The gunman opened fire as the family of four entered their home, killing two and wounding the others. He'd pulled open a few drawers to make it look like a robbery, but the scene was clearly staged.
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The news of a flight attendant's brutal murder prompted the son of a victim who had been killed five years earlier to contact police. Both murders had similar MOs, and analysis of biological evidence proved that these were serial killings.
The decomposed body of a young woman was discovered in a Bakersfield irrigation canal. If there was trace evidence, it had been washed away.
A postcard incriminates a high religious figure with crimes committed during World War II.
The gunman opened fire as the family of four entered their home, killing two and wounding the others. He'd pulled open a few drawers to make it look like a robbery, but the scene was clearly staged.
The investigation into a brutal attack on two boys near a pond relied on evidence fished out of the murky water. It was the first case where diatom evidence was used to place a suspect at the scene of the crime.
Four young adults are murdered in an affluent Texas neighborhood, with little evidence.
A young woman is found dead in her apartment. With little evidence at the scene, the case turns cold until police discover a link between their prime suspect and an unsolved murder committed six years earlier in a different state.
After the suspect was convicted of arson and murder, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
At a murder scene, investigators find a shoe print, several foreign hairs, and unknown fingerprints. But they believe the most telling piece of evidence is the bite mark on the victim's chest.
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 mother attempts to clear her name after authorities charge her with murdering her son in a fire.
A prime suspect is pinned to a double homicide until DNA from a discarded spoon points to another.
Investigators come to suspect a wife's bathtub drowning may not have been an accident.
Insects and a strand of hair unravel the truth behind the murder of a woman and her infant son.
For years, a woman suffered from what appeared to be the unpleasant side effects of lithium, a drug prescribed to treat bipolar disorder. When she died, investigators had to determine if her death was due to natural causes, suicide, or murder.
A neighbor watched as a man stabbed his wife, pushed her into the swimming pool, and held her head underwater. The husband, however, had no recollection of the crime. A jury would have to decide between evidence and the mysteries of the mind.
A retired police officer is discovered in his bed, dead of a single gunshot wound to the head. His wife first says the motive was robbery; then she tells police he committed suicide.
When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity.
Forensic artist must reconstruct a victim's face before she can be identified.
An unusual case involving the 1988 rape and murder of Nancy DePriest.
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