Forensic Investigators

In December 1994, the body of Andrew Astbury, a hard-working, reliable 25 year old man from a good family, was found floating in the Yarra River at Warrandyte in north-eastern Melbourne. This episode takes a look at the brilliant detective and forensic science work that helped to solve this chilling murder.

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.

Detectives have to rely on forensic evidence to separate fact from fiction when the president of the Queensland Cat Protection Society is found stabbed to death in February 1998.

In December 1991, a young woman's dead body is found wrapped in plastic bags. Unidentified for several months, she became known as Jane Doe. This episode follows the tireless work and scientific procedures that helped police detectives find out who she was and who wanted her dead, and bring her killer to justice.

In 1989, a man who came to be nicknamed "The Granny Killer" murdered six women in Sydney's northern suburbs. This episode looks at the scientific procedures and detectives' tireless work that helped to solve these chilling murders and bring the killer's year-long reign of terror to an end.

On the 12th January 1993, Gabe Meyer is dropped off at a gymnasium in Innisfail, Queensland by his father, little knowing it would be the last time he would see him alive. His disappearance would take police detectives into crocodile infested waters, the depths of cane fields and rainforests, and a world of distorted reality and deadly lies.

The body of 22-year-old Tasmanian Amanda Carter was found alongside the Derwent River. It took 13 years and a revolution in forensic science to finally bring her killer to account.

Policewoman Angela Taylor was killed when a car exploded outside Melbourne's Russell Street police headquarters. What clues were found among the debris? Who was responsible?

Samantha Bodsworth's body was found in a Noosa carpark one hour away from her hometown of Gympie. The killer thought he'd committed the perfect murder but a little-known area of forensic science would be his undoing.

Danny John Wasley aged 30 years and Mark Andrew Banks aged 30 years disappear without a trace in Newcastle, New South Wales, during August 1999. In a case involving drug lords, revenge and cold blooded murder, police uncover a tangled web of lies.

Fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Janet Phillips went to a party in her home suburb of Wynnum on Brisbane's southside in July 1987 and never came back. Not long after she was reported missing her body was found a couple of kilometres away. Police had a strong suspect but they were unable to prove he'd killed the teenager.