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Tuesday, September 7 at 7.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

True crime series chronicling the lives of female criminals and what made them snap. These shocking but true stories turn the expectations about crime and criminals upside down. The stories begin in ordinary cities, towns and suburbs with women who have normal lives and dreams. What pushes these seemingly ordinary women to become evil?

Starts September 5, Sundays at 5.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

This entertaining series travels the country to meet the officers and people who have been involved in some of the most dramatic crimes caught on film. In this episode, Natalie visits the North Midlands chopper coppers to find out about one of the most dangerous pursuits ever to happen on British Roads. A suicidal motorist is pursued along the M1 and sets fire to both himself and his car, and Natalie takes to the skies with the Metropolitan Police Helicopter Support on anti-terror patrol to find out how they track down London’s criminals.

Thursday, August 26, at 7.30pm on CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK

He was known as the Black Prince of Lygon Street and was the most lethal member of Melbourne’s notorious Carlton Crew in the 1980s and 1990s. A forensic psychologist examines what turned Alphonse Gangitano into a violent standover man and murderer. Gangitano came from a solid middle class background and loving family environment. There is no history of criminality in Gangitano’s family. Nature or nurture? The reasons for Gangitano’s life of crime don’t seem to sit in either category. But while other kids had posters of rock stars and sports personalities on their bedroom walls, Gangitano had a poster of Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather.

Through accounts of senior police and his criminal associates, Tough Nuts builds the profile on Gangitano, the boy who wanted to be a gangster when he grew up. We chart his crimes, the development of his pathological hatred of police and the event that took him over the edge – the affray at a Melbourne night club where Gangitano was arrested and where it seems, he decided to turn his back on a life of violent crime and go straight. But Gangitano was in too deep for a last minute epiphany. Gangitano learns that the superannuation package for gangsters doesn’t amount to more than a few grams of hot lead in the back of the head.

Saturday, August 21, from 7.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

During the 1980s in South Yorkshire a rapist was on the loose, attacking six women and stealing their stiletto shoes. Police were baffled, with no obvious suspects their investigation stalled. Then, the rapes stopped and the Rotherham Shoe Rapist became a cold case. Almost 20 years later advances in DNA technology led to the re- examination of the evidence from the rape attacks, the investigation was re-opened. This special tells the story of how, through dogged, tireless police work and cutting edge science DS Sue Hickman of the South Yorkshire Police finally tracked down the man responsible.

Wednesday, August 18, at 9.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

Cambodia is a huge market for child predators. To fight against this, Cambodian undercover investigators were hired for direct action and became a substitute for police and justice. We examine this sad and disturbing reality. An investigative documentary by Paul Moreira.

Episode Three of TOUGH NUTS: AUSTRALIA’S HARDEST CRIMINALS, premieres on Thursday, August 26 at 7.30pm AEST and explores the rise and fall of leading crime figure Alphonse Gangitano.

Alphonse Gangitano was known as the Black Prince of Lygon Street and was the most lethal member of Melbourne’s notorious ‘Carlton Crew’ in the 1980s and 1990s.

His death was one of the first of the Melbourne gangland killings when he was murdered in 1998.

TOUGH NUTS explores Gangitano’s life in careful detail – and looks at what turned him into a violent standover man and murderer after a loving, middle-class upbringing.

Through accounts from senior police and his criminal associates, TOUGH NUTS builds a fascinating profile on Gangitano, the boy who idolised Marlon Brando’s character in ‘The Godfather’ and wanted to be a gangster when he grew up.

TOUGH NUTS charts Gangitano’s crimes, the development of his pathological hatred of police and the event that took him over the edge – the affray at a Melbourne night club where he was arrested and where it seems, he decided to turn his back on a life of violent crime.

Sadly, Gangitano was in too deep for a last minute epiphany and eventually died at the hand of Jason Moran in 1998.

Featuring never-before-seen interviews with psychologists, police detectives and investigative journalists as well as dramatised scenes of some of the pivotal moments in Gangitano’s life, TOUGH NUTS delves deep in to the psyche of Alhponse Gangitano.

Presented by bestselling crime author Tara Moss, TOUGH NUTS is a fascinating eight-part series that blows the lid off Australia’s criminal underworld and reveals the real story behind what made and shaped the most notorious figures in Australian criminal history.

The 8 x 1 hour series profiles a different criminal in each episode and features, in order: Christopher Dale Flannery, Chow Hayes, Alphonse Gangitano, Dennis Allen, Russell Cox, Michael Sayers, Raymond Bennett and Lenny McPherson.

Sunday, August 8 at 9.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

In Britain, hundreds of children go missing every single day. This series looks at the stories behind some of these disappearances, meeting the families and friends of those who have gone without a trace. Lorraine Kelly examines heart-breaking tales of families who are desperate to find their missing child. Astonishingly over 100,000 children and young people disappear in Britain each year. In fact, children account for over two-thirds of all the missing persons cases reported. Thankfully many of these children are found within 48 hours, but there are still many out there who have been missing for months or even years, and their families and friends are desperate to know where they are.

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Sunday, August 8, at 5.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

Story of the killer who gained international notoriety in 1976 when he demanded to be executed for his crimes.

Thursday, July 29 at 8.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

His movies have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. He is an expert martial artist, with a seventh-degree black belt in aikido. He’s considered to be in the same class of action heroes as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Chuck Norris. But it turns out that Steven Seagal isn’t just an action hero in the movies. For the past 17 years, Seagal has been working as a fully-commissioned deputy sheriff in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. When he’s in town, he gears up and rides with his fellow deputies on “hot calls”, violent crimes in progress. He also works with homicide detectives and trains rookie officers in marksmanship and hand-to-hand combat. Up until now, Seagal has been very quiet about his work with the Jefferson Parrish Sheriff’s Office. But between film shoots in Bulgaria and Romania, he regularly stops in Louisiana to go out on patrol and work cases. By day, we will ride shotgun with Deputy Sheriff Seagal.

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Thursday, July 29, at 7.30pm on Crime & Investigation Network

From the channel that brought you the smash hit series, Crime Investigation Australia. Tough Nuts: Australia’s Hardest Criminals is the next exclusive series from FOXTEL’s, Crime & Investigation Network. Lift the lid on the most notorious men in Australian crime. What made them? What shaped them? What took them to the top and then tipped them over the edge?

Featuring never seen before interviews, unprecedented access, expert analysis, psychological profiling and high quality reconstructions. The real stories of the complex and violent relationships between Australia’s most pre- eminent criminals from Christopher “Rent-a-kill” Flannery to Lenny “Mr Big” McPherson. Behind every gangster and cold blooded killer dwells a fascinating mix of family and outsider, of friend and enemy, mate and monster. Hosted by crime-writer Tara Moss.