Serial Killer Wives on My5 with Christa Ackroyd
The new series examines shocking cases of women who found out their partners were murderers. Yorkshire TV presenter Christa Ackroyd presents the show.
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00:00You can get it on My5 and on Catch Up is serial killers' wives, it's partners of serial killers
00:07who did not know that they were married or in a relationship with a serial killer.
00:11And the one that starts this week is I Escaped a Serial Killer and it is about those who either
00:19had a lucky escape, those who persuaded a person who had killed many times to let them go when
00:27others had not been able to do so. And it's fascinating and it's stories from all over the
00:32world, some you'll know, some I didn't know. But I think the common thread is the strength of
00:40humanity, the strength of an individual to overcome, to be determined never to be a victim.
00:47That's certainly the I Escaped a Serial Killer. And then the third one is My Boyfriend Made Me
00:53Do It. I've had a bit of an argument with the producers because I'm saying that as women,
00:57our boyfriend shouldn't make us do anything. So I think you'll find that that is probably
01:01one of the most interesting ones. So I have sympathy in terms of coercion. That's something
01:08I'm very, very, very big on at the moment. But for those who use it as an excuse to say, well,
01:16I smuggled drugs into a jail, knowing that in fact that led to people who actually died,
01:24I haven't too much sympathy. But it just goes to prove that when you think you're dead and buried,
01:32somebody sees something somewhere and you can be resurrected. So I'm just like,
01:41you know, I don't watch them. So I'm really sorry. The one thing I've never got used to,
01:47and it's the honest truth. And it's not just me saying, yeah, yeah, right. Of course,
01:51you must sit glued to them. I've never got used to how I sounded on television or on radio. And
01:57I've certainly never got used to how I look. I don't know what I think I look like or should
02:01look like or should sound like. So I don't watch them. Occasionally, I walk into a room and I'm
02:06on the telly and I go, oh, turn it off. I remember Maggie Smith saying about Downton Abbey, she'd
02:12never seen a single episode because she didn't like watching herself. So I think I'm in good
02:15company. Maybe when I'm old and grey and in a care home, I might sit down and say,
02:21put my programmes on. But I doubt it.