Forensic Files
When a college student is reported missing, police believe their investigation will be like countless others. But when they discover blood spatter in her boyfriend's bedroom, they know this case is going to be different.
When a college student is reported missing, police believe their investigation will be like countless others. But when they discover blood spatter in her boyfriend's bedroom, they know this case is going to be different.
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A woman and her soon-to-be ex-husband are murdered shortly after she meets a man online.
The murders of an elderly couple leave police stumped until, two years later, they receive a major break. A jeweler looking through old newspaper clippings recognizes a necklace the female victim wore as having been pawned in her own shop.
A murder investigation is helped by a legal requirement that bars have video cameras installed on the premises. Video, hair, and blood lead to the murderer.
Twenty years after the murder of a young mother technology sheds a new light.
An examination of the first time animal DNA was used to solve a criminal case. When the body of Douglas Beamish's estranged wife, Shirley Duguay, was discovered, authorities linked 20 cat hairs found on her jacket to a cat owned by Beamish's parents.
When the police sprayed Scott Dunn's bedroom with luminol, a scene of horrific violence emerged.
Teenager is found half-naked with her throat slit. A single hair on her thumb may finger the killer.
The gunman opened fire as the family of four entered their home, killing two and wounding the others. He'd pulled open a few drawers to make it look like a robbery, but the scene was clearly staged.
Haunted by the disappearance of her mother, a young woman investigated her own. Her mother's diary was in the cold case file. There, she discovered a dark family secret, which might have been the reason her mother vanished.
Six years later, advances in DNA helped crack the death of a park employee.
A two-man shrimp boat sank when a fast-moving, violent storm struck the Louisiana coast. The captain drowned, and the deckhand was rescued fourteen hours later. The deckhand was considered a hero until the captain's body was found.
A woman disappears without a trace. Even though foul play is suspected, the leads don't pan out, and the trail turns cold. Twenty years would pass before police were able to link a clump of hair discovered in an isolated area with the missing woman.
Microscopic evidence helps solve murders near Sacramento, Calif.
Forensic scientists re-examine a death previously ruled accidental.
A Modesto, California, teenager went missing. There was no sign of a struggle in her home, and police suspected she'd simply run away until her naked, bruised body was discovered in a ditch 20 miles away.
A phone number helps police to find an abductor.
Medical detectives believe a murder suspect may not have killed his wife after all.
A murder investigation in Florida crosses jurisdictions from New York and Jamaica. The police rely on cell phone mapping, wiretapping, and a host of forensic evidence to link a suspect to a murder.
When a popular disc jockey was found murdered in a community garden, police swung into action. A sniffer dog and a blood spatter expert led police to the killer, and he'd been much closer than they realized.
Police are suspicious of a mysterious car crash that kills a young man.
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