
Forensic Files
In 2008, college co-ed Jenna Verhaalen was found dead in her Bryan, Texas apartment. Petechial hemorrhages in her eyes indicated that she was strangled.

In 2008, college co-ed Jenna Verhaalen was found dead in her Bryan, Texas apartment. Petechial hemorrhages in her eyes indicated that she was strangled.

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.

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

In 2008, the body of Colorado real estate developer Alan Helmick was found by his wife, Miriam, who then became the prime suspect.

The victim had ingested a massive amount of cyanide. An unlikely clue - a flaw on a mailing envelope - exposed a murderer who was willing to kill innocent people.

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 an off-duty policeman was shot dead, his fellow officers were determined to solve the crime. They needed clues to find the killer and they discovered them in tiny fibres and an asthma inhaler.

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.

In one of the most brazen crimes of the 20th century, the chairman of the Coors Brewing Company was kidnapped.

The victim was well liked and successful, which made the brutality of the crime even harder to understand.

A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn't match any of the suspects and the case went cold for ten years.

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

A Russian immigrant is found dead and a strange phone call to his office is the only lead investigators have.

The crime scene was especially violent: A couple had been shot to death. Was their teenage daughter complicit?

A six-year-old girl ran and hid when she saw her grandmother being beaten to death, but the man followed, beat and assaulted her. She said the assailant was her uncle, who was convicted.

A young woman is found dead in her apartment. With little evidence at the scene, the case turns cold.

A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn't match any of the suspects and the case went cold for ten years.

A surgeon is stabbed to death, and the most likely suspect is seen in a restaurant at the time of the murder.

In 2008, college co-ed Jenna Verhaalen was found dead in her Bryan, Texas apartment. Petechial hemorrhages in her eyes indicated that she was strangled.

The body of an attractive young woman was found a mile from her abandoned car. Police were especially concerned when they realized the victim had come to them for protection just two weeks earlier.