episode description
Homicide detective Rod Demery and scientist Professor Turi King examine Europe’s most famous ancient murder victim; Otzi the Iceman. He was discovered in 1979, frozen in ice, in the Otzal Alps in Italy, where he was killed over 5000 years ago. However it wasn't until 2001 that X-rays and scans revealed that Otzi had an arrowhead lodged in his shoulder and this was the likely cause of his death. Rod and Turi look at the evidence and see who might be the likely suspects in this most baffling of cases. Rod meets various “witnesses” who tell us more about Otzi and the community he lived in. It was more than likely that Otzi was a hunter so Rod learns about hunting as a way of life and tries to deduce if his murderer was a hunter too. Turi discovers more about the latest scientific research into Otzi including pollen analysis.The team learn how pollen in his gut can suggest his likely route in the hours before he died, and then deduce who his killer might have been.
