Angus Gibson
Director
Expert Witness (2021)
Series 2
This dramatic true crime series reveals how some of the UK’s most serious and complex cases were solved by the expertise of a band of unsung heroes – the expert witnesses.
Released Oct. 25, 2021
Episode 29 min
None+
Genres: Crime, Documentary
Keywords: imdb.expert-witness, imdb.criminal-case, imdb.daytime-television, imdb.true-crime, imdb.evidence
Watch Providers: Tubi TV
Production Companies: Rare TV, BBC
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Shallow Graves - Unearthing a Serial Killer
Some criminal investigations are so complicated that they require a number of expert witnesses to be involved. This programme examines how forensic evidence from a whole team of scientists turned a missing person case into a hunt for a murderer, and then into an investigation into one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E2 - Mystery of the Playground Shooter and Signature of a Killer
A young schoolboy is mysteriously shot in the head while playing in the school yard, but who fired the gun and from where? Philip Boyce, a forensic ballistics expert, is called in to test-fire a number of different guns and reconstruct the injuries to find out who fired the gun.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E3 - The Curry Killer and the Body on the Beach
Following the unexplained death of a man in Yorkshire, found alone in his home with no signs of forced entry or a struggle, police were at a loss to explain his death. They turned to expert witness Duncan Campbell to help solve the mystery. Duncan, a forensic scientist, decided to analyse something that is part of everyday life, food. After examining the man’s final meal, the expert witness not only solved the crime but in turn helped to make legal history by ensuring a guilty verdict was achieved in this very rare and unusual case.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E4 - Body in the Snow and Betrayed by a Text
After a 25-year-old woman goes missing in Bristol, the police launch a major missing-person enquiry. Soon after, the body of the young woman is discoved by dog walkers on Christmas Day, and the hunt becomes a major murder enquiry. As investigators can find no sign of forced entry to her flat, they conclude that her killer must be someone known to her.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E5 - Body in the Woods and Murder at the Post Office
This episode follows two shocking criminal cases in Yorkshire, each involving a woman murdered by her partner, and two expert witnesses with very different disciplines in forensic science who help to deliver justice.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E6 - Murder in the Suburbs and Search for a Serial Killer
In our first story, a community reels in total shock when a doting grandmother is found murdered in her home. Detectives search for the killer and suspect it may be someone close to her. The suspect's DNA is found all over the crime scene, but that is easily explained because he lived until recently in the same house. So the police try another route. They approach Kelly Sheridan, an expert witness in fibre evidence, who uncovers a trail of fibres, unravelling the mystery and putting the killer in jail.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E7 - Body in the Bog and Bomb in the Boot
An expert witness uses soil analysis to find the body of a missing woman feared murdered, and a cell site expert uses his tracking skills to catch a killer in Northern Ireland.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E8 - Late Night Murder and Exhuming Evidence
When a young nurse disappears, a soil analyst helps find her body and solve the crime. A digital imaging expert proves that what was thought to be an accidental death was murder.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E9 - Invisible Evidence and the Chocolate Box Conmen
An expert in microscopic lifeforms helps solve the murder of a teenager, and a handwriting expert assists an old lady whose house has been sold without consent.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E10 - Car Killer and Shot on the Sofa
A blood spatter analyst unlocks the mystery of a woman murdered in her own car, and an expert witness uses a mobile phone to help detectives solve a baffling murder case.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E11 - Sole of a Killer and Stolen Treasure
Police turn to a footprint analyst and a pollen expert to help solve a murder in Manchester, and a soil expert unearths the evidence needed to arrest a gang of treasure thieves.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E12 - Murder in the Carpark and Cold Call Fraud
Blood spatter analysis helps identify the killer of a body found in a suitcase, and an expert helps in a serious case of financial fraud that cost some victims their life savings.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E13 - A Scottish Murder and Artful Deceit
An expert in mobile phone technology tracks the movements of a murder suspect, and an expert in art fraud determines whether a very expensive painting is genuine or fake.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E14 - Deadly Date and the Football Fraudster
A dental expert helps police investigating the mysterious death of a teenage girl, and an autograph expert is brought in to help convict scammers selling fake celebrity signatures.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
S2E15 - Killer on the Run and Murder in the Valleys
When a man kills four people and goes on the run, a handwriting analyst is brought in, and after a body is found, an expert in pollen links the suspects to the scene of the crime.
Nov. 14, 2022, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 29 min.
Season Runtime: 29 min.
Released: Oct. 25, 2021
Last Air Date: Nov. 21, 2024, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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