Place of Execution

Place of Execution

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20081 season3 episodes60 min7.0 / 10

A bleak, intellectually demanding true-crime investigation that interrogates the nature of justice, certainty, and guilt across decades, built on unresolved ambiguity rather than closure.

On a freezing December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk and was never seen again. As the entire country watched, newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett turned up enough evidence to see his suspect hanged and was hailed a hero by the people of Scardale. More than four decades later, the lingering cloud left by the missing body of Alison Carter compels controversial filmmaker Catherine Heathcote to turn her camera to Bennett.

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