A handless decapitated body discovered inside a wheelie bin, leads investigators to a town kilometers away from where it had washed up on shore. Peter Astill, who had disappeared three months before, was a well liked bloke; so who would want to murder him and why? In a true forensic jigsaw puzzle, the missing clue fitted perfectly. The episode includes an astounding interview with the police suspect.

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On the 25th January 2002, two armed robbers steal $150,000 from two security guards loading an ATM in the inner Melbourne suburb of Flemington. How does some orange rope and a green floral print found at the crime scene help police to find the robbers?

In 1986, terrorism rocked Melbourne when a bomb exploded in the car park below the Turkish consulate in South Yarra. Human remains at the crime scene suggested that the bomber had been killed in the blast, but who was he and did he act alone?

In April 1993, a man survives a gun-shot wound to the head while he and his long-time girlfriend are on a boat on Moreton Bay. She claimed the man was attacked by pirates who had boarded their boat, but is she telling the truth?

On the 29th April 1996, Le Anh Truan is kidnapped from his home in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley by three men. While an undercover operative is driving the victim's mother to pay the $400,000 ransom demanded by the kidnappers, things go horribly wrong. The subsequent homicide investigations are one of the most complex and largest to be undertaken by police in Victoria.

In April 2003, an attempt to smuggle heroin with a street value of A$160 million into Australian waters is thwarted by the Australian Federal Police.

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A note left on a police car and an emergency phone call lead police to find the body of a young woman hidden in bushes out the front of an unused Adelaide police patrol station. Each was a vital clue, yet it would take the disappearance and murder of a Japanese student to capture the killer.

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When Gabriel Meyer hadn't returned home after a visit to the local gym in Innisfail in tropical Northern Queensland, his parents were immediately concerned. The last person to see him alive believed he was heading to the river for a lte afternoon swim. When his backpack and watch are located in the river, thoughts turn to crocodiles and accidental death, but the truth uncovered was far more sinister.

An Easter family holiday ends in tragedy when a truck collides with a car towing a caravan, killing a 12-year-old boy. The truck driver fails to stop. With no license plate number and little to go on, the collision team painstakingly examined all the debris and damage to help them track down the driver of the hit and run truck. Forensics and a miracle from above took them from 160,000 trucks to just one. The episode includes the interview with the suspect.

The Granny Killer murdered six elderly women before his year-long reign of terror in Sydney's northern suburbs ended. The episode details the dedicated and yet frustrating investigation that bought serial killer John Wayne Glover to justice.

After a caravan park manager goes missing, rumours persist that Angelo Agostinelli had run off with another woman. But as the investigation proceeds, police uncover an incredible tale of infidelity, drugs and conspiracy to murder. Includes the police audio with witnesses and suspects.

A young man has confessed to the murders of shopkeeper David O'Hearn and Lord Mayor Frank Arkell, but the subsequent police investigation takes a bizarre turn when the man's father is murdered in similar circumstances.

The killing of policewoman Angela Taylor was a tragic loss of one of Victoria's most promising officers. The young woman died when a car exploded outside the Russell Street Police Complex. Forensic experts spent days and nights collecting all of the debris to piece together what had been used to make the bomb. It was hoped something in the bomb or the car would point them towards the killer or killers... and it did.

A taxi driver is murdered and, a month later, a human torso is washed up on a shore. Both murders are seemingly unrelated, yet DNA and an observant public would lead detective to the "bow and arrow" killer. Richard Leonard's chilling confession is included in this episode.

In 1998, the brutal deaths of shopkeeper David O'Hearn and Lord Mayor Frank Arkell led to the city of Wollongong, New South Wales being gripped in fear. This episode shows how the tireless work of detectives and some scientific procedures helped to solve this bizarre series of murders.

Samantha Bodsworth's body was found in a Noosa car park, an hours drive from her home town of Gympie. The killer thought he'd committed the perfect murder but a little known area of forensic science would be his undoing. This episode includes the police videotaped interview with the suspect.

When a young girl's body is found in a park in the teeming rain, the police had the odds stacked against them. They would need to call on all their investigative and forensic skills to solve a series of murders that even today sends a chill down the spines of those who lived through it. This episode details the capture of serial killer Paul Denyer and features his cold and calculating confession.