Season 1
One murder. One crime scene. Multiple perspectives as forensic science struggles to reveal the truth.
Murder is chaos. But beneath this chaos lies a hidden, more structured world - a world waiting to reveal itself to those who know how and where to look.
A world of fibres, hair strands, blood types and patterns, DNA, shell casings, skin flecks, fingerprints, bits and pieces that oddly don’t quite fit - as well as a body that, though silenced, still has ways of 'talking'.
This crime series focuses on murder cases, some famous and some not, that present vertiginous twists and turns, motivated by pieces of evidence the forensic teams bring to light.
It follows the scientific investigations into the maze, down the rabbit hole, as each part of the puzzle snaps into place and forces viewers to re-envisage the crime.
Each episode of True Crime Scene, beginning with a murder scene, offers an examination of clues, interviews with witnesses, and – based on theories put forward during the real investigation – scripted and dramatic re-enactments of how the crime may have unfolded.
The major, final twist sees the murder recreated as it really happened, and the killer unmasked.
Murder investigations featured in the series include the ongoing investigation into the death of the wife of Dr. Sam Shepard, a story that became the basis for the television series and film The Fugitive, as well as the 1988 stabbing death of 20-year-old Lynette White in Cardiff Wales, a case that used new forensic techniques to convict the killer over a decade later; and the murder of a UK teenager in a French youth hostel, a case that used DNA to reveal the innocence of the man who falsely confessed to the crime.
Unique to the genre, True Crime Scene combines the suspense of whodunit, with the visceral punch of fly on the wall realism.
There are six episodes in the series.