A Native American woman was brutally killed in the desert of New Mexico, and the crime scene was rich in forensic evidence: tire tracks, shoe impressions, and even the murder weapons.
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A woman and her soon-to-be ex-husband are murdered shortly after she meets a man online.
The murders of an elderly couple leave police stumped until, two years later, they receive a major break. A jeweler looking through old newspaper clippings recognizes a necklace the female victim wore as having been pawned in her own shop.
A murder investigation is helped by a legal requirement that bars have video cameras installed on the premises. Video, hair, and blood lead to the murderer.
Twenty years after the murder of a young mother technology sheds a new light.
An examination of the first time animal DNA was used to solve a criminal case. When the body of Douglas Beamish's estranged wife, Shirley Duguay, was discovered, authorities linked 20 cat hairs found on her jacket to a cat owned by Beamish's parents.
When the police sprayed Scott Dunn's bedroom with luminol, a scene of horrific violence emerged.
Teenager is found half-naked with her throat slit. A single hair on her thumb may finger the killer.
The gunman opened fire as the family of four entered their home, killing two and wounding the others. He'd pulled open a few drawers to make it look like a robbery, but the scene was clearly staged.
Haunted by the disappearance of her mother, a young woman investigated her own. Her mother's diary was in the cold case file. There, she discovered a dark family secret, which might have been the reason her mother vanished.
Six years later, advances in DNA helped crack the death of a park employee.
A two-man shrimp boat sank when a fast-moving, violent storm struck the Louisiana coast. The captain drowned, and the deckhand was rescued fourteen hours later. The deckhand was considered a hero until the captain's body was found.
A woman disappears without a trace. Even though foul play is suspected, the leads don't pan out, and the trail turns cold. Twenty years would pass before police were able to link a clump of hair discovered in an isolated area with the missing woman.
Microscopic evidence helps solve murders near Sacramento, Calif.
Forensic scientists re-examine a death previously ruled accidental.
A Modesto, California, teenager went missing. There was no sign of a struggle in her home, and police suspected she'd simply run away until her naked, bruised body was discovered in a ditch 20 miles away.
A phone number helps police to find an abductor.
Medical detectives believe a murder suspect may not have killed his wife after all.
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.
When a popular disc jockey was found murdered in a community garden, police swung into action. A sniffer dog and a blood spatter expert led police to the killer, and he'd been much closer than they realized.
Police are suspicious of a mysterious car crash that kills a young man.
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