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While Earl Morris was vacationing in California, he learned his wife Ruby Morris had gone missing from their home in Arizona. The results of the investigation surprised everyone...especially Earl Morris.
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The flu-like symptoms of a mother and her children proved to be something more serious: thallium poisoning.
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In a quiet village in Great Britain, a farmer came upon a chilling sight. Impaled on his fence post was a severed lamb's head along with a note which read, "You next."
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An infant was rushed to the emergency room with serious breathing problems. Within months, there were more than 30 cases. Doctors searched frantically for the cause and a cure.
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Shortly after daybreak in Vancouver, British Columbia, a fire was set in a dumpster. No one saw either the arsonist or the fire, and it burned for hours in the deserted parking lot.
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Two people in Seattle, Washington died after taking an over-the-counter pain reliever. Lab analysis of the pills showed they were tainted with a lethal concentration of cyanide.
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For more than a year, hateful letters were sent to a school teacher in Pennsylvania. DNA analysis would eventually help seal the perpetrator's fate.
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On October 15, 1985, two bomb explosions rocked Salt Lake City and resulted in two deaths. A third explosion occurred the next day. This time, the victim was injured but survived.
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After a day of fishing in a small, quiet village in Switzerland, a teenage boy did not return home as planned. The investigation revealed some important microscopic evidence in the water near where he was last seen.
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Heavy rains and snow run-off carried manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people.
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Eleven-month-old Chad Shelton was admitted to the hospital with unexplained bleeding and later died. Investigators and scientists frantically searched for a cause when others from the same house fell ill.
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In the mid-1980s, bodies of nude women were found on a remote hill of California. The police got a break when a known prostitute escaped an attacker and was able to identify him and his automobile.
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In 1987, a human skull and some bones were discovered at a boy scout camp near Farmington, Missouri. A facial reconstruction aided the investigators in this case.
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A serial bomber was waging a vendetta against the legal profession. A judge, two attorneys and even a courthouse had been targeted. Employing a range of forensic techniques, investigators used evidence from the bombs to lead them to the perpetrator.
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Robert Sims returned home after working the night shift and found his wife, Paula, unconscious on the kitchen floor. Their two-year-old son, Randy, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, but their six-week-old daughter, Heather, was missing.
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Stephen Scher and Martin Dillon went skeet shooting on a beautiful spring day and Martin was shot dead.
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When four-month-old Ryan died under suspicious circumstances, his mother was convicted of his murder.
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In 1992, Laura Houghteling disappeared from her Bethesda home and was never seen again. Laura's bedroom was searched and forensic science was used to direct them a to prime suspect.
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Edward Honaker was sentenced to three life terms in prison, but he steadfastly maintained his innocence.
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On September 17, 1984, in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona, eight-year-old Vicki Hoskins left home on her pink bicycle to mail a letter for her mother. She never returned, but her slightly damaged bicycle was found nearby.
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A two-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital suffering from brain seizures and breathing difficulties.
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On a cold December night in 1993, Rose Larner stopped in a convenience store on her way to her boyfriend's house. She was never seen or heard from again. A tiny clue found years later revealed a tragic tale of drugs, romance and revenge.
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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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Scott Dunn was missing and when the police sprayed his bedroom with Luminol, a scene of horrific violence emerged. Now investigators faced a daunting task.
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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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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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Sometime during a neighborhood Christmas party, five-year-old Melissa Brannen disappeared. Investigators turned to forensic science to help them see what the witnesses missed.
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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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Who was the sexual offender who murdered two boys in Nebraska? The key to stopping him would be the unique composition of the "junk rope" he used to tie his victims.
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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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Janice Johnson was found dead at the foot of her stairs. Police in Nova Scotia had to answer the question: Was it an accident or murder?
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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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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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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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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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Women in a Louisiana city live in fear of a rapist who leaves no clues to his identity. But technology and behavioral science combine to give police a new forensic tool.
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When the wife of a well-known dentist is found dead, police struggle to identify a suspect. Some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open.
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When Joann Katrinak is found dead in a corn field with her son, the obvious suspect is her husband. But insects found on the bodies reveal a vital clue which uncovers a twisted story.
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When a decomposed body is found stuffed in a barrel, it's easy to presume murder. One of the few clues was an address book found along with the body.
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When a policeman's house goes up in flames, experts suspect arson. The officer whose home was torched arrests a low-level drug dealer, who confesses. But then the suspect vanishes.
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Dianna Green was brutally attacked in her own home and her unborn child was killed. After coming out of a coma and regaining her memory, she is able to identify her husband as the perpetrator.