2002 Series Apr-Jun

Chris Smith

Scientific evidence, including fingerprints, dental profiles, DNA technology including DNA fingerprinting and the use of DNA to identify key chracteristics of a criminal such as eye colour, ethnicity and sex, is one of the most important determinants of the outcome of a criminal investigation. DCI Tom Harper, from Essex Police, talks about how these techniques work and their potential constraints.

Chris Smith

Shibley Rahman

You might be given just a part of body, sometimes a whole body, sometimes just a bone. But how old is the material, is it even human, and what were the events that lead to its being found where it was ? These are the questions that you ask a forensic archaeologist and Corinne Duhig came along to tell us how she goes about answering them.