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Series 2: 8. Late Night Murder and Exhuming Evidence
When a young nurse disappears, a soil analyst helps find her body and solve the crime. A digital imaging expert proves that what was thought to be an accidental death was murder.
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Series 5: 3. A Deadly Dose
The first case in this episode follows the baffling deaths of married couple Carol and Stephen Baxter, found slumped in chairs in their Essex conservatory on Easter Sunday 2023. ...
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Expert Witness
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Expert Witness
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The true crime documentary series that reveals how expert witnesses helped solve some of the UKs most complex major crime cases. \n\nThis episode starts in Liverpool, where 28 ...
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Expert Witness
Series 4: 6. Murderers, Messages And The Breakfast Killer
In this episode, we take a look at how phone data can unlock a case and provide a solid link between the suspects and a horrific murder. \n\nIn early 2023, emergency call handle ...
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Expert Witness
Series 4: 5. Catching A Cold Case Killer
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BBC 1
Expert Witness
Series 4: 4. Cracking The Killer's Code
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Expert Witness
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In our first case, father of four, Pat McCormick, goes missing in Comber, Northern Ireland, leaving his family desperate for answers. Police suspected he’d come to harm bu ...
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Expert Witness
Series 4: 1. The Murder Of Sarah Payne: Fields Of Evidence
True crime documentary series that reveals how expert witnesses helped solve some of the UK's most complex major crime cases. \n\nThis programme travels to Sussex to investiga ...
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Expert Witness
Series 1: 15. 60s Dna And Fibres Around The World
A 50-year-old cold case murder is solved by DNA and the tenacity of an expert witness, and a murder investigation is solved by tracking unusual blue fibres around the world.
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BBC 1
Expert Witness
Series 1: 12. Pollen, Chalk And Dna
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Series 4: 11. Blood On The Carpet
In 1976, Renee MacRae and her infant son Andrew are reported missing. The car they were travelling in is found on fire in a lay-by near Inverness. Neither will ever be seen agai ...
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An expert in mobile phone technology tracks the movements of a murder suspect, and an expert in art fraud determines whether a very expensive painting is genuine or fake.
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An expert witness uses soil analysis to find the body of a missing woman feared murdered, and a cell site expert uses his tracking skills to catch a killer in Northern Ireland.
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Expert Witness
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Expert Witness
Series 1: 14. Paint Materials And Blood Patterns
Forensics analysis by an art expert proves paintings by a well-known Cornish artist are fake, and spattered blood in a hotel bedroom helps catch the killer of a father of three.
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