Crime & Investigation Network
New to the Crime & Investigation Network this autumn, Killer in the Family explores some of the most shocking and puzzling family murders of recent years. Laura Richards, a leading criminal psychologist responsible for setting up the Homicide Prevention Unit at New Scotland Yard, is on a mission to uncover the early warning signs killers, and help prevent future tragedies.
In each episode, Laura investigates a different case, all with one thing in common: a horrendous murder carried out by a family member. Laura delves deep to get to the bottom of what drove the killers to carry out such cruel acts, and speaks to surviving family members - the people closest to both victim and murderer.
During the series, Laura looks at six cases including Philip Austin, a family man who brutally stabbed, drugged and strangled his wife and two children in 2000; the murder of Surjit Athwal who was killed in 1998 after an elaborate plan concocted by her husband and mother-in-law; Christopher Hawkins who stabbed his four year old son in front of his 14 year old daughter in 2007; and Andre Genestin who beat his wife to death and kept her body in a car roof-box after she refused to allow him to invite a Ukrainian woman, whom he met on the internet, into their marriage.
Filmed and delivered in rich HDCAM, this is a fresh, pacy and contemporary examination of six unique and shocking cases.