The New Detectives Episode Guide

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Episode Guide

The New Detectives: Season 9 (2003 - 2004)

The New Detectives: Season 8 (2002 - 2003)

The New Detectives: Season 7 (2001 - 2002)

The New Detectives: Season 6 (2000 - 2001)

The New Detectives: Season 5 (1999 - 2000)

The New Detectives: Season 4 (1998 - 2001)

  • Season 4 Episode 15: Coroner's Casebook

    Two of America's leading coroners explain how pivotal their job can be in a murder investigation

  • Season 4 Episode 14: True Crime

    How crime writers research their material, combining the perspectives of police, criminals and journalists to provide detailed accounts of illegal activity

  • Season 4 Episode 13: Unlikely Sources

    How the most unlikely sources can yield vital evidence in murder investigations. Tonight's programme reveals how insects on a car windscreen and a casually discarded beer bottle helped to nail killers

  • Season 4 Episode 12: Bad Medicine

    The work of forensic toxicologists, whose examinations of blood and tissue can reveal that seemingly natural deaths may in fact be cases of poisoning

  • Season 4 Episode 11: Texas Rangers

    How the famous Texas Rangers, renowned for their hard-riding, gun-slinging exploits in the days of the Wild West, have adopted modern forensic scientific methods in the fight against crime

  • Season 4 Episode 10: Grave Discoveries

    How forensic scientists continually re-evaluate unsolved crimes with new evidence and advanced methods of detection

  • Season 4 Episode 9: A Taste of Poison

    How killers who poison their victims rely on their targets' trust to commit their crimes, and why they sometimes murder more than once

  • Season 4 Episode 8: Body Count

    How forensic science helps bring serial killers to justice and protect the public from the twisted individuals who would otherwise go on satisfying their compulsion with ever more desperate crimes

  • Season 4 Episode 7: Deadly Compulsion

    Disturbing insight into how serial killers pursue their compulsion while leading otherwise apparently normal lives, spotlighting the exploits of Ted Bundy, Aileen Wuornos and Paul Bernardo

  • Season 4 Episode 6: Women Who Kill

    The disturbing methods of female killers, who often take a less violent approach to homicide than their male counterparts but can prove just as ruthless

  • Season 4 Episode 5: Lasting Impressions

    Investigators at the scene of a strangling use an experimental technique to find clues as to the identity of the Night Stalker, the serial killer who terrorised Los Angeles, but they only have one chance to get it right

  • Season 4 Episode 4: Dead Wrong

    How the careful gathering of evidence at a crime scene is vital to prevent killers misleading detectives by turning a murder into a suicide case

  • Season 4 Episode 3: Electronic Witness

    A tourist town becomes a death trap for three women and forensic science links a suspect to the scene of the crime, and two computer disks that have been cut to ribbons are reassembled to solve a murder

  • Season 4 Episode 2: Traces of Guilt

    How the smallest clues can provide solutions in the biggest of murder cases, revealing that the fingertip search of the crime scene, and examination of evidence only visible under a microscope are now routine procedures

  • Season 4 Episode 1: Lethal Obsessions

    Police investigate a attack during a photo-shoot which claimed the lives of two victims, attempting to get inside the mind of the killer to create an accurate picture of the methods and motivations behind the crime

The New Detectives: Season 3 (2000 - 2002)

  • Season 3 Episode 10: Living in Terror

    Insight into the use of DNA testing to identify criminals, as demonstrated by the World Trade Centre bombing of 1993, when the culprit was caught by a positive match on saliva samples taken from a mailing label

  • Season 3 Episode 9: From the Ashes

    The techniques used by forensic investigators to sift through the burnt-out remains of buildings in cases of arson

  • Season 3 Episode 8: Infallible Witness

    Insight into how sophisticated technology can help solve baffling crimes, revealing how a faint handprint on a sheet pointed to the identity of a murderer, how a freshly painted room contained evidence of a violent crime and how a new computer system can supposedly read the mind of a killer

  • Season 3 Episode 7: Out of the Grave

    How splinters of bone helped forensic investigators to trace a murderer four years after the victim first disappeared

  • Season 3 Episode 6: Tools of Death

    Exploration of forensic toolmarking, the art of identifying the origins of murder weapons : a process which can help investigating officers to narrow down their search for a culprit. The programme traces the practice's technological advances, from the 1932 case of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping to today's hi-tech investigations

