For Love Or Money
Every family has its secrets, and sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed. When money is the motive, murder can rip at the very foundation of marriage and family.
Every family has its secrets, and sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed. When money is the motive, murder can rip at the very foundation of marriage and family.
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Three hairs microscopic fibers a common trash bag ripped from a roll. Seemingly small and insignificant clues become a victim's silent witness.
Philadelphia's Vidocq Society, named after an 18th Century French detective, is one of the world's most unusual crime-solving organizations.
Tool marking: A tool used to commit a crime can often be the same tool used to solve it. The pattern a machine leaves on an item, the unusual way a tool crimps a wire, and even something as innocuous as the shape of a wood chip can lead to a killer.
Hiding a body can be difficult it's sometimes easier to obscure or disguise the circumstances of the death, turning murder into suicide, or pinning the blame on someone else. The truth is told through subtle clues taken from the crime scene.
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.
Drug trafficking has spawned a violent and deadly criminal underground. It's providing a challenge to forensic investigators devoted to cracking drug rings.
To the astute detective and forensic specialist, the biggest clues often hide in plain sight, and what seems trivial to some is in reality Critical Evidence.
When a murder is committed and deceit clouds the evidence, investigators turn to science and technology to uncover the truth and expose a murderous lie and capture the killer.
Missing Person: Approximately 1.8 million Americans are reported missing each year. Worldwide, the number of missing persons nearly triples.
Forensic psychologists delve into the minds of serial killers, explaining why, most often, they can be a friendly neighbor or the tenacious co-worker the one who hides his or her dark side better than anyone else.
Explosives Investigations: The crime lab is the place where science meets murder. In New York State, Eleanor Fowler opened a small package, which as mailed to her home. When she lifted the lid the box exploded killing her instantly.
The Great Outdoors may offer great clues to solving brutal murders. But it takes the keen eye of the forensic entomologist and botanist to decipher the clues nature provides.
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.
A young girl playing in her yard in Spokane, Washington suddenly vanishes. In St. Louis another girl leaves to visit a friend. She never arrives.
Identifying Burned Remains: It's difficult to have a murder investigation without a body, and burning up the victim is a time-honored method of destroying physical evidence.
George Orwell's concept of Big Brother remains in the realm of fiction. But as technology becomes more a part of our lives, it's becoming increasingly more difficult to make a move without leaving behind an electronic trace.
Forensic scientists find clues written in blood as they investigate the deaths of three women killed by the men who once loved them.
For serial killers, once is never enough. For investigators, the challenge is steep when the killers murder by numbers.
Toxicology: While drugs can cure disease and ease pain, they can also be agents of murder. Toxicologists can examine blood and tissue to uncover cases where death is not as natural as it may seemfrom slow arsenic poisoning to quick cocaine overdoses.
Profiles the work of world-renowned forensic experts and the procedures they use to solve murders and other mysteries in minutes or centuries after they happen.
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