
Forensic Files
Kathy Lorick was murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail while talking to her husband on her phone.

Kathy Lorick was murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail while talking to her husband on her phone.

In 2002, funeral director Lonnie Turner, Sr. was found shot to death. His son Lonnie Jr. became the prime suspect, particularly after it was discovered that the murder was committed with his gun. However, he had an alibi for the time of the murder.

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?

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.

Police get a clue about a couple who disappeared on Memorial Day weekend during an in-progress robbery.

Even though their daughter had run away before, she'd always come back. Her parents were sure this time would be no different, but they were wrong.

A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.

A young woman is stabbed more than 100 times. The killer leaves DNA behind, but investigators must play a cat-and-mouse game to obtain a suspect's DNA to match.

A skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands. Investigators learned she'd been dead for months.

Police are able to create a composite sketch of a man burnt beyond recognition. But tracking the killer is more challenging.

In 2006, Darlene VanderGiesen received threatening emails and then disappeared. Tracking the source of the emails led police to the home of Daphne Wright, where they believe a murder was committed.

Paul Gruber's daughter suspected something was wrong when she received birthday cards addressed from her father, but written in a stranger's handwriting.

In the early hours of Christmas Eve, a college co-ed was abducted from the parking lot of her apartment.

The prime suspect had a criminal record and his driver's license was found at the scene of a brutal double homicide.

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 a car was found in a drainage ditch with two bodies inside, a fingertip torn from a latex glove would point investigators to both the crime scene and the killer.

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.

Lives changed in the 20 years following an unsolved murder, and so did forensic science. In time, a high-powered microscope and DNA profiling revealed a clue no one had seen before.

The victim has been stabbed more than thirty times, and the crime scene is awash with her blood. Near her head, police discover a distinctive button with strands of thread still attached.

A bomb, constructed to cause as much damage as possible, kills a victim with deadly force and flame. When a search yields some tiny clues, police are able to identify the killer.