April 1879; Liverpool merchant James Maybrick is poisoned with arsenic. His wife Florence is found guilty but did she get a fair trial? 6 Jan 1931; Evelyn Foster drives a man to Ponteland. Hours later she is found badly burned on moorland.
With husband Percy Thompson away, Frederick Bywaters romances wife Edith. In 1922; Bywaters stabs Percy to death and both are hanged. In 1923; courtesan Marguerite Alibert is on trial, at the Old Bailey, for killing husband Ali Fahmy Bey.
Dr. Robert Clements married three times for money. In 1940, he took a fourth bride but she, too, soon becomes ill. In 1863, poverty was rife in mill towns. When Alice Hewitt takes out a life insurance on mother she finds herself arrested.
In the winter of 1863, poverty is rife, soon after taking out an insurance policy on her mother Mary, Alice Hewitt stands accused of murdering her mother by arsenic poisoning.
Gangland boss Jim Colosimo is obsessed with singer Dale Winter so hires Johnny Torrio and Al Capone to deal with business. In 1911, James Bingham is caretaker at Lancaster Castle, his sister is housekeeper. Within a year both are dead.
June 1934; The body of Violet Kaye is found in a trunk, in Brighton. Kaye was in a violent relationship with drunk Tony Mancini. In July 1910, two shots were heard at the flat of actor Weldon Atherstone. Police break in and find him dead.
Thomas Weldon Atherstone believes that his beau Elizabeth has been seeing his own son Thomas behind his back, when he aims to challenge the pair, tragedy strikes.
346 men who were shot at dawn during the Great War. James Crozier joined up at sixteen but suffering from shell shock he deserted. Private's Wild and Crimmins get drunk on the eve of the Battle of Somme and get charged with cowardice.