Don't get me wrong, King's Cross could be hell on earth.
How do you mean?
It was a place of extremes.
You know, I can remember one night
a runaway gave birth right on the platform,
and then an hour later, a man was stabbed to death
behind the coalhouse. It was a madhouse!
But there was community.
All of life was here.
Almost sounds like you miss it.
Hmm.
What happened?
Oh. Um...
Despite being a model of Victorian build quality,
the structure suffers from subsidence,
not helped by decades of construction
and track reverberation.
Plus, there's a deep warren of passages,
tunnels, shafts under our feet...
Nikki Alexander. Jack Hodgson.
DI Steve Tudor.
Right. Um... Layouts,
hard hats...
..and, if you have them, steel-toe-capped boots.
No. Me neither.
Used to be the Railway Tavern.
Dates back to the 19th century.
Survived the big refurb? Oh, yeah, it's listed.
Do you know the patch?
Yeah. King's Cross was my beat for years.
First in uniform, then in plain clothes.
If memory serves, this was variously used as a storeroom,
as a shelter for rough sleepers,
and somewhere the more resourceful sex workers brought their punters.
Thanks.
It's an old hatch.
Someone sealed it over.
Cool and dry - perfect for a cellar.
And for stalling decomposition.
Presents as male.
Massive injuries to the top of the skull.
Fall?
No obvious signs of blood in the surrounding area.
No ID. Some sort of fob.
Got blood here.
What is that?
Hmm.
Some kind of handcart, I think.
Maybe he was thrown down through the hatch?
I've got more blood in here, Nikki. On a mattress.
I've got red-orange dust embedded in the skull.
Brick?
Yep. Maybe.
Hair all over the mattress.
Can of Mace.
Manufactured in Illinois.
Nikki?
Looks new, the padlock.
Newer than the door anyway.
How many?
Six, I think.
Maybe seven.
Eight.
We need to take control now.
We're not just smack in the middle of London,
we're in King's Cross Station.
If one photo of one body gets posted online, we've failed.
So we start as we mean to go on.
Eight bodies, a challenging location...
I reckon we're in mass disaster territory.
DVI protocol, the works.
I want to activate an emergency mortuary -
that means a call to the coroner.
I'll make a similar call to the Commissioner's office.
Somewhere, there will be a plan
for dealing with something like this. Might even work.
I'll get the area secured. No-one in or out without authority.
I want a moat. Inner and outer cordons,
signed in and out at both.
If the Commissioner agrees with us, he'll throw in a drawbridge.
Nikki Alexander, lead pathologist.
Jack Hodgson, crime scene manager.
Gabriel Folukoya, pathologist and director of the Lyell Centre.
Malcolm Jones, former station coordinator
and curator of the King's Cross Museum.
DI Steve Tudor. That's it.
Chief Superintendent Sheila Court,
Senior Investigating Officer.
This Gold Group meeting is officially open.
For the avoidance of doubt, mass disaster status has been designated.
My priority is to secure the integrity of the forensic
and pathology investigation, so whatever you need.
Right. Well, to ensure that integrity,
I'd like to set up an emergency mortuary here at the station.
Fine with me.
We haven't had a chance to discuss it, but in principle it's OK.
My main concern is cross-contamination.
We can collect trace evidence material at the scene
before the bodies are moved. It's a bit unorthodox,
but this is the part we can't repeat or revisit.
Agreed. All that makes sense.
We'll need secure access,
running water, power and lighting.
The temperature will ideally be adjustable
and ventilation sufficient.
Couple of options come to mind.
We'll also need adequate storage space
for the securing of the human remains,
evidence and property.
OK. With eight bodies, I imagine you'll want
to spread the load, bring in more pathologists?
Actually, no.
In the Shipman case, all the PMs were done by the same pathologist.
And it's my view that, from a continuity-of-evidence perspective,
you want one set of eyes on all the bodies.
And I'll be working alongside Gabriel to speed up the process.
OK. Whoever did this has got away with it for ten years plus.
They've had a free pass. Not any more.
