Forensic Files
A skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands. Investigators learned she'd been dead for months.
A skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands. Investigators learned she'd been dead for months.
Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.
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 a dedicated, well-respected teacher disappeared, police had to determine if she'd gone on vacation without telling anyone, or if she was the victim of foul play.
When a hit-and-run accident claimed the life of a high school athlete, everyone in town mourned his passing. Finding the killer was a long shot at best.
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.
In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered.
The prime suspect had a criminal record and his driver's license was found at the scene of a brutal double homicide.
A driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian because his Jeep had been sold months ago.
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.
A skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands. Investigators learned she'd been dead for months.
A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site.
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.
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.
When DNA proves that a man who practically admits to a brutal attack is innocent, police wonder why he is willing to take the blame.
The body of a college co-ed was found on a farm covered with her own denim as well as the jeans of the killer.
Kathy Lorick was murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail while talking to her husband on her phone.
In 1993, young mother Tammy Tatum was sexually assaulted and murdered in her Longmont, Colorado apartment.
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.
Tracey Frame, 35, was convicted of killing David Nixon in April 2002 after he planned to end their relationship.