Louisiana homicide detective Rod Demery and world-renowned forensic scientist Turi King examine a male skeleton unearthed in a remote sea cave near Rosemarkie in Scotland. The victim had multiple head injuries and was buried with a huge boulder between his legs more than a thousand years ago. This was the era of Scotland’s most mysterious ancestors: the Picts. Turi examines the bones and meets world-leading forensic anthropologist Dame Sue Black to discover how the victim’s violent head injuries were inflicted. She also sees a life-like recreation of his face and finds how modern isotope analysis can reveal where, and how, Rosemarkie Man lived. Rod’s witnesses are archeologists, describing a world of precarious cliff-top communities, elaborate jewelry and fiefdoms, at a time when Christianity was spreading in the region. With suspects including a sea raider, pagan and rival leader, the team recreate the attack with a Pictish weapons expert to deduce who the likely murderer was.

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.

Seasoned homicide detective Rod Demery and renowned forensic scientist Turi King investigate the case of a headless male body and dismembered limbs found in a remote cave near Dubois, Idaho. Without the victim’s face, and with fingerprints drawing a blank, Turi examines the body parts and their injuries. She then explores how genetic genealogy revealed his identity: Joseph Henry Loveless. Loveless was a bootlegger from a Mormon background, who lived more than a hundred years ago. But who murdered him? When Rod’s witnesses reveal that Loveless’s wife Agnes was also murdered, the team find themselves questioning widespread assumptions of Loveless’s guilt. Was he killed by vigilantes avenging Agnes’s death, or by fellow criminals, or because he may have been part of a love triangle? Plunged into a maze of false names, missing evidence, newspaper gossip and hearsay, can Rod and Turi identify Loveless’s murderer and bring justice to one of Idaho’s coldest cases?

Seasoned homicide detective Rod Demery and expert forensic scientist Turi King investigate the case of a partial skeleton unearthed from an ancient cemetery in Berwick, Scotland. The victim has several stab wounds in the back and an unusual shoulder condition. Rod and Turi set about identifying this man who lived 800 years ago - along with his killer. As Rod investigates the nearby pilgrimage route as a possible motive for a robbery-gone-wrong, Turi’s injury analysis reveals the use of a professional murder weapon. When she then conducts an experiment to discover the origin of the victim’s shoulder condition and concludes that the victim was an archer, Rod meets witnesses who recount the lives of military men, serving Scotland’s many castles at the time. Soon a scenario involving an alcoholic brawl starts to form… In an era where high-born families warred with each other, their minions gambling and fighting, which suspect will Rod decide was the murderer?

Louisiana homicide detective Rod Demery and world-renowned forensic scientist Turi King visit the ancient city of Verona, Italy, scene of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. They investigate the mysterious death of 14th century ruler, warlord Cangrande della Scala. The ferocious leader was a respected man of culture and patron to the poet Dante, but he died suddenly at the height of his powers after conquering the city of Treviso, aged only 38. Rumors suggested he was poisoned. Almost seven centuries after his death, modern scientists exhumed Cangrande for an autopsy, finding that his marble tomb had preserved his body in a mummy-like condition. Turi examines the scientific evidence revealed, while Rod investigates the motives of those who might have gained from Cangrande’s death. In this thrilling Renaissance world of political intrigue and violence, Rod’s suspects include Cangrande’s political enemies, his ambitious nephew Mastino, and an enemy-turned-friend who may have betrayed him.

Many scientists believe sacrifice was the cause of Tollund Man’s death - but seasoned homicide detective Rod Demery isn’t so sure. Unearthed from a Danish bog almost 70 years ago, this two thousand years old, Early Iron Age victim is so well-preserved that he seems to be peacefully sleeping. Rod and forensic scientist Turi King cast fresh eyes on the evidence, examining theories that the victim could instead have been killed as punishment for wrong-doing, or as a feared outsider, or as a hostage in a tribal dispute. Turi examines the victim’s remains and CT scans of his neck to discover if he was hanged or garotted, while Rod’s visit to the crime scene, and the rope around the victim’s neck, offer him comparisons with modern murders, challenging archeologists’ long-held beliefs about this death. The team look for answers within new isotope analysis revealing the victim’s movements, but the key to the murderer’s identity may lie in Roman sources written a century after Tollund man died.