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Forensic Files

Quite a Spectacle

A squashed tomato and a pinpoint reflection of light in a photo help catch a killer.

Forensic Files

Transaction Failed

An ATM transaction allows Texas detectives to pinpoint a suspect in the slaying of a teacher, but a shoelace stolen from the victim's home proves to be the tie that binds her killer to the crime.

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The Day the Music Died

Ten years after the murder of a rock singer, forensic scientists use evidence collected to finally bring her killer to justice.

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Sole Survivor

After a Michigan State University grad student disappears and is presumed dead, a professor of geological sciences helps police get the dirt on her killer.

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Insignificant Others

When a man's wife kills herself 14 years after his college sweetheart commits suicide, police start to get suspicious.

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Army of Evidence

Suicide notes and a pistol in hand lead police to suspect that a mother of two young children appeared to have killed herself, but when investigators learned of a house fire she was in three years earlier, they reinvestigated.

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Shear Luck

The violent death of an Air Force officer's wife outside a Philippines air base is examined, amid accusations of a love triangle involving the murdered woman's husband; investigators use groundbreaking computer forensics to make their case.

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Forensic Files

The List Murders

In 1971, John List disappears after murdering his mother, wife and three children; he eludes the law for years until an age-scaled sculpture of the suspect and a true-crime TV program helps lead to his arrest in 1989.

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Raw Terror

An 11-year-old boy comes down with a fever and diarrhea after eating an undercooked burger; when his condition worsens, his mother drives him to a hospital and doctors discover E. coli destroying his body.

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The Common Thread

Florida police search for a serial rapist and murderer who left small red fibers on each of his 10 victims.

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The Dirty Deed

When an English couple go missing, police suspect their son killed them and must rely on mud and blood samples found in the couple's two cars to find their bodies.

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Killer Fog

Experts attempt to discover the source of heavy fog on Highway I-75 in Tennessee, which caused a 99-car accident and 12 deaths.

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Sex, Lies and DNA

When a woman goes missing from her home, police focus on her husband when an airline luggage tag and luminol point to an affair and murder; footage from a TV crew and Coast Guard photographs lead investigators to the suspect's missing boat.

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Bitter Potion

When a woman exhibits strange flu-like symptoms before dying, investigators discover someone added thallium to her soda; detectives initially suspect her husband, but the case takes a sinister turn.

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The Blood Trail

Handwriting and simple doodles complicate a car-bomb case and an alleged self-defense shooting in a peaceful British farming village as police uncover a husband's plot to kill his wife for insurance money.

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Fatal Fungus

When dozens of infants develop serious breathing problems in the Cleveland area, doctors and investigators search high and low for the cause.

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Something's Fishy

A well-liked bank vice president collapses and dies after taking pain pills laced with cyanide; the search for a motive reveals a callous suspect who had murdered once before.

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Sealed With a Kiss

Evidence reveals a teacher who complained of being stalked and harassed by another teacher was scamming police.

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Postal Mortem

A man kills two people with bombs in an effort to get investors off his back, but authorities catch onto him and he becomes sentenced to life with no chance of parole.

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Catch 22

A woman gets shot in her driveway; she may have been the victim of a co-worker half her age that she had recently rejected.

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A Cinderella Story

A pair of tennis shoes are found near a victim who had been stabbed on the beach, less than ten yards from her hotel.

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Screen Pass

Three fingerprints on a window screen are enough for a print examiner to uncover the work of a serial killer.

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Pressed for Crime

With a long list of suspects, forensic experts agree on one thing in this brutal murder: the killer knew his victim.

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Finger Pane

The only lead to finding a serial killer on the loose is a bloody fingerprint on the body of a victim.

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Good as Gold

Tests reveal the race, eye color and hair color of the person responsible for killing two young women on Halloween night.

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Freedom Fighter

A convicted arsonist claims his innocence and with no lawyer, no money and only a fifth-grade education, sets out to prove it.

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Dog Day Afternoon

A canine behaviorist uses the family dogs, who are the only witnesses, to find the murderer of their owner.

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Shattered Innocence

Investigators see through a killer trying to cover his tracks by staging the crime scene to learn what really happened.

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All Butt Certain

A young girl beaten after watching her grandmother killed, identifies the wrong person; years later she tries to change her statement.

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Jean Pool

In 1984 police failed to convict the murderer of a college student; new technology may finally help the police to catch her killer.

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Traffic Violations

Police investigate a young woman found murdered two weeks after reporting a road rage incident; evidence leads not to the aggressive driver, but one of their own.

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Brotherly Love

When a single mother is murdered, her brother vows to find the person responsible for the death of his sister, even if it takes more than 30 years.

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Disrobed

A husband and wife get shot, and their 16-year-old daughter manages to escape, but investigators suspect she may be involved in the murder.

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Driven to Silence

After 10 years, a witness decides to do the right thing about the rape and murder of a young hairdresser.

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Printed Proof

Police investigate the possibility of a hate crime when two women go missing and are later found murdered.

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About Face

When a human skeleton is found on marshland and determined to be at least 18 months old, a computer consultant gives her a face and name.

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In the Bag

A killer places all the incriminating evidence to the murder in a plastic bag, hoping it will float down the river.

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Yes, in Deed

A woman's body is found inside a burned mobile home and the autopsy reveals she was beaten, making this a murder.

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Guarded Secrets

Security guard who disappeared from his post was found a year later in a remote camp site; a decade later, a phone call and a paint smear on his boot helped scientists determine what happened during his final moments.

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Smoking Out a Killer

When three students are brutally murdered close to campus, investigators must determine what the women had in common before their serial killer strikes again.

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Frozen Assets

A bag full of evidence recovered from an iced-over river helps to reveal the murderer of a businesswoman in her own shop.

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House Hunting

Eyewitness to real estate agent's murder is put under forensic hypnosis in an attempt to help him recall the killer's face.

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Shoot to Thrill

Police launch a search for a killer after a teenager returns home to find his father's body in a pool of blood.

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Political Thriller

Pathologist examining the death of a politician who was running for re-election finds tiny puncture wounds at the autopsy.

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Double Cross

A Naval officer who threatened to go public with tales of on-the-job sexual harassment and assault is brutally murdered, but when investigators find the allegations could be part of an elaborate scheme for money, they turn to forensic science.

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Dancing With the Devil

A man is found stabbed to death after a night in a strip club; a drop of blood on a bedspread becomes critical evidence five years later.

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Last Dance

After police identify a murder victim thanks to her butterfly necklace, they discover several co-workers had vendettas against the victim.

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Tagging a Suspect

Pieces of plastic the size of sand hold clues to a bombing.

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Strong Impressions

At first glance it appears a young woman suffocated, but further investigation shows the scene was staged.

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Forensic Files

Micro-Clues

A man arrested for the sexual assault and attempted murder of a boy in a European country becomes linked to a murder in Zurich, Switzerland, through analysis of microorganisms.

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Deadly Parasites

Heavy rains and snow run-off carry manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people.

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Without a Trace

Autopsies reveal that a string of unexplained deaths in Omaha resulted from poison-induced liver disintegration.

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Knot for Everyone

In a series of murders near Sacramento, Calif., a killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case.

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The Talking Skull

After the discovery of a skull in the forest near a boy scout camp, police use facial reconstruction to identify the body.

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Deadly Delivery

Investigators use obscure evidence to find the person responsible for killing justice officials with mail bombs in the South.

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Grave Evidence

Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder.

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Deadly Formula

Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction.

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Beaten by a Hair

When a young woman goes missing on the way to the train station, investigators use a strand of hair and a bloody pillowcase to find a suspect.

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Crime Seen

Investigators reopen a case from 1984 involving the rape of a young Virginia woman when DNA testing refutes her identification of the rapist and calls everything into question, leading to the accused person's exoneration.

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Speck of Evidence

A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.

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Broken Bond

A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.

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Constructive Criticism

The brutal murder of a construction site foreman looks like the work of a disgruntled employee, but forensic science points to an unlikely suspect.

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Home Evasion

A shooting victim mutters the name of her apparent assailant before dying, but fingerprint comparisons, handwriting analysis, ballistics and DNA testing show someone else close to home is the true killer.

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Window Watcher

A woman's story seemed far fetched; she tells investigators that a man broke into her home wearing only underwear and gloves, killed her boyfriend and raped and terrorized her.

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Stranger in the Night

After a Delaware man's mother is found dead, he tells a story that's so improbable police think it can't possibly be true.

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Kidnapping

A family vacation turns into a terrifying search for a missing wife and baby, then becomes a manhunt for a killer who committed a horrific crime.

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Sands of Crime

A DNA dragnet catches a killer eight years after the kidnapping, rape and murder of a college coed in Oklahoma.

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Calculated Coincidence

A nosy neighbor with a disturbing obsession becomes a suspect in a woman's murder at an upscale apartment complex; police discover an incredible link to an unrelated murder thousands of miles away.

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Sworded Scheme

A college student turns up dead and her boyfriend becomes a prime suspect when blood splatters are discovered on his wall.