Somewhere in that basement's a clue that's going to unmask this person
and bring them to justice. We can't miss it.
Sorry if I overstepped the mark just now.
Would've been good to discuss, but...all fine.
We can do eight bodies. We can.
But if we make one mistake, drop one ball,
the wisdom of the decision will be questioned,
and rightly so.
Got a candidate for the mortuary.
Despite the face-lift, the station is still associated
with a high number of missing persons.
My focus is on the two years
prior to the building's renovation in June '09,
prioritising medium and high-risk cases
in which CID got involved.
If this isn't suitable, we have options.
Power points, pipework, heat sources all listed.
Thank you, Malcolm. Thanks.
Divide and rule?
I kit this place out, you return to the coalface?
Agreed.
Can we clear this area, please?
Consider it done.
I want to get this body out now,
keep him separate and do his postmortem first.
That makes sense. We have a hoist en route.
We treat that room as a separate crime scene.
Before we go in there or touch anything,
we map and photograph the bodies' positions.
From the way they're positioned and other factors,
our working theory is that the bodies at the back were left first.
So the furthest body we're calling Body 1.
And the one nearest the door Body 7?
Exactly.
Operating a last-in, first-out methodology,
we'll now begin removing these bodies.
Body 7 presents as male.
His throat appears to have been cut.
He's wearing what looks like a yellow-metal ring
on his wedding finger.
He's wearing a tracksuit
and...Nike trainers.
There we go. Good.
Body 6 also presents as male.
There's a gag in his mouth.
And rope around his neck.
Hands are tied with rope too.
Which extends up his back...
..encircling his neck in a noose.
What is that about?
Body 5 wears a polyester top
with some sort of emblem.
A football shirt maybe.
Body 4 presents as female,
shoulder-length auburn hair.
She's wearing jewellery - earrings, necklace.
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Does that include a gold chain necklace
with a four-leaf clover pendant?
Yes, it does.
All right. The necklace was listed as identifying property
belonging to the American tourist Judy Holmes.
I mean, obviously, it's a secondary identifier
but height, hair colour, they all fit, too, so...
In all likelihood, we've identified our first victim.
What else do we know about Judy?
Um... Her bag was found in bushes by the Regent's Canal
half a mile away. CID pulled out all the stops, dragging the canal.
Their thinking was it was a mugging gone bad.
I retrieved a can of Mace manufactured in Illinois.
Take it we have her prints and DNA?
It's all logged in the misper report and on the missing persons database.
And lift.
Body 3 has a reddish-grey beard...
..and is wearing what looks like a military coat...
..which is caked with blood.
Hair colouring's a visual match
to hairs I recovered on the mattress back there.
DNA'll confirm.
So was this bloke sleeping rough down here when he was killed?
Turf war?
Body 2 has been left on top of Body 1.
Some green material is draped across both bodies.
Body 2 presents as male.
Cropped, peroxided blond hair.
Evidence of multiple stab wounds to the chest.
Body 1 presents as male.
As with Body 2, there's evidence of stab wounds to the chest
and torso...
..in even greater number.
Tattoo...
..and multiple hoop earrings.
Could help with an ID.
What do you think we're looking at here?
A killer or killers
of exceptional brutality
who learned on the job and evolved...
..fast.
We need you to hold the fort here, start the processing.
There's going to be a lot of it, and this is just the beginning.
You up to the challenge?
Yeah. Of course.
Good.
Get anywhere with the fob from Victim 8's jeans?
At first, it defeated me, to be honest, but...
You tried florescence? Yes. Great minds.
Here, bottom right.
"Mandrake Systems."
I've just called them.
Very cooperative. And their chief engineer is on the way.
Nice.
It's really bad, then?
Yeah.
Well, we're here.
I know. Thanks.
We're going to get names for them all.
No numbers.
Great job.
Gives the Lyell a run for its money.
Cats are out of bags.
I'm here at King's Cross Museum,
that lies just behind the station itself,
where we're getting unconfirmed reports
that a mass grave has been discovered,
and there's already a crowd of curious onlookers
growing at the entrance.
