Proof Of Innocence
DNA analysis overturns the convictions of three men who have spent years behind bars, paying for crimes they did not commit.
DNA analysis overturns the convictions of three men who have spent years behind bars, paying for crimes they did not commit.
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A teenager is abducted on a shopping trip. Two hikers disappear from the Appalachian Trail.
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.
DNA analysis overturns the convictions of three men who have spent years behind bars, paying for crimes they did not commit.
Some people do get away with murder, at least for a while. Flush with their success, serial killers murder again and again. But each time they kill, they leave behind a few more clues, which ultimately lead to their undoing.
Drowning deaths often look like accidents and water can destroy the scant clues the killer may have left behind. Investigators must turn to forensic science to solve cases where the victim is found dead in the water.
Accidental deaths, suicides, disappearances, and fires they're an everyday part of an insurance investigator's life. But cases shouldn't be taken at face value. Forensics has become a tool for exposing insurance fraud.
A dog can be a dead man's best friend. Dogs have been trained to sniff out corpses, drugs, explosives, and missing persons. They're often the first to find the essential clue that sets an investigation in motion.
They say that a burden shared is a burden halved, but when partners team up to commit murder, the weight of their guilt remains just as heavy. Investigators must rely on forensic science to capture partners in crime.
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.
A New York homebuyer gets more than he bargained for when a house inspection turns up a mummified corpse. For decades, the crime had gone undiscovered. The victim unmissed, and the killer unpunished.
Solving crimes may begin with gut intuition, but advanced science provides investigators with irrefutable proof. When criminals go to great lengths to mask their crimes, Investigators must step up the challenge and remain forever undaunted.
Men don't have a monopoly on murder, but it's still extraordinary when women kill. Though female killers are as deadly as males, they choose less violent methods.
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.
Photography has long been a vital tool in homicide investigations. A single image captures enough information to identify a suspect, and to preserve a vital clue long after a witness' memory fades.
Sometimes killers are careful to leave no fingerprints behind. But methods of the murder itself can leave a lasting impression on police, especially when the tools (or weapons) of a killer's trade leave an innocent victim marked for death.
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.
Some people murder for love. But these killers did it for the money. When greed is the motive, investigators must make every clue pay off.
Hairs and Fibers: The tiniest filament can become a mark of distinction in the most singular and intimate of ways. Investigators have come to rely on forensic evidence as fine as a carpet fiber or as innocent as an eyelash to crack difficult cases.
In most homicides, police rely on motive to pursue a murderer. But when the killer is a stranger the crime may go unsolved for years. It takes a full arsenal of forensic techniques to trace a lethal encounter.
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.
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