Forensic Files
A Russian immigrant is found dead and a strange phone call to his office is the only lead investigators have.
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.
When the number of bloodstains at a scene were abnormal, it was up to forensic scientists to find out why.
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.
Christina Sanoubane was murdered in her Cedar Rapids apartment after moving away from her abusive boyfriend.
A skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands. Investigators learned she'd been dead for months.
A woman who was known to have suffered from depression took her own life. But her sister told police that she said if anything were to happen to her there would be a note in the china cabinet.
When a college co-ed vanished without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety and their own.