Forensic Investigators

When a young girl's body is found in a park in the teeming rain, the police had the odds stacked against them. They would need to call on all their investigative and forensic skills to solve a crime that even today, sends a chill down the spines of those who lived through it.

A routine run on a quiet weekday morning would lead to a gruesome discovery and thrust investigators into one of Australia's most bizarre murders.

Four bodies - two adults and two children - were found shot in a house in an outer suburb of Canberra. Inside the house was evidence that would not only lead investigators to the killer, but would uncover a secret buried for three years.

March 1995 - when a skull is found at Botany Beach the police, crime scene examiners and the forensic pathologist, among other specialists, were brought to the scene.

A mother and her two children were found in their house brutally bashed to death. Was it a robbery gone wrong, or something far more sinister?

In April of 1999, Maya Jakic's body was found covered under leaves and hidden in bushes out the front of an unused Adelaide police patrol station. Two years later, Japanese student Megumi Suzuki had gone missing, and when police discovered her schoolbooks abandoned near a rail over-bridge they knew she had met foul play. In both these murders, the killer had taunted the police by leaving clues.