8.2/105 votesLoading...#1 - The Saturday Night Strangler
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/5/2022
Thirty years after three gruesome murders, familial DNA and the exhumation of a body finally closes the case.
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8.0/108 votesLoading...#2 - The Murder of Little Miss Nobody
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/1/2021
Police have only a skeleton to help them piece together what happened to a body found 10 years after a murder.
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8.0/105 votesLoading...#3 - Murder Caught On Camera
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 12/15/2022
The case of Tia Sharp, a 12-year-old girl reported missing in London, leading to a major search which took the police close to home.
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8.0/107 votesLoading...#4 - The Body Under the Stairs
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/23/2023
A women's killer remains at large for more than 30 years, until forensic investigators track him down with a tiny clue at the scene.
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7.8/105 votesLoading...#5 - The Murder With No Body
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/16/2023
The tragic case of 22-year-old Helen McCourt, who got off a bus one night in her hometown but never arrived at her nearby home.
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7.4/105 votesLoading...#6 - The Martial Arts Murder
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/8/2021
When his parents are found dead, a man does everything he can to avoid being caught - but Luminol reveals a vital clue.
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7.4/105 votesLoading...#7 - Murder on the Island
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/12/2022
Experts analyse sand found in a car when a man goes missing, which leads them to a body and a twisted murder case.
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7.3/106 votesLoading...#8 - Murder at the Wedding
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/15/2021
Bite marks in a block of cheese hold the key to catching a killer when he helps himself to a snack after a home invasion.
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7.3/106 votesLoading...#9 - Murder by the Lake
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/22/2021
A man insists his missing parents are on holiday, but a forensic investigation of their house shows signs of a vicious attack.
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7.0/105 votesLoading...#10 - A Killer in the Family
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/29/2021
When the body of a 16-year-old girl is found in a field, it would take over two decades before a DNA profile of the killer can be developed.
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6.8/105 votesLoading...#11 - The Soham Murders
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 12/4/2023
The 2002 murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman horrified and shook the nation. Explore how forensic science helped find their killer.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - The Freezer Murders
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/19/2022
Experts analyse the bodies of two women found in a freezer. Their untimely deaths would be linked to one vicious predator.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Murder in the Woods
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 12/8/2022
When 13-year-old Lucy is reported missing by her mother, police and forensic investigators begin the painstaking search for the truth.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - The Minicab Murders
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 12/22/2022
Years after the crime, see how forensics helped solve the murder of Becky Godden-Edwards, finding a killer who had sadly murdered again.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Killed for Being Kind
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 12/29/2022
A woman dies in an apparently accidental house fire, but one police officer spots signs that something more sinister is at play.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - The Shoe Fetish Murder
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/5/2023
The investigation of a murder of her mother in her home in 1994, as police used forensic clues to find an appalling killer.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Murder in the Bus Station
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/2023
See how investigators uncovered the perpetrator behind the 1994 murder of a grandmother at a bathroom of a bus station in Bury.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Murder at the Allotment
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/19/2023
After a grandmother is strangled to death at an allotment shed, police use the scene's forensics clues to solve a chilling case.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Murder in Silence
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/26/2023
The case of Suzanne Greenhill, a deaf woman murdered in her own home, whose murder took forensic investigators on a trail through Europe.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - The Head on the Beach Murder
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 2/2/2023
When body parts wash up on a beach in Arbroath, forensic investigators must unravel the disturbing truth behind a woman's death.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - The Murder in the Tower Block
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 2/9/2023
When a body is found in a flat, a trial of forensic evidence allows detectives to distinguish between friend and foe.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Murder in Suburbia
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 12/11/2023
In 2022, 35-year-old Zara Aleena was beaten to death just ten minutes from her London home, but the only evidence left by her brutal killer was one bloody fingerprint at the crime scene.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - Murder on the Moor
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 12/18/2023
In 1975, 11-year-old schoolgirl Lesley Molseed went to the shops and never returned to her family home in West Yorkshire. The ensuing police investigation led to a tragic miscarriage of justice before DNA evidence identified the true killer.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - The Happy Slapping Killing
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 1/8/2024
Larger-than-life David Morley survived a terrorist bombing in London, only to be beaten to death five years later during a night out in the city.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Murder in the Woods
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/15/2024
Mum Karen Doubleday was found murdered in the woods in 2002. The clue to finding her killer lay in pollen spores from the Ice Age.
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The Best Episodes of Forensics: Catching the Killer
Every episode of Forensics: Catching the Killer ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Forensics: Catching the Killer!
Explores horrific murder cases through the various twists and turns and unpacks in detail how the forensic work helped catch a killer. Telling these true...
Genres:CrimeDocumentary
Network:Sky Crime
Best Episodes Summary
"The Saturday Night Strangler" is the best rated episode of "Forensics: Catching the Killer". It scored 8.2/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/5/2022. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Murder of Little Miss Nobody".