In 1981, an 86-year-old California woman was murdered, and her house was ransacked. The crime would remain unsolved for sixteen years, until DNA profiling and new fingerprint technology helped identify the killer.
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A device intended to save lives proves to be the only witness to a man's death.
In 1984, California firefighters had battled ten arson fires in three weeks. When cigarettes and a scrap of paper connected the Southern California fires to several fires further north, the hunt was on for a dangerous pyromaniac.
Detectives use a forged signature to find a woman's abductor.
A suspect is profiled in the disappearance of a 6-year-old girl during a church service.
A human skull retrieved from a watery grave reveals a ghastly crime.
A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children.
The decomposed body of a young woman was discovered in a Bakersfield irrigation canal.
Doctors cannot pinpoint the source of a businessman's illness.
With no forensic evidence inside a murder scene, investigators were baffled. But they suspected that the victim's dog had witnessed the crime. If she had, forensic scientists would have had to find a way to find out what the dog had seen.
An unusual case involving the 1988 rape and murder of Nancy DePriest.
The body of 16-year-old Leanne Tiernan was discovered nine months after she disappeared. Forensic scientists found clues that painted a virtual portrait of her killer.
Children die at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, and one nurse may be involved.
Microscopic evidence helps solve murders near Sacramento, Calif.
An American tourist is murdered in cold blood while at a Mexican resort.
In 1991, Grand Junction, Colorado, is on edge after a series of deadly bombings.
A forensic scientist uses his skills to preserve a footprint left in snow.
Technology able to analyze human bite-marks yields information on a woman's death.
In 1981, an 86-year-old California woman was murdered, and her house was ransacked. The crime would remain unsolved for sixteen years, until DNA profiling and new fingerprint technology helped identify the killer.
All evidence leads to the wife when a real estate developer is murdered.
A mother is determined to discover what happened when her daughter is injured.
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