When police discovered the body of Douglas Beamish's estranged wife, authorities linked 20 cat hairs found on her jacket to a cat owned by Beamish's parents. It was the first time animal DNA was used to solve a criminal case.
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When the wife of a well-known dentist is found dead, police struggle to identify a suspect. Some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open.
Police suspect Dr. John Boyle in the disappearance of his wife when he buys a new house with a woman pretending to be his spouse. The police later find a body in the basement of his new house.
In 1995, Palm Beach waitress Denise O'Neill is abducted and murdered. Her neighbor Luis Caballero arouses suspicions by his odd behavior toward TV crews covering the crime.
Almost a hundred vehicles were involved in the single most deadly automobile accident in American history.
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.
While investigating an apparent overdose suicide, detectives recover incriminating files from a computer.
When an elderly couple died in a suspicious house fire, their son became the prime suspect. Investigators turned to forensic science to determine if the fire had been set deliberately, or if it was an unfortunate accident.
The investigation into the kidnapping and rape of an 18-year-old Ohio woman is aided when the victim returns hours after the incident occurred. With her help, the police are able to track the assailant to his front door.
Susie Mowbray was charged for her husband Bill Mowbray's death, but her son was convinced of her innocence.
With no forensic evidence inside a murder scene, investigators were baffled. But they suspected that the victim's dog had witnessed the crime.
The 1987 disappearance of Houston resident Tracy Jo Shine is recalled. The investigation went cold until 2000 when a "cold case squad" learned that the woman's ex-boyfriend Michael Neal had bragged about killing her.
In 1988, when a patient dies unexpectedly in the office of California neurologist Richard Boggs, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation. Soon they uncover a bizarre story of corpse stealing, fake identity and sexual perversion.
The wife of a respected police officer was murdered in her own home. The crime went unsolved for more than a decade, until a newly formed cold case unit took a fresh look at the evidence.
While Earl Morris was vacationing in California, he learned his wife Ruby Morris had gone missing from their home in Arizona. The results of the investigation surprised everyone...especially Earl Morris.
When a college co-ed vanished without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety and their own.
In rural Canada, Dr. John Schneeberger is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting one of his female patients and his stepdaughter. DNA tests demonstrate that the doctor is innocent, but the patient insists that he sedated and raped her.
A woman appears to have lost control of her SUV and plunged down an embankment into a shallow creek. But investigators suspect foul play when they find snowy footprints leading from the crime scene.
A woman disappeared along a California highway in 1991. Three years later, the case was solved when a man's refrigerated truck was looked upon with suspicion.
When a convenience store employee is found dead, police find the murder has been caught on a security camera.
When police discovered the body of Douglas Beamish's estranged wife, authorities linked 20 cat hairs found on her jacket to a cat owned by Beamish's parents. It was the first time animal DNA was used to solve a criminal case.
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