The story of the hunt to find the killer of two teenage girls in 1980s Leicestershire which led to an extraordinary forensic breakthrough - DNA fingerprinting.
EP2 Double JeopardyOct 16, 2019
Shocked by the failure to convict her daughter’s killer, a mother fights for justice by taking on the legal establishment and overturning an 800-year-old law.
EP3 InterrogationOct 23, 2019
The story of how a 1970s miscarriage of justice involving three teenage boys would lead to a radical overhaul of police powers and a brand new method of investigation.
Official Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00095q5
Synopsis
The stories of murder investigations and their extraordinary consequences, which overturned laws, transformed police interrogation and revolutionised forensic detection.