Forensic Files
When a little girl got sick and died, investigators were stumped. Was it an accident, an unexplained illness or murder?
When a little girl got sick and died, investigators were stumped. Was it an accident, an unexplained illness or murder?
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Volunteers and police spend weeks searching for a missing girl. A psychic later leads them to a field where the body was found.
James Kenneth Elmen Jr. abducted Julie Estes, then 21, from the Southside convenience store where she worked in 1985.
In 2000, the body of exotic dancer Rachel Siani was found beneath a New Jersey bridge. Investigators wondered if she had committed suicide.
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.
A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other.
In 2006, Nevada politician Kathy Augustine died mysteriously during a hard-fought re-election campaign and the medical examiner could neither isolate the cause of death.
A serial rapist is on the loose in a Texas town. No one knew where he'd strike next, but the audacity of his attacks and the escalation of violence against his victims made finding him imperative.
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.
When the number of bloodstains at a scene were abnormal, it was up to forensic scientists to find out why.
Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.
The victim had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the beach. A pair of men's tennis shoes was discovered near her body.
For twelve years, the murder of a young woman went unsolved, but with the passage of time came the development of technology. Could a used tissue found at the crime scene give police the evidence they need to bring a killer to justice?
In 2000, teenager Tara Munsey went missing after a work shift at a Virginia restaurant. Did she run away, or was she the victim of foul play?
In 2004, Rebecca Barney and her soon-to-be ex-husband Fred were found shot to death in their Tulsa, Oklahoma, home, which had been set on fire.
In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered.
The body of an attractive young woman was found a mile from her abandoned car. Police were especially concerned when they realized the victim had come to them for protection just two weeks earlier.
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.
A girl claimed she had been abducted. She recounted what happened but things didn't add up to police.
Avis Banks and her unborn child were brutally murdered. The body was discovered by her fiancé, Keyon Pittman. When police learned that Pittman was having affairs with other women, he became the prime suspect.
In 1989, the dead bodies of Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters were found floating in Tampa Bay.
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