Police are led on a wild goose chase when the wife of a prominent banker is kidnapped. An entomologist's unexpected discovery leads to a new suspect - and the realization that ordinary office equipment can leave extraordinary clues.
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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.
When a hit-and-run boating accident caused a death, police must search for one boat among 1200 others.
The medical examiner ruled a death an accident, but the detectives thought the evidence indicated otherwise.
A driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian because his Jeep had been sold months ago.
The body of a young girl was discovered on isolated farmland near Delano, California. She had no ID, but police found mailbox keys in the pocket of her jeans.
One warm summer afternoon, the town of Verona, Wisconsin faced its first triple homicide. To solve the case, investigators had to delve into the world of high rollers and offshore betting.
When an off-duty policeman was shot dead, his fellow officers were determined to solve the crime. They needed clues to find the killer and they discovered them in tiny fibres and an asthma inhaler.
An aspiring model turned up dead and the prime suspect was her boyfriend. When he was eventually cleared, investigators had to dig deeper to find the perpetrator.
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.
An investigation into the murder of a World War II veteran slowed to a halt when the prime suspect had a solid alibi. But a lucky break led to a shady character who wore distinctive boots.
When a car was found in a drainage ditch with two bodies inside, a fingertip torn from a latex glove would point investigators to both the crime scene and the killer.
When a little girl got sick and died, investigators were stumped. Was it an accident, an unexplained illness or murder?
The prime suspect had a criminal record and his driver's license was found at the scene of a brutal double homicide.
A Russian immigrant is found dead and a strange phone call to his office is the only lead investigators have.
A teenager went missing after an evening of horseback riding. Her body was found a month later, three miles from her home. The killer unknowingly left trace evidence behind - tiny but unmistakable clues which pointed to him and him alone.
A woman was found dead on a golf course. The grass on the course was so distinctive, it had evidentiary value.
When two women from the same town were murdered in the same way, police feared a serial killer was on the loose. At first they thought the victims had nothing in common until they found tiny clues linking them to the same man.
In an affluent suburb, police were called to the scene of what appeared to be an accidental drowning.
A college student was found dead, and the evidence suggested he knew his killer. Three hairs and some microscopic cells helped police to unravel a web of lies, and find the motive for murder.
A car carrying three men pulls up alongside another on an Alaskan highway and fires shots, leaving a passenger dead. One of the passengers in the killer's car agrees to testify against his friends. The resulting trials don't end the carnage.
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