Forensic Investigators is an Australian television show hosted by Lisa McCune which airs on the Seven Network, it was first aired to television in 2004.
| Forensic Investigators | |
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| File:Forensic Investigators.jpg Forensic Investigators airs each Wednesday. | |
| Created by | Fiona Baker Southern Star |
| Starring | Lisa McCune |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 19 (still airing) |
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| Running time | 60 Minutes |
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| Network | Seven Network |
| Release | September, 2004 |
Focusing on actual Australian crimes, each episode unfolds the drama minute-by-minute showing viewers the tireless work of detectives, and the scientific procedures required to solves these mysteries.
The series includes exclusive footage that has never been seen outside the courtroom, including police videos, crime scene stills and other forensic evidence. Recently the 1st and 2nd seasons have been released on DVD.
==Season one==]]
- Paul Denyer
When a young girl's body is found in a park in the teeming rain in Frankston, Victoria the police had the odds stacked against them. They would need to call on all their investigative and forensic skills to solve a crime that even today, sends a chill down the spines of those who lived through it.
- Stephen Dempsey
A routine run on a quiet weekday morning leads to a gruesome discovery, throwing investigators into one of Australia's most bizarre murders.
- Milosevic Family
Four bodies 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 buried for three years.
- Neddy Smith
Neddy Smith had been given a life sentence when he confessed to the killing of Harvey Jones to his cell mate, giving a detailed account of how he killed him and where. In March 1995 a skull was found at Botany Beach.
- Matthew De Gruchy
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?
- Mark Rust
In April of 1999, Maya Jakic's body was found covered under leaves and hidden in bushes out the front of an unused police patrol station in Adelaide, South Australia. Two years later, Japanese student Megumi Suzuki had gone missing and when police discovered her schoolbooks abandoned near a rail over-bridge they knew she had met with foul play.
Season two
- Andrew Astbury
In December 1994 Andrew Astbury's body was found floating in Melbourne's Yarra River. He was a hard working, reliable 25-year-old man from a good family. So why was he murdered? Look at the brilliant detective and forensic science work that helped solve this chilling murder.
- Kathleen Marshall
Queensland Cat Protection Society president Kathleen Marshall is found brutally stabbed to death. In a case involving rumours, cat-fights and fortune telling, the detectives rely on forensics and five tiny spots of blood to separate fact from fiction and point them towards the killer.
- Jane Doe
A young woman's body is found wrapped in plastic. Unidentified for several months, she became known as Jane Doe. Who was she and who wanted her dead?
- Amanda Carter
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.
- Granny Killer
This Granny Killer murdered six elderly women before his year-long reign of terror in Sydney's northern suburbs ended. How was the killer John Wayne Glover finally brought to justice?
- Russell Street
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?
- Darryl Lewis
When the battered body of Darryl Lewis is found dumped outside an ambulance station, police began an investigation that becomes one of the longest running in Queensland's history.
- Valera (Part One)
In 1998, Wollongong, NSW, was gripped by fear after the brutal deaths of shopkeeper David O'Hearn and Lord Mayor Frank Arkell.
- Valera (Part Two)
After committing two violent murders in Wollongong, NSW, Mark Valera became the youngest offender to receive a life sentence. While he's behind bars his father is brutally killed. But who committed that crime and what was the motive?
- Damon Calanca
When 17-year-old American-born Gabriel Meyer first went missing in the Northern Queensland town of Innisfail, it was feared he'd been eaten by a crocodile, but the truth was far more sinister.
- Samantha Bodsworth
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.
- Janet Phillips
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. When DNA technology later became available they were astounded that their suspect was eliminated. Then, there was a further attack on a girl in Wynnum, with chilling similarities to the way police believed Janet Phillips had been murdered 10 years before. Was it the same killer?
- Naismith
Danny Wasley and Mark Banks disappear without a trace in Newcastle, NSW during August 1999. In a case involving drug lords, revenge and cold blooded murder, police uncover a tangled web of lies which finds Kevin Naysmith guilty of the two murders which took place at his home and burial of the two bodies in sand dunes at Stockton Beach.
- Peter Astill
When Peter Astill went missing during August, 1998, it took three months before his decapitated body (missing his head and hands), and also wrapped in a blanket was found stuffed inside a wheelie bin floating in a river in Lower Colo, NSW. What could have been the perfect murder was proved wrong when the serial number of the wheelie bin fell into the bin after an attempt had been made to remove it. The bin had been silicon sealed and tightened with hex screws. Police crews tracked the bin back to belonging to his next-door neighbour Bruce Patterson who had killed Peter Astill on the outskirts of Sydney, NSW and decapitated the body with an axe which belonged to the victim.
- Violet Town
An Easter family holiday in 1998 ends in tragedy when a truck collides with a caravan on the Hume Freeway near Violet Town, Victoria, killing a 12-year-old boy. The truck driver fails to stop. With no licence plate number and little to go on, finding the person responsible may take a miracle.
- Black Widow
When caravan park manager Angelo Agostinelli went missing from the small town of Millicent in South Australia, friends and family called everyone they knew to try and find him. Yet no-one had seen or heard anything.