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Unmasked

Texas police hunt frantically for a brutal rapist. No one knows where he'll strike next, but given the increasingly violent nature of his crimes, he must be found soon.

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Fashion Police

When detectives find a mismatched button in relation to a woman's death, they know they can follow the clue back to the killer.

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Church Dis-service

A woman heads home after church, but never makes it there alive, triggering a homicide investigation.

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Seedy Intentions

Volunteers and police spend weeks searching for a missing girl. A psychic later leads them to a field where the body was found.

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DNA Dragnet

Forensic investigators try to stop a killer who is apparently responsible for two slayings in a community in South Carolina.

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Smiley Face

When DNA proves that a man who practically admits to a brutal attack is innocent, police wonder why he is willing to take the blame.

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Dirty Laundry

When a businessman is murdered, motives and suspects are plentiful. Was it simply a disgruntled employee or client? Or do some racy photos hold the clue to the crime?

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Drowning Sorrows

A family break turns into a nightmare when the wife is found face-down in a lake; with no idea whether it was murder, an accident or suicide, police turn to a new forensic technique.

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As Fault

When friends see a woman in the back of a car flailing her arms and screaming, they assume she is having fun, but when they later come upon a jacket and a pool of blood, they realize they witnessed an abduction in progress.

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Family Ties

An attack on a couple's home leaves the husband dead, the wife gravely injured and their son as a prime suspect; hundreds of miles away, a DNA sample may lead to the killer.

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Trouble Brewing

Detectives think they've solved a murder when they find the weapon and victim's blood in a man's flat, but the evidence may have been planted.

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Holy Terror

Detectives search for the bombers of two churches in Illinois, hoping that the materials used in the remnants of the handmade bombs will offer the clues to catch the culprits.

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Needle in a Haystack

There was no apparent reason for the young, healthy college student to be dead; but when the medical examiner found the tiniest of clues during the autopsy, investigators were able to unravel the mystery of betrayal and revenge.

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Room With a View

A woman is stabbed a hundred times and her body positioned in a suggestive manner. This could be a hate crime against women.

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Dollars and Sense

Police are able to create a composite sketch of a man burnt beyond recognition. But tracking the killer is more challenging.

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Hair Line

By cutting a strand of a murdered man's hair into sections, forensics reveal a record of his last six months alive, and find he was frequently ingesting huge amounts of arsenic.

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All That Glitters Is Gold

A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses, an ambush or a random attack; the clue was something so tiny, it was measured in millionths of a meter.

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Deadly Rebellion

Teenager is found half-naked with her throat slit; a single foreign hair found on her thumb may finger the killer.

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Sign of the Crime

Two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered; the similarities of the crime scenes led police to believe they were dealing with a serial killer who hated women, and they had to find him before he struck again.

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Covet Thy Neighbor

Weeks after a student vanishes, the body of an unknown female is found in the ashes of a fire 700 miles away; an alert policeman realizes the crimes could be connected.

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Cereal Killer

A killer is careless when a home is destroyed by fire and a young boy is missing.

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Crash Course

A patrol officer is shocked by the amount of blood at a traffic accident and is shocked by the coroner's ruling until an anonymous phone call re-ignites the case.

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Forensic Files

Out of the Ashes

Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.

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Invisible Intruder

A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.

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The Killing Room

A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.

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Ultimate Betrayal

A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.

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Cement the Case

A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.

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Innocence Lost

In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.

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Til Death Do Us Part

When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.

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Body of Evidence

Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.

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Accident or Murder?

A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.

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Core Evidence

A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.

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Haunting Vision

A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.

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With Every Breath

After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.

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Writing on the Wall

Investigators face a growing list of suspects after a beautiful flight attendant is brutally murdered in her own home.

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Hundreds of Reasons

The assistant manager of the restaurant had been stabbed to death; police knew why he'd been killed: $8,000 was missing from the safe. As to who was responsible, his family and friends couldn't even imagine who'd want to hurt him.

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Cold Feet

Florida authorities rely on DNA evidence to try to nail the killer of a woman who was abducted from her late-night job at a convenience store, raped and strangled.

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Separation Anxiety

A wildfire in a secluded parking lot leads police to discover a dreadful homicide, with the suspect's image caught by security cameras.

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Office Visit

After a prominent Arizona surgeon is found stabbed to death outside his office, investigators uncover an unlikely suspect with deep pockets and an even deeper hatred for the doctor.

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Shoe-in for Murder

Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.

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Family Interrupted

A masked gunman kills two members of a family and wounds two others after they interrupt his burglary at their upscale suburban home.

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Palm Saturday

A killer leaves equally incriminating evidence at the scene when he meticulously wipes away his fingerprint and shoe impressions.

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Runaway Love

After a woman is found dead at a yacht club in California in an apparent case of love gone wrong, investigators discover her home life was as dramatic as films made in nearby Hollywood.

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Watchful Eye

The brutal murder of a state park employee over $2,000 rattles her co-workers and tourists while leaving police to sift through hundreds of leads.

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Waste Mis-Management

When evidence shows a woman's rape and murder, police must find the killer as well as the victim.

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Dirty Little Secret

A week after a couple disappears from the beach, police get a mysterious lead from a robbery.

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Lights Out

Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.

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Pet Rock

A quiet waitress who hasn't been to work in two days vanishes without a trace; police suspect a date gone wrong.

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Best Foot Forward

The search for a missing exotic dancer led police to an isolated 75-acre site where someone had been shot and cremated, thus destroying all evidence... almost; piece of a foot provided enough DNA for a genetic profile and positive ID.

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Purebread Murder

After years of suffering domestic abuse, a young woman is found murdered in her bathtub; among numerous clues, a hamburger bun proves the most incriminating.

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Hear No Evil

Evidence that includes threatening emails, a missing person and an abandoned truck lead police to a woman's suspected killer, but they don't have the victim's body.

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Hell's Kitchen

A woman has an accidental fall down a flight of stairs and appears to have hit her head, but the lack of blood splatter and misplaced shoes lead police to believe the fall was staged.

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Three's a Crowd

A church member gets gunned down after leaving choir practice; although witnesses see little and not much evidence exists, investigators learn that she had been having affairs for years.

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A Squire's Riches

When a man perishes in a fire while working in his garage, his death is initially ruled an accident until a forensic odontologist changes the direction of the case.

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Home of the Brave

Lack of evidence compels investigators to look beyond the obvious when a woman is beaten to death at her in-laws house.

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Freeze Framed

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide. But soon after, information emerges which reveals a much more menacing scenario.

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A Touch of Evil

A dismembered body is dumped on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike and before police realize it, bodies are turning up between two states.

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Textbook Murder

A young bride-to-be is gunned down in her own home. The attack is personal and as investigators start digging, they uncover the man she loved was living a lie.

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Filtered Out

Tara Munsey went missing after a work shift at a Virginia restaurant, and it is unknown if she ran away or if she was the victim of foul play.

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Water Logged

An Ohio woman and her two daughters go missing while vacationing in Florida; their corpeses are found floating in Tampa Bay with a hand-written note by one of the victims; putting it on five billboards helps them find the killer.

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Social Circle

Four young adults are murdered in an affluent Texas neighborhood, with little evidence but two people walking by dressed in black.

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Low Maintenance

A young college student is found dead in her apartment and the autopsy rules the death a homicide by an unknown male suspect.

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A Leg up on Crime

An irrigation canal murder remains unsolved until a similar murder occurs.

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Tight-Fitting Genes

The light of day and DNA picture painted by molecular biologist reveals new clues about a nighttime traffic accident.

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Forensic Files II

Words Matter

An Illinois mother and her two young children are brutally murdered in their beds, and lurid threats are spray-painted all over the walls of the crime scene.

Forensic Files II

Last Dance

A young Texas teenager and her boyfriend are brutally attacked on Valentine's Day; she is found dead while her boyfriend escapes; the case goes cold for nearly 50 years before a new forensic test exposes a family man with a dark secret.

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Dog Proof

Three Indiana construction workers are found shot on a work site.

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Mix Matched

A Texan who vows to live a reformed life after being released from prison is subsequently convicted of murder, despite insisting his innocence, so he uses forensic science from behind bars to try to prove his case.

Forensic Files II

Matter of Time

An extremely successful California career woman keeps falling ill and doctors can't determine why, then after she dies they still have no explanation until they find a key figure in her life has been lying about his past.

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Blanket Denial

The body of a 24-year-old criminology student is found wrapped in a blanket alongside a desolate road in Brooklyn, N.Y.; police discover that the bouncer at a bar is her killer.

Forensic Files II

Unraveled

When a 79-year-old woman is found shot to death in her home, investigators initially suspect her husband or a violent neighbor; shell casings recovered at the scene and a high-tech database reveal an unlikely killer.

Forensic Files II

First Impressions?

A young single mother is abducted from a gas station and is later found stabbed to death near an oil field; the detectives use shoe and tire impressions to weed out numerous suspects.

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Slippery Motives

While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.

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Badge of Deceit

A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.

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Dew Process

New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.

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A Woman Scorned

Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.

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Fate Date

The killer removed the computer that links him to the murder of a woman and her soon-to-be ex-husband that he had met online.

