Top barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein re-examine a seaside case of murder and mistaken identity from 1900, in a case involving false names, suspicious journeys and 100-year-old evidence.\n\nGreat Yarmouth, September 1900 - a woman's body is found among the sand dunes. She had been murdered. The first mystery facing police was not identifying the killer but the woman herself - she had been staying in Great Yarmouth under an assumed name. A clue from her clothing allowed the police to name her as Mary Jane Bennett, and suspicion immediately landed on her estranged husband, Herbert Bennett.\n\nNow, over 100 years later, Herbert's great-grandson Paul is investigating the case, and he has doubts about his ancestor's guilt. Can a modern investigation shed new light on the evidence that was used to convict Herbert for murder?\n\nSasha and Jeremy receive a breakthrough in the form of crucial physical evidence from the original investigation - a necklace found in Herbert's possession on his arrest that may have been worn by Mary at the time of the murder. Could this be the key to unlocking this mysterious case?
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Series 3: Episode 9
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate the fatal poisoning of a 49-year-old wealthy lodger at a family mansion.\n\nLondon, 1911. Insurance salesman F ...
08-03-2024
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Series 3: Episode 8
Barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate whether the murder of a gentleman farmer in the late Victorian era was really carried out by a 19-year-old rabbit poacher.\n\nS ...
07-03-2024
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Series 3: Episode 3
The barristers explore the case of a poultry farmer who buried the body of his fiancé under a chicken run but claimed to be innocent of her murder.\n\nCrowborough, East S ...
06-03-2024
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Series 3: Episode 2
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate a toxic love triangle which culminated in the murder of a Yorkshire farm owner, who died in mysterious circums ...
05-03-2024
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Series 3: Episode 1
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate their oldest case yet, the murder of a female canal boat passenger 180 years ago, for which boatmen were convi ...
04-03-2024
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Series 4: 8. Dainton
Leading barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC examine the drowning of a wife and mother in Victorian Bath, re-evaluating the chain of evidence that led to the conviction o ...
01-03-2024
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Series 4: 9. Brown
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC re-examine an infamous case of a housewife accused of murdering her young husband. She became the last woman to be publi ...
29-02-2024
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Series 4: 7. Read
Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC re-examine their oldest case yet - the murder of a military veteran by his estranged wife nearly 200 years ago.\n\nLeice ...
28-02-2024
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Series 4: 10. Shaw
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC investigate their first Scottish case, the murder of a reclusive pensioner nearly 70 years ago. Two men stood trial, ...
27-02-2024
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Series 4: 6. Staunton
Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC re-examine the complex case against a Victorian auctioneer accused, alongside his brother and two others, of murdering h ...
26-02-2024
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Series 5: 1. Jacoby
Two of the UK’s top criminal barristers, Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC, investigate a case from 1922 in which a lowly hotel pantry boy was convicted for the murder of a ...
29-09-2023
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Case Closed? Series 3: 2. Stone
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein look back at the murder of a young lady, found partially naked, lying in an alley known as a local ‘lovers' lane’. ...
22-09-2023
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Series 3: Episode 10
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein explore the case of a murdered landlady who died, it was believed, at the hands of her lodger, who had only been living at the ...
20-09-2023
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Series 2: Episode 5
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate the murder of a young lady found partially naked, lying in an alley known as a local ‘lovers lane’.\n\ ...
04-05-2022
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Series 3: Episode 4
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate a notorious arsenic poisoning which saw a distinguished lawyer hanged for the murder of his wife.\n\nHay-on-Wye, 1 ...
08-09-2023
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Series 1: Episode 1
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein reinvestigate the historic case against Charlotte Bryant, and the story of a murder that tore a family apart in the 1930s.\n\n ...
28-02-2022
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Case Closed? Series 4: 3. Brown
Top criminal barristers Sasha Wass QC and Jeremy Dein QC revisit their investigation into an infamous case of a housewife accused of murdering her young husband. She became the ...
22-02-2023
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Series 5: 4. Yarham
Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC reinvestigate a complex case from Victorian Britain that featured four prime suspects, two trials and ultimately just on ...
04-10-2023
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Series 3: Episode 9
Leading criminal barristers Sasha Wass and Jeremy Dein investigate the fatal poisoning of a 49-year-old wealthy lodger at a family mansion.\n\nLondon, 1911. Insurance salesman F ...
08-03-2024
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Case Closed? Series 4: 4. Staunton
Top criminal barristers Jeremy Dein QC and Sasha Wass QC revisit the complex case against a Victorian auctioneer accused alongside his brother and two others of murdering his wi ...
23-02-2023
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