Inside Forensic Science

Now that all the evidence is gathered, it becomes the role of prosecutors and expert witnesses to present their evidence in the courtroom. In the final episode of this series, we explore what happened in the courtroom...

Content warning: mentions of domestic violence and discussions of dead bodies, decomposition and dismemberment. Having arrested a suspect for the murders, investigators shift their attention to the potential crime scene...

Content warnings: mentions of domestic violence and discussions of dead bodies, decomposition and dismemberment. How can investigators be sure that the bodies found in Moffat were those of Mary Jane Rogerson and...

Content warning: discussions of dead bodies, decomposition and dismemberment Investigators initially thought the two bodies from Moffat were of a man and woman. However, further investigation leads police to suspect...

Content warning: discussions of dead bodies, decomposition, including mentions of insects and dismemberment. Now that the body parts have been recovered, it is the responsibility of forensic scientists to attempt the...

Content warning: discussions of dead bodies, decomposition and dismemberment On a quiet Sunday in September 1935, two women walking outside the small town of Moffat stop at a stone bridge overlooking a ravine through...

In the fourth series of Inside Forensic Science we unravel a case of stolen identity. If a victim’s identity is stripped from them, what can forensic scientists do to reclaim who they were and bring their stories to...

What did our experts and the jury of the day decide? How can people make a decision when experts disagree and who can be an expert in criminal cases? This episode covers all of the details and also answers the question...

Content warning: graphic descriptions of injury and death involving a gun and mention of suicide Accident or murder? To determine which is the most likely explanation for Hambrough’s death, experts in both 1893 and the...

Alfred John Monson is accused of the murder of young Dudley Cecil Hambrough. For over 3 years Monson had acted not only as Hambrough’s tutor and guardian, but as his friend. What motive could there have been for Monson...

Content warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of the autopsy process. A young man has been shot dead on a hunting trip; his two hunting companions are suspected of murder. With Monson arrested and Scott on...

This is a bonus episode designed to accompany Episode 2 of Series 3. It features an interview between Pennie Stuart and Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science Senior Research Engineer Vincenzo Rinaldi about the...

The police believe the death of Cecil Hambrough was no accident. His tutor Alfred John Monson is arrested for his murder 20 days after the incident. Scott, the last member of the hunting party has disappeared. Now it is...

The police believe the death of Cecil Hambrough was no accident. His tutor Alfred John Monson is arrested for his murder 20 days after the incident. Scott, the last member of the hunting party has disappeared. Now it is...

The early morning of Thursday 10 August 1893, a party of three men leave to hunt rabbits on the Ardlamont estate in Tighnabruaich—only two return. The youngest, Lieutenant Dudley Cecil Hambrough has died from a bullet...

This third series of Inside Forensic Science delves into our most complicated historical case yet: the Ardlamont Trial. On 10 August 1893 a young man dies from a gunshot to the back of the head while hunting on the...

It's now time to put all the pieces of this puzzle together. Do you believe Madeleine Smith is guilty of poisoning her lover? Only Scotland has a ‘not proven’ verdict. What does this mean for a jury and for those who...

Content warning: this episode discusses suicide. There are unanswered questions around the circumstances of Emile's death. What can the forensic toxicology evidence tell us? Was everything carried out at the time that...

Content warning: this episode dicusses suicide Pierre Emile L'angelier is dead. What happened next and how did this lead to Madeleine Smith being accused of murder? Discover the next piece of this mystery and learn...

To understand the case of Madeleine Smith, we must first understand what life was like in the past. How can forensic scientists bring to life what happened previously? Join us in our Facebook group to see further...

Madeleine Smith's private letters to her deceased lover were presented as evidence in court of her motive for murder. What can letters and handwriting reveal to forensic scientists? What did the letters in the Madeleine...

A scandalous case that rocked Victorian Scotland. A middle-class young woman is on trial for the murder of her lover. What was the case of Madeleine Smith all about? In this episode, we provide an overview of the case...

The second season of Inside Forensic Science is here. A new historical case is in focus where we ask forensic scientists and experts from the criminal justice system ‘What would you do differently today?’ In this series...

The evidence has been collected and the analysis completed. What happens next with the only suspect in the case of Miss Jean Milne? Was there enough evidence to prosecute and what do the experts today think of the...

As the case starts to come together we dig deeper into what scientific advancements have allowed us to detect at crime scenes and whether forensic science can place a person at the scene of a crime. This episode takes a...