
Forensic Files
A child was killed in a hit-and-run. The prosecutor has an accident reconstruction expert come to trial.

A child was killed in a hit-and-run. The prosecutor has an accident reconstruction expert come to trial.

For more than a year, hateful letters were sent to a school teacher in Pennsylvania. DNA analysis would eventually help seal the perpetrator's fate.

When the wife of a well-known dentist is found dead, police struggle to identify a suspect. Some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open.

In 1999, nine-year-old Valiree Jackson vanished on her way to school near Spokane, WA. Her father Brad Jackson reported the disappearance and the entire community started searching for her abductor.

Robert Sims returned home after working the night shift and found his wife, Paula, unconscious on the kitchen floor. Their two-year-old son, Randy, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, but their six-week-old daughter, Heather, was missing.

Police investigate a missing college girl and discover her double life: attending school by day and working as a call-girl by night. Her body is found and investigators find her killer.

Eileen and Derrick Severs disappeared from their home in the small village of Hambleton in Great Britain.

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.

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.

Detectives search for the bombers of two churches in Illinois, hoping that the materials used in the remnants of the handmade bombs will offer the clues to catch the culprits.

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.

A woman was brutally murdered in her home and the only witnesses to the crime were the family dogs. An expert in canine behavior was convinced the killer knew both the victim and the animals.

In 1999, Susan Fassett was gunned down as she left her church choir practice in Poughkeepsie, NY. After clearing her husband, police turned their attention to Fred Andros, with whom Susan had an affair.

A man was killed in a car crash, but the evidence led investigators to believe it was not an accident.

In 1987, the death of Crystal Purcell was considered an accident. Then in 2001, Barbara Purcell called police to suggest that her estranged husband had killed Crystal.

A woman was shot to death in her Connecticut driveway. Now police must determine if love had turned deadly.

For twelve years, the murder of a young woman went unsolved, but with the passage of time came the development of technology. Could a used tissue found at the crime scene give police the evidence they need to bring a killer to justice?

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 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.

The woman in the back of the truck was flailing her arms, screaming. They thought she was doing something dangerous for the fun of it.