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The Best Episodes of Expert Witness

Every episode of Expert Witness ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Expert Witness!

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...
Genres:DocumentaryCrime
Network:BBC One

Best Episodes Summary

"Paint Materials and Blood Patterns" is the best rated episode of "Expert Witness". It scored 8.6/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/11/2021. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Forensic Imaging and MSN Chat".

  • Paint Materials and Blood Patterns
    8.6/105 votes
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    #1 - Paint Materials and Blood Patterns

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/11/2021

    Forensics analysis by an art expert prove paintings by a well known cornish artist are fake, and blood spatter patterns in a hotel bedroom, help catch the killer of a father of 3.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Forensic Imaging and MSN Chat
    8.4/105 votes
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    #2 - Forensic Imaging and MSN Chat

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/2021

    Marks left by the tread of a shoe help detectives catch a killer terrorising Rochdale, and a forensic linguist deciphers messages written in slang, revealing a murder plot.

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  • Fibre Trails and Diamonds
    8.2/105 votes
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    #3 - Fibre Trails and Diamonds

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2021

    A team of expert witnesses follow a trail of fibres and DNA to solve three cold cases in Pembrokeshire, and a fraudulent diamond investment scheme is exposed by a gemologist.

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  • Soil and Insects
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    #4 - Soil and Insects

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/25/2021

    Soil analysis helps solve a 37-year-old murder investigation in Scotland. In Huddersfield, analysis of insect life on a body found on the moors helps detectives catch a killer.

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  • Blood Under Paint and Gait
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    #5 - Blood Under Paint and Gait

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/26/2021

    Blood traces hidden under paint allow an expert witness to find a killer and free five men from suspicion. An unusual gait identifies the murderer of an office worker.

    Director: N/A

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  • Pollen in a Field and Fibres in a Car Crash
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    #6 - Pollen in a Field and Fibres in a Car Crash

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2021

    A body left in a field prompts the examination of pollen, establishing a new forensic discipline, and fibres fused with car wreckage prove who caused a fatal traffic collision.

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  • DNA, Fibres and Bones
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    #7 - DNA, Fibres and Bones

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/2021

    After 32 years, expert fibre analysis helps bring the killer of two Brighton schoolgirls to justice, and the analysis of bones found on a Yorkshire moor helps find two killers.

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  • Aging Insects and Fake Fairies
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    #8 - Aging Insects and Fake Fairies

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/2021

    Insect evidence helps crack the case of missing Warrington teenager Shafilea Ahmed, and a series of convincing John Anster Fitzgerald forgeries are uncovered by an art expert.

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  • Soil on a Spade and Stones in a Shoe
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    #9 - Soil on a Spade and Stones in a Shoe

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/2021

    Soil on a spade helps catch the killer of a young woman from Swindon, who for years evaded justice and a stone stuck in the sole of a shoe helps solve a murder in Manchester.

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  • Cerium and CCTV
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    #10 - Cerium and CCTV

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/2021

    A wrongful conviction is overturned by re-examining microscopic particles on a van seat and an attempted murder outside a nightclub is solved by a facial comparison expert.

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  • Pollen, Bones and DNA
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    #11 - Pollen, Bones and DNA

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/5/2021

    Pollen and bone experts help identify the remains of a murder victim found in a sports bag. And advances in DNA help find the killer of a Bradford pensioner after 22 years.

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  • Text Messages and DNA
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    #12 - Text Messages and DNA

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/8/2021

    Analysis of text messages reveal a husband's plot to cover up his wife's murder and traces of DNA on decades old evidence helps bring justice to the family of a murdered woman.

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    Writer: N/A

  • Pollen, Chalk and DNA
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    #13 - Pollen, Chalk and DNA

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/9/2021

    How expert analysis of nettles and chalky soil helped catch the killer of Soham schoolgirls and how advances in DNA techniques finally solve the murder known as Beauty in the Bath

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    Writer: N/A

  • Insects and Bones
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    #14 - Insects and Bones

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/10/2021

    Insects establish an accurate time of death, helping to prove a husband killed his wife and analysis of burnt remains in Leeds, uncovers another husband's cold murder of his wife.

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  • 60's DNA and Fibres Around the World
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    #15 - 60's DNA and Fibres Around the World

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/12/2021

    A fifty year old cold case murder is solved by DNA and the tenacity of an expert witness. And a murder investigation is solved by tracking unusual blue fibres around the world.

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  • Shallow Graves - Unearthing a Serial Killer
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    #16 - Shallow Graves - Unearthing a Serial Killer

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • Mystery of the Playground Shooter and Signature of a Killer
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    #17 - Mystery of the Playground Shooter and Signature of a Killer

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • The Curry Killer and the Body on the Beach
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    #18 - The Curry Killer and the Body on the Beach

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • Body in the Snow and Betrayed by a Text
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    #19 - Body in the Snow and Betrayed by a Text

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • Body in the Woods and Murder at the Post Office
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    #20 - Body in the Woods and Murder at the Post Office

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • Murder in the Suburbs and Search for a Serial Killer
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    #21 - Murder in the Suburbs and Search for a Serial Killer

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • Body in the Bog and Bomb in the Boot
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    #22 - Body in the Bog and Bomb in the Boot

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • Late Night Murder and Exhuming Evidence
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    #23 - Late Night Murder and Exhuming Evidence

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • Invisible Evidence and the Chocolate Box Conmen
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    #24 - Invisible Evidence and the Chocolate Box Conmen

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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  • Car Killer and Shot on the Sofa
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    #25 - Car Killer and Shot on the Sofa

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/2022

    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.

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