The Babes in the Wood Murders
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2021
A mishandled prosecution ended in a murderer going free until new evidence came about.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2021
A mishandled prosecution ended in a murderer going free until new evidence came about.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2021
In a nine-year investigation, detectives unpick the disappearance of a 17-year-old-girl.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 1, 2021
Soon after the corpses of two teens were found, a decades-spanning investigation began.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Nov 8, 2021
A woman disappears and an investigation identifies the likely culprit to be her boyfriend.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Nov 15, 2021
Detectives encounter a tough case when a mother finds her son's dead body at his home.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Nov 22, 2021
The case of a man stabbed to death in a Manchester alley went unsolved for the next 30 years, until DNA profiling became advanced enough to identify the killer.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2022
The case of a multi-generational murder in Wales. It took years for the killer to be brought to justice - had they been hiding in plain sight?
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Dec 22, 2022
The family of a victim have only one hope at justice, the murderer must try to kill again.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 29, 2022
The case of 11-year-old Lesley Molseed found dead on the Yorkshire Moors.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2023
On the tenth anniversary of Vikki Thompson's brutal murder in the Tnames Valley, a new lead emerges that results in the case being re-opened.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2023
When Georgina Edmonds is murdered, the community believes the killer must be an outsider.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2023
Examining the sadistic murder of Wendy Speakes that shocked the city of Wakefield.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2023
A fatal shooting in an Orkney restaurant in 1994 - and how it would be 14 years before the killer no one expected was brought to justice.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2023
A small fleck of paint becomes a lead to finding the killer who murdered Doctor Brenda Page fourty years ago.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Dec 4, 2023
The stories behind famous cold case murder investigations.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2024
Ten years after local Cardiff girl Geraldine's body was found a few days before Christmas, Detective Superintendent Paul Kemp and his team set out to catch the culprit with new groundbreaking forensic science. However, when they get a DNA match to a suspect they must act fast as he is about to be released from Dartmoor Prison.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2024
Thirty years after an unsolved murder, changed loyalties may help find Sally McGrath's murderer. We investigate whether a series of unsolved sexual assaults are connected to the killing.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2024
Exploring the murder of 22-year-old office clerk Teresa de Simone, who was found dead in the back of her car in 1979. Sean Hodgson's confession was one amongst multiple confessions of men which turned out to be hoaxes, however his statement matches unpublished details of the crime scene. Hodgson now hopes new DNA technology will clear his name, after decades in prison and several failed appeals.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2024
Investigating the murder case of Samo Paul and Tracey Turner from the 1990s. In 1997 former Chief constable Mick Creedon and his team in Leicester announced that the cold case murders are the work of one man- a serial sexual predator who is still out there. Creedon uses the DNA in an attempt to catch the killer before he strikes again.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2024
Following the murder case of 26-year-old Surjit Athwal, who failed to come home to London from a family trip to India in the December of 1998. Her husband and mother-in-law returned without her claiming that Surjit changed her travel plans, however Surjit's brother Jagdeesh reported her as a missing person to the police. Law enforcement faced a wall of silence from the tight knit Sikh community. A women who knew what had happened to Surjit feared she would be the next to disappear if she chose to reveal the truth.