There was no clear reason for a young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the coroner discovered a tiny clue during the autopsy, investigators were able to uncover a mystery.
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In a tragic twist of fate, just days after the woman sold her home and moved to a modest trailer, a fire took both the trailer and her life. But the autopsy proved this was no accident.
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 crime scene was especially violent: A couple had been shot to death. Was their teenage daughter complicit?
The body of a young girl was discovered on isolated farmland near Delano, California. She had no ID, but police found mailbox keys in the pocket of her jeans.
Tracey Frame, 35, was convicted of killing David Nixon in April 2002 after he planned to end their relationship.
There was no clear reason for a young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the coroner discovered a tiny clue during the autopsy, investigators were able to uncover a mystery.
The prime suspect had a criminal record and his driver's license was found at the scene of a brutal double homicide.
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.
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.
An assistant manager of a Florida steakhouse is stabbed to death. It appears to be a robbery gone wrong.
In the early hours of Christmas Eve, a college co-ed was abducted from the parking lot of her apartment.
Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.
When a wealthy socialite died after falling down the stairs, witness accounts contradicted evidence. Investigators employed a physicist and an expert in accident reconstruction.
In 1996, Derrick Duehren returned to find his Oregon home burned to the ground. His wife's charred remains were later found in the rubble.
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.
Paul Gruber's daughter suspected something was wrong when she received birthday cards addressed from her father, but written in a stranger's handwriting.
After inspecting storm damage to a home in Tampa, an insurance assessor simply disappeared. Thirty hours later, her body was found in a nearby river. But the killer had been careless.
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.
In 2001, Ginger Hayes and her infant son Nicholas were abducted during a carjacking and the crime had been reported by a witness within minutes of occurrence.
A Russian immigrant is found dead and a strange phone call to his office is the only lead investigators have.
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