Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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A fascinating four-part series which goes behind the laboratory door and turns the microscope on the growing army of test-tube crime fighters - the scientists and the pathologists - and their techniques for bringing the guilty to justice.





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