Browse all episodes of David Wilson's Crime Files

Criminologist David Wilson presents fresh analysis of notorious Scottish serial killers Peter Manuel and Peter Tobin and interviews criminal lawyer Donald Findlay QC.

Serial Killers

Criminologist David Wilson discusses how surveillance technology has made the good old-fashioned bank robbery or jewellery raid harder than ever to pull off and not get caught.

Heists

Criminologist David Wilson discusses and offers compelling arguments for the links between systemic poverty and extreme anti-social behaviour.

Crime and Poverty

Criminologist David Wilson investigates the origins of Glasgow’s alternative motto 'the no mean city'. looking at gang culture past and present.

Gangs

Criminologist David Wilson investigates the reasons why blatant miscarriages of justice occur examining cases from past and present.

Miscarriages of Justice

David Wilson explores how murderers often get caught when they try to dispose of the body.

Disposal of the Body

Criminologist David Wilson charts the origins and evolution of forensic science as an ever more important tool for crime detection.

Forensics

Criminologist David Wilson studies the psychology behind the need for those who lead a life of crime to have to conceal their activities by leading a secret or double life.

Double Life

Criminologist David Wilson explores how 'we kill the ones we know'; the phenomenon that most murder victims are killed by someone they have a social connection with.

Crimes of Passion

Criminologist David Wilson investigates the recent past and present of Scotland's prison system, looking at how it can make bad people even worse.

Prisons

Criminologist Professor David Wilson takes a close look at fraud and the people who commit it. Are they charismatic schemers, or dangerous liars? And what does it take to lead this chameleon-like existence?

Fraudsters

David travels to the notorious Carstairs State Hospital in South Lanarkshire to investigate one of Scotland’s worst spree killings. The atrocity occurred on one cold November night in 1976, leaving three people dead and at least three others injured. David tracks the movements of the two killers, Robert Mone and Thomas McCulloch, from their brutal escape from the hospital to the night-long manhunt across the border.

Spree Mass Killers

Together with investigative journalist Fiona Walker, David uncovers two family annihilations that occurred on the same day in Scotland in 2008. Fiona travels to Buckhaven in Fife, where Rab Thomson killed his son and daughter in their home, to uncover the events leading up to the murders, while David is in the Campsie Fells, where Ashok Kalyanjee took the lives of his two sons.

Family Annihilators

In this episode, he and his guests discuss the complex issue of children who kill. How do you punish children when they may not comprehend the gravity of the act? Are these the actions of a burgeoning psychopath?

Child Psychopaths

Criminologist David Wilson explores the stereotyped view of women who commit violent offences and whether it’s time for a new attitude.

Women That Kill

Criminologist David Wilson finds out how to secure a murder conviction when there is no dead body.

Missing Presumed Murdered

Criminologist David Wilson looks at Scotland’s complex history of race crime and asks if there really is no problem here.

Racism

Criminologist David Wilson charts the extra steps women must often go through in order to seek justice.

Misjustice: Crimes Against Women

Criminologist David Wilson probes Scotland’s battle with terrorism and discovers how the problem is a lot closer to home than we might imagine.

Terrorism

Criminologist David Wilson explores some of the ethical quandaries that plague our criminal justice system - is there a line that police shouldn’t cross when hunting the bad guy?

Ethics of Policing

Criminologist David Wilson and guests dissect the importance forensics play in solving cases, and whether scientific advancements could be the key in solving decades-old cold cases.

Waiting for Science

Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of Crime Files, this time, focusing on cold cases. In episode 2, he discusses mysterious deaths and how the circumstances surrounding them can lead to decades old unsolved cases which remain unanswered to this day.

Mysterious Deaths

Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of the crime talk show Crime Files. This season David is focusing primarily on Scotland's numerous Cold Cases. In episode 3, he and his guests tackle the complex issue of forensic analysis and whether human interpretation can lead to miscarriages of justice.

Human Error

Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of the crime talk show Crime Files. This season David is focusing primarily on Scotland's Cold Cases. In episode 4, he explores the relationship between cold cases and the media with the help of his guests.

Public Appeals

Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of the crime talk show Crime Files. This season David is focusing primarily on Scotland's Cold Cases. In episode 5, he and his guests try to get to the bottom of Scotland's record number of unsolved murdered sex worker cases.

Missing Sex Workers

Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of Crime Files, this time focusing on cold cases. In Episode 6, David travels to Coatbridge, South Lanarkshire to explore the case of Moira Anderson who vanished during a blizzard in 1957. He'll learn about a dark family secret and discuss the concept of living with a guilty conscience.

A Guilty Conscience

Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of Crime Files, this time focusing on cold cases. In episode 7, David retraces the last known steps of Glenrothes man Allan Bryant and asks ‘how does someone go missing without a trace in the digital age?'.

Missing Without a Trace

Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of Crime Files, this time focusing on cold cases. In episode 8, David interrogates the unique Scottish verdict of ‘Not Proven'. Travelling to Ardlamont Estate in Argyll, he takes a look at the historic mystery of the death of Cecil Hambrough in 1893.

Not Proven

Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of Crime Files, this time focusing on Cold Cases. In episode 9, he looks at the concept of police confirmation bias and how miscarriages of justice can occur when police are selective about the evidence available to them.

Confirmation Bias

David heads into the belly of the beast, the beer spattered streets of Glasgow's night life. Here David will uncover the victims of an unknown serial killer from the 1970s. During a 6 month window the "Weekend Killer" plagued the pubs and dancehalls of Glasgow looking for his next victim and David is going to see how all these poor women connect.

Killer Secrets Taken to the Grave

David Wilson investigates investment fraud and cyber-crime, including a cryptocurrency scam which uses tech to target and rip off unsuspecting victims.

Get Rich Quick

David Wilson investigates romance fraud, where vulnerable people looking for love online are seduced into fake relationships, asked for money, and ultimately ripped off.

Romance Fraud

David Wilson investigates stories of audacious imposters, explores how deep fakes are creating new opportunities for large scale fraud, and meets a deep fake version of himself.

Imposters

David Wilson explores how religion and spirituality can be fertile ground for fraudsters who exploit people’s need to believe.

Spiritual Fraud

David Wilson investigates ‘white collar’ crime, exploring how a fraudster made himself a Scottish ‘laird’ after stealing millions from the Met Police.

White Collar

David Wilson investigates fraud and forgery in art and literature, discovering how fake Robert Burns manuscripts are still causing problems for collectors.

Counterfeit Art

Professor David Wilson investigates financial crime through the story of one of Scotland’s most prolific investment fraudsters – crooked Aberdeen financial advisor Alistair Greig.

King of the Swindlers

David Wilson explores disinformation and fraud in the influencer industry, and how self-styled online experts can cause harm in the real world.

Under the Influencer

David Wilson investigates how fraudsters can target and exploit people when they are at their most vulnerable, by posing as trusted figures like doctors or funeral directors.

Are Fraudsters Psychopaths?

David Wilson investigates how Scotland’s valuable food and drink brands, including whisky, are being targeted by fraudsters who are ripping off consumers with fake products.

Scamming for Scotland

Professor David Wilson explores Scottish crimes.

All Episodes of David Wilson's Crime Files

Season 1

Serial Killers

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/21/2019

Heists

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/28/2019

Crime and Poverty

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/4/2019

Gangs

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/11/2019

Miscarriages of Justice

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/18/2019

Disposal of the Body

Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/5/2020

Forensics

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/12/2020

Double Life

Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/19/2020

Crimes of Passion

Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/26/2020

Prisons

Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/2/2020