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​ITV’s 'Am I A Murderer?' Is The Weirdest Thing You’ll Watch All Week

Mark Cunliffe

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​ITV’s 'Am I A Murderer?' Is The Weirdest Thing You’ll Watch All Week

Featured Image Credit: ITV/Am I A Murderer?

ITV's latest documentary Am I A Murderer? follows the life of Janet Holt, who believes she is a murderer.

Janet, is a retired farmer who claims that she has repressed the memories of murdering her business partner, Fred Handford in 1976.

The documentary explores Janet's version of events and what she believes she did to Fred.

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Fred went missing in 1976 and after an extensive police search his body was never found and it was concluded that he killed himself as he had expressed to a witness that he would kill himself by "jumping down a local air vent, serving a long-closed coal mine."

However, Janet believes that she shot him with his own gun after he raped her twice and recalls burying him in an unmarked shallow grave in the Derbyshire countryside.

Janet said: "Fred attacked and raped me twice. Then I was trapped in the kitchen. I thought he'd lost his mind because he was talking rubbish about us getting married and having children.

Credit: ITV/Am I A Murderer?
Credit: ITV/Am I A Murderer?
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"I thought he was going to attack me again. There was his gun, leaning against the wall. I picked it up and I shot it. There was nothing running through my mind. No emotion."

You would think that Janet's confession would mean that the case was closed and she was charged with his murder.

Janet did not come forward until 2011 after a series of horrific nightmares led her to seek psychological help.

Despite being remanded in custody and attempting to show police where she buried his body nothing was ever found.

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Credit: ITV/Am I A Murderer?
Credit: ITV/Am I A Murderer?

During the show, Janet's version of events are probed by a top psychologist, Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes.

He said that although her recollections of the murder were vague, her memories of the rapes were compelling.

However, Detective Inspector Paul Cullen has accused Janet of coming forward purely to make money out out of an autobiography and television show. He said: "She has tried to con police and psychologist to try and make financial gain."

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Credit: ITV/Am I A Murderer?
Credit: ITV/Am I A Murderer?

The show also spoke to Fred's family, who believe that Janet did kill their father, but they don't believe he was capable of rape.

Fred's daughter, Lynette Chapman admits in the documentary, that she once had to defend herself against her violent father with a knife, and he once attacked her mother.

She said: "He hit my mum. I heard her scream and she was holding her face - I had to call the police and call the doctor and she had to go into hospital because she was so swollen and couldn't breathe properly because he'd squeezed her throat."

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Am I A Murderer? is available to watch on the ITV Hub

Topics: TV News, Real, TV Entertainment

Mark Cunliffe
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