Forensics: Catching the Killer

True crime series exploring horrific murders and the part forensic science played in finding the killers.

Genre: Documentary, Crime

Cast:Ceri Jackson , Angus Marshall

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Murder of Little Miss Nobody

Tue, Nov 30, 2021

Police have only a skeleton to help them piece together what happened to a body found 10 years after a murder.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Martial Arts Murder

Tue, Dec 7, 2021

When his parents are found dead, a man does everything he can to avoid being caught - but Luminol reveals a vital clue.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Murder at the Wedding

Tue, Dec 14, 2021

Bite marks in a block of cheese hold the key to catching a killer when he helps himself to a snack after a home invasion.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Murder by the Lake

Tue, Dec 21, 2021

A man insists his missing parents are on holiday, but a forensic investigation of their house shows signs of a vicious attack.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ A Killer in the Family

Tue, Dec 28, 2021

When the body of a 16-year-old girl is found in a field, it would take over two decades before a DNA profile of the killer can be developed.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Saturday Night Strangler

Tue, Jan 4, 2022

Thirty years after three gruesome murders, familial DNA and the exhumation of a body finally closes the case.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Murder on the Island

Tue, Jan 11, 2022

Experts analyse sand found in a car when a man goes missing, which leads them to a body and a twisted murder case.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Freezer Murders

Tue, Jan 18, 2022

Experts analyse the bodies of two women found in a freezer. Their untimely deaths would be linked to one vicious predator.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Murder in the Woods

Wed, Dec 7, 2022

When 13-year-old Lucy is reported missing by her mother, police and forensic investigators begin the painstaking search for the truth.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Murder Caught on Camera

Wed, Dec 14, 2022

The case of Tia Sharp, a 12-year-old girl reported missing in London, leading to a major search which took the police close to home.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Minicab Murders

Wed, Dec 21, 2022

Years after the crime, see how forensics helped solve the murder of Becky Godden-Edwards, finding a killer who had sadly murdered again.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Killed for Being Kind

Wed, Dec 28, 2022

A woman dies in an apparently accidental house fire, but one police officer spots signs that something more sinister is at play.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Shoe Fetish Murder

Wed, Jan 4, 2023

The investigation of a murder of her mother in her home in 1994, as police used forensic clues to find an appalling killer.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Murder in the Bus Station

Wed, Jan 11, 2023

See how investigators uncovered the perpetrator behind the 1994 murder of a grandmother at a bathroom of a bus station in Bury.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Murder at the Allotment

Wed, Jan 18, 2023

After a grandmother is strangled to death at an allotment shed, police use the scene's forensics clues to solve a chilling case.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Murder in Silence

Wed, Jan 25, 2023

The case of Suzanne Greenhill, a deaf woman murdered in her own home, whose murder took forensic investigators on a trail through Europe.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Head on the Beach Murder

Wed, Feb 1, 2023

When body parts wash up on a beach in Arbroath, forensic investigators must unravel the disturbing truth behind a woman's death.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ The Murder in the Tower Block

Wed, Feb 8, 2023

When a body is found in a flat, a trial of forensic evidence allows detectives to distinguish between friend and foe.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ The Murder With No Body

Wed, Feb 15, 2023

The tragic case of 22-year-old Helen McCourt, who got off a bus one night in her hometown but never arrived at her nearby home.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ The Body Under the Stairs

Wed, Feb 22, 2023

A women's killer remains at large for more than 30 years, until forensic investigators track him down with a tiny clue at the scene.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Soham Murders

Sun, Dec 3, 2023

The 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman horrified and shook the nation. Explore how forensic science helped find their killer.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Murder in Suburbia

Sun, Dec 10, 2023

In 2022, 35-year-old Zara Aleena was beaten to death just ten minutes from her London home, but the only evidence left by her brutal killer was one bloody fingerprint at the crime scene.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Murder on the Moor

Sun, Dec 17, 2023

In 1975, 11-year-old schoolgirl Lesley Molseed went to the shops and never returned to her family home in West Yorkshire. The ensuing police investigation led to a tragic miscarriage of justice before DNA evidence identified the true killer.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Happy Slapping Killing

Sun, Jan 7, 2024

Larger-than-life David Morley survived a terrorist bombing in London, only to be beaten to death five years later during a night out in the city.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Murder in the Woods

Sun, Jan 14, 2024

Mum Karen Doubleday was found murdered in the woods in 2002. The clue to finding her killer lay in pollen spores from the Ice Age.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Murder in the Playground

Sun, Jan 21, 2024

Teenager Naomi Smith went to post a letter for her mother in 1995 and never came back home, but a bite mark left on her body gave police crucial evidence to help reveal her killer.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Mum Who Never Came Home

Sun, Jan 28, 2024

After mum Michelle Gunshon disappeared, police found CCTV footage showing her with a mystery man. They managed to track him down, but where was she?

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Catching the Rochdale Ripper

Sun, Feb 4, 2024

When mum of three Eileen Jawczak was murdered, clues were minimal. Could police link her death to the Rochdale Ripper?

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Catching the Midlands Ripper

Sun, Feb 11, 2024

Two bodies are found just months apart in Leicestershire, but when the case goes cold, one woman's bravery could be key.