Forensic Files
In 1994, Shannon Melendi disappeared while at Emory University. Her disappearance remained a mystery for ten years, until new scientific testing cast a different light on Colvin "Butch" Hinton.
In 1994, Shannon Melendi disappeared while at Emory University. Her disappearance remained a mystery for ten years, until new scientific testing cast a different light on Colvin "Butch" Hinton.
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A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.
When the number of bloodstains at a scene were abnormal, it was up to forensic scientists to find out why.
Even though their daughter had run away before, she'd always come back. Her parents were sure this time would be no different, but they were wrong.
A young woman is found dead in her apartment. With little evidence at the scene, the case turns cold.
Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.
After shooting his victims in the head, the killer staged the scene, placed the incriminating evidence into a plastic bag and tossed it into the river.
In 1999, Patrick McRae was found dead in his Des Moines home and the crime scene was awash with blood.
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
When a man's story of a killing contradicted physical evidence, investigators turned to forensic science.
In 2006, Texas real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker was found brutally murdered in a model home.
A serial killer was on the loose and police had to find him before he struck again. Their most promising lead was an unusual one: a bloody fingerprint on the body of one of the victims.
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.
A bomb, constructed to cause as much damage as possible, kills a victim with deadly force and flame. When a search yields some tiny clues, police are able to identify the killer.
It's usually easy to determine how a criminal entered the crime scene. But in this case, it was far from clear. It looked like the killer vanished into thin air...and perhaps he had.
In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered.
Two suspects are linked to a murder by bloodstained boots and a gun, but the owner of the items says he has never met the victim.
In 1994, Shannon Melendi disappeared while at Emory University. Her disappearance remained a mystery for ten years, until new scientific testing cast a different light on Colvin "Butch" Hinton.
An 82-year-old woman was found dead. Clues on the victim's body would tell police what happened that night.
The victim was well liked and successful, which made the brutality of the crime even harder to understand.
The woman in the back of the truck was flailing her arms, screaming. They thought she was doing something dangerous for the fun of it.
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