Forensic Files
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
The victim has been stabbed more than thirty times, and the crime scene is awash with her blood. Near her head, police discover a distinctive button with strands of thread still attached.
A man was killed in a car crash, but the evidence led investigators to believe it was not an accident.
The medical examiner ruled a death an accident, but the detectives thought the evidence indicated otherwise.
Volunteers and police spend weeks searching for a missing girl. A psychic later leads them to a field where the body was found.
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...
A Russian immigrant is found dead and a strange phone call to his office is the only lead investigators have.
Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.
The prime suspect had a criminal record and his driver's license was found at the scene of a brutal double homicide.
In 2007, the Florida mobile home of Effie and Michael Ratley catches fire. Michael heroically rescues his wife and infant son. A month later, his wife is found beaten to death in a bedroom of his parents' home.
When a car was found in a drainage ditch with two bodies inside, a fingertip torn from a latex glove would point investigators to both the crime scene and the killer.
A serial killer was on the loose and police had to find him before he struck again. Their most promising lead was an unusual one: a bloody fingerprint on the body of one of the victims.
A wealthy man and his wife were attacked by three masked men outside their luxurious Louisiana home. He was shot dead and she was forced to open their hidden safe.
A millionaire and his family were executed in their own home. For three years, the murders went unsolved. Finally, a box of ammunition and some fluorescent fibers revealed the ultimate betrayal.
The victim had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the beach. A pair of men's tennis shoes was discovered near her body.
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...
On Halloween night 2004, Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara were brutally murdered in their Napa home.
Two suspects are linked to a murder by bloodstained boots and a gun, but the owner of the items says he has never met the victim.
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 bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses, an ambush or a random attack the clue was something so tiny, it was measured in millionths of a meter.