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Trail of a Killer

A community is shocked when police discover a woman raped and murdered in broad daylight on a public trail.

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Gone Ballistic

A real estate developer is shot and his wife becomes the prime suspect, until the bullet is linked to a weapon reported missing 20 years ago.

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Seeing Red

A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.

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Skeleton Key

A woman goes missing for a month with the only clues being a set of keys, a fingerprint and a code.

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Funeral Services

Police discover a mask near the crime scene and hope that it leads to the killer of a funeral director.

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Expert Witness

A killer assaults a young mother in her home, but despite meticulous washing of the crime scene, a single hair remains to lead authorities to the culprit.

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The Disappearance of Helle Crafts

The investigation into the disappearance of flight attendant Helle Crafts leads to the murder conviction of her pilot husband.

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The Footpath Murders

Scientists and detectives use DNA to solve a string of rapes and murders.

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Planted Evidence

Police use DNA profiles of seed pods from a truck to catch a killer.

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Southside Strangler

Police believe they have a serial rapist and murderer, but DNA testing and research leads to another arrest and conviction.

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Legionnaires' Disease

In 1976, 182 war veterans in Philadelphia become hospitalized with pneumonia-like symptoms and 29 die; the disease resurfaces every few years.

Forensic Files

The Wilson Murder

After a wealthy Southern physician gets murdered with a baseball bat, his wife and a handyman become convicted of the crime.

Forensic Files

The List Murders

In 1971, John List disappears after murdering his mother, wife and three children; he eludes the law for years until an age-scaled sculpture of the suspect and a true-crime TV program helps lead to his arrest in 1989.

Forensic Files

Raw Terror

An 11-year-old boy comes down with a fever and diarrhea after eating an undercooked burger; when his condition worsens, his mother drives him to a hospital and doctors discover E. coli destroying his body.

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The Common Thread

Florida police search for a serial rapist and murderer who left small red fibers on each of his 10 victims.

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The Dirty Deed

When an English couple go missing, police suspect their son killed them and must rely on mud and blood samples found in the couple's two cars to find their bodies.

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Killer Fog

Experts attempt to discover the source of heavy fog on Highway I-75 in Tennessee, which caused a 99-car accident and 12 deaths.

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Sex, Lies and DNA

When a woman goes missing from her home, police focus on her husband when an airline luggage tag and luminol point to an affair and murder; footage from a TV crew and Coast Guard photographs lead investigators to the suspect's missing boat.

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Bitter Potion

When a woman exhibits strange flu-like symptoms before dying, investigators discover someone added thallium to her soda; detectives initially suspect her husband, but the case takes a sinister turn.

Forensic Files

The Blood Trail

Handwriting and simple doodles complicate a car-bomb case and an alleged self-defense shooting in a peaceful British farming village as police uncover a husband's plot to kill his wife for insurance money.

Forensic Files

Fatal Fungus

When dozens of infants develop serious breathing problems in the Cleveland area, doctors and investigators search high and low for the cause.

Forensic Files

Something's Fishy

A well-liked bank vice president collapses and dies after taking pain pills laced with cyanide; the search for a motive reveals a callous suspect who had murdered once before.

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Sealed With a Kiss

Evidence reveals a teacher who complained of being stalked and harassed by another teacher was scamming police.

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Postal Mortem

A man kills two people with bombs in an effort to get investors off his back, but authorities catch onto him and he becomes sentenced to life with no chance of parole.

Forensic Files

Micro-Clues

A man arrested for the sexual assault and attempted murder of a boy in a European country becomes linked to a murder in Zurich, Switzerland, through analysis of microorganisms.

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Deadly Parasites

Heavy rains and snow run-off carry manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people.

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Without a Trace

Autopsies reveal that a string of unexplained deaths in Omaha resulted from poison-induced liver disintegration.

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A Voice From Beyond

A decomposed body is found in a barrel, and a dilapidated address book may hold the answer, but investigators must find a way to read the pages because the passage of 30 years has turned them blank.

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Burning Ambition

When a policeman's home burns to the ground, he later arrests a man who confesses to arson, but the confession seems dubious.

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Memories

A woman identifies her husband as her attacker, but questions arise 16 years later regarding her recollections.

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Material Evidence

A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex killer; there are few clues to the killer's identity, but authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.

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Killigraphy

Police charge Alan ''The Zenith Man'' Ridley with murdering his wife, Virginia, but following an autopsy, medical detectives believe he may not have killed his wife after all.

Forensic Files

Nursery Crimes

With children dying at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, authorities narrow down their probe to one nurse, but the murder weapon remains elusive.

Forensic Files

Lasting Impression

When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity, but days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder.

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Foundation of Lies

When a doctor's wife disappears, investigators use concrete from the doctor's yard and the recollections of a child to determine what happened.

Forensic Files

Unholy Vows

Romanian archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, living in the U.S., is accused of being a Nazi war criminal, and forensic experts find evidence on an incriminating, 40-year-old postcard.

Forensic Files

Broken Promises

Investigators look into the shooting death of Russ Stager, a popular gym teacher, and discover that his death was not an accident; a message the victim recorded before his death reveals a story of greed.

Forensic Files

Time Will Tell

A money launderer is found dead in the ocean and the only obvious clues to his identity are a Rolex watch and a tattoo; the anchor with which he is weighed down proves most helpful in solving the crime.

Forensic Files

Second Shot at Love

The apparent suicide of Dr. Darryl Sutorius, a respected heart surgeon, is questioned when an investigation reveals his new wife's violent history.

Forensic Files

Journey to Justice

The 1992 hit-and-run death of 6-year-old Nicole Rae Walker leads to a groundbreaking trial as experts submit a video reconstruction of the incident, implicating a drunk driver and demonstrating the viability of video testimony.

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Video Diary

Specialists including a NASA vendor help police reconstruct a damaged surveillance video to catch the murderer of convenience store employee Wanda Mason in Lansing, Mich.

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Deadly Knowledge

When a young woman goes missing, the police investigation reveals that she led a double life -- student by day, call girl by night -- but when her body is discovered, even more strange truths are uncovered.

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Missing in Time

A tiny clue inside a suspect's watchband and a popular television show help solve the case of a woman's disappearance.

Forensic Files

Knot for Everyone

In a series of murders near Sacramento, Calif., a killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case.

Forensic Files

The Talking Skull

After the discovery of a skull in the forest near a boy scout camp, police use facial reconstruction to identify the body.

Forensic Files

Deadly Delivery

Investigators use obscure evidence to find the person responsible for killing justice officials with mail bombs in the South.

Forensic Files

Grave Evidence

Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder.

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Deadly Formula

Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction.

Forensic Files

Beaten by a Hair

When a young woman goes missing on the way to the train station, investigators use a strand of hair and a bloody pillowcase to find a suspect.

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Crime Seen

Investigators reopen a case from 1984 involving the rape of a young Virginia woman when DNA testing refutes her identification of the rapist and calls everything into question, leading to the accused person's exoneration.

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Speck of Evidence

A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.

Forensic Files

Broken Bond

A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.

Forensic Files

Out of the Ashes

Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.

Forensic Files

Invisible Intruder

A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.

Forensic Files

The Killing Room

A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.

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Ultimate Betrayal

A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.

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Cement the Case

A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.

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Innocence Lost

In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.

Forensic Files

Til Death Do Us Part

When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.

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Body of Evidence

Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.

Forensic Files

Accident or Murder?

A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.

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Core Evidence

A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.

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Haunting Vision

A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.

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With Every Breath

After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.

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Slippery Motives

While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.

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Badge of Deceit

A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.

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Dew Process

New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.

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A Woman Scorned

Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.

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A Voice From Beyond

A decomposed body is found in a barrel, and a dilapidated address book may hold the answer, but investigators must find a way to read the pages because the passage of 30 years has turned them blank.

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Burning Ambition

When a policeman's home burns to the ground, he later arrests a man who confesses to arson, but the confession seems dubious.

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Memories

A woman identifies her husband as her attacker, but questions arise 16 years later regarding her recollections.

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Missing Pearl

One year after Maine resident Pearl A. Bruns' disappearance, forensic technology helps to find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.

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Man's Best Friend?

When 4-year-old April Renee Tucker is found dead in her backyard, her parents tell the police that neighborhood dogs attacked and killed her, but the injuries on her body don't match their account of what happened.

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Hand Delivered

San Diego police investigate the murder of a missing person whose hands turn up in a dumpster; an anonymous letter, containing details only the killer would know, offers clues to solving the case.

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Death Play

One year after her father's death, a teen's role in a high school production of ``Hamlet`` causes her to reveal the chilling truth behind her family's tragedy.

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Fire Dot Com

A mother puts her hope in the internet and an independent investigation to clear her name after authorities charge her with murdering her 17-month-old son in a fire considered to be intentionally set.

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Mistaken for Dead

When a man dies unexpectedly in the office of a noted California doctor, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation, but discoveries of false identities and insurance fraud raise questions about the doctor's role.

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Frozen Evidence

A forensic scientist uses his skills to preserve a footprint left in snow to help authorities nab two men suspected of robbing an Ontario couple and shooting the husband in the head.