It's as yet unclear how many bodies have been uncovered,
but police and forensics have arrived at the scene
and will be working hard to identify the bodies as soon as possible.
We'll do the postmortem on Body 8 now,
then carry out the remaining seven tomorrow.
The fob recovered from Body 8 is an entry key.
It accessed Halford Court, block of flats in Dalston,
no earlier than March '09,
no later than October '10, when upgraded fobs were issued.
Great. We have the beginnings of a timeframe.
I cut out the middleman and spoke to the lads on the maintenance crew.
By "middleman", do you mean Malcolm Jones?
I have a timeline of the whole development from 2007 to 2010.
With a focus on the Tavern, I hope?
Yeah. That was a late refurb, August '09.
Reading between the lines, it was a rushed job.
And now we have a window when Body 8 was killed -
March 2009 till August 2009.
And it's likely he was killed after the seven victims
recovered from the basement.
So they were killed prior to mid-2009?
When the station was undergoing an intense period
of rebuilding. This is a bloody time bomb.
A serial killer was on the loose. Not only did we fail to catch him,
we didn't even know he existed.
All the police top brass from '09 must have gone by now.
Well, there'll be a shitstorm of criticism boiling down
to one question - how did he get away with it on our watch?
How do we get ahead of that?
By getting, and keeping, the public onside.
To that end, I'm holding a press conference tonight.
I'd like one of you to be present.
Gabriel.
OK, you get over to that building block in Dalston,
start knocking on doors. I've got you six detectives from London Wall.
Body 8 is male.
Analysis of his pubic symphysis will give us an age range.
There is massive blunt-force trauma to the crown of the skull,
which is partially staved in.
These multiple injuries are the likely cause of death.
There is red dust embedded in the fractures,
possibly brick dust. Certainly, a brick wielded with force
would inflict those kinds of injuries.
Any sign of the brick? Not yet.
There's a single wound to the forehead,
one of the more robust areas of the skull.
Do we know what made these marks?
We think a handcart being dropped on the body.
Fibres inside the tray are a visual match
to the deceased's clothing.
We'll compare the blood to the reference sample
when we have it. Suggests he was probably transported in the cart.
From the murder scene to the Tavern?
Residue in the cart suggests it was used for shifting bricks.
What, so the killer just throws a tarpaulin over the body
and he's good to go?
In the end, there were 37 construction companies on site.
Someone in overalls pulling a cart wouldn't get a second glance.
So maybe the killer was a builder? Even better camouflage.
Did a good job cementing up the hatch.
Yet we don't know that was him.
We don't, but the victim's jeans and shirt were spattered
with dried cement.
Maybe they were both builders.
There's metal debris embedded in his right eye.
That sort of injury is usually associated with construction work.
He was treated significantly differently to the others.
He wasn't placed in the cupboard, and there was plenty of room.
Just thrown down through the hatch.
If they were builders,
maybe they were working together and things kicked off.
It's a long shot, but if we can tie the brick in question
to a specific construction, it might help ID the victim and the killer.
Thank you.
I need to relay all this to my team.
Thank you, everyone. One at a time.
Chief Superintendent Court, is it fair to say without this issue of the floor dropping,
these bodies would never have been found?
Yes. That's a fair assessment.
So someone was murdering people in one of our busiest stations
and the police had no idea?
At least one of the victims was reported missing
and a full CID investigation was launched.
"At least one"? How many bodies have been found?
Eight.
We've recovered eight bodies so far.
You shouldn't be here, Mr Jones.
Malcolm, please.
Sorry. I just came to retrieve my stuff.
You OK?
Not really.
The thought of them mouldering away in the dark...
..unnoticed, unacknowledged...
..unmourned.
I'm sure they weren't unmourned.
No. No, of course not. Um...
I didn't mean...
It is hard to get your head around.
When was your tenure at the station?
2004 to 2010.
That's when you think this happened, isn't it?
Sorry.
Hello. This is Steve Tudor.
I followed up on the entry fob to Halford Court
and might have found an ex-partner of Body 8.
Tentative ID is a Kacper Tadych,
a Polish national. Great.
