Secrets of the Crime Museum (also known as Nick Ross: Secrets of the Crime Museum) is a British crime documentary series in which host Nick Ross gains access to the Crime Museum of Scotland Yard to bring the stories of London's most iconic crimes and criminals to life.
The series premiered in the UK on Crime & Investigation Network on 7 July, 2008. There are 13 half-hour episodes in the series.
Secrets of the Crime Museum premiered in South Africa on DStv's Crime & Investigation Network on Monday 6 October 2008, at 20h00.
Repeats
Saturdays: 14h00
Synopsis
For 130 years the Crime Museum of New Scotland Yard has quietly archived the tools, relics and instruments of killers, conmen and thieves.
Hidden away on the 1st floor of New Scotland Yard in Central London, it is not a museum accessible to the public - it is open by invitation only, but for the first time Nick Ross has been granted access to film inside for a 13-part series.
Using dramatic reconstruction, expert testimony and with the help of these gruesome artefacts, the stories of London's most iconic crimes and criminals are brought to life like never before.
Grisly exhibits as used in evidence are revealed for the first time including, the apron and gas mask work by Acid bath Murderer John Haigh, the Gun used by Craig and Bentley in the infamous "Let Him Have It" murder, the trunk used to hide the dismembered body of John Robinson's victim, the pubic hairs of his victims collected by John Christie after the murders at 10 Rillington Place and even the fingerprint smothered beer keg used to catch and convict the Great Train Robbers.
Nick Ross gives viewers exclusive access to the world's oldest museum of crime.