Forensic Files
A series featuring detailed accounts on how notable crimes and diseases were solved through forensic science.
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Cast:Peter Thomas , Tom Bevel , Skip Palenik , Lowell Levine , Mary Case , Kim Rossmo , Cyril H. Wecht , Henry C. Lee , Neal Haskell , Trey Gowdy , Katherine Ramsland , Bruce Castor , Dennis Asen , Roy Hazelwood , Michael Atilano , Roy Shuler , Peter Dean , Paul Pinkham
S1.E1 ∙ The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
A Connecticut flight attendant went missing and was never seen again. Police suspected her husband was guilty of murder and they were able to prove it - even though they never found the woman's body.
S1.E2 ∙ The Magic Bullet
Sitting in the apparently safe lobby of his father's gun club, a teenage boy is mysteriously shot dead. Ballistics, laser technology, scale models and forensic animation reveal the bullet's amazingly tragic path - and who was responsible.
S1.E3 ∙ The House That Roared
A woman mysteriously disappears, and police detect blood on her bedroom carpet. Testing with the chemical Luminol reveals a room awash in blood spatter. DNA testing confirms the victim's identity. Can police find her body - and the killer?
S1.E4 ∙ The Footpath Murders
British detectives worked with a pioneering scientist to solve crimes of sexual assault and serial murder. This 1986 case marked the first time DNA was used as evidence in a court of law.
S1.E5 ∙ Planted Evidence
Early one morning in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, a motorcyclist discovered the body of a young woman. She had been beaten, bound, strangled and possibly raped. The nearby plants would tell investigators more about the killer than any other single piece of evidence.
S1.E6 ∙ Southside Strangler
Shortly after Thanksgiving in 1987, an intruder broke into a residence in Arlington, Virginia. That crime launched a new era in police investigations: DNA evidence and psychological profiling helped catch a serial killer and free an innocent man.
S1.E7 ∙ Legionnaires' Disease
Philadelphia, the birthplace of the United States, played host to millions of tourists and hundreds of gatherings as America celebrated its 200th year of independence. History was made that summer of 1976 - not because of the bicentennial, but because of the mysterious death of 34 people at an American Legion convention. The groundbreaking investigation by the CDC had to explain why dozens inside a hotel - and some who just walked by outside - all got sick.
S1.E8 ∙ The Wilson Murder
On the night of May 22, 1992, Betty Wilson returned home after a meeting. She walked up the stairs to the bedroom and discovered her husband, lying in a pool of blood. Jack Wilson had obviously been murdered... but how? And by whom? Even the experts couldn't agree.
S1.E9 ∙ Deadly Neighborhoods
Eleven children in an elementary school in Phoenix contracted childhood leukemia; nine of them died. And in Guilford, Connecticut, five people were diagnosed with brain tumors on a street where there were only nine homes. Two towns, two cancer clusters, two mysteries. The investigation answered some questions, but raised many more.
S1.E10 ∙ Insect Clues
Between 1985 and 1988, 18 people were choked, molested and left for dead in the remote desert mountains of California. The only witnesses were the insects - and they also proved to play an important role in solving the crimes and bringing the killer to justice.
S1.E11 ∙ Outbreak
In 1985, 121 people in South Dakota and Minnesota were struck with a mysterious illness. There had been only one outbreak like it, and when it happened then, no one could figure out why. This time, disease detectives would use scientific tools to unravel a mystery centered on the technique of a butcher.
S1.E12 ∙ The List Murders
For 18 years, a man who murdered his entire family successfully eluded the FBI. This episode describes how investigators used both art and forensic science to catch the killer, John List.
S1.E13 ∙ Raw Terror
In 1991 after a weekend earning wilderness merit badges, a boy scout ended up with slight fever and diarrhea, sending him to the hospital. His kidneys started shutting down and his diarrhea turned into hemorrhaging, leaving doctors puzzled.
S2.E1 ∙ The Common Thread
In 1984, a serial killer was on the loose in Florida. Eight women had been found dead. At each crime scene, investigators found tiny red fibers, fibers they hoped would lead them to the killer.