Partner's name is Anna Gorska, and she may have questions
you're better placed to answer than me.
I have some photographs
of the deceased's clothes, the remains of them.
Could I show them to you, Anna?
To see if you recognise them as Kacper's?
That's Kacper's belt.
Thank you.
Would he have...?
Did he suffer?
Judging by the pathology evidence,
I'd say it's likely that death was close to instantaneous...
..but I can't be certain.
Of course, yeah.
Could you tell us a bit about your relationship with Kacper?
We dated in high school in Poland.
He was two years younger.
I called him my toy boy.
We broke up when I went to university, and then I got a job here in London.
Doing what, if you don't mind me asking?
Marketing manager, pharmaceuticals mainly.
Um...
One day, Kacper just showed up.
He worked as a builder and he heard I'd moved here.
We picked up where we left off.
It was a very special time...
..like a miracle.
It didn't last?
No. He...
He had an eye injury at work.
It gave him headaches and...
..he'd get angry without any warning.
Um...
..one day Kacper woke up with a bigger hangover than normal.
He was late, and angry, and it was all my fault.
We had a proper screaming match.
And he stormed out.
I never saw him again.
Did he ever mention someone at work he didn't like?
Who got on his nerves?
What about the building firm he worked for?
No. He'd just... He'd wait on a corner of a street at 6am,
and sometimes he would get work, sometimes he wouldn't.
We'd like confirm Kacper's identity via DNA if possible.
Did you manage to find anything that...?
Um...
I threw out the stuff he left years ago.
But I do have something.
Kacper loved this.
He read it over and over again.
Thank you.
I appreciate that. I know you've had a long day.
Or are you a glutton for punishment like me?
Ha. Maybe. A bit.
I feel bad for her.
She'll be thinking, "What if, what if...
"What if we hadn't rowed that morning?
"What if I'd held out an olive branch?"
I know I would.
Steve Tudor.
Thank you.
DNA confirms it - Body 4 is Judy Holmes.
Ted Holmes.
Ted, my name is Detective Inspector Steve Tudor
from Greater London Police...
Have you found her? Have you found Judy?
Yes. Yes, we have.
At the station? King's Cross?
Penny for them?
The victimology.
You asked.
Go on. I know you're dying to tell me.
You'd expect to see something of the killer in the victims,
or at the scene.
We've got eight and I can't see anything. Can you?
Male, female, varied ethnicity...
Nothing at all.
It's all riding on the pathologist, by the sounds of it.
My sister had been planning that trip to Europe for years,
saving for it, talking about it,
all the places she was going to visit.
How could you just not know this guy was doing what he was doing?
I don't know the answer to that yet,
but I promise you I will keep in close touch
as the investigation progresses.
Um...
..Ted...
..did Judy ever carry a can of Mace, as far as you know?
Yeah. Never went anywhere without it.
I warned her it was illegal to take it through UK Customs,
but...
...that was Judy.
She was my big sister
and she wouldn't be told.
You know the drill.
One, and then the other, all right?
It's too much. Just help me!
I can't do it, Russell. I need help.
I'm just going to sit down.
Russell! And then I'll do us some breakfast.
Come back and help me!
Russell!
Help me!
...Cross Museum, where Greater London Police have now confirmed
that a homicide investigation is under way, following the discovery
of eight bodies in a cellar beneath the museum.
Speaking at a press conference last night,
Chief Superintendent Sheila Court confirmed
that Greater London Police were called to the museum
earlier this week after construction workers
repairing damage to the museum's floor uncovered...
An emergency mortuary has been established
in King's Cross, and pathologists from the Thomas Lyell Centre
are understood to be conducting postmortem examinations.
While police have not released the identity of any victims,
they have confirmed that at least one was the subject
of a missing person investigation
and that next of kin have been informed.
There's police work to formally identify each victim...
Something tells me this is going to be dinner, not lunch.
Yours looks nicer than mine.
OK, so firstly, I just want to acknowledge
the marathon series of postmortems you carried out today,
a truly Herculean task, and we're all really appreciative.
