
Forensic Files
After shooting his victims in the head, the killer staged the scene, placed the incriminating evidence into a plastic bag and tossed it into the river.

After shooting his victims in the head, the killer staged the scene, placed the incriminating evidence into a plastic bag and tossed it into the river.

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 driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian because his Jeep had been sold months ago.

Security cameras in a casino tracked a young woman's movements until shortly before she disappeared. She was never seen again.

In 1991, Dorothy Donovan was murdered in her Dover, Delaware home and police are skeptical when her son Charles Holden stated that she was murdered by a hitchhiker he had picked up.

In 2006, Texas real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker was found brutally murdered in a model home.

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 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.

In 2005, David Castor suffered a slow, agonizing death over a period of days. His wife maintained it was suicide, even though it was done with antifreeze.

Foul play is suspected when Fort Worth factory worker Glenda Furch disappears after completing her shift.

Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.

Responding to a 2008 garage fire, Illinois emergency response discovered a man crushed beneath a truck.

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.

Avis Banks and her unborn child were brutally murdered. The body was discovered by her fiancé, Keyon Pittman. When police learned that Pittman was having affairs with other women, he became the prime suspect.

Seattle police had no suspects in the violent murder of post-grunge singer, Mia Zapata. More than a decade passed before the evidence could be used by forensic scientists to identify the killer.

In 2007, Shamaia Smith disappeared from the strip club she worked at in East Hartford, CT. Police look at various customers of the strip club, but focus on local businessman Kenneth Otto.

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.

When a hit-and-run boating accident caused a death, police must search for one boat among 1200 others.

The victim was a self-made man who never minced words. Perhaps he was murdered by a disgruntled client.

An investigation into the murder of a World War II veteran slowed to a halt when the prime suspect had a solid alibi. But a lucky break led to a shady character who wore distinctive boots.