S2.E2 ∙ The Dirty Deed
Eileen and Derrick Severs disappeared from their home in the small village of Hambleton in Great Britain, and police found evidence which suggested foul play. Careful analysis of a soil sample would tell investigators not only what happened to the couple, but who was responsible for the dirty deed.
S2.E3 ∙ Killer Fog
In the single, most deadly automobile accident in American history, almost a hundred vehicles collided, twelve people died, and over fifty people were injured. It happened along a three mile stretch of highway long known for dense, thick fog. Investigators set out to determine if the fog was a natural phenomenon, or the result of something else.
S2.E4 ∙ Sex, Lies and DNA
While Earl Morris was vacationing in California, he learned his wife had disappeared from their home in Arizona. The search for Ruby Morris involved dozens of investigators and scientists, even the U.S. Coast Guard. The investigation uncovered surprising family secrets and followed a trail from the deserts of Arizona to a mysterious vanishing, burning boat.
S2.E5 ∙ Bitter Potion
The flu-like symptoms of a mother and her children proved to be indicative something much more serious: thallium poisoning. Investigators had to find the source of the poison and when the mother died, to determine if the exposure was accidental, or if they also needed to find a killer.
S2.E6 ∙ The Blood Trail
In a quiet village in Great Britain, a farmer came upon a chilling sight. Impaled on his fence post was a severed lamb's head along with a note which read, "You next." Soon, a car-bomb maimed the farmer's wife. Then a neighbor is found dead, and the farmer is found bleeding from knife wounds. Investigators must decipher a very bloody scene to sort out the crimes.
S2.E7 ∙ Fatal Fungus
An infant was rushed to a Cleveland emergency room with serious breathing problems. The baby's lungs were bleeding, an extremely rare life-threatening condition. Within months, there were more than 30 cases - an incidence more than a thousand times higher than anywhere else in the world. Doctors had never seen anything like it, and searched frantically for the cause and a cure.
S2.E8 ∙ Charred Remains
Shortly after daybreak in Vancouver, British Columbia, a fire was set in a dumpster. No one saw the arsonist, and the fire burned for hours in a deserted parking lot. But there was more than garbage in the container, and it would take sophisticated science to find the evidence in the ashes.
S2.E9 ∙ Something's Fishy
Two people in Seattle, Washington died after taking an over-the-counter pain reliever; lab analysis of the pills showed they were tainted with a lethal concentration of cyanide. The investigation which followed led police to a suspect with a motive for murder and a callous disregard for others.
S2.E10 ∙ Sealed with a Kiss
For more than a year, angry, hateful letters were sent to a first grade school teacher in a small town in Pennsylvania. When scientists analyzed the letters, they found evidence that the sender knew a lot about the victim - more, in fact, than anyone could possibly have imagined. DNA analysis would eventually help seal the perpetrator's fate.
S2.E11 ∙ Postal Mortem
On October 15, 1985, two bomb explosions rocked Salt Lake City and resulted in two deaths. A third explosion occurred the next day; this time, the victim was injured but survived. As the investigation progressed, police came to believe the survivor was more than an innocent by-stander. When they turned to forensic science for help, they uncovered an almost unbelievable story of forgery, fraud and murder.
S2.E12 ∙ Micro-Clues
After a day of fishing in a small, quiet village in Switzerland, a teenage boy did not return home as planned. The investigation revealed some important microscopic evidence in the water near where he was last seen. It was the only forensic evidence detectives had... but would it be enough for them to find him?
S2.E13 ∙ Deadly Parasites
In the Spring of 1993, an unexplained illness struck the residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Four-hundred-thousand people developed a serious gastrointestinal illness, 4,000 were hospitalized and, by the time the epidemic was under control, more than 100 people were dead. Health officials suspected it was influenza, but it proved to be more serious and more difficult to identify.
