Trial and Error
Trial and Error: Season 5

Air Date

November 6, 1995

Episodes

2 episodes

Trial and Error

Season 5

Episodes

1. The George McPhee Case

November 6, 1995

George McPhee, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder and assault when in 1984 a woman, Elizabeth "Totsie" Sutherland, was strangled and then stabbed during the burglary of her cottage in the Scottish Highlands. McPhee was a getaway driver in a series of burglaries, but he had an alibi to show he was committing crimes many miles away at the time of the killing.

2. The Sheila Bowler Case

November 9, 1995

After the law overrode the findings of the previous episode about this case - in the main that elderly people with dementia can often surprise younger, fitter people with their physical movements - this update sources further evidence.