For twelve years, the murder of a young woman went unsolved, but with the passage of time came the development of technology. Could a used tissue found at the crime scene give police the evidence they need to bring a killer to justice?
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In 2003, St. Cloud teenager Jason MacLennan returned home after a night out with friends and discovered his father Ken's body lying in a pool of blood.
In 2006, Texas real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker was found brutally murdered in a model home.
In 2004, Mary Ann Clibbery was found brutally murdered in her Illinois business and investigators had to determine if this was a robbery gone wrong or a calculated murder.
A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other.
A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site.
In a tragic twist of fate, just days after the woman sold her home and moved to a modest trailer, a fire took both the trailer and her life. But the autopsy proved this was no accident.
After shooting his victims in the head, the killer staged the scene, placed the incriminating evidence into a plastic bag and tossed it into the river.
A skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands. Investigators learned she'd been dead for months.
When two women went missing and were later found brutally murdered, police wondered if they were victims of a hate crime.
A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn't match any of the suspects and the case went cold for ten years.
The crime scene was especially violent: A couple had been shot to death. Was their teenage daughter complicit?
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
The body of an attractive young woman was found a mile from her abandoned car. Police were especially concerned when they realized the victim had come to them for protection just two weeks earlier.
A Michigan State University grad student disappeared and was presumed dead. With the help of a professor of geological sciences, police hoped to get the "dirt" on her killer.
Seattle police had no suspects in the violent murder of post-grunge singer, Mia Zapata. More than a decade passed before the evidence could be used by forensic scientists to identify the killer.
When a dedicated, well-respected teacher disappeared, police had to determine if she'd gone on vacation without telling anyone, or if she was the victim of foul play.
It was one of the most unusual cases in forensic history. Investigators had to find a way to solve a murder case with evidence which consisted of a squashed tomato found at the crime scene.
Security cameras in a casino tracked a young woman's movements until shortly before she disappeared. She was never seen again.
A fireman died from what appeared to be heart disease, but his family was skeptical of the cause of death.
It's usually easy to determine how a criminal entered the crime scene. But in this case, it was far from clear. It looked like the killer vanished into thin air...and perhaps he had.
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