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

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

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 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.

It's usually easy to determine how a criminal entered the crime scene. But in this case, it was far from clear. It looked like the killer vanished into thin air...and perhaps he had.

A murder trail turned cold, until police got a call from a woman whose husband, Gerald Powers, had a criminal past and a fondness for Chevy Berettas.

An 82-year-old woman was found dead. Clues on the victim's body would tell police what happened that night.

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

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

When Kristine Fitzhugh failed to show up for her music class, her husband found her dead at the bottom of the stairs of their Palo Alto home. Further investigation reveals evidence of murder in the kitchen.

A girl claimed she had been abducted. She recounted what happened but things didn't add up to police.

In 2006, Nevada politician Kathy Augustine died mysteriously during a hard-fought re-election campaign and the medical examiner could neither isolate the cause of death.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.

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.