In late 1940, Hitler's Luftwaffe began its blitz on London, obliterating buildings and terrifying residents. But there was another sinister menace threatening the city: people who exploited this turbulent moment in history to get away with murder. Follow pathologists and detectives as they try to determine if a body found in a bombed chapel was the victim of the Nazis or a local killer. We reveal how this team, without the benefit of modern forensics, was able to crack the case using new techniques and old-school investigative methods.

Edinburgh in the 1820s is the center of the Scottish Enlightenment and home to pioneering medical research. But it was also a city plagued by crime and one of its most infamous involved the owner of a lodging house named William Burke and the city's most prominent surgeon, Dr. Robert Knox. Join us on a "you-are-there" look at a cold-blooded horror story that shocked Edinburgh to its very core. Then, see how the city's newly formed police force made use of all the primitive forensics they had at their disposal to finally crack the case.