Countdown to Murder



Countdown to Murder is a British True Crime documentary television series, broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, which covers British True Crime cases. The series, marked as a returning series, is a two series long show which to date has broadcast around fourteen episodes with the first episode being broadcast on Oct. 10, 2013.

Summary
Documentary using dramatic reconstructions to examine some of Britain's most notorious murders, charting the last few days leading up to the killings from the perspectives of both the perpetrators and the victims.

The first edition focuses on Jane Andrews, a former dresser to the Duchess of York, who bludgeoned and stabbed to death her millionaire boyfriend Thomas Cressman in an act of revenge after he told her that he would never propose.

Episode guide
Series 1: Series 2: Series 3:
 * -|Series 1=
 * 1) The Duchess, the Killer and Her Lover (Jane Andrews).
 * 2) Nilsen's First Kill (Dennis Nilsen).
 * 3) The Butcher Boy (Roderick Newall).
 * 4) Stalked to Death (Jonathan Vass).
 * 5) The Wife Slayer (Brian Lewis).
 * 6) Slaughter at the Farm (Jeremy Bamber).
 * -|Series 2=
 * 1) Soap Star Killer (Murder of Gemma McCluskie)
 * 2) The Body in the Freezer (Michael Tucker & Rebecca Thorpe)
 * 3) A Fatal Friendship (Terrence Armer)
 * 4) Killer Schoolgirl (Lorraine Thorpe).
 * 5) Diced to Death (Ty Medland).
 * 6) The Body in the Lake (The killing of Carol Park)
 * 7) The Killer Next Door: The Last Hours of Joanna Yeates
 * 8) Murdering the Mother-in-Law (The murder of Maureen Cosgrove)
 * -|Series 3=
 * 1) Jessica Patel
 * 2) Natalie Jarvis
 * 3) Carol Taggart
 * 4) Alethea Taylor
 * 5) Michelle Stewart
 * 6) Carole Waugh
 * 7) Penny Beale
 * 8) Janet Scott