  • Season 3 Episode 5: Lethal Dosage

    An insight into the work of toxicologists, who use blood and tissue samples to solve gruesome murder cases

  • Season 3 Episode 4: Seeds of Destruction

    How plants and soil found at a murder scene can help forensic scientists to learn more about the time and circumstances of a victim's death

  • Season 3 Episode 3: Shreds of Evidence

    Rob Butler narrates more true-life tales of crime and detection, looking at a serial killer's eventual downfall thanks to advances in forensic science during the 1980s, and a bizarre case in which the murderer's cat provided the final clue

  • Season 3 Episode 2: Bodies of Evidence

    The story of a murderous husband convicted on the evidence of small drops of blood and tissue found in a car that had been left in a storage shed for three years, proving that you no longer need the victim's body to capture the killer

  • Season 3 Episode 1: Fatal Compulsion

    Psychologists discuss the behaviour of serial killers, including Ted Bundy, Aileen Wuornos and Paul Bernardo, while detectives explain the techniques used to catch them

The New Detectives: Season 2 (1998 - 2002)

  • Season 2 Episode 13: Deadly Target

    Insight into the work of ballistics teams, revealing how they trace the paths of bullets and use identification software to track down weapons. Their skilful analyses can often mean the difference between solving a crime and letting the perpetrator get off scot-free

  • Season 2 Episode 12: Trial of the Century

    The forensic evidence presented in the OJ Simpson trial - the murder investigation and subsequent televised trial that took America by storm

  • Season 2 Episode 11: Witness to Terror

    How investigators use information from flight data recorders when investigating air crashes. Plus, the questions raised by the equipment

  • Season 2 Episode 10: Signed in Blood

    Insight into handwriting analysis, a technique helping to profile criminals and verify suicide notes

  • Season 2 Episode 9: Death Grip

    Insight into advances in the science of fingerprinting, including chemicals that can enhance even the most faint, distorted impressions, and computer-scanning software capable of matching images to criminals in seconds

  • Season 2 Episode 8: Short Fuse

    Investigating the growing crime of letter bombing in the USA, and exploring the techniques forensic lab technicians use to trace the perpetrators

  • Season 2 Episode 7: Burning Evidence

    Investigation into criminals who burn evidence and the work of forensic experts forced to overcome the problem, featuring the story of two American journalists whose charred remains were found in Guatemala seven years after their disappearance

    Tomorrow at 1:00pm EST - Investigation Discovery
  • Season 2 Episode 6: Without a Trace

    Police link the disappearance of a motel worker to a trail of blood, but although they believe they have found the perpetrator, they struggle to locate the victim

  • Season 2 Episode 5: Faces of Tragedy

    How forensic sculptors can create a face in the likeness of a victim, often leading to the naming of unidentified corpses

  • Season 2 Episode 4: Web of Clues

    Insight into forensic entomology, the study of insects found on and around the bodies of murder victims : a process which can offer surprisingly accurate clues regarding the time of death. Narrated by Ben Ando

    Thursday 10th December 1:00pm EST - Investigation Discovery
  • Season 2 Episode 3: Double Helix

    An insight into the vital role played by DNA analysis in the solving of crimes, and how the discovery of a single hair or drop of blood can help to put a criminal behind bars

  • Season 2 Episode 2: Camera Clues

    Photographic evidence captured by forensic experts who are the first to the scene of a crime

  • Season 2 Episode 1: Mind Hunters

    How psychological profiling can help experts understand the minds of serial killers and increase their chances of catching them. Featuring the work of renowned FBI profiler Robert Ressler, who can reveal unseen clues about a criminal's personality simply from learning the details of the crime

The New Detectives: Season 1 (1997 - 2000)

  • Season 1 Episode 3: Deadly Chemistry

    Forensic toxicologists solve murders involving the invisible killer : poison : including the cases of a small Virginia hospital where intensive care patients began dying mysteriously, and a man who was inspired by a Reader's Digest article to lace his wife's decongestant with cyanide

    Today at 2:00pm EST - Investigation Discovery
  • Season 1 Episode 2: Dead Men Do Talk

    Fragments of bone recovered from a swamp help to identify the victim of a serial killer and bring the culprit to court, while forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley examines the skull of a female who died as a result of stabbing : can he unlock the mystery and see justice done?

  • Season 1 Episode 1: Soldier Stories

    Scientists use forensic evidence to piece together the stories of soldiers who went to war but never returned from battle

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