In the Footsteps of Killers

What a shame. This could have been a good investigation if proper ex police investigators were used. This is just a staged, almost pseudo-documentary, but with real victims and their distraught families. This feels like exploitation of tragic events to make scripted-reality worthy of one of the History Channel's awful alien/bigfoot 'investigation' programmes. I feel so sorry for the families and they deserve better than this.

Some parts interesting, but not many, they basically tell you all the evidence and get no further than that. Starts unsolved and ends unsolved, they get no further. A pointless watch, it was laughable at times, I do like silent witness with Emelia fox but this was terrible.

The first thing any form of visual entertainment should do is engage the viewer. This show totally fails because no one involved in the production seems to have a clue what the show wants to be and more to the point, apparently doesn't care.

This is a strange set up for a show.

Talking to families is emotional and must have been hard for the families.

But the scenes of the two "gathering information" are cringe inducing, poorly acted staged and scripted moments.

Why? Just make a documentary, skip all the faux nonsense.

Initially seems like it will be a good programme, but it is just a let down.

Throughout each episode they hint at how the killer 'needs to be found' and how important their work is.

By the end of each episode and all they have achieved upsetting the family members again by making them relive it all and they end up no closer to the truth. They just stand in various woodlands looking concerned and the woman marches around pretending to take important emergency phone calls. And then they find nothing out, give up on the investigation and then it's the end of the episode. Pointless build up for nothing.