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Soft Touch

Fingerprints taken from a piece of cloth help solve the rape and murder of a 22-year-old woman in Henrico County, Va.

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Church Disappearance

The FBI profiles a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old girl during an evening church service; a witness leads authorities to the likely killer, but then becomes a victim herself.

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Photo Finish

Photographs found in a dumpster lead to the killer of Los Angeles model Linda Sobek; the man claims he did not intentionally kill her despite evidence to the contrary.

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Whodunit

A murder mystery theater performance in Easton, Md., turns into a real-life mystery when a body is found after the performance ends.

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Horse Play

When a woman dies in a horseback riding accident, police uncover a web of lies in her husband's background after his suspicious behavior prompts a closer look.

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Treads and Threads

A serial killer in Tampa, Fla., taunts police by strangling prostitutes and leaving their bodies in plain sight, but tire marks and fibers lead to the culprit.

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Killer's Cattle Log

Missouri police are thrust into a bizarre web of homeless drifters and cattle auctions when they are called to retrieve a dead body.

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Material Evidence

A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex killer; there are few clues to the killer's identity, but authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.

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Killigraphy

Police charge Alan ''The Zenith Man'' Ridley with murdering his wife, Virginia, but following an autopsy, medical detectives believe he may not have killed his wife after all.

Forensic Files

Nursery Crimes

With children dying at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, authorities narrow down their probe to one nurse, but the murder weapon remains elusive.

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Lasting Impression

When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity, but days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder.

Forensic Files

Foundation of Lies

When a doctor's wife disappears, investigators use concrete from the doctor's yard and the recollections of a child to determine what happened.

Forensic Files

Unholy Vows

Romanian archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, living in the U.S., is accused of being a Nazi war criminal, and forensic experts find evidence on an incriminating, 40-year-old postcard.

Forensic Files

Broken Promises

Investigators look into the shooting death of Russ Stager, a popular gym teacher, and discover that his death was not an accident; a message the victim recorded before his death reveals a story of greed.

Forensic Files

Time Will Tell

A money launderer is found dead in the ocean and the only obvious clues to his identity are a Rolex watch and a tattoo; the anchor with which he is weighed down proves most helpful in solving the crime.

Forensic Files

Second Shot at Love

The apparent suicide of Dr. Darryl Sutorius, a respected heart surgeon, is questioned when an investigation reveals his new wife's violent history.

Forensic Files

Journey to Justice

The 1992 hit-and-run death of 6-year-old Nicole Rae Walker leads to a groundbreaking trial as experts submit a video reconstruction of the incident, implicating a drunk driver and demonstrating the viability of video testimony.

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Video Diary

Specialists including a NASA vendor help police reconstruct a damaged surveillance video to catch the murderer of convenience store employee Wanda Mason in Lansing, Mich.

Forensic Files

Deadly Knowledge

When a young woman goes missing, the police investigation reveals that she led a double life -- student by day, call girl by night -- but when her body is discovered, even more strange truths are uncovered.

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Missing in Time

A tiny clue inside a suspect's watchband and a popular television show help solve the case of a woman's disappearance.

Forensic Files

Missing Pearl

One year after Maine resident Pearl A. Bruns' disappearance, forensic technology helps to find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.

Forensic Files

Man's Best Friend?

When 4-year-old April Renee Tucker is found dead in her backyard, her parents tell the police that neighborhood dogs attacked and killed her, but the injuries on her body don't match their account of what happened.

Forensic Files

Hand Delivered

San Diego police investigate the murder of a missing person whose hands turn up in a dumpster; an anonymous letter, containing details only the killer would know, offers clues to solving the case.

Forensic Files

Death Play

One year after her father's death, a teen's role in a high school production of ``Hamlet`` causes her to reveal the chilling truth behind her family's tragedy.

Forensic Files

Fire Dot Com

A mother puts her hope in the internet and an independent investigation to clear her name after authorities charge her with murdering her 17-month-old son in a fire considered to be intentionally set.

Forensic Files

Mistaken for Dead

When a man dies unexpectedly in the office of a noted California doctor, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation, but discoveries of false identities and insurance fraud raise questions about the doctor's role.

Forensic Files

Frozen Evidence

A forensic scientist uses his skills to preserve a footprint left in snow to help authorities nab two men suspected of robbing an Ontario couple and shooting the husband in the head.

Forensic Files

Soft Touch

Fingerprints taken from a piece of cloth help solve the rape and murder of a 22-year-old woman in Henrico County, Va.

Forensic Files

Church Disappearance

The FBI profiles a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old girl during an evening church service; a witness leads authorities to the likely killer, but then becomes a victim herself.

Forensic Files

Photo Finish

Photographs found in a dumpster lead to the killer of Los Angeles model Linda Sobek; the man claims he did not intentionally kill her despite evidence to the contrary.

Forensic Files

Whodunit

A murder mystery theater performance in Easton, Md., turns into a real-life mystery when a body is found after the performance ends.

Forensic Files

Horse Play

When a woman dies in a horseback riding accident, police uncover a web of lies in her husband's background after his suspicious behavior prompts a closer look.

Forensic Files

Treads and Threads

A serial killer in Tampa, Fla., taunts police by strangling prostitutes and leaving their bodies in plain sight, but tire marks and fibers lead to the culprit.

Forensic Files

Killer's Cattle Log

Missouri police are thrust into a bizarre web of homeless drifters and cattle auctions when they are called to retrieve a dead body.

Forensic Files

Skin of Her Teeth

A killer wants to outwit the police and keep the identity of his victim secret so he removes the teeth; however, lab tests on the skull reveal not just the horrific nature of the murder, but the identity of the victim too.

Forensic Files

Deadly Valentine

On Valentine's Day, an obstetrician finds his wife dead and calls 911; police discover inconsistencies between the blood spatter evidence and his version of events.

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Picture This

Weed analysis and photogrammetry are used to help solve the 1995 murder of a California teenager is found dead after disappearing from her home.

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Skin of Her Teeth

A killer wants to outwit the police and keep the identity of his victim secret so he removes the teeth; however, lab tests on the skull reveal not just the horrific nature of the murder, but the identity of the victim too.

Forensic Files

Line of Fire

When a fundamentalist group is accused of robbing banks, authorities know they are dealing with experienced criminals and overwhelming evidence, but the defense is very well-funded.

Forensic Files

Bad Blood

When a young doctor is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting two of his female patients, DNA tests show him to be innocent, but the women persist with their claims; seven years later, a private investigation leads to a surprising discovery.

Forensic Files

Pure Evil

The search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas shows a behavioral study on how most serial killers also have a history of abusing animals.

Forensic Files

Root of All Evil

When a farmer's wife disappears, the tests of a plant pathologist and a dendrochronologist lead to a surprising revelation.

Forensic Files

Where the Blood Drops

A son who is convinced of his mother's innocence in the death of his father enrolls in law school to try and clear her name.

Forensic Files

Sibling Rivalry

The pornography empire cultivated by brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell crumbles when one turns up dead and his brother confesses to shooting him; investigators question whether the shooting was premeditated.

Forensic Files

Pastoral Care

When prison guard Donna Payant's body is discovered at a landfill, a medical examiner uses a ``signature`` clue to link her death to a murder the same examiner investigated 10 years earlier.

Forensic Files

Bagging a Killer

When a 9-year-old girl vanishes on her way to school, the entire community helps with the search; detectives believe her mother may be involved, and a hidden fingerprint seals the case.

Forensic Files

Double Trouble

The investigation of a murder case in New Jersey is stalled until a similar attack occurs on a state trooper in Maine.

Forensic Files

Cats, Flies and Snapshots

A young woman goes missing without leaving many clues, but the advanced technology on offer makes it possible for cat hairs and insects to help build an image of the abductor.

Forensic Files

Naked Justice

Blood spatter analysis and an investigation lead police to the truth when a pregnant woman is found dead in her home.

Forensic Files

Line of Fire

When a fundamentalist group is accused of robbing banks, authorities know they are dealing with experienced criminals and overwhelming evidence, but the defense is very well-funded.

Forensic Files

Bad Blood

When a young doctor is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting two of his female patients, DNA tests show him to be innocent, but the women persist with their claims; seven years later, a private investigation leads to a surprising discovery.

Forensic Files

Pure Evil

The search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas shows a behavioral study on how most serial killers also have a history of abusing animals.

Forensic Files

Root of All Evil

When a farmer's wife disappears, the tests of a plant pathologist and a dendrochronologist lead to a surprising revelation.

Forensic Files

Where the Blood Drops

A son who is convinced of his mother's innocence in the death of his father enrolls in law school to try and clear her name.

Forensic Files

Sibling Rivalry

The pornography empire cultivated by brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell crumbles when one turns up dead and his brother confesses to shooting him; investigators question whether the shooting was premeditated.

Forensic Files

Pastoral Care

When prison guard Donna Payant's body is discovered at a landfill, a medical examiner uses a ``signature`` clue to link her death to a murder the same examiner investigated 10 years earlier.

