Forensic Files
A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.
A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.
Lives changed in the 20 years following an unsolved murder, and so did forensic science. In time, a high-powered microscope and DNA profiling revealed a clue no one had seen before.
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.
Police are able to create a composite sketch of a man burnt beyond recognition. But tracking the killer is more challenging.
In 1996, Derrick Duehren returned to find his Oregon home burned to the ground. His wife's charred remains were later found in the rubble.
A woman appears to have lost control of her SUV and plunged down an embankment into a shallow creek. But investigators suspect foul play when they find snowy footprints leading from the crime scene.
A woman was found dead on the bedroom floor of her apartment. The crime scene yielded little of value and investigators wondered if they would find enough evidence to make a case.
A serial rapist is on the loose in a Texas town. No one knew where he'd strike next, but the audacity of his attacks and the escalation of violence against his victims made finding him imperative.
A killer made great effort to obscure the shoe impressions left when he tracked blood on the floor, but he ended up creating new incriminating evidence...
Doctors don't know why a scientist is gravely ill. When tests reveal the cause, it's too late to save him.
A skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands. Investigators learned she'd been dead for months.
When a man's story of a killing contradicted physical evidence, investigators turned to forensic science.
A young woman attends evening church services... then disappears. When her abandoned car is found, the tank is empty and a gas can she kept in her trunk for emergencies is missing.
A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site.
The victim was well liked and successful, which made the brutality of the crime even harder to understand.
Foul play is suspected when Fort Worth factory worker Glenda Furch disappears after completing her shift.
When a hit-and-run boating accident caused a death, police must search for one boat among 1200 others.
In 2004, Rebecca Barney and her soon-to-be ex-husband Fred were found shot to death in their Tulsa, Oklahoma, home, which had been set on fire.
In 1986, Gary Dale Larson was stabbed to death in his Edmond, Oklahoma home and then the killer sexually assaulted Larson's girlfriend Janet Haynes.
In 2008, the body of Colorado real estate developer Alan Helmick was found by his wife, Miriam, who then became the prime suspect.