S3.E1 ∙ Without a Trace
When eleven-month-old Chad Shelton was admitted to the hospital, his liver function was abnormal, his platelet count was dangerously low, and there was unexplained bleeding from his gums, nose and eyelids. Eventually, Chad went into a coma, and died. When other people in the house began to get ill as well, investigators and scientists must frantically search for a cause.
S3.E2 ∙ Knot for Everyone
In 1986 a woman named Stephanie Brown was driving some friends home to a foreign part of town. She took a wrong turn on Interstate 5 to get home and was later found dead in a flooded irrigation ditch.
S3.E3 ∙ The Talking Skull
A mapmaker surveying a boy scout ranch glimpsed something that caught his attention. At first he thought it was a turtle shell, but it proved to be a human skull. Investigators had to find a way to put a face on the victim, with only partial remains to work from. But if they could find out who she was, they might be able to determine what had happened to her.
S3.E4 ∙ Foreign Body
Between 1986 and 1989, a disease swept through British cattle herds. The disease came to be known as the Mad-cow disease. Scientist began to suspect that this was somehow related to some human illness.
S3.E5 ∙ Deadly Delivery
A serial bomber was on the loose, and he appeared to be waging a vendetta against the legal profession: A judge, two attorneys and even a courthouse had been targeted. The bombs were sophisticated and deadly, and investigators hoped they contained enough evidence to lead them to the person who built them.
S3.E6 ∙ Similar Circumstances
Robert Sims returned home after working the night shift, and found his wife, Paula, unconscious on the kitchen floor. Their two year old son, Randy, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, but their six week old daughter, Heather, was missing. Paula Sims was the only witness to a crime that baffles investigators to this very day.
S3.E7 ∙ Grave Evidence
Stephen Scher and Martin Dillon went skeet shooting in rural Pennsylvania on a beautiful Spring day in 1976. Martin was shot dead that day, and Scher maintained a freak accident had cost his friend his life. It would take more than 20 years for the truth to be revealed, and for the jury to rule on who was responsible for the death of Martin Dillon.
S3.E8 ∙ Deadly Formula
When four month old Ryan Stallings died under suspicious circumstances, his mother was arrested, charged, and ultimately convicted of his murder. But months later the verdict would be questioned when new evidence emerged from a startling source - his newborn brother.
S3.E9 ∙ Beaten by a Hair
Early one fall morning, Laura Houghteling left her Bethesda, Maryland home and walked to the train station on her way to work. She was never seen again. A peculiar strand of hair found in Laura's hairbrush enabled investigators to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
S3.E10 ∙ Crime Seen
In 1984, a couple set off for a camping trip but got lost and fell asleep at a scenic overlook in rural Virginia. They awoke to a person tapping on their car window; they both got out of the car to find out this man had a gun.
S3.E11 ∙ Speck of Evidence
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. Investigators turned to forensic science, in the hope it would tell them not only what happened to Vicki, but also who was responsible.
S3.E12 ∙ Broken Bond
When a two-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital suffering from brain seizures and breathing difficulties, doctors could not find the cause of his illness. Then the boy's sister provided an important clue, and raised the possibility of a syndrome of which few had ever heard, a syndrome that would need both medical investigators, and legal authorities.
S3.E13 ∙ Out of the Ashes
December, 1993, in Lansing, Michigan, Rose Larner stopped in a convenience store on her way to her boyfriend's house. She was never seen or heard from again. Rose's disappearance remained a mystery, until a tiny clue found years later revealed a tragic tale of drugs, romance and revenge.
S4.E1 ∙ Invisible Intruder
The crime scene was awash with blood, bespeaking the horror of the crime: the murder of two young boys and the stabbing of their mother. Forensic scientists carefully analyzed the blood evidence and found it told the story of an assailant who had gone to great lengths to alter the crime scene.
S4.E2 ∙ The Killing Room
Scott Dunn was missing and, at first glance, nothing seemed out of place in his apartment. Then police found faint blood spatters on the ceiling and walls, and a bloody carpet pad underneath a new piece of carpeting. When they sprayed the bedroom with luminol, a scene of horrific violence emerged. Now investigators faced a daunting task: to prove Scott Dunn had been murdered, even though they had no body, no weapon, and no witnesses.
