Name: The Body Detectives
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2024-07-23
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Dave Grimstead, Emma Tilley, Anna Maxwell Martin

A great series, hopefully there will be more episodes. Actually fascinating without unnecessary drama you see in the American type of these shows,. Real life mysteries where a body is discovered and remains unidentified. Professionally put together and drawing on a vast array of specialist resources, it's amazing what they can find out decades after the body is found. One of the best aspects is that it is not solely reliant on DNA evidence, because often there is nothing to match it to, they also use facial reconstruction, clothing analysis, oceanographic data, handwriting analysis and also look at social data from the area and time the body was found. Very engrossing.

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Ex-detective Dave Grimstead, from Locate International, revisits cases of unidentified bodies around the UK using cutting-edge forensics. Part of True Crime on Channel 4.

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