When fire crews attended a blaze at a hostel in Sussex, they quickly discovered a woman's burned body, apparently having been initially subjected to a brutal attack. Police needed to know what had happened in the victim's final moments, so they called on a blood-spatter analyst. Because of fire damage, carrying out a forensic investigation of the crime scene was going to be extremely challenging so Jo Millington used an innovative technique to remove the soot and uncover the truth. Also in this edition, how a cold case was solved using familial DNA for the first time