S4.E3 ∙ Ultimate Betrayal
On a windy Kansas night in October, 1995, a mysterious fire swept through the home of a prominent doctor. Two of her family members made it out alive; two did not. In the debris, investigators found evidence which told them much more than how the fire started.
S4.E4 ∙ Cement the Case
In 1990, Shirley Andronowich's body was found one morning after she was murdered and mutilated. Eyewitnesses told police Shirley and her husband Ed were seen fighting in a bar the night before. Police first suspected Ed and even arrested him after he confessed to the murder. But all forensic evidence proved that Ed had actually nothing to do with the crime. Originally aired as Season 4, Episode 4.
S4.E5 ∙ Innocence Lost
Sometime during a neighborhood Christmas party, five-year-old Melissa Brannen disappeared. No one saw where she went or noticed anything unusual. Investigators turned to forensic science to help them see what the witnesses missed. The young girl was never seen again... but fiber analysis led police to a suspect nonetheless.
S4.E6 ∙ 'Til Death Do Us Part
The doctors at the hospital couldn't determine the cause of Bobby Curley's hallucinations and intense pain. At first, they treated it as a neurological disorder, Guillen-Barre Syndrome. But Bobby's condition deteriorated. Something he was being given in the hospital wasn't curing him, it was poisoning him.
S4.E7 ∙ Ties That Bind
Who was the sexual offender that murdered two adolescent boys in Nebraska? A criminal profiler from the FBI said he would definitely kill again. The key to stopping him would be the unique composition of the "junk rope" he used to tie his victims. Omaha police and the FBI use rope analysis, psychological profiling, forensic odontology, and even hypnosis to bring a 116-day manhunt to a close, and solve yet another murder in another state.
S4.E8 ∙ Body of Evidence
Karla Brown was found brutally murdered in the basement of her home. There was little evidence at the scene, and it began to look like the killer had committed the perfect crime. Then investigators noticed something in the crime scene photographs that had previously been overlooked: The killer had left behind an important clue after all.
S4.E9 ∙ Accident or Murder?
Janice Johnson was found dead at the foot of her basement stairs. Police in Nova Scotia had to unravel the circumstances surrounding Janice's death and answer the question: Was it an accident... or murder? Different authorities rule both ways, and it takes years - and a astonishingly unique recreation of the death - before justice is finally done.
S4.E10 ∙ Core Evidence
In 1996, more than a dozen children in Seattle, Washington, were fighting for their lives. Each one of them had contracted a serious illness, and no one knew what it was. When one of the children died, investigators knew the clock was ticking... and they needed to isolate the cause and find the cure before time ran out. Epidemiologists and other scientists find all the victims contracted the same strain of bacteria... but how?
S4.E11 ∙ Haunting Vision
On a September night in 1966, Dianne Keidel met a friend for a drink, and afterward, she disappeared. Investigators were unable to determine if Dianne was the victim of foul play, or if she couldn't face the responsibilities of being a single mother with four young children. That question was answered twenty-seven years later, when her daughter came forward with a fantastic tale of something she remembered seeing when she was only five-years-old. Could ground-penetrating radar and forensic anthropology help solve the mystery that haunted a young child all the way into adulthood?
S4.E12 ∙ With Every Breath
Young Navajos on a reservation in the southwest were dying at an alarming rate. CDC officials had never seen anything like it; the mysterious illness had claimed the lives of more than 20 people. The tribe's medicine men provided investigators with a critical clue... which would lead halfway around the world to a most unlikely killer.
S4.E13 ∙ Slippery Motives
While on a business trip in 1986, Ed Post started his day by jogging in downtown St. Louis. When he returned, he found his wife lying face-down in the bathtub, unconscious. She was rushed to the hospital, but it was too late. She had drowned. Was it possible a faulty towel ring was to blame? An industrial testing laboratory, an accident re constructionist, metallurgy analysis and a determined detective unravel a family's secrets and the truth about what happened in the hotel bath.
