Next Episode of Britain's Almost Perfect Murders is
Season 1 / Episode 5 and airs on 02 April 2026 21:00
Britain's Almost Perfect Murders follows expert-led, forensic investigations of cases where meticulous, near-flawless crimes were ultimately uncovered due to tiny, overlooked fatal mistakes by the perpetrators.
Emile Cilliers tries twice to murder his wife, first with a gas leak, then by sabotaging her parachutes, until her survival exposes the plot.
For years Carol Wray was seen as a fire survivor, until investigators uncovered a hidden pattern of arson that ended with her family dead.
Thomas Downey is murdered in Bath. DNA and CCTV lead to Darrell Richards being jailed in 2015.
Nurse Beverley Allitt murdered four children and harmed nine more in Lincolnshire, abusing trust until a pattern of deaths exposed her.
In 1930, Alfred Rouse murders a drifter in Northamptonshire, and burns the body to fake his own death; but a witness, a wallet and a number plate convict him.
Police officer Martin Forshaw kills fiancé, Claire Howarth, in Greater Manchester, just days before their wedding. His poor staging of a car crash led to a life sentence.
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