A plot to extort thousands of pounds from a casino is foiled by a high-stakes sting operation. Investigators hatch a plan to lure the suspects back onto British soil in order to arrest them. Also, a discarded cigarette butt helps convict a man of indecent assault, nine years after the crime was committed.
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Series 4: Episode 8
When a missing woman is found buried in her own back garden, family and friends raise suspicions about her long-term boyfriend. But police don’t have much to go on – ...
31-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 7
A family home is targeted in an arson attack – and two people die. But the matches police found are damp and only give a partial DNA profile. There is nothing to put the m ...
24-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 6
When an organised crime gang start bringing large quantities of drugs into Crewe, police need to crack down on them, but the gang’s methods make it painstaking work to unc ...
20-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 5
When a child goes missing, police in Newcastle have few leads to go on. But as the weeks pass by, they’re increasingly concerned about the boy. They have a suspect but not ...
16-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 4
When an unconscious man is lying on the street, another man stamps on his head, killing him. There’s no CCTV, and the witnesses don’t know him. But can a footwear sp ...
13-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 13
When a young woman is reported missing, the SIM card from her phone leads police to a local man. They take him in for questioning, but it’s not until a dog walker discover ...
10-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 12
Two young women are shot dead while out celebrating New Year’s Eve in Birmingham. The crime bears all the hallmarks of a gangland shooting, but neither woman has any conne ...
08-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 11
West Midlands Police are facing a massive spate of burglaries, and they know one man is responsible for them all. But they just can’t catch him in the act. However quickly ...
07-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 3
When a man dies in a house fire, it looks like a tragic accident. But two years later, it emerges he had a visitor before the fire. And his card was used to buy a flight to Ital ...
06-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 2: 2. The Cigarette Butt Murder
A discarded cigarette butt gives police the proof they need to find the murderers of a young father shot and killed in broad daylight, and a used match found in a drainpipe iden ...
04-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 5
When a child goes missing, police in Newcastle have few leads to go on. But as the weeks pass by, they’re increasingly concerned about the boy. They have a suspect but not ...
16-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 2
A reclusive millionaire is found murdered in his home in west London, and police find hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash there. Why haven’t his killers taken the mone ...
29-06-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 3
When a man dies in a house fire, it looks like a tragic accident. But two years later, it emerges he had a visitor before the fire. And his card was used to buy a flight to Ital ...
06-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 6
When an organised crime gang start bringing large quantities of drugs into Crewe, police need to crack down on them, but the gang’s methods make it painstaking work to unc ...
20-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 8
When a missing woman is found buried in her own back garden, family and friends raise suspicions about her long-term boyfriend. But police don’t have much to go on – ...
31-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 4
When an unconscious man is lying on the street, another man stamps on his head, killing him. There’s no CCTV, and the witnesses don’t know him. But can a footwear sp ...
13-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 1
A jacket left behind in a stolen car carries the DNA to prove who was driving the vehicle. But it takes detective work to figure out who he is – and it turns out he’ ...
22-06-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 7
A family home is targeted in an arson attack – and two people die. But the matches police found are damp and only give a partial DNA profile. There is nothing to put the m ...
24-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 3: Episode 8
A blood-spattered hammer is the key to charging the police’s prime suspect with a vicious murder. Police believe the man they have in custody is the killer, but with only ...
28-05-2024
BBC 1
Series 1: 13. The Feud
A grainy video from a petrol station forecourt helps convict a gang of cold-blooded killers, and a criminal’s mobile phone finally connects an unscrupulous gang targeting ...
24-02-2022
BBC 1