UK Forensic Breakthroughs

The story of Edwin Hiles, who was found murdered in his home. Tiernan Coyle's pioneering fibre mapping technique linked Paul Weedon to the crime.

The story of Karen Pedley, who was hailed a hero after a 1983 fire, but later became a serial arsonist across Cornwall. Forensic investigators linked years of blazes to her.

Special-needs teacher Jane Longhurst visited the flat of Graham Coutts, a guitarist and part-time salesman, in March of 2003 and never left.

Kim Banyard was the mother of a ten-week-old baby boy. In 2003, she went to a party at a friend's house, and it was the last time anyone outside her own home saw her alive.

The story of Terry Edmonds, who had ambitions to become a midwife. In 2006, she boarded the train home, stepped off onto the platform, and was never seen alive again.

The tragic story of Peter Falconio, who was murdered while travelling with his girlfriend Joanne Lees through the vast emptiness of Australia's Northern Territory.

The story of a fatal stabbing outside a Gloucester nightclub, which lead detectives into gang culture, where forensic linguistics deciphered coded conversations.