Crime may be the dark aspect of civilisation. The under belly of human failing and greed.Within societies, straight down through the ages, they have appropriated its rules and taken what it wants by bad and unfair means.’Crime Classics’ examines all manner of offences and murders from the past. It thoroughly recreates the entire crime through thorough and pains-taking analysis. The cases add the assassinations of Lincoln and Julius Caesar towards the even more obscure, such as Bathsheba Spooner, who wiped out her spouse Joshua in 1778 and became the 1st woman tried and executed in the us.Your host every week, is Mr. Thomas Hyland – ‘connoisseur of crime, student of assault, and teller of murders’ and played by Lou Merrill.