The Real Prime Suspect
The Real Prime Suspect is a case of life imitating art imitating life. Former Met detective Jackie Malton - the real-life inspiration for DCI Jane Tennison from Prime Suspect - retraces notorious murder cases from the UK and US.
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1.The Case of The Black Panther
03-09-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton retraces the crimes of Donald Neilson, to discover how a robber became a calculating murderer, and the investigation that brought him to justice.
2.The Plumstead Ripper
10-09-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton re-examines one of the most psychotic murderers in British criminal history, Robert Napper, and how an innocent man was imprisoned for his crimes.
3.The Skeleton in the Carpet
17-09-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton interviews experts to learn how they joined forces to identify the skeleton of a woman no-one knew was missing, and bring her killer to justice.
4.The Saturday Night Strangler
24-09-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton, accesses 10 case files, revisiting the investigations with the police, detectives and other professionals who experienced them first hand.
5.The Killing of a Deaf Girl
01-10-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton re-investigates the murder of 20-year-old Suzanne Greenhill, a deaf woman living in a community cut off from the world.
6.The Killing of Matthew Eappen
08-10-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton looks into the case of British au-pair Louise Woodward, after a child she was looking after had been rushed to a hospital unresponsive.
7.Peter Tobin
15-10-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton revisits the case of a Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin, who had a criminal record dating back to his childhood.
8.Murdering Their Own Children
22-10-201947 minFormer Detective Chief Inspector Jackie Malton sets out to explore a rare case of filicide, when a parent murders their own children.
9.The Railway Killers
29-10-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton re-examines the crimes of two childhood friends, John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who became two of the most notorious murderers in British criminal history.
10.The Deadly Family Man
05-11-201947 minFormer DCI Jackie Malton revisits the case of Neil Entwistle, a seemingly shy and unassuming man who murdered his wife and baby daughter in cold blood before fleeing the country.
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