The police investigate when a severed leg is discovered among garbage. Conventional means of identifying the victim are impossible, leading investigators to rely on DNA, forensic anthropology and toxicology.
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In a search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas, a behavioral profile led to suspect Jason Massey, and hard science proved the profile was correct. Massey was executed by lethal injection on April 3, 2001.
In rural Canada, Dr. John Schneeberger is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting one of his female patients and his stepdaughter. DNA tests demonstrate that the doctor is innocent, but the patient insists that he sedated and raped her.
In 1994, a human skull retrieved from an Ohio pond reveals a ghastly crime. Markings on the skull indicate that the victim had been stabbed multiple times and that the teeth had been removed with needle-nose pliers.
When police in the Great Plains are called about a dead body, they do a background check on the victim.
For 15 months, a serial killer was strangling prostitutes in Florida then taunting police by leaving the bodies in plain sight. The only clues were a tire impression and some threads.
In 1980, Michigan resident Shannon Mohr died in what was reported to be a horseback riding accident by her new husband David Davis. After her death, Shannon's family reported to police their suspicions that Davis seemed far from grief-stricken.
In 1998, an evening out at a Maryland murder mystery theatre performance turns into a real-life whodunit when the badly burned body of Stephen Hricko is discovered in his hotel room after a fire.
Professional photographer Charles Rathbun claims model Linda Sobek died during a consensual sexual encounter gone wrong, but Sobek's corpse and some high-tech digital imagery tell a more sinister story.
In 1981, six-year-old Cassie Hansen disappeared from her St. Paul, Minnesota church during an evening service.
In 1992, 22-year-old Dawn Bruce is brutally murdered in her Virginia apartment. Investigators notice a blood smear on a pillowcase that appears to have been made by one of the killer's fingers.
One investigator's quick thinking helps him capture a shoe impression made in snow before it melts away.
In 1988, when a patient dies unexpectedly in the office of California neurologist Richard Boggs, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation. Soon they uncover a bizarre story of corpse stealing, fake identity and sexual perversion.
In 1996, 17-month-old Josh Hinson died in a fire which a federal agency ruled was intentionally set by Josh's mother Terri Strickland. Using the then-emerging resources of the Internet, Terri Strickland undertook her own investigation.
Survivors of Nazi atrocities recognized Archbishop Trifa as having led an attack against Jews during WWII.
Police suspect Dr. John Boyle in the disappearance of his wife when he buys a new house with a woman pretending to be his spouse. The police later find a body in the basement of his new house.
When the decomposed body of a teenage girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity. To solve the case, investigators turn to bug larvae found on the body.
An investigation of a pediatrician, prompted by the death of one of her patients, leads to a Texas hospital where the pediatric mortality rate is higher than at any hospital in the country.
Police charge a mentally unstable man with his wife's murder, but a medical examiner discovers that she died of natural causes.
When police find the body of an 11-year-old, there are few clues to the killer's identity. But authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.
Nancy Newman and her two daughters are found brutally murdered. The crime scene has no shortage of evidence.
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