Investigators sift through the ashes of a fire that killed a 40-year-old woman. The fire appeared to have been started by an unattended cigarette. On a closer look, forensic scientists discover the cause was far more complicated.
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Technology, cat hairs and insects point investigators to a woman's abductor.
Investigators look into the death of a teacher and discover that his death was not an accident.
The founder of American Atheists disappeared in 1995 along with one of her sons, a granddaughter, and $500,000 in gold coins. The police homed in on several suspects, including David R. Waters, who worked for American Atheists.
A killer assaults a young mother in her home, but despite meticulous washing, a single hair remains.
A man has no recollection of events after stabbing his wife and drowning her in the pool.
A woman is abducted and a month later found dead; a tip leads investigators in the right direction.
A six-year-old girl ran and hid when she saw her grandmother being beaten to death.
Six years later, advances in DNA helped crack the death of a park employee.
A police investigation uncovers a web of homeless drifters, cattle auctions and bad checks.
FBI psychological profiling and DNA fingerprinting track a serial rapist and murderer.
Investigators sift through the ashes of a fire that killed a 40-year-old woman. The fire appeared to have been started by an unattended cigarette. On a closer look, forensic scientists discover the cause was far more complicated.
Psychic leads volunteers and police to a field where the body of a missing girl is found.
New clues are found in the form of a phone and shoes in a rape and murder case unsolved for 8 years.
Investigators hope tiny paint chips and shards of plastic lead them to a hit-and-run driver.
Doctors cannot pinpoint the source of a businessman's illness.
A murder investigation in Florida crosses jurisdictions from New York and Jamaica. The police rely on cell phone mapping, wiretapping, and a host of forensic evidence to link a suspect to a murder.
A teenager returns home to find his father's body in a pool of blood.
A man becomes the prime suspect when his parents are killed in a house fire.
Two men were murdered while sleeping in their beds. The next night, arson destroyed a family planning clinic. Investigators wonder whether some shards of glass, paint chips, and a chicken feather could link what appeared to be two separate crimes.
A union official was executed in his home not long after a strike by the union members. Neither his wife nor anyone in the neighborhood heard any gunshots. It would take a forensic sound test, an electron microscope, and a nightgown to explain why.
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