Forensic Files

Bagging a Killer

When a 9-year-old girl vanishes on her way to school, the entire community helps with the search; detectives believe her mother may be involved, and a hidden fingerprint seals the case.

Forensic Files

Double Trouble

The investigation of a murder case in New Jersey is stalled until a similar attack occurs on a state trooper in Maine.

Forensic Files

Cats, Flies and Snapshots

A young woman goes missing without leaving many clues, but the advanced technology on offer makes it possible for cat hairs and insects to help build an image of the abductor.

Forensic Files

Naked Justice

Blood spatter analysis and an investigation lead police to the truth when a pregnant woman is found dead in her home.

Forensic Files

Treading Not So Lightly

A mother is determined to discover what happened when her daughter is injured in a hit-and-run accident.

Forensic Files

Shopping Spree

Forensic science and deductive reasoning determine what happened to a mother and daughter while they were on a shopping spree.

Forensic Files

The Cheater

Exploring how an American hit single from 1966 -- ``The Cheater`` by Bob Kuban and the In-Men -- foreshadowed the demise of the group's lead singer, Walter Scott.

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Forever Hold Your Peace

Eight years after a man confessed to the murder of a young woman, another man claims that he committed the crime, and investigators must use forensic evidence to determine the true killer.

Forensic Files

Reel Danger

Although a group of teenage thugs are suspected of attacking two boys on a fishing trip, there is no solid evidence until a murky fishing hole provides some answers.

Forensic Files

Who's Your Daddy

When young prostitute's body turns up in an Ohio waterway, authorities have one tiny clue which could point to her killer, but face huge challenges due to her policemen clients and DNA evidence being washed away.

Forensic Files

The Alibi

In a small South Carolina town in 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, a popular high school student, is raped, murdered and dumped in a deserted field; with few leads, authorities test the DNA of several friends, and one match shocks everyone.

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Purr-fect Match

In a groundbreaking case using animal DNA, investigators use forensic testing on a cat to help them solve the case of a woman who vanished from her home on Prince Edward Island.

Forensic Files

Bio-Attack

A look into the 1984 Oregon food poisonings, where detectives track down the outbreak to a cult which aims to use germ warfare to take down the government.

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A Shot in the Dark

A woman is found dead from a gunshot wound and police suspect her husband, however, forensic teams prove what really happened, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

Forensic Files

Without a Prayer

After American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair disappears, the discovery of a mutilated body helps police catch the culprit.

Forensic Files

A Clutch of Witnesses

Two people witness a truck driving over an unconscious man and flee into a nearby bar, but when the police turn up, the truck, the man and the witnesses are gone.

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Scout's Honor

Insect evidence helps to solve the mystery of a woman found dead near a river bank.

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A Touching Recollection

A girl who is abducted and then released soon afterwards uses her knowledge of forensics to lead police to the kidnapper.

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A Leg to Stand On

A trash collector finds a severed human leg in a trash bin but police cannot use conventional methods of victim identification; investigators turn to toxicology and DNA tests to find the murder-mutilator.

Forensic Files

Partners in Crime

A coroner finds telltale clues on the badly burned body of a murder victim, sending police in pursuit of a couple of killers.

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Within a Hair

A man is arrested and convicted for a series of sexual assaults in Indiana; years later, forensic developments reveal new facts about the case.

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Oily in the Morning

When police recover the submerged car of a missing man, they find no body; the investigation that follows uncovers a deadly obsession and the motive for murder.

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Gold Rush

Emergency dispatch recieved a call from a man who said his girlfriend shot and killed herself. But the wound was not self-inflicted.

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Treading Not So Lightly

A mother is determined to discover what happened when her daughter is injured in a hit-and-run accident.

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Shopping Spree

Forensic science and deductive reasoning determine what happened to a mother and daughter while they were on a shopping spree.

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The Cheater

Exploring how an American hit single from 1966 -- ``The Cheater`` by Bob Kuban and the In-Men -- foreshadowed the demise of the group's lead singer, Walter Scott.

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Forever Hold Your Peace

Eight years after a man confessed to the murder of a young woman, another man claims that he committed the crime, and investigators must use forensic evidence to determine the true killer.

Forensic Files

Reel Danger

Although a group of teenage thugs are suspected of attacking two boys on a fishing trip, there is no solid evidence until a murky fishing hole provides some answers.

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Who's Your Daddy

When young prostitute's body turns up in an Ohio waterway, authorities have one tiny clue which could point to her killer, but face huge challenges due to her policemen clients and DNA evidence being washed away.

Forensic Files

The Alibi

In a small South Carolina town in 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, a popular high school student, is raped, murdered and dumped in a deserted field; with few leads, authorities test the DNA of several friends, and one match shocks everyone.

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Purr-fect Match

In a groundbreaking case using animal DNA, investigators use forensic testing on a cat to help them solve the case of a woman who vanished from her home on Prince Edward Island.

Forensic Files

Bio-Attack

A look into the 1984 Oregon food poisonings, where detectives track down the outbreak to a cult which aims to use germ warfare to take down the government.

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A Shot in the Dark

A woman is found dead from a gunshot wound and police suspect her husband, however, forensic teams prove what really happened, and the truth is stranger than fiction.

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Without a Prayer

After American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair disappears, the discovery of a mutilated body helps police catch the culprit.

Forensic Files

A Clutch of Witnesses

Two people witness a truck driving over an unconscious man and flee into a nearby bar, but when the police turn up, the truck, the man and the witnesses are gone.

Forensic Files

Chief Evidence

The murder of a young Seattle couple puzzles investigators until the victims' dog, Chief, leads police to the killer.

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A Bitter Pill to Swallow

A handsome young doctor's fiancée experiences severe illness after revealing that she is pregnant, and launches her own investigation to determine if the doctor is somehow responsible.

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Sip of Sins

A seemingly model citizen turns out to be a serial killer.

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Telltale Tracks

An abandoned, still-running car leads investigators to a body with unusual marks and a DNA trail that lead to the killer.

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Ghost in the Machine

Police find fragments of deleted computer files leading them to suspect a woman's suicide is really murder.

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Frozen in Time

A suspicious neighbor gives police a break in a cold case.

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Cold Storage

A family suspects their teenage daughter's new friends were involved in her disappearance.

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The Metal Business

When a 62-year-old man opens a car restoration business and becomes seriously ill, his doctors cannot find the cause, but forensics can; identification of a highly toxic metal in the victim's blood leads to his poisoner.

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Dressed to Kill

When a 6-year-old disappears, her father becomes the prime suspect; he fails a polygraph test and even confesses, but 10 years later, the investigation gets turned on its head.

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Palm Print Conviction

Investigators build a makeshift tent around a woman's body and use superglue fumes to lift the killer's palm print from the victim's skin.

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A Vow of Silence

The disappearance of a mail-order bride proves suspicious when detectives learn that two of the Texas husband's previous wives had died in mysterious circumstances.

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Elephant Tracks

A jeweler's search through old sales records helps police find likely suspects in the murder of elderly couple Edward Kowalzck and Gertrude Thompson.

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A Bag of Evidence

A garbage bag leads police to a child's killer.

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Tooth or Consequences

An investigation into the disappearance of a young woman uncovers a tooth that helps police solve a crime without a body.

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The Sniffing Revenge

The sensitive nose of a forensic examiner sniffs out murder.

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Sleight of Hand

Discovering that an assault suspect is left-handed is crucial to a police investigation dating back 16 years.

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Scratching the Surface

Forensic scientists try to find a way to ``lift`` the serial number from a shotgun that's their only clue in a case.

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Fire Proof

Investigating the worst arson spree in U.S. history -- a rash of more than 75 fires near Seattle.

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X Marks the Spot

Computers aid the police and FBI in solving a string of crimes.

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All Charged Up

Using an anonymous letter and geographical profiling, investigators close in on a serial rapist, and a cleverly obtained DNA sample confirms their suspicions.

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Breaking the Mold

When a young boy has serious respiratory problems and his father shows signs of early Alzheimer's disease, a chance encounter with a stranger kicks off an investigation into the cause.

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House Call

Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., use cell phone mapping, wiretapping and a host of forensic evidence to find a surgeon's killer.

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Plastic Fire

A woman wins her release after being imprisoned for allegedly killing her mother in a car fire.

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Last Will

Authorities are able to apprehend a kidnapper because he allowed his victim to write a will on a telltale pad of paper.

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Dessert Served Cold

Experts debate whether an apparent heart attack victim died from natural causes or alleged poisoning by his girlfriend.

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The Music Case

When a 12-year-old was found dead in her home, police were left clueless until a string of burglaries months later. A trail of stolen goods may help solve a murder.

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Paintball

When 15 year-old Marlene Miller was murdered, it would take 24 years and several retrials before forensic scientists discovered the evidence to bring her killer to justice.

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Sign Here

Detectives use a forged signature to find a woman's abductor.

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Four on the Floor

Investigators piece together evidence found at the scene of a Native American woman's murder; the tire tracks and shoe impressions could lead them to the killer.

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Writer's Block

Experts seek answers to a young businesswoman's death just before she was to testify in a criminal trial.

