The Science of Crime

Dokumentárny seriál zachytáva históriu forenznej vedy od jej vzniku až po súčasné najmodernejšie techniky. Každá epizóda predstavuje špecifickú metódu a známe, zdanlivo neriešiteľné prípady, v ktorých pomohla priviesť pred súd najhriešnejších zločincov.

In dieser BBC-Reihe geht es um den Kampf gegen das Verbrechen mit Hilfe forensischer Methoden. In jeder Folge wird ein Spezialgebiet der modernen Kriminologie vorgestellt, anhand abgeschlossener, teils historischer Fälle. Die erste Episode behandelt die Themen Feuer und Explosionen. Killer benutzen diese Möglichkeiten besonders gern, weil sie damit nicht nur ihre Opfer sondern auch mögliche Spuren auslöschen. Zumindest glauben das viele von ihnen.

With the introduction of forensic science, the battle between the police and the perpetrators of crimes has become ever more tactical. Each side has developed more sophisticated ways of committing, and solving, crimes. Forensics allows police to use a tiny skin sample, a blood splatter, a clothing fibre – all invisible to the naked eye – to identify a culprit. But are these techniques as infallible as they first seem? How can the innocent sometimes be found guilty? How do the criminals sometimes walk away unpunished? From the study of explosives and fire, to dentistry, DNA or blood spatter analysis, the clues left at a crime scene can take many forms and provide the police with the ability to understand the truth of some seemingly unexplainable ‘accidents’. It was the teeth marks on a victim that led to the conviction of infamous American serial killer Ted Bundy, who was responsible for the murder of more than 30 women; and blood spatter analysis helped police discover that in a brutal attack in a Florida furniture store, it was the only surviving victim that was the perpetrator – murdering his family and a shop worker before shooting himself to make it look as though he was also wounded. This 13-part series focuses on the history of forensic science, from its early introduction to the latest cutting-edge techniques. Each episode looks at a specific method and the famous and seemingly unsolvable crimes that they have helped to crack – bringing some of the most evil minds to justice

포렌식 과학의 도입으로, 경찰과 범죄의 가해자들 사이의 싸움은 훨씬 더 전술적이 되었습니다. 양측은 범죄를 저지르고 해결하는 더 정교한 방법들을 개발해 왔습니다. 포렌식은 경찰이 작은 피부 샘플, 피 튀기는 옷가지 섬유 등 육안으로 볼 수 없는 것들을 사용하여 범죄자를 특정할 수 있도록 해줍니다. 하지만 이러한 기술들은 처음에 보여졌던 것만큼 완벽한 것일까요? 어떻게 무고한 사람들이 때때로 유죄로 밝혀질 수 있을까요? 어떻게 범죄자들은 처벌받지 않고 도망갈 수 있을까요? 폭발물과 화재에 대한 연구에서부터 치과의학, DNA 또는 피 튀기는 분석에 이르기까지, 범죄 현장에 남겨진 단서들은 다양한 형태를 취할 수 있으며, 경찰에게 설명할 수 없을 것 같은 일부 '사고'의 진실을 이해할 수 있는 능력을 제공합니다.