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For six years John Darwin pretended he was dead – faking his own drowning in a canoeing accident. With his wife Anne at his side, he lived out a fantasy, changing his name, altering his appearance, and hiding from the debt-ridden world he left...
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Channel 4
My Fake Baby explores the lives of women who spend hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of pounds on life-like baby dolls. Known as “reborns” some of the dolls have beating hearts, others have tiny veins and even milk spots. Loved like...
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Five
All-American teenagers Abby and Brittany Hensel are the world’s only surviving pair of dicephalic conjoined twins. Their two bodies are almost entirely joined, sharing arms, legs and a torso, and their two separate spines join at the pelvis. ...
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BBC1
This is the story of one woman’s intricately constructed lies, the fantasy life she tried to build for herself and what happened when she was finally found out.
Caroline Morgan convinced a string of lovers that she was dying from cancer....
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BBC1
On Boxing Day 2003, PCs Ian Broadhurst and Neil Roper were on a routine traffic patrol around Leeds. Seeing a stolen BMW parked on the pavement, they stopped to investigate.
Taking the driver into the back of their police car for further...
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BBC1
On 30 th October 1975, Sonia McCann woke her five year old brother Richard to tell him their mother Wilma hadn’t come home. The children put on their dressing gowns and walked to the nearest bus stop to wait for her to return.
Later that...
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BBC1
This is the story of one woman's battle to overturn the 800-year-old double jeopardy law, and her fight for justice for her murdered daughter.
Julie Hogg was murdered in 1989 and her body left to rot behind the bath panel of her Teesside...
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BBC1
In the space of a few seconds on a snowy night in February 2001, Gary Hart was transformed from anonymous builder to one of Britain’s most notorious killers.
When his Land Rover swerved off the M62 onto the East Coast main line, the...
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