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Scout's Honor

Insect evidence helps to solve the mystery of a woman found dead near a river bank.

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A Touching Recollection

A girl who is abducted and then released soon afterwards uses her knowledge of forensics to lead police to the kidnapper.

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A Leg to Stand On

A trash collector finds a severed human leg in a trash bin but police cannot use conventional methods of victim identification; investigators turn to toxicology and DNA tests to find the murder-mutilator.

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Partners in Crime

A coroner finds telltale clues on the badly burned body of a murder victim, sending police in pursuit of a couple of killers.

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Within a Hair

A man is arrested and convicted for a series of sexual assaults in Indiana; years later, forensic developments reveal new facts about the case.

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Chief Evidence

The murder of a young Seattle couple puzzles investigators until the victims' dog, Chief, leads police to the killer.

Forensic Files

A Bitter Pill to Swallow

A handsome young doctor's fiancée experiences severe illness after revealing that she is pregnant, and launches her own investigation to determine if the doctor is somehow responsible.

Forensic Files

Sip of Sins

A seemingly model citizen turns out to be a serial killer.

Forensic Files

Telltale Tracks

An abandoned, still-running car leads investigators to a body with unusual marks and a DNA trail that lead to the killer.

Forensic Files

Ghost in the Machine

Police find fragments of deleted computer files leading them to suspect a woman's suicide is really murder.

Forensic Files

Frozen in Time

A suspicious neighbor gives police a break in a cold case.

Forensic Files

Cold Storage

A family suspects their teenage daughter's new friends were involved in her disappearance.

Forensic Files

Shadow of a Doubt

A woman is killed two days before she was scheduled to testify against a man accused of assaulting her and the prime suspect has an alibi.

Forensic Files

Tourist Trap

A bite mark is all the evidence needed to convict a suspect who was robbing tourists in Florida.

Forensic Files

Once Bitten

Technology able to analyze human bite-marks yields information on a woman's death.

Forensic Files

All Wet

A death in Pennsylvania is strikingly similar to one in North Carolina.

Forensic Files

Shot of Vengeance

When a nurse starts experiencing a variety of flu-like symptoms, she discovers that she is HIV-positive; she learns that her infection was not accidental.

Forensic Files

Dinner and a Movie

time of death becomes pivotal when a pregnant woman is found murdered in her air-conditioned bedroom.

Forensic Files

A Wrong Foot

An obscure print found at a crime scene.

Forensic Files

Order Up

A diner in a small town, an endocrinologist and a forensic botanist help destroy a prime suspect's alibi.

Forensic Files

When the Dust Settled

Neighbors do not hear the gunshots when a union official is killed in his home.

Forensic Files

A Welcome Intrusion

A man tells police he shot an intruder who murdered his wife; forensic evidence leads police to re-examine the man's motives.

Forensic Files

Within Arm's Reach

A police officer claims his estranged wife's shooting death was a suicide, but investigators think it was a murder.

Forensic Files

Private Thoughts

When fire fighters find a family dead inside their home, it appears to be a murder-suicide; clues at the scene lead investigators to believe otherwise.

Forensic Files

Brotherhoods

A couple's murder leads investigators into the world of white supremacists and a string of hate crimes.

Forensic Files

Hair of the Dog

A rare gun and a victim's beloved dog help investigators trying to solve a multi-year long murder case where most of the witnesses were admitted drug users.

Forensic Files

Breaking News

A search in Virginia's DNA databank reveals the identity of a news producer's murderer.

Forensic Files

All the World's a Stage

A homicide detective claims his wife accidentally shot herself in the head, but the evidence indicates otherwise.

Forensic Files

The Big Chill

Officials probe the death of a woman investigating the possible side effects of the drug she was prescribed for bipolar disorder.

Forensic Files

Bound for Jail

A chip of stainless steel brings a killer to justice 20 years after a woman's body is found in a ravine.

Forensic Files

Sphere of Influence

An 11-year-old girl is sexually assaulted and shot twice at close range.

Forensic Files

Nailed

A woman is killed weeks before testifying against the man who sexually assaulted her.

Forensic Files

Sign of the Zodiac

New York police hunt the Zodiac killer after a series of deadly attacks.

Forensic Files

Letter Perfect

When a healthy young man dies mysteriously in his sleep, toxicology tests reveal that it may have been foul play. Could a `suicide note' hold the key to solving the case.

Forensic Files

True Lies

A child's memory, a diary and a forensic psychologist help investigators solve a young woman's murder.

Forensic Files

Bed of Deceit

Investigators weigh several theories while probing the death of a retired police officer, including a botched robbery and suicide.

Forensic Files

Smoke in Your Eyes

The bodies of two young women are found in the ashes of an apartment fire.

Forensic Files

Flower Power

Two different men report the murder of a single mother and when the case's other anomalies stall the police, a candy wrapper and seeds help expose the killer.

Forensic Files

Past Lives

After a Connecticut man's body is found in a burning rental car on a Mexican highway, an insurance company suspects a scam.

Forensic Files

Over and Out

When a pipe bomb rips through a rural home, killing a young man and seriously injuring his mother, detectives hope that the remnants of a mailing label will lead them to a killer.

Forensic Files

A Clean Getaway

An anonymous caller reports the rape and murder of a dry cleaner employee; two eyewitnesses tell two similar but not identical stories.

Forensic Files

Prints Among Thieves

Police blame a botched robbery when an eccentric elderly millionaire is found dead, but the motive could be wrong.

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The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.

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The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.

Forensic Files

The Metal Business

When a 62-year-old man opens a car restoration business and becomes seriously ill, his doctors cannot find the cause, but forensics can; identification of a highly toxic metal in the victim's blood leads to his poisoner.

Forensic Files

Dressed to Kill

When a 6-year-old disappears, her father becomes the prime suspect; he fails a polygraph test and even confesses, but 10 years later, the investigation gets turned on its head.

Forensic Files

Palm Print Conviction

Investigators build a makeshift tent around a woman's body and use superglue fumes to lift the killer's palm print from the victim's skin.

Forensic Files

A Vow of Silence

The disappearance of a mail-order bride proves suspicious when detectives learn that two of the Texas husband's previous wives had died in mysterious circumstances.

Forensic Files

Elephant Tracks

A jeweler's search through old sales records helps police find likely suspects in the murder of elderly couple Edward Kowalzck and Gertrude Thompson.

Forensic Files

A Bag of Evidence

A garbage bag leads police to a child's killer.

Forensic Files

Tooth or Consequences

An investigation into the disappearance of a young woman uncovers a tooth that helps police solve a crime without a body.

Forensic Files

The Sniffing Revenge

The sensitive nose of a forensic examiner sniffs out murder.

Forensic Files

Sleight of Hand

Discovering that an assault suspect is left-handed is crucial to a police investigation dating back 16 years.

Forensic Files

Scratching the Surface

Forensic scientists try to find a way to ``lift`` the serial number from a shotgun that's their only clue in a case.

Forensic Files

Fire Proof

Investigating the worst arson spree in U.S. history -- a rash of more than 75 fires near Seattle.

Forensic Files

X Marks the Spot

Computers aid the police and FBI in solving a string of crimes.

Forensic Files

Death by a Salesman

A quiet residential community, shattered by the murder of a neighbor. See how modern techniques helped investigators catch the culprit in less than 12 hours.

Forensic Files

Web of Seduction

A man is found dead in his Michigan auto-salvage shop.

Forensic Files

Grounds for Indictment

A man is murdered in a drive-by shooting. When a mobile phone trace incriminates a killer, it's up to a forensic geologist to find evidence that he was at the scene.

Forensic Files

Dueling Confessions

When a teenage girl is found dead, her boyfriend confesses to her murder. However, in a strange twist, so does another man; police must determine which is the killer.

Forensic Files

Traces of Truth

A high school gym teacher gives his friend a ride home but never returns; his wife and friend receive letters saying he started a new life, but they suspect foul play despite no body being discovered.

Forensic Files

Honor Thy Father

A 16-year-old girl is killed in her own home by her mother and father. Her parents said they acted in self-defense, but the forensic evidence indicates otherwise.

Forensic Files

Hack Attack

Investigators determine if a computer crash which almost ruined a manufacturing company was accidental or deliberate sabotage.

Forensic Files

Deadly Curve

Car with three Secret Service agents collides with local deputy's car; investigation launched into who was responsible for the deadly car accident finds two very different conclusions.

Forensic Files

Visibility Zero

The derailment of the Sunset Limited was the deadliest train crash in U.S. history killing 47 passengers and crew with several more injured.

Forensic Files

Flashover

Arson investigators attempt to determine the cause of the 1987 fire at the Kings Cross Underground Station in London.

Forensic Files

Road Rage

A discarded sleeping bag, containing bloody sneakers and a purse, leads police to the body of a young woman; a mark found on the victim's body enables police to track the killer.

Forensic Files

Hunter or Hunted?

A woman's apparent accidental death begins to look fishy after police uncover a letter written by the victim days before her untimely death.

Forensic Files

In Harm's Way

An Alaskan trooper finds a woman's body beside a frozen road, but evidence is scant even after a suspected murder weapon is found.

