Web of Clues
Forensic Entomology: Bugs have roamed the earth for 250 million years, but their intimate association with death is just now coming to life.
Forensic Entomology: Bugs have roamed the earth for 250 million years, but their intimate association with death is just now coming to life.
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It is difficult to convict a murderer if the body can't be found. But forensic science is finding ways to do it. Devious killers can think up many was to dispose of their victim's remains, but they are often no matches for investigators.
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.
Drug trafficking has spawned a violent and deadly criminal underground. It's providing a challenge to forensic investigators devoted to cracking drug rings.
Forensic Entomology: Bugs have roamed the earth for 250 million years, but their intimate association with death is just now coming to life.
Forensic Sculpting: Forensic sculptors retrieve people from oblivion. Using clay and an intricate knowledge of anatomy, forensic arts place a face on an unidentified skull, recreating the victim's likeness, which often leads to his name.
Anytime, anywhere, people disappear kidnapped from their daily routines. Predators always leave clues behind, but chasing them takes time, hampering investigators' attempts to solve these fatal abductions.
There are several things that can suggest murder jealousy, anger, poison When everyday substances reveal hidden clues that break a homicide case, those substances become the elements of murder.
Time of death is an important consideration in a murder investigation, but when a killer freezes, burns, or grinds his victim, even the most skilled medical examiner would be at a loss about how to calculate it.
Solving crimes may begin with gut intuition, but advanced science provides investigators with irrefutable proof. When criminals go to great lengths to mask their crimes, Investigators must step up the challenge and remain forever undaunted.
Poisoners are the most devious of killers, relying on stealth or their victim's trust in order to steal their lives. They're the most dangerous creatures in the world: smart assassins. And they usually don't stop at one kill.
Every family has its secrets, and sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed. When money is the motive, murder can rip at the very foundation of marriage and family.
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.
Some people do get away with murder at least for a while. Flush with their success, serial killers murder again and again. But each time they kill, they leave behind a few more clues, which ultimately lead to their capture.
For serial killers, once is never enough. For investigators, the challenge is steep when the killers murder by numbers.
A killer may strike in the middle of the night, and hide clues well. But the police are always there, ready and working, and they will never give up when they're on the trail of criminals who decide it's Killing Time.
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.
Formed in the 1830s to protect settlers against Indian attack, the Rangers became part of the Texas Highway Patrol in 1935. Their role has continued to evolve to keep up with changing times today it includes sophisticated forensics labs.
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.
Using science as their most powerful weapon, investigators must find these hired killers and make them pay the true price of murder.
Fingerprinting: The identification Division of the FBI relies on fingerprints as one of the most effective ways to identify criminals.
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