Forensic Files
How did the stalker obtain the security system code for his victim's home? How did he steal her personal photographs? Police needed answers and they found them in the most unlikely of places.
How did the stalker obtain the security system code for his victim's home? How did he steal her personal photographs? Police needed answers and they found them in the most unlikely of places.
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In 1996, Virginia Beach police arrive at the Makdessi apartment to find Elise Makdessi and her lover dead.
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
When a college co-ed vanished without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety and their own.
Police get a clue about a couple who disappeared on Memorial Day weekend during an in-progress robbery.
Responding to a 2008 garage fire, Illinois emergency response discovered a man crushed beneath a truck.
Kathy Lorick was murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail while talking to her husband on her phone.
A woman who was known to have suffered from depression took her own life. But her sister told police that she said if anything were to happen to her there would be a note in the china cabinet.
When the number of bloodstains at a scene were abnormal, it was up to forensic scientists to find out why.
How did the stalker obtain the security system code for his victim's home? How did he steal her personal photographs? Police needed answers and they found them in the most unlikely of places.
A woman was found dead on the bedroom floor of her apartment. The crime scene yielded little of value and investigators wondered if they would find enough evidence to make a case.
The victim has been stabbed more than thirty times, and the crime scene is awash with her blood. Near her head, police discover a distinctive button with strands of thread still attached.
A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn't match any of the suspects and the case went cold for ten years.
In 1999, Patrick McRae was found dead in his Des Moines home and the crime scene was awash with blood.
James Kenneth Elmen Jr. abducted Julie Estes, then 21, from the Southside convenience store where she worked in 1985.
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.
When a woman went missing, friends and family were determined to find her. Their worst fears were confirmed weeks later when her body was discovered.
A Michigan State University grad student disappeared and was presumed dead. With the help of a professor of geological sciences, police hoped to get the "dirt" on her killer.
In 2003, St. Cloud teenager Jason MacLennan returned home after a night out with friends and discovered his father Ken's body lying in a pool of blood.
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.
On Halloween night 2004, Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara were brutally murdered in their Napa home.
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