Following the gruesome discovery of a skeleton on an island in New Brunswick, detectives seek to unravel the mystery of the woman with no name.

Episode 1, The Woman Without a Name

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True Crime

For criminals, water is the perfect accomplice for the perfect crime: it erases, absorbs, and carries the bodies, conceals weapons and washes away evidence. For detectives, water is a crafty adversary. It never confesses, forcing the investigators to employ extraordinary measures to discover the truth.

Dark Waters of Crime

Series 1

Showing investigations where water has played a role in covering up or committing a crime.

After finding the body of a young girl in a stream, investigators strive to retrace a murderer who knew how to use water to his advantage.

Episode 2, The Prey

A young girl savagely beaten by teenagers and later found dead in a river leads to a troubling inquiry whereby water causes complications as well as the solution to the case.

Episode 3, Incorrigible

New information forces the opening of a years old accidental death case.

Episode 4, The Bathtub Sisters

A girl attacked by a man with a baseball bat is found in a British-Columbia salmon river.

Episode 5, The Abbotsford Killer

Detectives are taken into a sinister world when a body is found floating near a dock.

Episode 6, House of Horrors

A man survives a canoe accident while his wife's body is found a few days later.

Episode 7, Winston's Secret

Within two years, seven disembodied feet wash up on various beaches in southern British Columbia.

Episode 8, The Mystery of the Disarticulated Feet

The body of a young woman is discovered on the edge of the Lorette River.

Episode 9, Mortal Passion

A woman thought to have accidentally drowned has now become a murder case.

Episode 10, Lethal Investment

A body is discovered on the banks of the St Charles river with suspicious circumstances.

Episode 11, Bad Trip

A tug boat operator finds a body caught on the logs he is towing.

Episode 12, Hell's Gate

A homeless man's body is found by kayakers, severely beaten and stabbed.

Episode 13, In Cold Blood

A man drives himself and his wife into the Mississippi River.

Episode 14, Until Death Do Us Part

A 10-year-old disappears from her father's townhouse.

Episode 15, Planted Evidence

In a quiet, calm and peaceful town a mother is concerned about her daughter's disappearance.

Episode 16, A Mother's Intuition

In 1997 the police are hunting for a missing woman, but could a friend of hers be the main suspect?

Episode 17, Friend or Foe

In a city where crime is not very prevalent the murder of a young teenage girl shocks the community.

Episode 18, Mr. Big

The murder of Briditte Grenier was brutal and shocking, yet the question still remains whether the right person was convicted.

Episode 19, The Devil In The Woods

The disappearance of John Altinger remains a mystery until the police uncover a confessional diary.

Episode 20, Murder, He Wrote

When a girl is found in a freezer the police become suspicious of her own brother.