Sometimes, the cause of death does not match the scene of the crime. When an untraceable poison is used to commit murder, homicide detectives turn to forensic toxicologists to follow a killer's tracks and expose a toxic death.
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A young girl playing in her yard in Spokane, Washington suddenly vanishes. In St. Louis another girl leaves to visit a friend. She never arrives.
Sometimes, the cause of death does not match the scene of the crime. When an untraceable poison is used to commit murder, homicide detectives turn to forensic toxicologists to follow a killer's tracks and expose a toxic death.
Years after a murder has been committed, investigators use advanced DNA analysis to shed new light on crimes that have gone unpunished for far too long.
When teenagers are driven to kill, their victims are but the first to fall. In three such cases, the families of the killers, as well as their communities, become the victims of violent crime.
Weeks pass as forensic investigators search for even the smallest clues, only to find what they feared in their own backyard. In Canada, two people die suddenly of unknown causes, and their deaths may not be as coincidental as they first appear.
Bombers, snipers, spree killers: some people don't care who they kill, they just want to hurt innocent people.
Ballistics: A corpse is found with a gunshot wound to the head the weapon lies next to the victim. It looks like suicide, but could it be murder? It's a question best solved by ballistics experts.
They know as much about crime as any crime fighter, or any criminal. They're the crime writers, and through their eyes we see murder most foul.
Philadelphia's Vidocq Society, named after an 18th Century French detective, is one of the world's most unusual crime-solving organizations.
In Northern California, a fire rages in the middle of the night. A woman's charred body is discovered in the smoldering aftermath.
At the scene of a murder, sometimes the victim provides the only clues to their killer. Forensic anthropologists use skeletal remains to decipher the clues written in the bones.
Using science as their most powerful weapon, investigators must find these hired killers and make them pay the true price of murder.
Some killers choose to hide their victims And investigators must then rely on forensic examiners to uncover proof of murder These are just two extraordinary crimes that have made their way into the medical examiner's casebook.
The show examines cases of poison and deadly chemistry and shows how forensic experts are solving mysterious deaths today and from the past.
An abandoned car outside Philadelphia brings heartbreak to a family and terror to a community. A young woman is dead, the killer gone. But the marks of his passage remain.
In Columbus, Ohio, a woman is found shot in the head. The death is ruled a suicide, but something is not right and detectives refuse to let the matter rest.
This show profiles the work of world-renowned forensic experts as they work to tell the stories of the young men who went to war (from the French and Indian war to Vietnam) and never came back.
For homicide investigators, it's a race against time as they track their deadliest foe: a serial killer for whom killing is the only way to feel alive.
What does it take to prove murder if the victim cannot be found? Investigators must go to extreme lengths to catch the killer when the victim is presumed dead.
A woman's body is found and investigators have little time and few clues to lead them to a killer who could strike again. Perpetrators try to conceal their crimes, yet savvy investigators can take the most obscure data and recreate a murder.
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