Strange But True Crime
Dive into a world of bizarre true crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers. Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these true crime cases. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk Presenter: Rima Ahmed Producer: Luke de Costa Video Producer: Fede Marilotti Researcher: Bethan Davies Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin
Episodes
Rita thinks Amberley Care Home will be a temporary place to rest and recover before returning home. But the 83-year-old is being targeted by the very people trusted to look after her.
When care home manager Jamiel Slaney-Summers discovers Rita has no will, she sees an opportunity. With the help of care home owners Graham and Lyn Walker, a fake will is drawn up - one that will help them seize Rita’s house, savings, and estate. ...
Sophie Zaherali’s XL Bully, named Ghost, escapes her home during a medical emergency. He is is tracked down by armed police and destroyed in the street. Sophie believes the police didn’t need to destroy her beloved family pet and takes her fight online. But who is to blame?
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed Guest: Ch...
A vexed farmer wages war on a major supermarket, threatening innocent families with a deadly game of Russian roulette. He hides shrapnel in jars of baby food and places the jars back on supermarket shelves. Detectives race against time to intercept the contaminated food and unmask the culprit.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed G...
Young hackers infiltrate the social media accounts of the world’s biggest celebrities and spark internet-wide chaos. This is the story of the 2020 Twitter hack.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed Guest: Joe Tidy Producer: Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge...
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
A criminal gang in Cardiff set up an elaborate scheme to import cannabis from the United States.
When their insider is arrested, the gang leader has to scramble to keep his illegal operation alive.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Matt Murray. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. C...
Stephen Woodward builds a million-pound business selling access to illegally streamed TV channels.
He’s digitally savvy, however, it’s not long before he starts leaving the police clues about his cyber crimes.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. ...
Michelle Mills and her ex-Royal Marine lover, Geraint Berry, want to continue their romantic affair.
The lovers plot how to remove Michelle’s husband, Christopher, from the picture and cover their tracks.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Meleri Williams Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Online Producer: Lee Macaulay Executive Producer: Luke E...
Gary Hardy, Ronald Knowles and Steven Houston are approaching pension age, but they refuse to settle into their retirement years. Instead, they combine their skills and hatch a deadly plan to make and supply deadly weapons to British gangs. But after a life of crime, is this one job too many for the old boys?
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Jeremy Ball Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bet...
Herbert Smith, the ‘Handcuff King’, and his girlfriend, Lottie Roberts, are circus performers who secretly buy and sell babies for profit in Edwardian Britain. But they’ll need more than a disappearing act to fight the families who come after them.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Richard Tisdale Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti ...
HMP Kirkham Prison governor Kerri Pegg and drug dealing gang boss Anthony Saunderson strike up a dangerous relationship.
If they're found out, it will have life changing consequences for Pegg.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Mat Trewern. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commis...
Former zoo worker Bradley Tomes hatches a plan to steal and sell Humboldt penguins Patrick and Penny from South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
Criminal mastermind, James ‘Jimmy’ Sheen, steals a world famous golden toilet worth £4.8m from Blenheim Palace. But who’s going to take it off his hands?
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed Reporter: Clodagh Stenson Produced by Luke de Costa Researcher: Bethan Davies Social Media: Fede Marilotti Online Producer: Lee Macaulay Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge Commissioning Editors: Gareth H...
Gary Youds senses that cannabis drug legalisation is imminent and opens up a cannabis café in Liverpool. The law change doesn’t happen, so police shut it down.
Gary goes to jail, however, he continues to fight for the right to keep his cannabis café open.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Mattha Busby. Produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. On...
Jaswant Chail wants to bring down ‘the empire’ and his first act is to harm a British Royal.
Inspired by Star Wars and encouraged by his ‘girlfriend’, he puts his deadly plan into action.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Maria Zaccaro. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executiv...
NHS surgeon Neil Hopper was hailed as a hero when he returned to work after having both his legs amputated, however, he hides a dark secret.
His secret? The damage to his legs was self-inflicted.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Tamsin Melville. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Prod...
James Parker, from Blackpool in Lancashire stumbles upon a glitch on a cryptocurrency website that generates ‘free’ money.
He makes himself a millionaire, at a cost.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jane Downs. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldr...
Farmer Walter Renwick finds himself in the eye of a social media storm after the famous Sycamore Gap tree is felled.
The tree had stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland until September 2023.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jane Downs. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Execu...
Mark Christopher lured followers into his 'anti-establishment cult’ by promising to save them money. The movement quickly took a sinister turn.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Lewis Adams. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Researcher: Bethan Davies. Social Media: Fede Marilotti. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editor...
A group of workmen dig up roads and pavements to re-connect derelict buildings to the UK power grid.
Local residents soon suspect that all is not as it seems and what‘s discovered is greater than they could have imagined.
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Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Jonny Humphries. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Lee Macaulay. Executive producer: Luke Eldridg...
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