Forensic Files
A woman's death in Pennsylvania triggers a homicide investigation into another woman's death in North Carolina.
A woman's death in Pennsylvania triggers a homicide investigation into another woman's death in North Carolina.
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In 1985, 121 people in South Dakota and Minnesota were struck by a mysterious illness. There had been only one outbreak like it, and when it happened again no one could figure out why.
After a day of fishing in a small, quiet village in Switzerland, a teenage boy did not return home as planned. The investigation revealed some important microscopic evidence in the water near where he was last seen.
In 1999, Patrick McRae was found dead in his Des Moines home and the crime scene was awash with blood.
On September 17, 1984, in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona, eight-year-old Vicki Hoskins left home on her pink bicycle to mail a letter for her mother. She never returned, but her slightly damaged bicycle was found nearby.
When the wife of a well-known dentist is found dead, police struggle to identify a suspect. Some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open.
A man riding a bicycle was fatally injured, and police believed he was the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Tiny clues found at the scene created a picture of the vehicle which struck him and led police to its driver.
One investigator's quick thinking helps him capture a shoe impression made in snow before it melts away.
Authorities track a kidnapper who let his victim write a last will and informed the family of her murder.
In the case of the Center City Rapist and the murder of Shannon Schieber, Philadelphia authorities use an anonymous letter and geographic profiling to hone in on a suspect.
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.
An 11-year-old Boy Scout comes down with a fever and diarrhea after eating an undercooked burger. When his condition worsens, his mother drives him to a hospital and doctors discover E. coli destroying his body.
The wife of a respected police officer was murdered in her own home. The crime went unsolved for more than a decade, until a newly formed cold case unit took a fresh look at the evidence.
A surgeon is stabbed to death, and the most likely suspect is seen in a restaurant at the time of the murder.
In 1991, San Francisco pornographer Artie Mitchell was murdered in his home. His brother and business partner Jim is found near the scene carrying a rifle and later confesses to shooting Artie. The question is whether the shooting was premeditated.
Shortly after daybreak in Vancouver, British Columbia, a fire was set in a dumpster. No one saw either the arsonist or the fire, and it burned for hours in the deserted parking lot.
A woman's death in Pennsylvania triggers a homicide investigation into another woman's death in North Carolina.
There was no clear reason for a young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the coroner discovered a tiny clue during the autopsy, investigators were able to uncover a mystery.
The wife of an Air Force officer was found dead in her bed with a plastic laundry bag near her face. Further investigation proved that the scene had been staged. Her death wasn't an accident, it was cold-blooded murder.
Time of death becomes pivotal after a pregnant woman is found murdered in her air-conditioned bedroom.
Bombings are difficult to solve, because the perpetrator isn't usually at the scene, and the evidence goes up in smoke. In this case pieces of plastic the size of grains of sand hold the key to a man's murder.
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