Having shocked a nation, the murder of Elaine O’Hara, 36, was one of Irelands most high profile cases in recent years and in this three part documentary series we learn how Graham Dwyer, 42, stabbed her to death in August 2012.The killing itself was described as a ‘nearly perfect murder’ as it was presumed Elaine had taken her own life. If it wasn't for an incredible series of coincidences t
LA 92 is a film that marks the twenty-fifth-anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which were the result of four white police officers being acquitted of any crime after being caught on tape assaulting Rodney King in 1991. Adding fuel to the flames was a light sentence that was handed down to a shop owner who shot an innocent teenage girl to death.With the use of nothing but archival news
Human Zoos examines the horrifying history of the American effort to dehumanize an entire class of people in the name of science. In the 1900's leading men of science from Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia University were stating that Africans were midway between an orangutan and human being, so now 100 years later it should not come as much of a surprise that many people still cling to these
In July 2003, twin sisters Ladan and Laleh Bijani underwent a dangerous and controversial 50-hour operation to separate their conjoined heads. Nearly 30 years of being joined together was long enough. They had now wished to look at each other face to face. Early in their lives, the twins realized that they were very different people. They had different ambitions, hobbies, and tastes, both wanted
There has never been a discovery quite like that of Tutankhamun, not before, nor since. On the 26th November 1922, after five long years of scouring Egypt's legendary Valley of the Kings, British Egyptologist Howard Carter and his aristocratic backer Lord Carnarvon, broke into the tomb of Tutankhamun. The wonders they discovered captivated the world, a coffin made of solid gold, and the famous go
The planet Earth is filled with a vast collection of species, with over 9,000 types of birds, 28,000 types of fish, and more than 350,000 species of beetles. It's Charles Darwin's brilliant theory of evolution that explains how the 1.4 million different species that have been discovered have adapted and changed over time. The theory has been called the best idea anyone ever had but there is one b
Frank Gardner was the BBC's first-ever security correspondent, he travelled the world unhindered until June 2004 when Frank was shot six times by al-Qaeda gunmen whilst he was reporting on the growing terrorist activity seen in Saudi Arabia. At the age of just 43, Frank was left paralysed as the bullets which hit him damaged his spinal nerves, he has relied on a wheelchair ever since.In 2020
Serious violence is on the rise across Britain, with 100 violent deaths in London in 2018 alone, including at least 16 teenagers. During the summer of that year, Panorama went to the heart of one community affected by the violence, filming with the family of a murdered teenager. A 17-year-old boy who was shot dead in Southwalk, South London, his name was Rhyhiem Barton. Barton was a well-known ra
In 1985 Los Angeles would be terrorized by a series of brutal sexual assaults and murders. Man, women, the elderly, and children were all in the sadistic killer's sights. This indiscriminate targeting has never been seen before when dealing with a past serial killer. The victim's last hours alive were at the hands of someone who was laughing as he tortured, sexually assaulted, and killed them. He