The Detectives: Murder on the Streets

Episode
Episode Two
Broadcast Info
2017 (57 mins)
Description
Also in this episode another case comes into MIT. A woman is the victim of a horrific petrol bomb attack in her own home. With the suspected attacker, her brother, on the run and armed with more petrol bombs police launch a full scale man hunt.
In episode 2, detectives continue to investigate the murder of a young homeless man Daniel Smith, in the city centre. A man who has been arrested and brought in for questioning says he was in the arches on the night of the murder and has information regarding others who were there at the time.
Meanwhile in Bolton, Greater Manchester, a local man has gone missing and rumours in the community suggest he has come to harm. DCI Sarah Jones is assigned the case and as an extensive search is underway, information comes in which leads detectives to fear the worst. As the team try to pin point the missing man’s last movements, phone data leads them to the last person they believe he was with on the day he disappeared.
Genre
Criminology; Policing; Law; Social Science; Forensics

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