Expert Witness

Soil analysis helps solve a 37-year-old murder investigation in Scotland and in Huddersfield, analyzing insect life on a body on the moors, helps detectives catch a killer.

Blood traces, hidden under paint, allow an expert witness to find a killer, and free five men from suspicion. And an unusual gait identifies the murderer of an officer worker.

Marks left by the tread of a shoe, help detectives catch a killer terrorizing Rochdale and a forensic linguist deciphers messages written in slang, revealing a murder plot.

A team of expert witnesses follow a trail of fibres and DNA, to solve 3 violent cold cases in Pembrokeshire and a fraudulent diamond investment scheme is exposed by a gemologist.

A body left in a field prompts the examination of pollen, establishing a new forensic discipline and a fibres fused with car wreckage prove who caused a fatal traffic collision.

Insect evidence helps crack the case of missing Warrington teenager Shafilea Ahmed, and a series of convincing John Anster Fitzgerald forgeries are uncovered by an art expert.

Soil on a spade helps catch the killer of a young woman from Swindon, who for years evaded justice and a stone stuck in the sole of a shoe helps solve a murder in Manchester.

A wrongful conviction is overturned by re-examining microscopic particles on a van seat and an attempted murder outside a nightclub is solved by a facial comparison expert.

Pollen and Bone experts help identify the remains of a murder victim found in a sports bag. And advances in DNA help find the killer of a Bradford pensioner after 22 years.

Analysis of text messages, reveal a husband’s plot to cover up his wife’s murder and traces of DNA on decades old evidence helps bring justice the family of a murdered woman.

How expert analysis of nettles and chalky soil helped catch the killer of Sohum schoolgirls and how advances in DNA techniques finally solve the murder known as Beauty in the Bath.

Insects establish an accurate time of death, helping to prove a husband killed his wife and analysis of burnt remains in Leeds, uncovers another husband’s cold murder of his wife.

Forensics analysis by an art expert prove paintings by a well-known Cornish artist are fake, and blood spatter patterns in a hotel, help catch the killer of a father of three.

A fifty-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.