Forensic Files
A woman was shot to death in her Connecticut driveway. Now police must determine if love had turned deadly.
A woman was shot to death in her Connecticut driveway. Now police must determine if love had turned deadly.
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.
After the suspect was convicted of murder, he maintained his innocence through his 25 years in prison.
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...
In 2004, nursing student Tamika Huston went missing from her Spartanburg, South Carolina home. A tip led detectives to her car, where they found an unknown house key that could help solve the case.
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.
A 13-year-old girl went missing from her Colorado home and the only evidence the kidnapper left behind was three fingerprints on a window screen.
Police get a clue about a couple who disappeared on Memorial Day weekend during an in-progress robbery.
In 1999, Patrick McRae was found dead in his Des Moines home and the crime scene was awash with blood.
Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.
In 2006, Nevada politician Kathy Augustine died mysteriously during a hard-fought re-election campaign and the medical examiner could neither isolate the cause of death.
In the 1990s, the media dubbed Richard Rogers the "Last Call Killer" because he targeted men in gay bars.
James Kenneth Elmen Jr. abducted Julie Estes, then 21, from the Southside convenience store where she worked in 1985.
In a tragic twist of fate, just days after the woman sold her home and moved to a modest trailer, a fire took both the trailer and her life. But the autopsy proved this was no accident.
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.
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.
Paul Gruber's daughter suspected something was wrong when she received birthday cards addressed from her father, but written in a stranger's handwriting.
When two women went missing and were later found brutally murdered, police wondered if they were victims of a hate crime.
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.
In 2003, St. Cloud teenager Jason MacLennan returned home after a night out with friends and discovered his father Ken's body lying in a pool of blood.