But we need to know who we're looking for.
We need to get him in focus.
So it would be helpful - well, it's vital
to get a forensic pathology narrative
charting his evolution across the eight murders.
Right. Well...
..the first killing was a sustained attack.
Body 1 is male,
40 to 50 years old.
There's a shallow, unhealed cut to his throat...
Wasn't fatal?
Unlikely. But the killer might have expected it to be.
Instead, the victim fights back.
Maybe.
There's a flurry of unhealed wounds
to the chest that would ultimately prove fatal.
And there's what looks like another stab wound to the chest,
but this one's healed.
So likely sustained some years before his death?
Months, I'd say. Weeks, even.
There are permanent internal sutures
where he's been stitched up,
and evidence of a fractured rib that was in the process of healing.
Body 2 defended himself...
..before finally being overpowered by the killer.
We see the same sustained stabbing attack,
but the wounds are deeper, more definite and fewer in number.
Body 2 was 20 to 30 years old.
He was placed on top of Body 1.
A large square of dark-green quilted material
was then draped over both bodies.
There are healed linear scars across the fingertips
of his right hand. Knife wound?
Possibly.
Additionally, Body 2 bears some defensive wounds -
slices across the forearms
and an unhealed broken nose.
So neither victim went quietly into the good night?
No.
Body 3 is a little different.
50 to 60 years old.
He was stabbed in the back multiple times
while lying face down on a mattress, which we've recovered.
A surprise attack
certainly fits with the absence of defensive wounds.
So, what, he was sleeping down there?
Possibly.
So maybe we're looking at a territorial motive.
Victim 3's kipping in the basement,
the killer shows up and wants the space for himself?
Doesn't that screw up our timeline?
If he's killed after Victims 1 and 2,
why hasn't he raised the alarm about their bodies?
Good question.
Maybe Victim 3 was a partner in crime?
Or...he just shows up,
sees the mattress, not the body, beds down?
The volume of his hairs on the mattress argues against that.
Or...Victim 3 was killed first and we're setting too much store
by where their bodies were left in the cupboard?
It is an anomaly,
but inevitably at this stage, one of many.
Body 4, Judy Holmes.
These wounds are consistent with the tangential movement
of a sharp implement across the skin.
The depth and angle of the wounds suggest that they were made
left to right, from behind, by a right-handed assailant.
This wound breached the jugular vein and the carotid artery,
suggesting that Judy's head was drawn back
to expose the throat.
The vessels sit deeper in the neck than people think,
so if you tilt the head back,
the sternocleidomastoid muscle covers them up.
So if the killer expected quick slice and down they go,
he got a big surprise?
Explaining the three separate cuts to her neck.
The attack on Judy was very different.
For one, it's likely she was abducted before she was killed.
Based on?
An unhealed dislocated shoulder
and green-painted splinters under her fingernails
which are visually consistent with a board fence by the old Tavern.
Yesterday you asked a good question. How did the killer
get away with it in the middle of King's Cross? You have the answer?
I have an answer.
The entire west side of the station was rebuilt
and remodelled from 2007 to 2010.
This necessitated a network of boarded passages across the station
so the public had access to the trains and surrounding streets
whilst being shielded from the works.
Cooks Passage was the first to be built, the longest,
running north-south and emerging onto Cooks Way.
It had a total of 16 doors marked "Authorised Personnel Only"
that let station staff and building crews exit at whatever point
would bring them to their behind-the-scenes destination.
The Tavern?
Yeah. One door...
..opened onto the clutch of buildings
north of the western concourse that,
yes, included the then-derelict Tavern.
But surely those doors were kept locked.
Eventually, after a series of thefts and trespassing incidents,
keypads were installed.
Hmm. CCTV?
Limited to the entrances of the passages
and major intersections.
That footage will be long gone anyway.
Yeah.
In light of all this, Judy Holmes was likely abducted
as she walked down Cooks Passage late on a Sunday night.
Yeah. She'd got off a train from Durham.
She was heading for her hotel off Euston Road.
Significantly, none of her jewellery was taken
and she was fully clothed.
