In The Line of Fire
Bombers, snipers, spree killers: some people don't care who they kill, they just want to hurt innocent people.
2026-07-02 01:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 02:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
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Wasted Youth
When teenagers are driven to kill, their victims are but the first to fall. In three such cases, the families of the killers, as well as their communities, become the victims of violent crime.
2026-07-03 01:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 02:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Predators And Parasites
For the forensic entomologist, the insects that nest in dead bodies are like tiny witnesses to a crime.
2026-07-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 01:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Cold Blooded
Time of death is an important consideration in a murder investigation, but when a killer freezes, burns, or grinds his victim, even the most skilled medical examiner would be at a loss about how to calculate it.
2026-07-02 23:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Infallible Witness
Investigators are always on the cutting edge of new forensic techniques that can help them solve cases more accurately. An experimental brain fingerprinting technique has already won the acquittal of a police officer accused of a drug charge.
2026-07-02 22:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 23:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Trial Of The Century
Forensics in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial: Millions watched on television as the jury rendered their verdict. Orenthal James Simpson was found not guilty of murder.
2026-07-02 21:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 22:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Unlikely Sources
Some of the best clues come from the least likely places. Baffling crimes have been solved and criminals betrayed through evidence provided by insects, beer bottles, and other seemingly meaningless objects.
2026-07-02 20:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 21:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Raw Greed
A friendly Midwest lodge becomes the scene of a gruesome double murder. Two men are dead and a safe filled with cash is missing.
2026-07-02 19:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 20:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Body Count
Some people do get away with murder, at least for a while. Flush with their success, serial killers murder again and again. But each time they kill, they leave behind a few more clues, which ultimately lead to their undoing.
2026-07-02 13:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 14:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Deadly Target
Ballistics: A corpse is found with a gunshot wound to the head the weapon lies next to the victim. It looks like suicide, but could it be murder? It's a question best solved by ballistics experts.
2026-07-02 12:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 13:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Misplaced Loyalty
In Northern California, a fire rages in the middle of the night. A woman's charred body is discovered in the smoldering aftermath.
2026-07-02 11:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 12:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Living In Terror
Terrorism: Thanks to new technology and, perhaps, the approaching millennium, terrorism is a growing international threat. The Oklahoma City explosion and the bombing of the World Trade Center are just two of the incidents of this growing problem.
2026-07-02 10:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 11:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Left At The Scene
The tiniest residue left at the scene can become a mark of distinction in the most singular and intimate of ways.
2026-07-02 09:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 10:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Grave Secrets
Killers often attempt to deflect attention away from their crimes by hiding the remains of their victims. Bodies may lay hidden for years before they are discovered.
2026-07-02 08:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 09:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
For Love Or Money
Every family has its secrets, and sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed. When money is the motive, murder can rip at the very foundation of marriage and family.
2026-07-02 07:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 08:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
In The Line of Fire
Bombers, snipers, spree killers: some people don't care who they kill, they just want to hurt innocent people.
2026-07-02 01:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 02:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Vanished
In New York, an ambitious college student has her whole life ahead of her, until she crosses the path of a killer. It's a random murder, the hardest kind to solve.
2026-07-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 01:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Absent Witness
When killers hide or destroy the remains of their victims, it becomes the mission of forensic scientists to reconstruct the scenes and prove murder for an absent witness.
2026-07-01 23:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Grave Discoveries
Some cases simply can't be solved with current technology or with the evidence at hand. But that doesn't mean they'll remain unsolved forever.
2026-07-01 22:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-01 23:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
A Deadly Smile
Investigators rely on forensic odontology to identify a body from a single tooth and to catch two brutal killers from their bite marks.
2026-07-01 21:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-01 22:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
Fatal Compulsion
Forensic psychologists delve into the minds of serial killers, explaining why, most often, they can be a friendly neighbor or the tenacious co-worker the one who hides his or her dark side better than anyone else.
2026-07-01 20:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-01 21:00:00 +0000 UTC(1h)
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