Forensic Files

No Corpus Delicti

Police link a clump of hair discovered in an isolated area with a woman who disappeared 20 years ago.

Forensic Files

News at 11

A news anchor is shot to death outside her home in an apparent crime of passion by a fan; a police dog tracks the scent of the killer back to the crime scene.

Forensic Files

Burning Desire

A fire, caused by an unattended cigarette, kills the estranged wife of a police officer; forensic scientists discover that the cause is far more complicated.

Forensic Files

Cloak of Deceit

A trio of men, responsible for several bank robberies, leaves no evidence behind; forensic scientists help catch them by looking at the criminals' posture and clothing.

Forensic Files

Bad Medicine

When a woman's bone marrow test reveals arsenic poisoning, investigators try to determine if it is due to groundwater contamination or something more sinister.

Forensic Files

Stick 'em Up

A missing bank president's body is found floating in a lake; the duct tape used in binding him to a chair helps solve the crime.

Forensic Files

Head Games

A husband was shot and killed, forensic psychiatry helped the wife to remember the details for what happened.

Forensic Files

Making the Collar

The body of a 16-year-old girl is discovered nine months after her disappearance; forensic scientists find clues that paint a virtual portrait of her killer.

Forensic Files

Financial Downfall

A young woman falls to her death in what appears to be a tragic accident; a forensic exam of photos taken at the scene tells a different story.

Forensic Files

A Daughter's Journey

Haunted by her mother's long-ago disappearance, a woman undertakes an investigation of her own and stumbles upon a dark family secret.

Forensic Files

Over a Barrel

The robbery and brutal murder of an elderly couple goes unsolved for 10 years; a forensic scientist makes history when he solves the crime.

Forensic Files

Pinned by the Evidence

A man is charged with the murder of a wrestling champion; six years later, a forensic animator testifies on his behalf.

Forensic Files

Cries Unheard

A 19-year-old girl is found dead in her car in what appears to be a suicide; police discover that the victim was involved in a love quadrangle, giving several people motive to kill.

Forensic Files

Buried Treasure

Fifteen years after a man disappears, using a metal detector, police find evidence which proves what had happened.

Forensic Files

Badge of Betrayal

The body of a young California co-ed under an isolated interstate ramp sets off an investigation; San Diego police have no idea who would want her dead, but they discover a tiny, unique fiber on the victim's clothing.

Forensic Files

Unholy Alliance

Woman disappears from grocery store parking lot in Boulder, Colo.; investigators find extraordinary clues in a pair of bloody gloves, unique tire tracks, and ordinary grass and pine needles.

Forensic Files

Signed, Sealed & Delivered

A car carrying three men pulls up alongside another on an Alaskan highway and fires shots, leaving a passenger dead; one of the passengers in the killer's car agrees to testify against his friends; the resulting trials don't end the carnage.

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Forensic Files II

Toxic Environment

When a 23-year-old Marine dies in his bedroom, doctors initially believe a heart attack is to blame; when arsenic is found in his organs, his wife is charged with murder; a sharp attorney and toxicological testing uncover the truth.

Forensic Files II

Lost Connection

When an 18-year-old girl is abducted while talking on a pay phone, forensic evidence found on her clothing points police in the direction of a suspect who shockingly confesses that he didn't act alone.

Forensic Files II

In Deep

In the story of a Los Angeles kidnapping, ransom and murder ring, retired scientists use sonar equipment to locate victims at the bottom of a reservoir.

Forensic Files II

The Telltale Marks

Patients at the VA Hospital in Clarksburg, W.Va., keep dying after experiencing shockingly low blood sugar levels; an investigation into their deaths reveals an overnight nurse was injecting patients with lethal doses of insulin.

Forensic Files II

Tell No Tales

A 70-year-old retired veteran is found dead on his boat after a bad sea storm; detectives discover he was killed during an attempted robbery after winning $400 in keno.

Forensic Files II

The Obsession

The murder of teacher's aide leaves a hole in the heart of her small community; as rumors spread about suspects, the actual perpetrator slips further away.

Forensic Files II

The Ink Beads

Father and teacher are found hanging naked from a tree with the letters F-E-D on his chest; with barely any evidence to work with, investigators turn to these letters for answers.

Forensic Files II

The Rise

A single mom vanishes without a trace; foul play is confirmed after a truck toolbox opens with her body inside; homicide detectives investigate men she matched on dating sites, men from work, and a lover with a violent past.

Forensic Files

All Charged Up

Using an anonymous letter and geographical profiling, investigators close in on a serial rapist, and a cleverly obtained DNA sample confirms their suspicions.

Forensic Files

Breaking the Mold

When a young boy has serious respiratory problems and his father shows signs of early Alzheimer's disease, a chance encounter with a stranger kicks off an investigation into the cause.

Forensic Files

House Call

Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., use cell phone mapping, wiretapping and a host of forensic evidence to find a surgeon's killer.

Forensic Files

Plastic Fire

A woman wins her release after being imprisoned for allegedly killing her mother in a car fire.

Forensic Files

Deadly Matrimony

Police become suspicious of a man who reported his wife missing 15 years after doing the same thing with his first wife.

Forensic Files

Muddy Waters

While investigating the case of a Colorado hunter shot three times and killed, police suspect two murder weapons, and two killers, but forensic evidence points them closer to home.

Forensic Files

Point of Origin

A serial arsonist burns thousands of California homes and businesses.

Forensic Files

Seeds for Doubt

A small community in upstate New York is devastated when a car accident claims the life of a well-respected nurse.

Forensic Files

Saving Face

A woman disappears without a trace, and police learn two other women vanished under similar circumstances.

Forensic Files

Northern Exposure

Hikers near Anchorage, Alaska discover a body wrapped in sheets edged in orange stitching; they discover threads of evidence clinging to the sheet.

Forensic Files

Silk Stalkings

The son of a murder victim contacts the police when a flight attendant is brutally murdered in a remarkably similar way.

Forensic Files

Fishing for the Truth

A two-man shrimp boat sinks when a fast-moving, violent storm struck the Louisiana coast; a deckhand is considered a hero for trying to save the drowned captain, until his body is found.

Forensic Files

For Love or Money

A real estate tycoon must have had a premonition about foul play, as he wrote it in his will.

Forensic Files

South of the Border

The cold-blooded murder of an American tourist in a Mexican resort causes law enforcement to focus on both sides of the border.

Forensic Files

The Stake-Out

When a prominent banker's wife is kidnapped, the trail leads police on a wild goose chase; they track down disgruntled bank customers and examine computer fonts.

Forensic Files

Walking Terror

A man has no recollection of events after stabbing his wife and holding her head underwater in a swimming pool.

Forensic Files

Trial by Fire

A fire investigator determines if a kerosene heater is the cause of a fire that killed one person or if it was murder.

Forensic Files

Marked for Life

California police in 1957 search for a murderer, but the case goes cold; 50 years after a crime is committed, advances in computer technology determine the killer.

Forensic Files

Plastic Puzzle

Investigators piece together tiny clues at the scene of a hit-and-run accident; their findings help to track down the offending driver.

Forensic Files

Up in Smoke

Investigators determine what caused a house fire that killed an elderly couple and whether the victims' son is responsible.

Forensic Files

Soiled Plan

Detectives are suspicious after a woman is killed in a hunting accident, but it takes more than twenty years before a trace evidence analyst is able to match fibers on a soiled blanket to the killer.

Forensic Files

Headquarters

When hunters find a skull in a Texas canyon, police find bits of clothing, a woman's shoe, some small bones and a strand of hair; once they discover her identity, it was time to find the killer.

Forensic Files

One for the Road

A wife is missing in Key West; investigators wonder if they should be searching for a missing person or a killer.

Forensic Files

Army of Evidence

Suicide notes and a pistol in hand lead police to suspect that a mother of two young children appeared to have killed herself, but when investigators learned of a house fire she was in three years earlier, they reinvestigated.

Forensic Files

Shear Luck

The violent death of an Air Force officer's wife outside a Philippines air base is examined, amid accusations of a love triangle involving the murdered woman's husband; investigators use groundbreaking computer forensics to make their case.

Forensic Files

Tagging a Suspect

Pieces of plastic the size of sand hold clues to a bombing.

Forensic Files

Strong Impressions

At first glance it appears a young woman suffocated, but further investigation shows the scene was staged.

Forensic Files

Cereal Killer

A killer is careless when a home is destroyed by fire and a young boy is missing.

Forensic Files

Crash Course

A patrol officer is shocked by the amount of blood at a traffic accident and is shocked by the coroner's ruling until an anonymous phone call re-ignites the case.

Forensic Files

A Leg up on Crime

An irrigation canal murder remains unsolved until a similar murder occurs.

Forensic Files

Tight-Fitting Genes

The light of day and DNA picture painted by molecular biologist reveals new clues about a nighttime traffic accident.

Forensic Files

Deadly Valentine

On Valentine's Day, an obstetrician finds his wife dead and calls 911; police discover inconsistencies between the blood spatter evidence and his version of events.

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Forensic Files

Last Will

Authorities are able to apprehend a kidnapper because he allowed his victim to write a will on a telltale pad of paper.

