Crimewatch Live
Crimewatch Live is a TV show on BBC1. Helping crack the UK's biggest unsolved cases - you could make the difference. Reconstructions, wanted faces and a spotlight on the dedicated teams bringing criminals to justice. The program has been available since 2025. A total of 32 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in October 2026.
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Crimewatch Live
The body of Julie Finley was found by a cyclist in Merseyside in 1994. Can you help find her killer? And how a romance scammer's lies caught up with him.
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How reality TV star Stephen Bear was jailed for publishing a private video of himself and his partner. Then we ask for your help in solving a rape at a Surrey train station.
Josh McLean was shot in Bethnal Green in August 2024. Can you help solve his murder? Plus, how police caught a tram stop mugger terrorising travellers.
How detectives jailed the owner of an XL bully dog that killed a much-loved grandmother. And can you help put a name to an unknown deceased man?
Fourteen-year-old Corey Junior Davis was killed in a drive-by shooting. Can you help find who was involved? Plus, how another teen's murder was solved.
Have you seen academic Vitoria Barreto, who was last spotted in Brightlingsea, Essex? Plus, how double murderer David Taylor was convicted.
Sam Rimmer was shot with a sub-machine gun in Dingle, Liverpool, in 2022. Do you know those responsible? And it's jail for the so-called Rightmove burglary gang.
In 1988, Lee Boxell disappeared after seeing a friend. His heartbroken family are still looking for him. Plus, justice for the man jailed 14 years after he attacked three women.
How a gang posting drill videos flaunting weapons and trading threats were put behind bars. And police appeal for help on the murder of John Murray.
A courageous brother speaks about his little sister's death at the hands of their stepmum in 1978. And police ask for help on a no-body murder.
The Met need help with the murder investigation of 21-year-old Finbar Sullivan, who was killed in April 2026. And how police solved the murder of Darren Round.
Three-year-old Sandy Davidson disappeared from his grandmother's garden 50 years ago – do you know what happened? And how police jailed a husband who drowned his wife in a hot tub.
How detectives unmasked a plot by brothers to evade justice for historic abuse crimes by faking disability. Plus, an urgent appeal for information about a rape in Sandwell Park.
March 2026
How a bookkeeper took nearly £900,000 from an elderly couple she had befriended. And police want to identify a man they believe was killed in a forest in north Wales.
How police jailed three organised crime groups in one swoop for their roles in a £53m drug empire.
Heroin police catch a gang trafficking £7m worth of the drug across the UK. And detectives need help to solve a disturbing rape from 1987.
How a far-right extremist, who had printed his own 3D gun, was jailed for terror offences. And can you help find the driver in a hit-and-run in Runcorn?
In 2005, two best friends died in an arson attack while sleeping – but who lit the fire? In another case, a game of cat and mouse to catch a dangerous criminal sees a manhunt across continents.
How police solved a jaw-dropping murder plot that had been staged to look like a suicide. And have you seen Ronald Ellis, who has been missing for over 20 years?
Do you recognise the men in a smash-and-grab in which over £200,000 worth of bags were stolen? Also on the programme, the NCA hone in on a gangland armourer.