Kirsty Young and the team work with the police to appeal for help in cracking unsolved cases, including the couple attacked by a gang wearing gimp masks, and the mystery of who murdered Lynda Farrow, with the killer leaving their footprints in the snow.

Kirsty Young and the team work with the police to appeal for help in cracking unsolved cases and bringing criminals to justice. Among the cases are the hunt for the arsonist who murdered a young child, and the elderly war veteran who fought back but was left for dead by callous thugs.

Kirsty Young and the team work with the police to appeal for help in cracking unsolved cases and bringing criminals to justice. Stories include the targeted attack that led to the torture of a father of four, and the police are closing in on the serial rapist who has evaded capture for 25 years.

Stories include the hunt for the killers of a 20-year-old shot at close range, and how investigators cracked one of the most sophisticated counterfeiting frauds in recent history.

Kirsty Young and the team present a reconstruction of 35-year-old chef Claudia Lawrence's last movements. Also, there are exclusive interviews to celebrate 25 years of Crimewatch.

Featured cases include the hunt for the serial rapist turned killer preying on women in East London, the latest on the Claudia Lawrence case and the story of how the Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer was finally caught after 25 years.

Stories include the 40 million pound jewellery heist, the cold case murder of a 17-year-old girl in the 1980s, and how semi-professional footballer Mario Celaire was finally brought to justice in the first jury trial since the change in the law of double jeopardy.

The programme hunts for the gang who battered to death a man in front of his elderly father, the arsonist wanted for murder, and explains how a drug smuggling ring was smashed.

The programme goes behind the scenes with detectives hunting the killer of Melanie Hall, whose remains were recently found by the M5. Plus appeals on the sexual assault of an elderly woman, and the gang of robbers who held up a mother and her four-year-old child in their own home.

Kirsty Young and the team appeal for help with the murder of 22-year-old Royal Navy seaman Anthony Cavanagh. Plus, how DNA helped police catch child killer Robert Morley.

The cold case murder of a mother of two kidnapped from her home at Christmas and burnt to death; hunting the thugs who mowed down a budding footballer in a deliberate hit and run; and how one of the world's most successful art forgers was finally caught after fooling experts for decades.