The Body | Paramount+ 3 x 60'
This brand-new true-crime anthology for Paramount+ and Channel 5 explores murder stories that began with bodies discovered in unusual public or private spaces – leading to complex and gripping investigations requiring groundbreaking police work. With first-hand accounts from detectives involved, and chilling archive and evidence, The Body traces the unfolding tales of some of modern history’s most compelling criminal mysteries.
EPISODE 1
The Body in The River tells the heartbreaking and truly disturbing story of ‘Adam’ – the unknown boy whose dismembered body was discovered in the Thames in September 2001.
EPISODE 2
The Body in The Suitcase begins with a jarring sight – an unopened suitcase in a hedge on a quiet lane in a sleepy northern village. Its contents, the remains of a young woman, would lead to the most complex murder investigation ever undertaken by North Yorkshire Police.
EPISODE 3
The Body in The Carpet follows the truly groundbreaking detective work that solved the shocking case of 15-year-old Karen Price – whose skeletal remains were found bundled up in an off-cut of carpet by Cardiff builders in 1989 in the shadow of what would become the Millennium Stadium – eight years after she had last officially been seen, having run away from her children’s home.