Sociopolitical Documentary with no narration published by A&E in 2017 - English language
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When there's a murder with no suspect, no leads and perhaps not even a body, that's when investigators face their toughest test. Evidence must be gathered. Evidence must be analysed. But evidence is worthless if it can't be pinned to a suspect... Most murder victims knew the person that killed them. That's why homicide, in many cases, is a straightforward crime to solve. Yet 20 percent of UK homicides are classified as "circumstances unknown".
Hosted by Robbie Coltrane, Critical Evidence is based on real-life crime stories. In the series, Scottish star actor Robbie Coltrane deals with Britain's most extraordinary murder cases and their investigation. And who's better to host a British investigative true crime series? Coltrane's father worked as a police pathologist and the boy devoured his father's medical and crime literature at a young age. And many of us remember legendary crime drama Cracker and Coltrane as a heavy drinking, chain-smoking detective Fitz.
In this second season of Critical Evidence, Robbie Coltrane reveals eight of the hardest, most complex and baffling murder cases ever to be investigated by British police. The focus of each programme is the trail of evidence: how it was discovered, what it meant and how it became critical to crack the case. With interviews from the lead investigators and forensic specialists, many speaking for the first time, Robbie reveals the astonishing twists and turns of often stranger-than-fiction cases. It is a record of the detectives' art: using skill and determination to solve seemingly unsolvable cases - because the only difference between success and failure is critical evidence.
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5) Far from Home: Kyu Soo Kim
Robbie Coltrane examines the harrowing case of a London landlord, Kim Kyu Soo, who sadistically tortured and murdered his tenants, two young students he slowly suffocated with sticky tape. He bound their mouths and noses so tightly with tape that their eyes bulged as they struggled in vain to breathe. After the murders, Kim then concealed their bodies - he jammed one into a suitcase, and walled the other up in a sealed compartment of the house.
In 2002, police found the body of a young woman in a suitcase near York. The investigations that follow span three continents. When the police find out about another murder that has many parallels to the crime in York, they get closer to the perpetrator. A rarely cold-blooded killer was revealed behind the murders.
The decisive evidence in this episode: sticky tape, bloodstain, suitcase and entomology.
