Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Aug 24, 2021
Teams of detectives and forensic scientists examine the evidence left behind in the case of a woman whose dismembered body parts were left in a bin after the killer was done committing their horrific deed, but their sins do not go unpunished.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Aug 31, 2021
How light source technology and fibre analysis led to the conviction of murderer Stephen Marshall, who dismembered his victim and scattered the body parts across Hertfordshire.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 7, 2021
A look is taken into the murder of Scott Wilkinson, who leaves his home in Walton-on-Thames and heads out for his annual fishing trip on ‘Donkey Island' in Surrey, but three days later, his body is found floating in River Thames after he is brutally beaten over the head with a blunt object.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Sep 14, 2021
The 2002 murder of 87-year-old pensioner Gladys Godfrey in Mansfield, where forensic teams acquired a DNA sample from the killer, but found he was not in the national database.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2021
After a student is found dead in his car, investigators suspect his girlfriend's brother to be the culprit until he's spotted on CCTV across town at the time of the murder, leaving detectives struggling to unravel a sordid, and lethal, family plot.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Sep 29, 2021
The forensic evidence that brought serial killer Peter Tobin to justice, from identifying a weapon through blood splatter to tracing his movements in relation to other murders.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2021
The capture of a gang behind the abduction of a teenager, whose kidnappers were forced to resort to murder when they were unable to find a safe place to hold him.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 13, 2021
Investigating the murder of 26-year-old Sinead Healy in Hammersmith, London, where the most likely suspect, her boyfriend, was found to already be in prison.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Jul 28, 2022
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Aug 4, 2022
A body found in a ditch by a dog walker in 2013 became the first in a series of dead bodies discovered, kick-starting a police investigation to track down a serial killer.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Aug 11, 2022
A carer discovers a vulnerable man dead in his bedroom, surrounded by blood spatter. CSIs immediately search for evidence, but are confronted with signs of a thorough clean-up.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Aug 18, 2022
A decomposing human corpse is found in a suitcase dumped on a country lane in Yorkshire. The investigation's first clue is the distinctively patterned tape used to bind the victim.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Aug 25, 2022
Forensic teams investigate the murder of a teenage girl in her own home, and discover that the killer has attempted to cover their tracks by making it look like suicide.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Sep 1, 2022
Officers respond to reports of violent disorder in a south London residential street involving a large group wielding axes, knives and lumps of wood, attacking cars and people.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Sep 8, 2022
Only yards away from her Rochdale home, 65-year-old Eileen Jawczak is found brutally murdered. But despite an extensive forensic recovery, CSIs cannot uncover any promising leads.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Sep 15, 2022
After a brutally murdered oil rig worker is found in a burnt-out car, the quiet Scottish town soon becomes inflamed with rumours and fear.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Sep 22, 2022
A university lecturer is found stabbed to death in the middle of a park. Just moments later, a report comes in of a second non-fatal stabbing, less than a mile away.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Sep 29, 2022
A landlord discovers a foot poking out of his wheelie bin, outside a property that has just received an end-of-tenancy deep-clean that may have destroyed any evidence.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2022
A boy survives being stabbed in the heart by a stranger. While surgeons try to remove the broken blade, detectives analyse CCTV footage and search for witnesses to the attack.
Season 3
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Aug 28, 2023
Laureline Garcia-Bertaux is reported missing, and five days later police find a female body buried in a shallow grave in a back garden.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 4, 2023
The search for the murderer of 17-year-old Jodie Chesney, who was stabbed in the back while hanging out with friends in the park. CCTV helped identify who was responsible.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 11, 2023
An elderly woman murdered in a small north Wales community. Police were convinced the killer was a local and as forensic evidence mounted the net closed in.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Sep 18, 2023
A loving mother is brutally attacked in the street during the evening rush hour. The police's prime suspect has a watertight alibi, so it's up to the forensics to uncover the truth.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Sep 25, 2023
The mysterious hit-and-run death of church organist Alan Greaves, and how forensic experts found a clue on his body that unlocked the truth of the case.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 2, 2023
After a gruesome discovery in a London canal, forensic experts uncover hidden clues within twisted artwork to expose a serial killer.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2023
A family who paid the ultimate price for confronting moped thieves, prompting their close-knit community to help forensic specialists uncover evidence to unmask the knifeman.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Oct 16, 2023
After a talented young skateboarder is shot dead in front of his family in Liverpool, forensic experts recover a deleted social media message exposing two killers bent on petty revenge.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Oct 23, 2023
Police receive a call: a 21-year-old university student has gone missing. Friends report that after being turned away from a club, Libby Squire was put into a taxi and hasn't been heard from or seen since, and it's very out of character.
Humberside Police launch one of their biggest-ever missing persons searches, while digital forensic experts trawl though CCTV. Libby is captured walking away from her home address. The team continue to track her movements and notice something concerning – a male figure mirroring her movements on the other side of the road. He then approaches her and leads her to a car. The car is tracked to a playing field. Libby is not seen again, and a witness reports hearing a chilling scream around the same time.
Libby's disappearance prompts a number of women to come forward with disturbing reports of being watched, followed, or exposed to, by a man. Forensic experts link a number of the women's reports – leaving them in no doubt there is serial sexual predator in Hull, but with Libby still missing the team can't prove if she has fallen victim to the same offender.
Then a body is found in the Humber Estuary, and scientists use microscopic forensic evidence to unlock the case.
Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Oct 30, 2023
Police in Cornwall uncover a house of horrors: three bodies wrapped in bedsheets, hidden under a woodshed. The bodies are badly decomposed, police call in forensic experts to carefully recover the remains and begin formal identification.
The house belongs to the Ford family, Lesley and her four teenage children Sarah Jane, Anne-Marie, Craig, and Steven have been missing for almost a month. Forensics must determine if they are the bodies in the garden.
While a forensic odontologist looks at dental records, police uncover a web of lies and zero in on their prime suspect, chasing him down on Bodmin Moor. But despite a shock confession, the discovery of two further bodies in a potato field leads forensic experts to unravel the suspect's story, leaving the jury in no doubt the murders were carefully planned and acted out with clinical precision.
Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2023
The discovery of a body wrapped in a shower curtain and buried in a makeshift grave in the garden of a Surrey home - and how the forensic investigation turned up a dark secret.
Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2023
How the discovery of a woman's dead body in a playground led to the forensic analysis of a water bottle, linking the murder to a series of sexual assaults in the area.