In June 1993 Elizabeth Stevens didn't arrive home after leaving a note that morning to say she'd be home around 8pm. The next day her body was found.
A routine run on a quiet weekday morning would lead to a gruesome discovery and thrust investigators into one of Australia's most bizarre murders.
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.
In March 1995, a routine early morning walk along the beach for one man would be unlike any other when his pet dog uncovers a skull, and a past that one killer thought he had buried forever.
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 team of forensic entomologists, document examiners, voice experts and volunteers help police to solve the murder of two women in Adelaide, South Australia in April 1999 and August 2001.
When Andrew Atsbury went missing, police first thought he may have commited suicide. But after discovering a vital piece of evidence which was previously invisible, they knew it was murder. But where was the body? With new age forensics and old fashioned foot work, a man who had been trusted in the past would become their prime suspect. His interview with police is included in this episode.
In 1998, the brutal deaths of shopkeeper David O'Hearn and Lord Mayor Frank Arkell led to the city of Wollongong, New South Wales being gripped in fear. This episode shows how the tireless work of detectives and some scientific procedures helped to solve this bizarre series of murders.
A young man has confessed to the murders of shopkeeper David O'Hearn and Lord Mayor Frank Arkell, but the subsequent police investigation takes a bizarre turn when the man's father is murdered in similar circumstances.
Queensland Cat Protection Society president Kathleen Marshall is found brutally stabbed to death. In a case involving rumours, catfights and fortune telling, the detectives would rely on forensics and five tiny spots of blood to separate fact from fiction and point them towards the killer.