S5.E1 ∙ Badge of Deceit
For more than a decade, women in a small Louisiana city lived in fear of a rapist who becomes so experienced, he leaves no clues to his identity. But computer technology and behavioral science combine to give police a new forensic tool: geographical profiling. Police narrow their search to one man, local policeman Randy Comeaux. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 1.
S5.E2 ∙ Dew Process
New evidence points to a different killer in the case of a dentist's murdered wife.
S5.E3 ∙ A Woman Scorned
When Joann Katrinak is found dead with her infant son Alex next to her, the obvious suspect is the husband and father of the victims. But some insects found on the bodies reveal a vital clue, as does a blonde hair found on the victims which shares a commonality with the brunette hair of the husband's former love interest. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 3.
S5.E4 ∙ A Voice from Beyond
A decomposed body is found stuffed in a barrel -- but the body had been placed in the barrel 30 years earlier. One of the few clues was an address book found along with the body, however, years of moisture had washed away the ink. Scientists desperately searched for a way to reveal the information written on the pages of the address book. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 4.
S5.E5 ∙ Burning Ambition
When a Seattle policeman's house goes up in flames Fire officials think it's arson. One month later, in an ironic twist, the officer arrests a low-level drug dealer who confesses to the arson. But when the suspect vanishes, investigators start to question the authenticity of the so-called confession.
S5.E6 ∙ Memories
Dianna Green is brutally attacked in her own home and her unborn child is killed. After coming out of her coma and regaining her memory, she identifies her husband as the perpetrator.
S5.E7 ∙ Trail of Truth
Alaska, 1987: Nancy Newman and her two young daughters are found murdered. The husband is immediately suspected, but fingerprint and hair evidence points to someone else close to the family.
S5.E8 ∙ Material Evidence
The murder of two young girls and abduction of a store clerk may all be linked to one man. Unusual orange carpet fibers found on the scene are the key to aid the police in solving the crime and bringing to justice the killer.
S5.E9 ∙ 'Kill'igraphy
The autopsy played an important role in a murder investigation fof the suspicious 1997 death of Georgia resident Virginia Ridley. Police charged her mentally-unstable husband Alan with murder, but a medical examiner discovered that she died of other causes. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 9.
S5.E10 ∙ Nursery Crimes
A police investigation of a pediatrician, after the mysterious death of one of her patients, leads them to a Texas hospital where the pediatric mortality rate was higher than at any hospital in the country. The common link was nurse Genene Jones. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 10.
S5.E11 ∙ Lasting Impression
When the decomposed body of a teenage girl is discovered in Pennsylvania, police have no clues to her identity. But weeks earlier, stabbing victim told investigators she thought she might have heard a murder taking place in her basement.
S5.E12 ∙ Foundation of Lies
Police suspect Dr. Boyle in the disappearance of his wife Noreen after he signs mortgage papers for a new house with a woman pretending to be his spouse. Using the recollections of their twelve year-old son regarding what he heard the night his mother went missing, investigators discover Noreen's body in the basement of Dr. Boyle's new house. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 12.
S5.E13 ∙ Unholy Vows
The story of Archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, former head of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America, is related. Following World War II, Trifa emigrated from Romania to the U.S. In 1957, survivors of Nazi atrocities recognized him.
S5.E14 ∙ Broken Promises
When Russ Stager, a popular gym teacher, is found dead of what appears to be an accidental gunshot wound, his family becomes suspicious. They think his wife may have planned his murder. When police find that her previous husband died in questionable circumstances, they re-examine the crime scene and uncover evidence that the death was no accident. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 16.
S5.E15 ∙ Time Will Tell
England, 1996: A man turns up dead in the ocean. Ronald Joseph Platt is identified using his tattoo and watch. A co-worker, Canadian financier Albert Johnson Walker, assumes the name of Platt as part of a money-laundering scheme.
S5.E16 ∙ Second Shot at Love
When heart surgeon Darryl Sutorius is found dead in the basement of his upscale Cincinnati home, police assume he committed suicide. Friends and family indicate that the man suffered prolonged bouts of depression.
