At a crime scene, anything left behind or seemingly out of place is considered a clue. But a fire can extinguish everything in its path challenging forensic investigators at every turn and making each arson a trial by fire.
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This show profiles the work of world-renowned forensic experts as they work to tell the stories of the young men who went to war (from the French and Indian war to Vietnam) and never came back.
In New York, an ambitious college student has her whole life ahead of her, until she crosses the path of a killer. It's a random murder, the hardest kind to solve.
A southeastern Virginia community is stunned by a crime no one can believe. A pregnant woman murdered, her baby lost. Across the state, another town feels a similar shock, a brutal, random slaying in a most unexpected setting.
To the astute detective and forensic specialist, the biggest clues often hide in plain sight, and what seems trivial to some is in reality Critical Evidence.
In North Carolina, the home of a prominent couple becomes an unlikely scene of terrible bloodshed. Across the country, a California woman vanishes, worrying her family and the investigators trying to find her.
A victim usually never foresees danger when the perpetrator turns out to be a friend or a lover. Science and microscopic evidence can unmask these killers and find justice for those who are Loved To Death.
A young girl playing in her yard in Spokane, Washington suddenly vanishes. In St. Louis another girl leaves to visit a friend. She never arrives.
Using science as their most powerful weapon, investigators must find these hired killers and make them pay the true price of murder.
A killer may strike in the middle of the night, and hide clues well. But the police are always there, ready and working, and they will never give up when they're on the trail of criminals who decide it's Killing Time.
In Northern California, a fire rages in the middle of the night. A woman's charred body is discovered in the smoldering aftermath.
911 receives a desperate call in Fort Worth, Texas. A man's wife is shot. Forensic investigators search for clues in unlikely places, hoping the victim herself could provide information needed to determine how and why she died.
A woman is found dead at the bottom of the basement stairs. As detectives look into the accident, they begin to question the sequence of events.
A woman's body is found and investigators have little time and few clues to lead them to a killer who could strike again. Perpetrators try to conceal their crimes, yet savvy investigators can take the most obscure data and recreate a murder.
In San Diego, California, a killer has left behind pieces of evidence. Detectives must sort through these small clues to prove murder.
CI: Coroner Investigator will reveal the most in-depth look to date into the science of death.
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.
When killers hide or destroy the remains of their victims, it becomes the mission of forensic scientists to reconstruct the scenes and prove murder for an absent witness.
When killers are driven by jealousy and desire, their desperation is evident in both the crime and their efforts to avoid detection. But forensic science can reveal even the slightest mistake to solve crimes of passion.
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.
When a victim is gunned down at point-blank range, police often assume that a friend or acquaintance is to blame.
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