So it's unlikely a financial or sexual motive drove the killer.
So he was getting a taste for killing for killing's sake?
Someone looks overwhelmed.
This is only half the trace evidence.
There's still so much more from the basement.
A problem shared...
Right.
Body Number 6
was wearing
an Apollonia bumbag
and a cagoule.
Right?
Was that the victim with the noose attached to his bound hands?
Yes. Him.
So, I've never heard of Apollonia,
which made me think, like, small local brand
which might help us with a nationality,
which might help us with a missing persons search.
No joy?
Just two hours looking at
the Greek equivalent to Companies House
and...their Board of Commerce.
Apollonia...
..was part of Ancient Greece.
But now I think...
..it's part of Albania.
Is it possible the company was Albanian?
So our killer was getting sharper all round.
He knew that Judy would be missed,
so he dumped her bag
by Regent's Canal.
He wanted to draw attention away from the station.
I reckon he was sleeping
in the Tavern basement, at least some of the time.
Unfortunately, the killer now had a can of Mace
that he almost certainly used on subsequent victims.
Body 5, our youngest victim yet.
Killed in a similar way to Judy.
Knife to the throat but a single, deeper wound.
There's some trauma around the eyes
that could've been made by Mace.
We know from Judy Holmes' brother she brought a can into the country.
I'll swab the skin for it. Clothing too.
Notice the rip in his jacket?
Sleeves were stretched. All the buttons were loose or missing.
So a struggle?
He's also missing his right trainer.
Once again, it suggests resistance to abduction.
With Body 6, we see a different mode of death.
His mouth was gagged,
hands bound with rope that extends up his back,
forming a noose around his neck.
Taken in conjunction with the gag,
the bound hands and noose feel as much about an attempt to control him
as to kill him.
If he tries to free himself, the noose tightens.
All of which suggests the killer chose to keep him alive
for a period of time.
Something else in there...
A denture, partially swallowed.
But why would he do that six victims in?
Huh? Why do kids tear the wings off flies?
Certain kids.
You've answered your own question.
Six victims in, he's now sufficiently confident
to indulge his impulses, curiosities, whatever.
They went full circle on Body 7 -
at 6'4", his biggest opponent yet,
killing him with a single cut to the throat.
Unlike what we saw with Body 4, Judy Holmes,
the ragged nature of this cut
suggests the head was tilted forward.
Which is in line with military training.
Leaning the head forward loosens the skin,
yielding a more ragged, lethal cut.
Are we saying this guy was in the Army?
Possible,
or just a DIY military fanboy with a library card.
The wound also suggests the use of a serrated blade,
something like a hunting knife.
In other words, the killer perfected the art of killing
and on his biggest victim yet.
Maybe that's why he chose him.
A challenge? A sport?
How does the bludgeoning of his final victim
fit his new expertise? Another anomaly?
For the pathology evidence and forensics,
we think that Kacper's murder could have been unplanned
and heat of the moment.
Whether or not we're right about the killer being a builder,
he had to know his days in the Tavern were numbered.
And that became a stressor.
Yes. What was he going to do with the bodies in the basement?
Excuse me a second.
I thought you might need...
Come on, then.
This is Velvy. He has some information about Body 6.
Body 6. One with the noose.
Good. Um, yes.
Through the discontinued Albanian clothing brand Apollonia
worn by Body 6, we hazarded a guess that he was also Albanian
and we ran a missing person search.
I believe his name is Elseid Broja.
Um...
A 25-year-old Albanian student
who went missing in London in summer 2009.
Based on more than a clothing brand, I hope?
Mm. One of Broja's distinguishing features
was a partial denture -
three teeth.
We found just such a denture in the throat of Body 6.
But what about our killer's DNA?
All these bodies, all this evidence,
he's got to have left it somewhere.
We've collected, and are collecting,
scores of DNA samples from the basement
and the victims' clothing,
all of which we'll run against the database.
But?
But there's a strong possibility he wore gloves.
Based on...?
The padlock.
He must have used it regularly,
but there's not a print on it.
Good job, lads. Same time tomorrow.