S5.E17 ∙ Journey to Justice
Features the first case in the United States where video animation was considered admissible to show to a jury. Six-year-old Nicole Rae Walker was walking with other kids when a pickup truck with a camper top struck them. Nicole was killed. Through technology and the outrage of the community, her killer was found.
S5.E18 ∙ Video Diary
When convenience store employee Wanda Mason is found dead, having been shot at point blank range, investigators find the entire murder has been caught on the store's videotape security camera.
S5.E19 ∙ Deadly Knowledge
The investigation into a missing college coed leads police to discover that, unbeknownst to her friends, she lived a bizarre double life, attending school by day and working as a call-girl by night. When her body is found, investigators gather evidence that implicates her killer. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 14.
S6.E1 ∙ Missing in Time
A young woman was reported missing after a fight with her husband. She was presumed to be dead and her husband was the prime suspect. Police were suspicious of a secondary suspect when he reported a suspicious fire in his car.
S6.E2 ∙ Missing Pearl
In 1991, Maine resident Pearl Smith is missing after an argument with her husband. Despite pleas from her children, police treat it as a routine missing person's case. But, when an investigation turns up a blood trail that leads to the couple's basement, police are certain they'll finally find the victim's body. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 2.
S6.E3 ∙ Man's Best Friend?
In 1989, 4-year-old April Loveless was found dead in the backyard of her Texas home. Her mother, Debbie Loveless, and step-father John Miller told police that April was attacked and killed by the family dogs. Investigators did not agree and believed that April's wounds were not dog bites at all. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 3.
S6.E4 ∙ Hand Delivered
In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, an anonymous "tip" referring to unpublicized aspects of an unsolved case leads police on a hunt for a killer. Investigators use laser technology to identify the location from where the anonymous letter was mailed. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 4.
S6.E5 ∙ Death Play
In 1993, 16-year-old Marie Robards suffered the devastating loss of her father Steve Robards. The death was ruled the result of cardiac arrest.
S6.E6 ∙ Fire Dot Com
In 1996, seventeen month-old Josh Hinson died in a fire in his home. A federal agency ruled that it was arson and Josh's mother Terri Strickland was charged with murder. An independent fire investigator was able to poke enough holes in the government's scientific conclusions to ask serious questions about whether the fire was intentionally set. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 6.
S6.E7 ∙ Mistaken for Dead
California, 1988: Dr. Richard Boggs, John Hawkins and Melvin Eugene Hanson attempt insurance fraud. They would have gotten away with it, and tried again, if Dr. Boggs hadn't made several mistakes.
S6.E8 ∙ Frozen Evidence
In 1992, two masked gunmen enter the Canadian home of Ward and Diana Maracle to rob them, and Ward was shot in the head. A perpetrator leaves a shoe print in the mud, investigators make a mold of the shoe impression for later I.D.
S6.E9 ∙ Soft Touch
The 1990 murder of a Virginia woman is solved when new technology detects fingerprint evidence on a blood-stained pillow case.
S6.E10 ∙ Church Disappearance
When a six-year-old girl disappeared from church during a Sunday service, investigators feared a stalker was preying on children. A psychological profile of the perpetrator leads investigators to a taxi cab driver who was in the vicinity of the church at the time of the disappearance. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 10.
S6.E11 ∙ Photo Finish
In 1995, California model Linda Sobek goes missing. Some vital pieces of information are found in a dumpster, which eventually led investigators to professional photographer Charles Rathbun. Rathbun claims Sobek died during a consensual sexual encounter gone wrong, but Sobek's corpse and some high tech digital imagery tell a more sinister story. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 11.
S6.E12 ∙ Whodunit
An evening out at a Maryland murder mystery theatre performance turns into a real life whodunit when the badly burned body of Stephen Hricko is found in his hotel room after a fire. Lies, greed and medical trickery can't match the skills of forensic scientists, who pull the curtain down on the real killer. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 12.
