David Wilson's Crime Files Episode Rating Graph
Jul 2019 - present

Jul 2019 - present
5.0

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Browse episode ratings trends for David Wilson's Crime Files. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of David Wilson's Crime Files's 40 episodes.

S1 Ep3
8.5
4th Aug 2019
Criminologist David Wilson discusses and offers compelling arguments for the links between systemic poverty and extreme anti-social behaviour.

S3 Ep10
8.0
13th Dec 2022
David heads into the belly of the beast, the beer spattered streets of Glasgow's night life. Here David will uncover the victims of an unknown serial killer from the 1970s. During a 6 month window the "Weekend Killer" plagued the pubs and dancehalls of Glasgow looking for his next victim and David is going to see how all these poor women connect.

S3 Ep8
8.0
29th Nov 2022
Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of Crime Files, this time focusing on cold cases. In episode 8, David interrogates the unique Scottish verdict of ‘Not Proven'. Travelling to Ardlamont Estate in Argyll, he takes a look at the historic mystery of the death of Cecil Hambrough in 1893.

S3 Ep6
8.0
15th Nov 2022
Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of Crime Files, this time focusing on cold cases. In Episode 6, David travels to Coatbridge, South Lanarkshire to explore the case of Moira Anderson who vanished during a blizzard in 1957. He'll learn about a dark family secret and discuss the concept of living with a guilty conscience.

S3 Ep3
8.0
25th Oct 2022
Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of the crime talk show Crime Files. This season David is focusing primarily on Scotland's numerous Cold Cases. In episode 3, he and his guests tackle the complex issue of forensic analysis and whether human interpretation can lead to miscarriages of justice.

S3 Ep2
8.0
18th Oct 2022
Professor David Wilson, the UK's leading criminologist, presents the third series of Crime Files, this time, focusing on cold cases. In episode 2, he discusses mysterious deaths and how the circumstances surrounding them can lead to decades old unsolved cases which remain unanswered to this day.

S1 Ep9
6.0
26th Jan 2020
Criminologist David Wilson explores how 'we kill the ones we know'; the phenomenon that most murder victims are killed by someone they have a social connection with.

S1 Ep10
6.5
2nd Feb 2020
Criminologist David Wilson investigates the recent past and present of Scotland's prison system, looking at how it can make bad people even worse.

S2 Ep3
6.5
29th Aug 2021
Together with investigative journalist Fiona Walker, David uncovers two family annihilations that occurred on the same day in Scotland in 2008. Fiona travels to Buckhaven in Fife, where Rab Thomson killed his son and daughter in their home, to uncover the events leading up to the murders, while David is in the Campsie Fells, where Ashok Kalyanjee took the lives of his two sons.

S1 Ep7
6.7
12th Jan 2020
Criminologist David Wilson charts the origins and evolution of forensic science as an ever more important tool for crime detection.

S1 Ep8
7.0
19th Jan 2020
Criminologist David Wilson studies the psychology behind the need for those who lead a life of crime to have to conceal their activities by leading a secret or double life.

S2 Ep2
7.0
22nd Aug 2021
David travels to the notorious Carstairs State Hospital in South Lanarkshire to investigate one of Scotland’s worst spree killings. The atrocity occurred on one cold November night in 1976, leaving three people dead and at least three others injured. David tracks the movements of the two killers, Robert Mone and Thomas McCulloch, from their brutal escape from the hospital to the night-long manhunt across the border.

S1 Ep1
7.9
21st Jul 2019
Criminologist David Wilson presents fresh analysis of notorious Scottish serial killers Peter Manuel and Peter Tobin and interviews criminal lawyer Donald Findlay QC.

S1 Ep2
7.8
28th Jul 2019
Criminologist David Wilson discusses how surveillance technology has made the good old-fashioned bank robbery or jewellery raid harder than ever to pull off and not get caught.

S1 Ep3
8.5
4th Aug 2019
Criminologist David Wilson discusses and offers compelling arguments for the links between systemic poverty and extreme anti-social behaviour.

S1 Ep4
7.5
11th Aug 2019
Criminologist David Wilson investigates the origins of Glasgow’s alternative motto 'the no mean city'. looking at gang culture past and present.

S1 Ep5
8.0
18th Aug 2019
Criminologist David Wilson investigates the reasons why blatant miscarriages of justice occur examining cases from past and present.

S1 Ep6
7.8
5th Jan 2020
David Wilson explores how murderers often get caught when they try to dispose of the body.

S1 Ep7
6.7
12th Jan 2020
Criminologist David Wilson charts the origins and evolution of forensic science as an ever more important tool for crime detection.

S1 Ep8
7.0
19th Jan 2020
Criminologist David Wilson studies the psychology behind the need for those who lead a life of crime to have to conceal their activities by leading a secret or double life.

S1 Ep9
6.0
26th Jan 2020
Criminologist David Wilson explores how 'we kill the ones we know'; the phenomenon that most murder victims are killed by someone they have a social connection with.

S1 Ep10
6.5
2nd Feb 2020
Criminologist David Wilson investigates the recent past and present of Scotland's prison system, looking at how it can make bad people even worse.
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The first episode of David Wilson's Crime Files aired on July 21, 2019.
The last episode of David Wilson's Crime Files aired on December 12, 2023.
There are 40 episodes of David Wilson's Crime Files.
There are 4 seasons of David Wilson's Crime Files.
Yes.
David Wilson's Crime Files is set to return for future episodes.