Great Crimes and Trials: The Beast of the Bastille

SYNOPSIS

In Paris, France, 1995 a beautiful young nurse, Hélène Frinking is found dead in her apartment. She is just one of the victims of the serial killer who becomes known as the "The Beast of the Bastille". To track down the killer, the police enlist the new science of DNA, even to the point of, controversially, asking French forensic laboratories to search all the DNA they hold on record.