New ITV series opens the Crime Files on Wales’ worst murder cases
How police solved some of Wales’ worst crimes is the subject of Crime Files, a new ITV Cymru Wales series starting on Tuesday, 30th August at 9pm.
Presenter Andrea Byrne will be opening the files on notorious crimes - the earliest committed in the 1920s and the most recent in a current investigation.
She will be learning how detectives search a crime scene and how modern forensic methods have transformed policing. The eight-part series follows Andrea as she visits a forensic laboratory to see how ever-evolving techniques help police to track down offenders.
Andrea, who can also be seen presenting Wales At Six, says: “As a news presenter we often hear about cases when they first happen and then we cover the court proceedings.”
The series will re-visit some chilling cases from Wales’ criminal past, such as the murder of chorus girl Mamie Stewart, whose body was found in the Gower 40 years after she was killed, and the more recent murder of Ffion Wyn Roberts in Porthmadog in 2010.
Also featured will be the case of Tracey Woodford, whose dismembered body was found in Pontypridd last year. Crime Files has also been filming the progress of North Wales Police’s current investigation into an unidentified body found in Clocaenog Forest last year.
The first programme on Tuesday recalls the case of the “Saturday Night Strangler”, the killer of three teenage girls in the 1970s in South Wales.
Crime Files with Andrea Byrne will be shown on Tuesday, 30th August at 9pm on ITV Cymru Wales.