Keith Pryor.
Hello, Keith. Russell Drake.
Hey, Russ. How you doing, mate?
Surviving.
I know that you're doing OK,
so forgive me for not asking.
Can't complain, can't complain.
What can I do for you, Russell?
Well, I thought we might compare notes.
King's Cross.
Yeah. The bodies in that Tavern likely killed between 2008 and 2010.
Sorry, Russ, the line's breaking up.
Why don't we talk in person?
No. No way.
I'm not stupid.
You come to me, then.
No, I'm going to the police.
Tell them what I should have told them years ago.
Now, if that were true,
you would have done it already, wouldn't you?
This sounds like a shakedown,
like you want something from me.
Russell!
Got to go, Russ?
Sounds like you're needed.
Russell!
No. OK.
Yeah, let's meet. But in a public place of my choosing.
Oh, excuse me.
Can I help you?
Um, who should I speak to about the King's Cross investigation?
I'm a nurse at the Royal Free. I've just come off a double shift.
I caught the end...
You were at the press conference, the pathologist.
Yes. Gabriel. Um...?
Esther. Esther Daniels.
My son Simon went missing in 2009, aged 17.
Are any of the victims as young as 17?
Let's talk inside.
Well... When Simon was small,
he broke his leg in two places skateboarding,
his right leg.
As a pathologist, you'd notice something like that, right?
Thank you.
Simon's DNA is on file?
He's on the missing persons database?
I gave the police his hairbrush in 2009.
In that case, we should have confirmation by tomorrow.
When he went missing,
he'd been getting in trouble...
..dropping out of college, on the fringes of a gang,
but...
..nothing too serious.
Looking back,
it was all an act of rebellion.
Against what?
I was pregnant and I'd just remarried.
No doubt he was feeling a lot of jealousy.
So Simon didn't get on with your new husband?
By spring 2009, he'd moved out.
It was only when his birthday came round and he didn't call,
I knew something was wrong.
And that's when you reported him missing?
A month later...
..they found Simon's bag up in Holloway Woods.
It's a known spot for dealing.
It was like the police just lost interest at that point.
If my son was killed in King's Cross,
half a mile from his front door...
..who took his bag up to Holloway Woods?
My husband.
Probably wondering where I am.
I'm going to run you home, Esther.
Thank you.
The lab have been busy and we now have DNA matches on three bodies.
Body 1 is or was -
Adam Perry, 52,
a convicted criminal who disappeared in February 2008.
Body 5 is 17-year-old Simon Daniels.
I met his mother, Esther, last night.
She recognised me from the press conference.
I submitted a brief account of that meeting for the file.
Thank you.
Body 7 is a personal trainer called Faisal Hosseini.
At the time of his disappearance,
he was about to enter into a civil partnership
with his long-term boyfriend, Josh.
He'd taken a client for a workout in Regent's Park
and was supposedly heading back home on foot
to his flat in Angel when he vanished.
So we have provisional IDs on six of the eight?
Just Bodies 2 and 3 remain unidentified?
Correct.
We suggest that the immediate focus is Body 1, Adam Perry.
Why?
Well, Perry apparently had a long record for assault
and procuring runaways for sexual activity.
Ringing bells?
He was an animal.
Hospital records bear out our pathology findings
with respect to the healed stab wound.
Adam Perry was admitted to A&E
with a suspected knife injury on January 2nd 2008.
He was lucky to live.
These victims - there's no pattern, is there?
No type he goes for?
No conventional victimology
that would hold a mirror up to the offender?
If there is, all I'm seeing in that mirror is a black hole.
There's more questions than answers.
Mrs Perry, I have some general questions
about the period leading up to Adam's disappearance.
Dr Alexander is a pathologist who has some more specific questions.
Pathologist?
Yes.
I wanted to ask you about a knife injury that your husband sustained
in the weeks prior to his murder.
I know who did this.
I know who did all of 'em.
He's...
He's a monster,
but only cos Adam made him one.
His name's Terry Bordell.
Russell!
Russell?
Russell!
Where are you?!
Russell!