About this season
The smiling parents, the respectable groom, the helpful official... all with evil inside. Britain's Most Evil Killers explores the crimes of Britain's most brutal killers.
Episodes (10)
1. Vincent Tabak
9.0Aired 1 October 2019 • 60 min
A chilling look at a man responsible for one of the biggest police investigations in Bristol - the cold-blooded murder of Joanna Yeates.
2. Robert Black
9.0Aired 8 October 2019 • 60 min
A look at the Scottish serial killer who preyed on young girls between the ages of five and 11 throughout a six-year killing spree.
3. Angus Sinclair
9.0Aired 15 October 2019 • 60 min
A profile of the man responsible for the cold-blooded murder of two teenage girls in 1977, known as the World's End Murders.
4. Trevor Hardy
9.0Aired 22 October 2019 • 60 min
A look at the brutal murderer, dubbed The Beast of Manchester, who claimed the lives of three teenage girls in the 70's.
5. David Heiss
9.0Aired 29 October 2019 • 60 min
A look at the 21-year-old killer who brutally took the life of British student Matthew Pyke, after developing an obsessive infatuation with his girlfriend.
6. John Cooper
9.0Aired 5 November 2019 • 60 min
A look at the welsh serial killer known to some as The Wildman, who got four life sentences for a string of gruesome murders and sexual assaults.
7. Colin Ireland
9.0Aired 12 November 2019 • 60 min
He decided to become a serial killer and brutally snatched away the lives of five innocent men. This is the story of the calculated murderer.
8. Christopher Halliwell
9.0Aired 19 November 2019 • 60 min
A look at the convicted double-murderer responsible for taking the lives of Becky Godden-Edwards in 2007 and Sian O’Callaghan in 2011.
9. Derrick Bird
9.0Aired 26 November 2019 • 60 min
After killing 12 people in Cumbria in one of the worst firearm crimes in British history, Derrick Bird turned the gun on himself. Criminologists and psychologists explore what could have made Derrick, known as popular and funny, snap so dramatically.
10. Mark Hobson
9.0Aired 3 December 2019 • 60 min
Mark Hobson walked out on his happy family with no explanation on New Year's Day. Five years later he went on a murder spree, killing his girlfriend, her sister and an elderly couple. Criminologists and psychologists try to decode this enigma.