Forensics: Catching the Killer

A look at the murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave in 1994, with the case remaining cold until forensic advances revealed his killer decades later.

In September 2003, 17-year-old Shafilea vanishes. Months later, her body is found in Cumbria, turning a missing person case into a shocking murder inquiry.

Five-year-old April disappeared close to her home. She had been playing outside when she was seen getting into a vehicle and, within moments, was gone.

In 2004, Margaret vanished from her home. Her husband claimed she had left him. However, inconsistencies in his story raised suspicions.

Margo Lafferty was brutally attacked and murdered in Glasgow in 199, a shocking crime that sent ripples of fear through the local community.

How, in 1995, Vikki left her home to take the dog for a walk. Later, the dog returned home alone, signaling that something was terribly wrong.

In 1998, 22-year-old Jenny went out, looking forward to an evening with friends. This edition looks at how that night would ended in tragedy, as she never returned home.

An examination of the crimes of John Cooper, a Pembrokeshire farm labourer who won a fortune in a Spot the Ball competition and took to a life of drink, gambling and violence to sustain his lifestyle. By the time he was apprehended in 2009, he had murdered at least four people and left a trail of rape and burglary behind him that saw him given a whole life order.

When the body of eight-year-old Sarah Payne was found in 2000, police utilised the help of forensic scientists to catch her killer.

Carol Park's body was pulled from a lake more than 20 years after she vanished - and the key to solving the case lay in unique forensics.

The murder of 15 year-old Paige Doherty sends shock waves through Clydebank - and the key to finding her killer lies in the local Deli.

Lynette White's murder led to one of Britain's most infamous miscarriages of justice and an exhaustive forensic investigation.

A look at the spree killing in Birmingham in November of 2000 where pub worker Philip Smith killed three women, mutiliating them almost beyond recognition.

True crime series exploring the huge part forensic science plays in murder investigations and catching killers.

When Teresa De Simone's body was discovered, one man would soon be found guilty - but would forensic science prove his innocence?

The 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman horrified and shook the nation. Explore how forensic science helped find their killer.

Investigating the murder of 35-year-old Zara Aleena who was beaten to death just minutes from her home. The only evidence of the killer was one bloody fingerprint left at the scene.

In 1975, school girl Lesley Molseed went to the shops and never came home. Could one 30-year-old piece of evidence reveal her killer?

The case of Tia Sharp, a 12-year-old girl reported missing in London, leading to a major search which took the police close to home.

Years after the crime, see how forensics helped solve the murder of Becky Godden-Edwards, finding a killer who had sadly murdered again.

When a woman dies in an accidental house fire, one officer becomes suspicious that something more sinister has happened.

Police use forensic evidence to catch the perpetrator who murdered a mother in her home in 1994.

How investigators uncovered the perpetrator behind the 1994 murder of a grandmother at a bathroom of a bus station in Bury.

After a grandmother is strangled to death at an allotment shed, police use the scene's forensics clues to solve a chilling case

The case of Suzanne Greenhill, a deaf woman murdered in her own home, and how the investigation took forensics teams on a trail through Europe

When body parts wash up on a beach in Arbroath, forensic investigators must unravel the disturbing truth behind a woman's death.

When a body is found in a flat, a trial of forensic evidence allows detectives to distinguish between friend and foe.

The tragic case of 22-year-old Helen McCourt, who got off a bus one night in her hometown but never arrived at her nearby home.

The fragments of evidence that helped piece together what happened to 15-year-old Karen Price, who disappeared in 1981 only for her body to be found eight years later.

The documentary tells the story of a man who thought he had got away with his parents' murder - until the chemical compound luminol revealed a trail of his bloody footprints.

True crime series putting murders under the microscope and exploring how forensic science helped investigators piece together what happened.

True crime series putting murders under the microscope and exploring how forensic science helped investigators piece together what happened.

True crime series putting murders under the microscope and exploring how forensic science helped investigators piece together what happened.

Thirty years after the gruesome murders of three women, familial DNA and the exhumation of a body finally closes the case.

Experts analyse sand found in a car after a man goes missing, leading them to a body and a twisted murder case.

Experts analyse the bodies of two women found in a freezer. Their untimely deaths would be linked to one vicious predator.