Forensic Files

Dessert Served Cold

Experts debate whether an apparent heart attack victim died from natural causes or alleged poisoning by his girlfriend.

Forensic Files

The Music Case

When a 12-year-old was found dead in her home, police were left clueless until a string of burglaries months later. A trail of stolen goods may help solve a murder.

Forensic Files

Paintball

When 15 year-old Marlene Miller was murdered, it would take 24 years and several retrials before forensic scientists discovered the evidence to bring her killer to justice.

Forensic Files

Sign Here

Detectives use a forged signature to find a woman's abductor.

Forensic Files

Shadow of a Doubt

A woman is killed two days before she was scheduled to testify against a man accused of assaulting her and the prime suspect has an alibi.

Forensic Files

Tourist Trap

A bite mark is all the evidence needed to convict a suspect who was robbing tourists in Florida.

Forensic Files

Once Bitten

Technology able to analyze human bite-marks yields information on a woman's death.

Forensic Files

All Wet

A death in Pennsylvania is strikingly similar to one in North Carolina.

Forensic Files

Shot of Vengeance

When a nurse starts experiencing a variety of flu-like symptoms, she discovers that she is HIV-positive; she learns that her infection was not accidental.

Forensic Files

Dinner and a Movie

time of death becomes pivotal when a pregnant woman is found murdered in her air-conditioned bedroom.

Forensic Files

A Wrong Foot

An obscure print found at a crime scene.

Forensic Files

Order Up

A diner in a small town, an endocrinologist and a forensic botanist help destroy a prime suspect's alibi.

Forensic Files

When the Dust Settled

Neighbors do not hear the gunshots when a union official is killed in his home.

Forensic Files

A Welcome Intrusion

A man tells police he shot an intruder who murdered his wife; forensic evidence leads police to re-examine the man's motives.

Forensic Files

Within Arm's Reach

A police officer claims his estranged wife's shooting death was a suicide, but investigators think it was a murder.

Forensic Files

Picture This

Weed analysis and photogrammetry are used to help solve the 1995 murder of a California teenager is found dead after disappearing from her home.

Forensic Files

Oily in the Morning

When police recover the submerged car of a missing man, they find no body; the investigation that follows uncovers a deadly obsession and the motive for murder.

Forensic Files

Gold Rush

Emergency dispatch recieved a call from a man who said his girlfriend shot and killed herself. But the wound was not self-inflicted.

Forensic Files

Four on the Floor

Investigators piece together evidence found at the scene of a Native American woman's murder; the tire tracks and shoe impressions could lead them to the killer.

Forensic Files

Writer's Block

Experts seek answers to a young businesswoman's death just before she was to testify in a criminal trial.

Forensic Files

A Clean Getaway

An anonymous caller reports the rape and murder of a dry cleaner employee; two eyewitnesses tell two similar but not identical stories.

Forensic Files

Prints Among Thieves

Police blame a botched robbery when an eccentric elderly millionaire is found dead, but the motive could be wrong.

Forensic Files

Unholy Alliance

Woman disappears from grocery store parking lot in Boulder, Colo.; investigators find extraordinary clues in a pair of bloody gloves, unique tire tracks, and ordinary grass and pine needles.

Forensic Files

Signed, Sealed & Delivered

A car carrying three men pulls up alongside another on an Alaskan highway and fires shots, leaving a passenger dead; one of the passengers in the killer's car agrees to testify against his friends; the resulting trials don't end the carnage.

Forensic Files

Cop Out

Police suspect a gay college student's slaying is a hate crime until forensic evidence points the case in another direction.

Forensic Files

Summer Obsession

In a wealthy area of Philadelphia, police are called to the scene of what seems like a regular accidental drowning; the investigation begins to focus on one person who has many reasons to want the victim dead.

Forensic Files

Elemental Clue

Two women are murdered in the same town and police fear a serial killer is on the loose, further investigation finds that they were both close to the same man.

Forensic Files

Moss, Not Grass

A young woman is found dead on a golf course in the Bahamas; the grass on that course is so distinctive that it had evidentiary value; the evidence leads police to two suspects; each blamed the other, and they have to find out who the killer is.

Forensic Files

Material Witness

A teenager goes missing after an evening of horseback riding; her body is found a month later, three miles from her home; the killer unknowingly leaves a trace of evidence behind, tiny but unmistakable clues that pointed to him and him alone.

Forensic Files

Garden of Evil

When a popular disc jockey is found murdered in a community garden, police swing into action; a sniffer dog and a blood spatter expert led police to the killer, and he'd been much closer than they realized.

Forensic Files

Sunday School Ambush

Investigators unravel a twisted tale of lust, greed and deception after a woman claims her husband was gunned down by intruders.

Forensic Files

Penchant for Poison

Three seemingly unrelated deaths proved to be serial murders; the killer had been careful, he uses poison which had no taste or odour, fortunately for investigators, it also has a unique chemical signature.

Forensic Files

Bump in the Night

A man is murdered in his sleep but no fingerprints are anywhere to be found; a shoe impression outside could lead to the killer.

Forensic Files

Sole Searching

With very little else to go on, investigators find that a show impression puts them on the right track to finding a killer in Lansing, Mich.

Forensic Files

Murder on the Menu

The owner of a restaurant is killed; investigators uncover tales of debt and deceit, but the case remains open, until one detective gets inspired by an earlier episode of ``Forensic Files,`` and looks for clues in an empty holster.

Forensic Files

Hot on the Trail

Serial arsonist on the loose leaves no evidence.

Forensic Files

High 'N' Dry

A man becomes the prime suspect in his wife's death after forensic science raises questions about her apparent suicide.

Forensic Files

To the Viktor

Investigators on both sides of the Atlantic seek links between three homicides that look like professional executions.

Forensic Files

Wired for Disaster

Who put a bomb in the home of a 29-year-old woman and killed her?

Forensic Files

Wood-Be Killer

A killer tried to destroy everything which could link them to the crime; but in doing so, they inadvertently created new forensic evidence, evidence which came to light using a technique never before used in a criminal investigation.

Forensic Files

Naughty or Nyce

After a tycoon's wife is found dead in her SUV submerged in a half-frozen creek, police begin to suspect it wasn't an accident.

Forensic Files

Going for Broke

A Russian immigrant is found dead and a strange phone call to his office is the only lead investigators have.

Forensic Files

Just Desserts

Physical evidence initially condemns a prime suspect to a double homicide, but DNA from a discarded spoon points to another.

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Forensic Files

Private Thoughts

When fire fighters find a family dead inside their home, it appears to be a murder-suicide; clues at the scene lead investigators to believe otherwise.

Forensic Files

Brotherhoods

A couple's murder leads investigators into the world of white supremacists and a string of hate crimes.

Forensic Files

Hair of the Dog

A rare gun and a victim's beloved dog help investigators trying to solve a multi-year long murder case where most of the witnesses were admitted drug users.

Forensic Files

Breaking News

A search in Virginia's DNA databank reveals the identity of a news producer's murderer.

Forensic Files

All the World's a Stage

A homicide detective claims his wife accidentally shot herself in the head, but the evidence indicates otherwise.

Forensic Files

The Big Chill

Officials probe the death of a woman investigating the possible side effects of the drug she was prescribed for bipolar disorder.

Forensic Files

Bound for Jail

A chip of stainless steel brings a killer to justice 20 years after a woman's body is found in a ravine.

Forensic Files

Sphere of Influence

An 11-year-old girl is sexually assaulted and shot twice at close range.

Forensic Files

Nailed

A woman is killed weeks before testifying against the man who sexually assaulted her.

Forensic Files

Sign of the Zodiac

New York police hunt the Zodiac killer after a series of deadly attacks.

Forensic Files

Letter Perfect

When a healthy young man dies mysteriously in his sleep, toxicology tests reveal that it may have been foul play. Could a `suicide note' hold the key to solving the case.

Forensic Files

True Lies

A child's memory, a diary and a forensic psychologist help investigators solve a young woman's murder.

Forensic Files

Bed of Deceit

Investigators weigh several theories while probing the death of a retired police officer, including a botched robbery and suicide.

Forensic Files

Smoke in Your Eyes

The bodies of two young women are found in the ashes of an apartment fire.

Forensic Files

Sunday's Wake

A young girl falls ill and dies; forensic investigators search for evidence halfway around the world to shed light on the tragic death.

Forensic Files

Shattered Dreams

Two bodies are discovered, shot to death in their car; the car windows are broken, but there's no sign of shattered glass.

Forensic Files

Dockter Visit

Key suspect has a solid alibi in the murder of a war veteran; but police get a lead by finding a new suspect with a sweet tooth.

Forensic Files

Murder She Wrote

A woman who appeared to have taken her own life told her sister that, if anything were to happen to her, there was a note in the china cabinet.

Forensic Files

Concrete Alibi

When an aspiring model turns up dead, police suspect her boyfriend. But must dig deeper for clues when he is cleared.

Forensic Files

Key Evidence

Tiny fibers and an asthma inhaler are the clues that lead officers to the killer of an off-duty policeman.