Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensic Story

Episode
Episode Three - Instruments of Murder
Broadcast Info
2015 (59 mins)
Description
Instruments of murder: The key piece of evidence that detectives are always desperate to find is the murder weapon. It can hold vital clues that will expose the killer. In this programme we look at four weapons that are used to kill bit not all weapons are obvious. Poison and the case of Marie Lafarge 1840 and arsenic poisoning, ballistics and the jockey cap killer of PC Gutteridge 1927, fire and arson Gerald Lewis 1990 and how the rule book for fire investigation had to be re written and finally the stabbing of Joan Pearl Wolfe at the hands of her soldier boyfriend from 1943.
Genre
Criminology; Forensics
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The Open University, "Catching History’s Criminals: The Forensic Story". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/218254 (Accessed 08 Nov 2025)