When 19-year-old Lori Auker left her Pennsylvania home for work and never arrived, it took space-age technology, cat hairs and insects to pinpoint the image of the woman's abductor.
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Responding to a 2008 garage fire, Illinois emergency response discovered a man crushed beneath a truck.
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.
The investigation into the kidnapping and rape of an 18-year-old Ohio woman is aided when the victim returns hours after the incident occurred. With her help, the police are able to track the assailant to his front door.
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.
Dianna Green was brutally attacked in her own home and her unborn child was killed. After coming out of a coma and regaining her memory, she is able to identify her husband as the perpetrator.
Stephen Scher and Martin Dillon went skeet shooting on a beautiful spring day and Martin was shot dead.
When 19-year-old Lori Auker left her Pennsylvania home for work and never arrived, it took space-age technology, cat hairs and insects to pinpoint the image of the woman's abductor.
In 1988, the body of a young woman was discovered in an Ohio river. Most of the evidence had been washed away, but the victim's 6-year-old son unwittingly told investigators all they needed to know - without saying a word. The clue was in his genes.
An Alaskan police officer finds a woman's body while on routine patrol of a public park. During the autopsy, the medical examiner preserves the portion of her rib cage which sustained the fatal wound.
Bruce Miller was shot to death in the office of a junkyard business. When a computer forensics expert examined the computers owned by the victim's wife, he found all the evidence needed.
Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.
A serial killer was on the loose and police had to find him before he struck again. Their most promising lead was an unusual one: a bloody fingerprint on the body of one of the victims.
The victim was well liked and successful, which made the brutality of the crime even harder to understand.
The body of an attractive young woman was found a mile from her abandoned car. Police were especially concerned when they realized the victim had come to them for protection just two weeks earlier.
After the suspect was convicted of murder, he maintained his innocence through his 25 years in prison.
The medical examiner ruled a death an accident, but the detectives thought the evidence indicated otherwise.
When a young boy went missing, police organized the largest search in the history of their small town.
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
A patrolman was dispatched to what he thought would be a routine traffic call until he looked in the car.
In 1997, Kelly Eckart's car was found, with her belongings still in it, after she worked a late shift in Franklin, Indiana. Days later, her body was found in an isolated ravine.
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