A serial bomber was waging a vendetta against the legal profession. A judge, two attorneys and even a courthouse had been targeted. Employing a range of forensic techniques, investigators used evidence from the bombs to lead them to the perpetrator.
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A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.
On a cold December night in 1993, Rose Larner stopped in a convenience store on her way to her boyfriend's house. She was never seen or heard from again. A tiny clue found years later revealed a tragic tale of drugs, romance and revenge.
A two-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital suffering from brain seizures and breathing difficulties.
On September 17, 1984, in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona, eight-year-old Vicki Hoskins left home on her pink bicycle to mail a letter for her mother. She never returned, but her slightly damaged bicycle was found nearby.
Edward Honaker was sentenced to three life terms in prison, but he steadfastly maintained his innocence.
In 1992, Laura Houghteling disappeared from her Bethesda home and was never seen again. Laura's bedroom was searched and forensic science was used to direct them a to prime suspect.
When four-month-old Ryan died under suspicious circumstances, his mother was convicted of his murder.
Stephen Scher and Martin Dillon went skeet shooting on a beautiful spring day and Martin was shot dead.
Robert Sims returned home after working the night shift and found his wife, Paula, unconscious on the kitchen floor. Their two-year-old son, Randy, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, but their six-week-old daughter, Heather, was missing.
A serial bomber was waging a vendetta against the legal profession. A judge, two attorneys and even a courthouse had been targeted. Employing a range of forensic techniques, investigators used evidence from the bombs to lead them to the perpetrator.
In 1987, a human skull and some bones were discovered at a boy scout camp near Farmington, Missouri. A facial reconstruction aided the investigators in this case.
In the mid-1980s, bodies of nude women were found on a remote hill of California. The police got a break when a known prostitute escaped an attacker and was able to identify him and his automobile.
Eleven-month-old Chad Shelton was admitted to the hospital with unexplained bleeding and later died. Investigators and scientists frantically searched for a cause when others from the same house fell ill.
Heavy rains and snow run-off carried manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people.
An 11-year-old Boy Scout comes down with a fever and diarrhea after eating an undercooked burger. When his condition worsens, his mother drives him to a hospital and doctors discover E. coli destroying his body.
In 1971, John List left a note with the bodies of his family members in his mansion before he disappeared.
In 1985, 121 people in South Dakota and Minnesota were struck by a mysterious illness. There had been only one outbreak like it, and when it happened again no one could figure out why.
From 1985 to 1988, 18 people were choked, molested and left for dead in the remote mountains of California.
On the night of May 22, 1992, Betty Wilson returned home and walked up the stairs to the bedroom. She discovered her husband lying in a pool of blood. Jack Wilson had obviously been murdered...but how? And by whom? Even the experts couldn't agree.
After a Philadelphia convention, 180 legionnaires contract pneumonia-like symptoms and 29 of them die.
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