Forensic Files
An 82-year-old woman was found dead. Clues on the victim's body would tell police what happened that night.
An 82-year-old woman was found dead. Clues on the victim's body would tell police what happened that night.
In 2006, Texas real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker was found brutally murdered in a model home.
When a little girl got sick and died, investigators were stumped. Was it an accident, an unexplained illness or murder?
The woman in the back of the truck was flailing her arms, screaming. They thought she was doing something dangerous for the fun of it.
When Kristine Fitzhugh failed to show up for her music class, her husband found her dead at the bottom of the stairs of their Palo Alto home. Further investigation reveals evidence of murder in the kitchen.
In 2006, Darlene VanderGiesen received threatening emails and then disappeared. Tracking the source of the emails led police to the home of Daphne Wright, where they believe a murder was committed.
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?
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 security guard disappeared from his post without a trace his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site.
The brutal murder of a state park employee over $2,000 rattles her co-workers and tourists while leaving police to sift through hundreds of leads.
When an off-duty policeman was shot dead, his fellow officers were determined to solve the crime. They needed clues to find the killer and they discovered them in tiny fibres and an asthma inhaler.
Volunteers and police spend weeks searching for a missing girl. A psychic later leads them to a field where the body was found.
After the suspect was convicted of murder, he maintained his innocence through his 25 years in prison.
In 1994, Shannon Melendi disappeared while at Emory University. Her disappearance remained a mystery for ten years, until new scientific testing cast a different light on Colvin "Butch" Hinton.
A bomb, constructed to cause as much damage as possible, kills a victim with deadly force and flame. When a search yields some tiny clues, police are able to identify the killer.
A driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian because his Jeep had been sold months ago.
When court clerk Peter Porco doesn't report to his work in November 2004, a courts officer is ordered to the Porcos' family home in Bethlehem, NY.
The crime scene was especially violent: A couple had been shot to death. Was their teenage daughter complicit?
In 1995, Palm Beach waitress Denise O'Neill is abducted and murdered. Her neighbor Luis Caballero arouses suspicions by his odd behavior toward TV crews covering the crime.
Paul Gruber's daughter suspected something was wrong when she received birthday cards addressed from her father, but written in a stranger's handwriting.