, and he quickly became the prime suspect. But when DNA and CCTV prove conclusively that he couldn't have committed the murder, they are back at square one, until their investigation takes them from the country lanes of affluent Surrey to the backstreets of Thailand. With privileged access to the police tapes, Susanna Reid reveals for the first time the untold story of how detectives combined a clever strategic game with forensic science to solve the mystery, in the most unexpected way. This film was first broadcast: 5 Jul 2018 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.

Susanna Reid explores an investigation into one of Britain's most prolific serial killers. Subscribe to Our Life: https://bit.ly/3dBMxvl With privileged access to the investigating team and behind the scenes police footage, Susanna Reid explores a cold case inquiry into one of Britain's most prolific serial killers, revealing the extraordinary game of cat and mouse that Pembrokeshire detectives waged against a man they suspected had brutally murdered at least four people. As investigators hunted for proof, they made an extraordinary discovery their suspect, John Cooper, had appeared on the gameshow Bullseye just weeks before the vicious shooting of a couple on a holiday in Wales. With the crime scene long gone, and no witnesses to help the enquiry, everything hinged on the police interview. Could the detectives find the key to make him reveal the truth about these murders? This film was first broadcast: 12 Jul 2018 Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurLifeChannel.ITVS Watch More Documentaries Our Life - https://bit.ly/3A8xRMJ Our History - https://bit.ly/3rUpdhL Our World - https://bit.ly/3ftuckM Our Stories - https://bit.ly/3ynfFyk Our Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV Our Life brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform. Content distributed by ITV Studios.