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.
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Fingerprinting: The Identification Division of the FBI relies on fingerprints as one of the most effective ways to identify criminals.
Explosives Investigations: The crime lab is the place where science meets murder. In New York State, Eleanor Fowler opened a small package, which was mailed to her home. When she lifted the lid, the box exploded, killing her instantly.
Identifying Burned Remains: It's difficult to have a murder investigation without a body, and burning up the victim is a time-honored method of destroying physical evidence.
Missing Person: Approximately 1.8 million Americans are reported missing each year. Worldwide, the number of missing persons nearly triples.
Forensic Sculpting: Forensic sculptors retrieve people from oblivion. Using clay and an intricate knowledge of anatomy, forensic arts place a face on an unidentified skull, recreating the victim's likeness, which often leads to his name.
Forensic Entomology: Bugs have roamed the earth for 250 million years, but their intimate association with death is just now coming to life.
DNA Analysis: With the advent of DNA analysis, just a few microscopic cells found at a crime scene can be used to put a murder behind bars.
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 New York homebuyer gets more than he bargained for when a house inspection turns up a mummified corpse. For decades, the crime had gone undiscovered. The victim unmissed, and the killer unpunished.
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.
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