Forensic Investigators - Season 2 (2005)

Season 2 (2005)

• Episode 1

  In December 1994, Andrew Astbury's body was found floating in Melbourne's Yarra River. He was a hard working, reliable 25-year-old man from a good family. So why was he murdered? Look at the brilliant detective and forensic science work that helped solve this chilling murder.

• Episode 2

  Queensland Cat Protection Society president Kathleen Marshall is found brutally stabbed to death. In a case involving rumours, cat-fights and fortune telling, the detectives rely on forensics and five tiny spots of blood to separate fact from fiction and point them towards the killer.

• Episode 3

  A young woman's body is found wrapped in plastic. Unidentified for several months, she became known as Jane Doe. Who was she and who wanted her dead?

• Episode 4

  The body of 22-year-old Tasmanian Amanda Carter was found alongside the Derwent River. It took 13 years and a revolution in forensic science to finally bring her killer to account.

• Episode 5

  This Granny Killer murdered six elderly women before his year-long reign of terror in Sydney's northern suburbs ended. How was the killer John Wayne Glover finally brought to justice?

• Episode 6

  Policewoman Angela Taylor was killed when a car exploded outside Melbourne's Russell Street police headquarters. What clues were found among the debris? Who was responsible?

• Episode 7

  When the battered body of Darryl Lewis is found dumped outside an ambulance station, police began an investigation that becomes one of the longest running in Queensland's history.

• Episode 8 (Part 1)

  In 1998, Wollongong was gripped by fear after the brutal deaths of shopkeeper David O'Hearn and Lord Mayor Frank Arkell.

• Episode 9 (Part 2)

  After committing two violent murders in Wollongong, NSW, Mark Valera became the youngest offender to receive a life sentence. While he's behind bars his father is brutally killed. But who committed that crime and what was the motive?

• Episode 10

  When 17-year-old US-born Gabriel Meyer first went missing in the Northern Queensland town of Innisfail, it was feared he'd been eaten by a crocodile, but the truth was far more sinister.

• Episode 11

  Samantha Bodsworth's body was found in a Noosa carpark one hour away from her hometown of Gympie. The killer thought he'd committed the perfect murder but a little-known area of forensic science would be his undoing.

• Episode 12

  Fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Janet Phillips went to a party in her home suburb of Wynnum on Brisbane's southside in July 1987 and never came back. Not long after she was reported missing her body was found a couple of kilometres away. Police had a strong suspect but they were unable to prove he'd killed the teenager. When DNA technology later became available they were astounded that their suspect was eliminated. Then, there was a further attack on a girl in Wynnum, with chilling similarities to the way police believed had been murdered 10 years before. Was it the same killer?

• Episode 13

  Danny John Wasley aged 30 years and Mark Andrew Banks aged 30 years disappear without a trace in Newcastle, New South Wales during August 1999. In a case involving drug lords, revenge and cold blooded murder, police uncover a tangled web of lies which finds Kevin Paul Naismith born 15 August 1969 guilty of the two murders which took place at his home and burial of the two bodies in sand dunes at Stockton Bight sometimes known as Stockton Beach.

• Episode 14

  When Peter Astill went missing during August, 1998, it took three months before his decapitated body (missing his head and hands), and also wrapped in a blanket was found stuffed inside a wheelie bin floating in a river in Lower Colo, NSW. What could have been the perfect murder was proved wrong when the serial number of the wheelie bin fell into the bin after an attempt had been made to remove it. The bin had been silicon sealed and tightened with hex screws. Police crews tracked the bin back to belonging to his next-door neighbour Bruce Patterson who had killed Peter Astill on the outskirts of Sydney, NSW and decapitated the body with an axe which belonged to the victim.

• Episode 15

  An Easter family holiday in 1998 ends in tragedy when a truck collides with a caravan on the Hume Freeway near Violet Town, Victoria, killing a 12-year-old boy. The truck driver fails to stop. With no licence plate number and little to go on, finding the person responsible may take a miracle.

• Episode 16

  When caravan park manager named Angelo went missing from the small town of Millicent in South Australia, friends and family called everyone they knew to try to find him. Yet no one had seen or heard anything.