Three homicides on two continents looked like professional executions. Investigators on both sides of the Atlantic needed to find out if they were related and, if they were, who or what they had in common.
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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.
A California teen went missing. Police suspected she'd run away until her body was discovered in a ditch.
A man was killed in a car crash, but the evidence led investigators to believe it was not an accident.
In 1992, 22-year-old Dawn Bruce is brutally murdered in her Virginia apartment. Investigators notice a blood smear on a pillowcase that appears to have been made by one of the killer's fingers.
A car carrying three men pulls up alongside another on an Alaskan highway and fires shots, leaving a passenger dead. One of the passengers in the killer's car agrees to testify against his friends. The resulting trials don't end the carnage.
In 1993, young mother Tammy Tatum was sexually assaulted and murdered in her Longmont, Colorado apartment.
A man tells police he shot an intruder who killed his wife. Forensic evidence disproves that story later on.
Authorities track a kidnapper who let his victim write a last will and informed the family of her murder.
Three homicides on two continents looked like professional executions. Investigators on both sides of the Atlantic needed to find out if they were related and, if they were, who or what they had in common.
A woman was reported missing after a fight with her husband. Police were suspicious of a suspect who reported a fire in his car. Two tiny drops of blood were found in the interior. A tiny clue inside the suspect's watchband helped solve the case.
In 1988, the body of a young woman was discovered in an Ohio river. Most of the evidence had been washed away, but the victim's 6-year-old son unwittingly told investigators all they needed to know - without saying a word. The clue was in his genes.
For more than a year, hateful letters were sent to a school teacher in Pennsylvania. DNA analysis would eventually help seal the perpetrator's fate.
In 1999, Patrick McRae was found dead in his Des Moines home and the crime scene was awash with blood.
A woman is shot to death in her store just one day before she is to testify against the man accused of robbing her. The robber becomes the prime suspect, but he has a solid alibi.
In 1995, the founder of American Atheists disappeared with one of her sons, her granddaughter and $500,000 in gold coins. The police investigated several suspects, including David R. Waters, who worked for American Atheists.
Police led an intense search and relied on forensics when the mother of two young children went missing.
On October 15, 1985, two bomb explosions rocked Salt Lake City and resulted in two deaths. A third explosion occurred the next day. This time, the victim was injured but survived.
A woman who suffered from mental illness is found dead. Was it due to natural causes, suicide or murder?
Authorities track a kidnapper who let his victim write a last will and informed the family of her murder.
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.
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