In the Footsteps of Killers The Templeton Woods Murders (Channel 4 Thursday 12 January 2023)

Today Thursday 12 January 2023, there is a new episode of In the Footsteps of Killers.

The Templeton Woods Murders Dr. Graham Hill, a former senior detective, Professor David Wilson, a distinguished criminologist, and Emilia Fox look into cold cases to see if there are any new leads that the original investigators missed. This new series premieres with an examination of the murders that took place in Templeton Woods.

Carol Lannen, age 18, was discovered dead in Templeton Woods, a forested area near Dundee, Scotland, on a snowy night in March 1979. One hundred and fifty yards from where Carol’s body was discovered, the body of another young woman, Elizabeth McCabe, 20, is discovered in Templeton Woods less than a year later.

They’d been strangled to death. Could a serial killer be responsible for this? While looking into both cases, David, Emilia, and Graham come across some bombshell new evidence that leads them to the perpetrator.

Airdate: Thursday 12 January 2023 at 22:00 on Channel 4

Season 2 Episode 1

Emilia Fox and Britain’s top criminologist Professor David Wilson attempt to solve Britain’s most heinous murders in this unique true-crime series. Investigated like a documentary and filmed like a drama, In the Footsteps of Killers is a brand-new television hybrid in which an unsolved murder is solved in each episode.

Through research for her role in the hit BBC series, Emilia has become an expert in unsolved murder. David specialises in studying serial killers, their modus operandi and psychology and has assisted many police forces across the globe. In each episode, the pair investigate an unsolved British murder.

They’ll travel to and base themselves in the vicinity of the crime, reinvestigate the evidence for themselves, meeting police, victim’s relations, witnesses, journalists and experts. Crucially, they will walk the murder scene in the footsteps of the killer. Seeing the scene from the murderer and victim’s perspective, no matter how long after the crime, is critically important.

The series follows the two detectives’ ups and downs, their setbacks and their breakthroughs before they are able to reveal the name of the killer as a result of their thorough re-investigations. In the Footsteps of Killers takes audiences inside a crime like never before.

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