Forensic Investigators

When a young girl's body is found in a park in the teeming rain, the police had the odds stacked against them. They would need to call on all their investigative and forensic skills to solve a series of murders that even today sends a chill down the spines of those who lived through it. This episode details the capture of serial killer Paul Denyer and features his cold and calculating confession.

A taxi driver is murdered and, a month later, a human torso is washed up on a shore. Both murders are seemingly unrelated, yet DNA and an observant public would lead detective to the "bow and arrow" killer. Richard Leonard's chilling confession is included in this episode.

Four bodies - two adults and two children - were found shot in a house in an outer suburb of Canberra. Inside the house was evidence that would not only lead investigators to the killer, but would uncover a secret buried for years. Could a car crash, which had taken the lives of two other members of the same family, been no accident at all?

When a skull is found protruding from a sand embankment of a beach, police have their suspicions that the victim is a criminal who had been missing for some 12 years. This area had always been suspected as a dumping ground for underworld killings, yet detectives would rely on forensics to prove their hunch. How Task Force Snowy nabbed the infamous Arthur "Neddy" Smith.

A mother and her two children were found in their house brutally bashed to death. Was it a robbery gone wrong, or something far more sinister? A trail of evidence leads detectives to one shocking conclusion. The episode includes the police videotaped interview with the suspect.

A note left on a police car and an emergency phone call lead police to find the body of a young woman hidden in bushes out the front of an unused Adelaide police patrol station. Each was a vital clue, yet it would take the disappearance and murder of a Japanese student to capture the killer.

A young woman's body is found wrapped in plastic; unceremoniously dumped under a railway overpass in a suburb near Sydney's busy international airport. Unidentified for several months, she became known as Jane Doe. The only clue to her identity and that of the killer was a fingerprint found on a newspaper stuffed in her throat - how it got there and how it caught her killer was a one in a million forensic phenomenon.

The Granny Killer murdered six elderly women before his year-long reign of terror in Sydney's northern suburbs ended. The episode details the dedicated and yet frustrating investigation that bought serial killer John Wayne Glover to justice.

When a battered body is found dumped outside an ambulance station in Brisbane, police began an investigation that would become one of the largest, most intricate and longest running in Queensland history. As the judge in the case later remarked, "This was a script from a B-grade movie but the characters were real and the ending tragic." Includes the video witness statements from the victim's brother and friend who narrowly escaped death themselves.

When Gabriel Meyer hadn't returned home after a visit to the local gym in Innisfail in tropical Northern Queensland, his parents were immediately concerned. The last person to see him alive believed he was heading to the river for a lte afternoon swim. When his backpack and watch are located in the river, thoughts turn to crocodiles and accidental death, but the truth uncovered was far more sinister.

When Amanda Carter went out to celebrate her 22nd birthday in July 1980 at a pub in Hobart, she failed to come home. A determined group of detectives and forensic scientists believed they knew who had most probably killed Amanda that night, but they needed to find her body. That happened six weeks later, but it would take another 13 years and a revolution in forensic science to prove their gut instinct. Includes the videotaped interview of the police suspect when they finally catch up with him.

The killing of policewoman Angela Taylor was a tragic loss of one of Victoria's most promising officers. The young woman died when a car exploded outside the Russell Street Police Complex. Forensic experts spent days and nights collecting all of the debris to piece together what had been used to make the bomb. It was hoped something in the bomb or the car would point them towards the killer or killers... and it did.

On the 25th January 2002, two armed robbers steal $150,000 from two security guards loading an ATM in the inner Melbourne suburb of Flemington. How does some orange rope and a green floral print found at the crime scene help police to find the robbers?

In 1986, terrorism rocked Melbourne when a bomb exploded in the car park below the Turkish consulate in South Yarra. Human remains at the crime scene suggested that the bomber had been killed in the blast, but who was he and did he act alone?

In April 1993, a man survives a gun-shot wound to the head while he and his long-time girlfriend are on a boat on Moreton Bay. She claimed the man was attacked by pirates who had boarded their boat, but is she telling the truth?

In November 1989, Paul Snabel disappears from his flat in Moe, Victoria after a party. When his flat-mate reports him missing, police suspect foul play, and have their suspicions confirmed when parts of his bike are found in local dams and tips. When the detectives investigate Paul's final movements, they uncover a tangled web of deceit and lies.