Death Detective

Forensic pathologist Dr Dick Shepherd solves the mysteries of the dead. He investigates a mysterious head injury on a deceased man's skull and makes a grim discovery in a dead woman's chest. Also, a prisoner is found dead within hours of his release - could his criminal past have caught up with him?

In the second instalment of this fly-on-the-corpse documentary series, Dr Dick gets up close and personal with a pernicious lung tumour and uncovers something disturbing in the gut of a young man found dead by a vicar.

Dr Dick is baffled when a woman dies after being sent home from work with a cold. How can a broken leg be the cause of death?

A fit young footballer is found dead in bed and his family desperately needs to know what happened. Dr Dick has to work out whether a man's job as a young apprentice could have caused his death years later.

Step inside the mortuary where top forensic pathologist Dr Dick Shepherd solves real-life medical mysteries. In this episode he has to deal with a suspected suicide, and work out what killed a man found dead in the bath by his wife. And when a man dies after disturbing an intruder, Dr Dick must decide whether he was literally scared to death and if the burglar should be facing murder charges.