This episode explores murders covered up or concealed and needing forensic detective work to reveal the truth. With reflections on cases which on the surface looked quite cut and dried, but actually turned out to be more complicated and conflicting.
Former state pathologist Marie Cassidy looks on cases that reflect unique aspects of Irish culture or behaviour that she could notice as an outsider
Former state pathologist Marie Cassidy reflects on cases involving exhumation. She talks about applying 21st Century science to old cold cases and being able to give families closure and a body in order to give them a ‘Christian burial’.