Forensic Files
A woman was found dead on the bedroom floor of her apartment.
A woman was found dead on the bedroom floor of her apartment.
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Hikers near Anchorage, Alaska, discovered a body wrapped in sheets that were edged in orange stitching. Clinging to the sheet, they also discovered a tuft of red carpet fibers, which led them straight to the killer.
In 1984, California firefighters had battled ten arson fires in three weeks. When cigarettes and a scrap of paper connected the Southern California fires to several fires further north, the hunt was on for a dangerous pyromaniac.
A Colorado hunter who'd been shot three times was the victim of a well-planned crime. Investigators suspected two weapons and two killers. But analysis of the forensic evidence pointed them in a different direction: one much closer to home.
A man disappeared exactly one year after beginning an affair with his friend's wife.
A 19-year-old woman was found dead in her car. The scene had been staged to make murder appear to be suicide. During their investigation, police discovered the victim was involved in a love quadrangle, giving several people a motive to kill her.
After a street fight took the life of a national wrestling champion, police had to determine if he was killed in cold blood or in self-defense. A jury decided it was murder and sentenced the accused to a minimum of twenty years in prison.
A 19-year-old woman was found dead in her car. The scene had been staged to make murder appear to be suicide. During their investigation, police discovered the victim was involved in a love quadrangle, giving several people a motive to kill her.
California police had several suspects in the robbery and brutal murder of an elderly couple. Ten years later, a determined forensic scientist used material from a dentist's office to uncover ballistic evidence that had been overlooked.
Haunted by the disappearance of her mother, a young woman investigated her own. Her mother's diary was in the cold case file. There, she discovered a dark family secret, which might have been the reason her mother vanished.
The body of 16-year-old Leanne Tiernan was discovered nine months after she disappeared. Forensic scientists found clues that painted a virtual portrait of her killer.
A young couple decided to celebrate their first wedding anniversary with a camping trip to Mount Hood. During the trip, the husband was shot and killed, and his wife told two different versions of the events that led to his death.
Investigators try to find the cause of a woman's arsenic poisoning.
A beautiful young woman fell to her death from a cliff overlooking the ocean. Initially, investigators thought it was a tragic accident. But after a forensic examination, police had a very different picture of what happened.
Investigators sift through the ashes of a fire that killed a 40-year-old woman. The fire appeared to have been started by an unattended cigarette. On a closer look, forensic scientists discover the cause was far more complicated.
A talented television news anchor was shot to death outside her home. It appeared to be a crime of passion, perpetrated by an obsessed fan.
An Alaskan police officer found a woman's body while on routine patrol of a public park.
A woman's deadly walk in the woods was ruled a hunting accident until a strange letter appeared.
A mark found on a young woman's dead body enables police to track the killer.
Arson investigators attempt to determine the cause of a fire in the Kings Cross Underground Station.
In 1993, the Amtrak Railroad experienced the deadliest train crash in United States history.
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