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.
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In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered.
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.
The woman in the back of the truck was flailing her arms, screaming. They thought she was doing something dangerous for the fun of it.
A girl claimed she had been abducted. She recounted what happened but things didn't add up to police.
Avis Banks and her unborn child were brutally murdered. The body was discovered by her fiancé, Keyon Pittman. When police learned that Pittman was having affairs with other women, he became the prime suspect.
In 1989, the dead bodies of Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters were found floating in Tampa Bay.
Lives changed in the 20 years following an unsolved murder, and so did forensic science. In time, a high-powered microscope and DNA profiling revealed a clue no one had seen before.
Detectives search for the bombers of two churches in Illinois, hoping that the materials used in the remnants of the handmade bombs will offer the clues to catch the culprits.
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.
Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.
Christina Sanoubane was murdered in her Cedar Rapids apartment after moving away from her abusive boyfriend.
A young woman is stabbed more than 100 times. The killer leaves DNA behind, but investigators must play a cat-and-mouse game to obtain a suspect's DNA to match.
A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site.
A surgeon is stabbed to death, and the most likely suspect is seen in a restaurant at the time of the murder.
In 2007, Shamaia Smith disappeared from the strip club she worked at in East Hartford, CT. Police look at various customers of the strip club, but focus on local businessman Kenneth Otto.
When a man's story of a killing contradicted physical evidence, investigators turned to forensic science.
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.
Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.
Even though their daughter had run away before, she'd always come back. Her parents were sure this time would be no different, but they were wrong.
A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses, an ambush or a random attack the clue was something so tiny, it was measured in millionths of a meter.
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