Makings of a Murderer: Fatal Mistake

Donal MacIntyre brings Makings of a Murderer: Fatal Mistake to the Bournemouth Pavilion Ballroom on Thursday 7 January 2027, starting at 7:30pm. It's a true-crime evening that fits right in if you're into the kind of thing that usually lives in a podcast queue: real cases, detailed investigations, and the small things that bring a whole plan crashing down.

MacIntyre is an award-winning investigative journalist and broadcaster, and that's exactly what he does here. He takes a handful of true stories about killers who came terrifyingly close to getting away with it, and he walks the audience through how they were eventually caught. The focus is on the people who thought they'd committed the perfect crime — the ones who lied convincingly, destroyed evidence, and built false alibis that seemed to hold up.

What makes the show work is the way it looks at the tiny things that unravelled everything. He talks about the forensic trace that wouldn't go away, the witness who was forgotten, the piece of CCTV that caught something it shouldn't have, or the single contradiction in a story that finally gave it all away. It's less about the crime itself and more about the hunt for the person behind it, and the small, overlooked details that ended up being the difference between a killer walking free and a conviction.

Tickets start from £34, and it's an age-guided 16+ show, so keep that in mind if you're thinking of bringing anyone younger. It's at the Bournemouth Pavilion Ballroom on Thursday 7 January 2027, 7:30pm.