A brutal murder, lots of suspects and conflicting evidence but the forensics were clear on one thing: The killer knew his victim. And that alone gave investigators a head start.
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A 19-year-old woman was found dead in her car, the scene had been staged to make murder appear to be suicide. During their investigation, police discovered the victim was involved in a love quadrangle, giving several people a motive to kill her.
A girl claimed she had been abducted. She recounted what happened but things didn't add up to police.
Emergency dispatch received a call from a man who said his girlfriend shot and killed herself. The autopsy revealed that the gunshot wound was not self-inflicted and the evidence on her body would give police a golden opportunity to catch her killer.
When a young woman disappeared, police feared she was the latest victim in a string of similar crimes.
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.
In 1991, a high school girl vanished after attending a party. The prime suspect had two alibi witnesses for the night she disappeared. A solid alibi can often overcome circumstantial evidence, but forensic evidence is another matter.
In 1994, Shannon Melendi disappeared while at Emory University. Her disappearance remained a mystery for ten years, until new scientific testing cast a different light on Colvin "Butch" Hinton.
In 1985, 121 people in South Dakota and Minnesota were struck by a mysterious illness. There had been only one outbreak like it, and when it happened again no one could figure out why.
A beautiful young woman falls to her death from a cliff overlooking the ocean. Initially, investigators think it was a tragic accident. But after a forensic examination, police uncover a very different picture of what happened.
In 2006, Texas real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker was found brutally murdered in a model home.
A young couple decided to celebrate their first wedding anniversary with a camping trip to Mount Hood. During the trip, the husband was shot and killed. Later, his wife told two different versions of the events which led to his death.
A patrolman was dispatched to what he thought would be a routine traffic call until he looked in the car.
Almost a hundred vehicles were involved in the single most deadly automobile accident in American history.
A brutal murder, lots of suspects and conflicting evidence but the forensics were clear on one thing: The killer knew his victim. And that alone gave investigators a head start.
A woman is found dead in a ravine, but crucial crime scene evidence had been washed away by severe thunderstorms. Almost 20 years later, an old hat brought the killer to justice.
On September 17, 1984, in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona, eight-year-old Vicki Hoskins left home on her pink bicycle to mail a letter for her mother. She never returned, but her slightly damaged bicycle was found nearby.
A married couple decided to escape the cold of winter with a mini-vacation in Key West. The wife went missing, and police searched every square inch of the island, they found nothing but a pair of sandals which might have belonged to her.
When four-month-old Ryan died under suspicious circumstances, his mother was convicted of his murder.
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 woman was brutally murdered in her home and the only witnesses to the crime were the family dogs. An expert in canine behavior was convinced the killer knew both the victim and the animals.
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