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Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story

These absorbing programs chart 200 years' worth of innovations in the science and history of crime-solving forensic investigation.

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Gabriel Weston
Self - Presenter
Lorna Dawson
Self - Soil Scientist, James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen
Rachel Bairstow
Self - Curator, Museum of British Dental Association

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

A Question of Identity

53 mins

This program reveals the cutting edge science that's keeping detectives one step ahead of the criminals. There was a time when obscuring the identity of the victim would ensure the killer escaped justice, but the emergence of forensic science would turn the tables on the murderer.

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