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Crime & Investigation highlights 2012

Written by TVSA Team from the blog Crime & Investigation Network on 14 May 2012
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In JUNE Crime & Investigation Network (DStv 255) brings you:

New series - premieres:

Evil Up Close
(9 x 60mins)

Fridays at 21:00 from 1st June  

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These are extraordinary crimes committed by ordinary people. Meet the neighbour who waves politely, the friend who is the life and soul of a party, the colleague who buys the coffee. All are ready to kill, rape, maim or harm.

They live cheek by jowl with us: they look, sound and behave like us. But they are evil and their crimes have shocked the world. This series hears from the people who knew, loved or trusted those hunted for vicious crimes - those who lived alongside, laughed with or felt the warmth of a monster.

The wives and daughters, husbands and sons, the friends, neighbours, detectives and prosecutors who have eye-balled evil in the dock. Unravelling tales of horror are made all the more awful because of their ordinariness.

People like Derrick Bird, the English cab driver, father and grandfather who shot his brother and 24 others before turning the weapon on himself. Or the calculating Doctor, Colin Howell, who gassed his wife and her lover to death before painstakingly staging their suicide pact before returning to his life as a lay preacher.

Or the French mother, who murdered and buried her own babies during a twenty year killing spree. The series includes first hand testimonies and dramatic reconstructions alongside news reports and expert opinion from police, psychologists and criminologists.

When Life Means Life
(6 x 60mins)

Sunday night premiere from 10th June at 21:00.
 
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Britain’s jails are overflowing. More than 87,000 prisoners are currently incarcerated within their walls.

For almost all of these prisoners the aim is rehabilitation and release, but a tiny number are deemed so dangerous and depraved, that they will NEVER be freed.

This extraordinary group of forty-five men and one woman includes serial killers, torturers, hired assassins and psychotic sadists. In some cases the faces are instantly recognisable – Ian Brady, Denis Nilsen, Rose West. Others are better known by the names given to them by the press – The Suffolk Strangler, the Crossbow Cannibal, The Railway Killer. But many of them you will never have heard of.

This series shine's a light on the dark world of some of these killers.
 

A & E Dramas
2 hour long made-for-TV dramas

Hunt For The I-5 Killer
On: Wednesday 6th June at 21:00.

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Based on a true story. Hunt for the I-5 Killer is a dramatization based on the haunting true story of the yearlong manhunt for a killer suspected of murdering 14 victims and committing numerous sexual assaults up and down the I-5 highway corridor through California, Washington and Oregon.

As Detective Dave Komineck starts to discover similarities in the cases, he becomes determined to prove the seemingly unrelated killings are the work of one man. As the case unfolds and more victims come to light, a shocking twist comes into play.

The Killing Game
On: Wednesday 13th June at 21:00. 

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Based on the bestselling crime novel, the Lifetime Original Movie Iris Johansen's The Killing Game follows forensic sculptor Eve Duncan when, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her seven year old daughter Bonnie, she is contacted by a man claiming to be her killer. 

Taunted by the man’s mysterious clues about Bonnie’s case, Eve becomes involved in his sadistic game when he threatens to kill another little girl that he targeted because she resembles her precious daughter.

Memories haunt her as she is caught in a web of deceit and gambles with her own life tracking down the deadly serial killer in the hopes of saving the girls life and discovering Bonnie’s final resting place. Naomi Judd also stars as Eve’s mother “Sandra Duncan.”

Girl fight

On: Wednesday 20th June at 21:00.

Inspired by a true story, Girl Fight follows the story of 16-year old Haley Macklin (Jodelle Ferland) as she attempts to navigate the intimidating halls of high school and discovers getting “in” with the popular senior girls is harder than she expected.

Frustrated by feeling left out, Haley thinks nothing of it when she criticizes the seniors by posting a note about them on a social network site. But when she comes to one of the senior’s aid one afternoon, they strike up an unexpected friendship and Haley soon becomes wrapped up in being part of their crowd, straining her relationship with her parents Melissa (Anne Heche) and Ray (James Tupper) when she begins to come home late, talk back and disobey their rules.

Ultimately, the girls discover Haley’s online comments about them. Betrayed, they decide to make her pay by ambushing her and beating her up on camera with plans to post the video online to gain some Internet fame.

Devastated by their daughter’s brutal beating and footage of it surfacing online, Melissa and Ray put their hope into the authorities for justice in punishing Haley’s former friends to help their daughter get her life back on track in this story about peer pressure, media scrutiny and forgiveness.

And Baby Will Fall

On: Wednesday 27th June at 21:00.

 Baby Fall









A chilling thriller that follows happily married high school sweethearts, Ivy (Anastasia Griffith) and David Ross (Brendan Fehr), as they prepare for the birth of their long-awaited first child, after years of trying and several miscarriages.

Ivy’s almost to term when the couple holds a yard sale to clear out old belongings and an old high school classmate, Melinda White (Clea Duvall), happens upon them … and, coincidentally enough, she is also pregnant. A few days later, Melinda is reported missing, and all the bloody clues point to David.

Could Ivy’s faithful, loving husband have been having an affair with Melinda all along? As the story unfolds, dark secrets in Melinda’s past come to light, and Ivy finds herself living in a nightmare. The movie is based on the critically acclaimed novel, "Never Tell a Lie," by Hallie Ephron.
 

Behind the headlines

1 hour specials based on headline grabbing stories from the past years – Saturdays and Sundays at 22:45:

Michel Fourinet: Ogre of the Ardennes – 2nd
The Beauty Queen Murder – 3rd
The Braemar Hills Murders – 9th
The Double Kidnap of Teddy Wang – 10th
The Ellen Pakkies Story -16th
Moses Sithole: The South African Strangler – 17th
Jack Unterweger: Poet of Death – 23rd
Pablo Escobar – 24th

Continuing Series:

Curious and Unusual Deaths (Series 2) – Weekdays at 20:35
Gangland (Series 4) – Saturdays at 21:00
At Home with the Noonans – Sundays at 21:50 (Last ep 3rd)
Beyond Scared Straight (Series 2) – Mondays at 12:00 (Last ep 11th)
Vanished with Beth Holloway – Tuesdays at 21:00
Police Women of Cincinnati – Thursdays at 21:00 (Last ep 21st)

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