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The New Detectives
There are several things that can suggest murder; jealousy, anger, poison When everyday substances reveal hidden clues that break a homicide case, those substances become the elements of murder.
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In Northern California, a fire rages in the middle of the night. A woman's charred body is discovered in the smoldering aftermath.
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Anytime, anywhere, people disappear kidnapped from their daily routines. Predators always leave clues behind, but chasing them takes time, hampering investigators' attempts to solve these fatal abductions.
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A killer may strike in the middle of the night, and hide clues well. But the police are always there, ready and working, and they will never give up when they're on the trail of criminals who decide it's Killing Time.
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In most homicides, police rely on motive to pursue a murderer. But when the killer is a stranger the crime may go unsolved for years. It takes a full arsenal of forensic techniques to trace a lethal encounter.
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New Forensic Techniques used to Solve Old Cases: Advancement in science and technology are encouraging people to revisit the past in hopes of answering questions that have remained unanswered, and solving crimes that seemed unsolvable.
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Investigators are always on the cutting edge of new forensic techniques that can help them solve cases more accurately. An experimental brain fingerprinting technique has already won the acquittal of a police officer accused of a drug charge.
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A New York homebuyer gets more than he bargained for when a house inspection turns up a mummified corpse. For decades, the crime had gone undiscovered. The victim unmissed, and the killer unpunished.
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A millionaire is found dead, murdered for a stash of buried silver. A young woman dates violent men, only to be killed by her best friend.
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Approximately 1.8 million Americans are reported missing each year. Some are runaways who find their way home, but others simply disappear. When foul play is suspected, investigators turn to forensics to find the missing.
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Fingerprinting: The identification Division of the FBI relies on fingerprints as one of the most effective ways to identify criminals.
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Sometimes, the cause of death does not match the scene of the crime. When an untraceable poison is used to commit murder, homicide detectives turn to forensic toxicologists to follow a killer's tracks and expose a toxic death.
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Some people do get away with murder, at least for a while. Flush with their success, serial killers murder again and again. But each time they kill, they leave behind a few more clues, which ultimately lead to their undoing.
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In Columbus, Ohio, a woman is found shot in the head. The death is ruled a suicide, but something is not right and detectives refuse to let the matter rest.
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When killers are driven by jealousy and desire, their desperation is evident in both the crime and their efforts to avoid detection. But forensic science can reveal even the slightest mistake to solve crimes of passion.