Murder By Numbers
For serial killers, once is never enough. For investigators, the challenge is steep when the killers murder by numbers.
2026-06-10 20:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 21:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
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Random Targets
Most victims of multiple murderers are meticulously chosen because of a mutual connection with the killer or because they match an intricate set of criteria that fits the killer's MO.
2026-06-11 01:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-11 02:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Trial Of The Century
Forensics in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial: Millions watched on television as the jury rendered their verdict. Orenthal James Simpson was found not guilty of murder.
2026-06-11 00:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-11 01:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Dead Wrong
Hiding a body can be difficult it's sometimes easier to obscure or disguise the circumstances of the death, turning murder into suicide, or pinning the blame on someone else. The truth is told through subtle clues taken from the crime scene.
2026-06-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-11 00:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Trial By Fire
At a crime scene, anything left behind or seemingly out of place is considered a clue. But a fire can extinguish everything in its path challenging forensic investigators at every turn and making each arson a trial by fire.
2026-06-10 22:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 23:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Fateful Twist
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.
2026-06-10 21:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 22:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Murder By Numbers
For serial killers, once is never enough. For investigators, the challenge is steep when the killers murder by numbers.
2026-06-10 20:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 21:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Broken Trust
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.
2026-06-10 19:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 20:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Deadly Target
Ballistics: A corpse is found with a gunshot wound to the head the weapon lies next to the victim. It looks like suicide, but could it be murder? It's a question best solved by ballistics experts.
2026-06-10 13:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 14:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Wasted Youth
When teenagers are driven to kill, their victims are but the first to fall. In three such cases, the families of the killers, as well as their communities, become the victims of violent crime.
2026-06-10 12:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 13:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
A Federal Offense
When there's a difficult case to crack whether it involves drugs, arson, or weapons the investigators and scientists of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have the means to crack it.
2026-06-10 11:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 12:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Collective Justice
Philadelphia's Vidocq Society, named after an 18th Century French detective, is one of the world's most unusual crime-solving organizations.
2026-06-10 10:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 11:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Fatal Error
Accidental deaths, suicides, disappearances, and fires they're an everyday part of an insurance investigator's life. But cases shouldn't be taken at face value. Forensics has become a tool for exposing insurance fraud.
2026-06-10 09:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 10:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Out To Kill
An abandoned car outside Philadelphia brings heartbreak to a family and terror to a community. A young woman is dead, the killer gone. But the marks of his passage remain.
2026-06-10 08:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 09:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Silent Killers
Weeks pass as forensic investigators search for even the smallest clues, only to find what they feared in their own backyard. In Canada, two people die suddenly of unknown causes, and their deaths may not be as coincidental as they first appear.
2026-06-10 07:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 08:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Patterns Of Guilt
The tread of a tire, a single shoe print and even the shape of a bruise help investigators track down killers, based solely on their patterns of guilt.
2026-06-10 01:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 02:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Material Witness
Lies and deceit can often throw investigators off the trail of justice. But when hard evidence contradicts a killer's story, police must use the clues to piece together the truth.
2026-06-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 01:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Death Grip
Fingerprinting: The identification Division of the FBI relies on fingerprints as one of the most effective ways to identify criminals.
2026-06-09 23:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-10 00:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Collective Justice
Philadelphia's Vidocq Society, named after an 18th Century French detective, is one of the world's most unusual crime-solving organizations.
2026-06-09 22:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 23:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Absent Witness
When killers hide or destroy the remains of their victims, it becomes the mission of forensic scientists to reconstruct the scenes and prove murder for an absent witness.
2026-06-09 21:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 22:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Marked For Death
Sometimes killers are careful to leave no fingerprints behind. But methods of the murder itself can leave a lasting impression on police, especially when the tools (or weapons) of a killer's trade leave an innocent victim marked for death.
2026-06-09 20:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-09 21:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
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