Forensic Files
They thought the fire would cover their crime. But one tiny clue led to a trio of killers behind bars.
They thought the fire would cover their crime. But one tiny clue led to a trio of killers behind bars.
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A suspicious fire swept through an apartment killing two young women. A closer look at the fire scene revealed something hidden in the ashes.
The crime scene was especially violent: A couple had been shot to death. Was their teenage daughter complicit?
Two people witness a truck driving over an unconscious man and flee into a nearby bar, but when the police turn up, the truck, the man and the witnesses are gone.
Dianna Green was brutally attacked in her own home and her unborn child was killed. After coming out of a coma and regaining her memory, she is able to identify her husband as the perpetrator.
Investigators sift through the ashes of a fire which killed a 40-year-old woman. The fire appears to have been started by an unattended cigarette. On closer look, forensic scientists discover the cause was far more complicated.
A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site.
In 2000, Judy Southern arrived home from work and was shot by a gunman waiting within. Her husband Allen arrived shortly afterwards, called 911 to report his wife had been shot.
They thought the fire would cover their crime. But one tiny clue led to a trio of killers behind bars.
A surgeon is stabbed to death, and the most likely suspect is seen in a restaurant at the time of the murder.
A boy is mysteriously shot in his father's gun club. Ballistics, laser technology, scale models and animation reveal the bullet's amazing path and who was responsible.
When the head chef of a historic Philadelphia restaurant was found dead, investigators interviewed the usual suspects: family, friends and coworkers. As they sifted through the evidence, police uncovered a chilling tale of debt and deceit.
In a tragic twist of fate, just days after the woman sold her home and moved to a modest trailer, a fire took both the trailer and her life. But the autopsy proved this was no accident.
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
One investigator's quick thinking helps him capture a shoe impression made in snow before it melts away.
A boy is mysteriously shot in his father's gun club. Ballistics, laser technology, scale models and animation reveal the bullet's amazing path and who was responsible.
When Kristine Fitzhugh failed to show up for her music class, her husband found her dead at the bottom of the stairs of their Palo Alto home. Further investigation reveals evidence of murder in the kitchen.
In 1988, the body of a young woman was discovered in an Ohio river. Most of the evidence had been washed away, but the victim's 6-year-old son unwittingly told investigators all they needed to know - without saying a word. The clue was in his genes.
A behavioral profile caused the Baton Rouge Police Department to search for the wrong man. They might not have made an arrest had it not been for a DNA picture of the suspect painted by a molecular biologist.
In 2006, Texas real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker was found brutally murdered in a model home.
A beautiful young woman falls to her death from a cliff overlooking the ocean. Initially, investigators think it was a tragic accident. But after a forensic examination, police uncover a very different picture of what happened.
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