Bones in the Forest follows the chilling case of the murder of Tyrone France at Wentwood Forest, near Newport, south Wales. Late on a breezy May evening in 1996, forestry workers found a smouldering fire in secluded woodlands. Among the embers appeared to be part of a human skull. After a painstaking search, human teeth and 343 fragments of bone were discovered, along with spent bullets.
Early on a Monday morning, an unsuspecting lorry driver makes a harrowing discovery. After seeing a suitcase on the side of the M4 between Swansea and Cardiff, the driver opens the case and finds the body of a woman. Police shut the motorway and launch a major investigation to urgently establish the woman’s identity and find whoever caused her death.
In the early hours of 21 April 2007, on the dark and treacherous Bwlch Mountain Road in south Wales, a woman’s body is discovered on the carriageway. At first glance, it appears to be a tragic road traffic accident. The victim, 21-year-old Jenna Watkins, is lying near a crashed car, but as police and forensics experts begin their work, it emerges that Jenna did not die in a collision.
During Wales’s second Covid-19 lockdown, in February 2021, police were called to a flat on a quiet street in Pembroke Dock. What they discovered would shock an entire community and reveal how isolation in the pandemic meant a brutal murder could remain hidden for weeks.
A fight between neighbours leaves one man dead and the other claiming self-defence. Pathology separates fact from fiction, revealing the truth of fatal events behind closed doors.
When a young woman dies, it initially appears she was the victim of a hit-and-run. But when the evidence fails to stack up, police and pathology uncover the truth of her death.
