Patient compendium drawing from 3400 hours of audio tapes, archival footage, declassified documents, et al, weaves a rich texture of understanding, particularly effective in flashbacks from their current day selves to their Watergate-era roles for such stalwarts as Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward and John Dean. Numerous current day parallels are elegantly understated. Written by Mike Rankin

A look at some of Europe's and America's most horrific serial killers and how bizarrely simple blunders eventually brought them to justice.