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In the fall of 1929, when Laura Cumming’s mother was three years old, she was kidnapped from a beach on the Lincolnshire coast of England.

A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.

Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar - he'd practiced witchcraft, conspired to murder his parents, and committed unspeakable crimes.

A Winchester bottle is the exhibit in the Black Museum associated with the murder of a four-year-old girl. A set of mysterious fingerprints on the bottle cannot be identified.

Sidney Patterson's body has been found in a burning building. But, he was shot in the back! Mr. Patterson then turns out to be Duncan Frazier! The teeth tell the story.

One glorious autumn day in 1894, a drifter attacked thirteen-year-old Jessie Keith so violently that people thought Jack the Ripper must be loose in rural Ontario.

A woman's body is found covered with quicklime. Mrs. Hope Russell seems to have been murdered by her husband...but he was really killed by the Luftwaffe!

A magenta colored blotting paper is on exhibit in the Black Museum because of its involvement with a murder in Oxford. A foreign gentleman's poor sister has been killed.

A woman's body is found in an old trunk at the Charing Cross railroad station baggage claim. Who killed Mrs. Noami Fournier?

Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime.

A woman's stocking is kept in the Black Museum as a keepsake of a woman who was struck by a motorcar.

A wireless set that was never intended to be operative is in the Black Museum because of its involvement with the murder of a bartender with strychnine.

A bottle of The Glenlivet in the Black Museum is the exhibit in a case of stolen uranium!

The first show of the series. A visit to the Black Museum and an exhibit of teacup fragments. A woman and her companion have been killed with a shotgun.

Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1953: An impoverished Cherokee named Buster Youngwolfe confesses to brutally raping and murdering his eleven-year-old female relative.