S6.E13 ∙ Horse Play
Michigan resident Shannon Mohr died tragically in what was reported by her new husband, David Davis, as a horseback riding accident. Upon deeper investigation, police found a thread of lies and a proficiency with pharmaceuticals in Davis' background that provided a different explanation for Shannon's accidental death. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 13.
S6.E14 ∙ Treads and Threads
For 15 months, a serial killer was strangling prostitutes in Florida, then taunting police by leaving the bodies in plain sight. The only clues were a tire impression and some threads. By the time scientists identified the source of these treads and the threads, police discovered that the killer James Randall was right under their noses the entire time. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 14.
S6.E15 ∙ Killer's 'Cattle' Log
When police in the Great Plains were called to retrieve a dead body, they did a background check on the victim. The trail guided them into a strange thread of homeless drifters, cattle auctions and bad checks - all fronted by an elderly couple with a penchant for money and murder. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 15.
S6.E16 ∙ Skin of Her Teeth
In 1994, a human skull found in an Ohio pond uncovers a ghastly crime. Markings on the skull indicate that the victim had been stabbed many times and that the teeth had been removed with needle-nose pliers in an attempt to keep the victim's identity a secret. Forensic scientists use DNA matches to indentify the skull. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 16.
S6.E17 ∙ Line of Fire
When a fundamentalist group starts attacking and robbing banks in the Pacific Northwest, authorities know immediately that they are dealing with experienced criminals. A tip leads them to the alleged perpetrators and the evidence found at their homes is extensive. But in court, this wealth of evidence must withstand a well-funded defense. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 17.
S6.E18 ∙ Bad Blood
Forensic Files examines the case of Dr. John Schneeberger who raped one of his patients and his own step-daughter. Initially, he manages to avoid suspicious by beating a DNA test. At the trial he reveals that he implanted a plastic tube containing another person's blood in order to beat the test.
S6.E19 ∙ Pure Evil
Creating a "profile" of a serial killer is part science and part intuition. The science involves studying criminals who have committed similar crimes, to see what characteristics they have in common. In a search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas, a behavioral profile led to a possible suspect - and hard science proved the profile was correct. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 19.
S6.E20 ∙ Root of All Evil
The wife of prominent Illinois farmer Fred Grabbe disappeared from her farm without a trace. For three years, investigators searched in vain for any trace of her. Eventually, Fred Grabbe's former lover came forward with a fascinating tale filled with rage, murder, mutilation and cremation, but there seemed to be no way to test the validity of her story. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 20.
S6.E21 ∙ Where the Blood Drops
In 1987, Susie Mowbray was charged for the death of her husband, Bill Mowbray, which had the appearance of suicide. Her son was so convinced of her innocence that he enrolled in law school, studied all of the evidence and, eventually, discovered the truth of what really happened that fateful night between his mother and father. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 21.
S6.E22 ∙ Punch Line
Ohio, 1994: Rhoda Nathan is murdered in Cincinnati in room 237 of the Embassy Suites Hotel. An unusual injury is the key to finding the killer.
S6.E23 ∙ Sibling Rivalry
Two of America's premier pornographers happen to be brothers. When one turns up dead, his brother confesses to shooting him. The question for investigators is whether the shooting was pre-meditated. A 911 call in which the fatal shots can be heard, and a computer reconstruction of the crime scene, provide the answer. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 23.
S6.E24 ∙ Pastoral Care
In 1981, New York correctional officer Donna Payant disappeared and was later found in a landfill. The medical examiner not only identified the cause of death, but also found an important clue. Upon further investigation, it was discovered that a prison inmate might be responsible. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 24.
S6.E25 ∙ Bagging a Killer
A 9-year-old girl vanishes from her suburban neighborhood. Is her long-lost mother involved? Police use satellites to trace the perpetrator's movements that reveals who took her, where, and the twisted motives of a criminal mind.
S6.E26 ∙ Double Trouble
When off-duty Maine State Trooper Vicky Gardner is attacked during a routine stop, it triggers a series of events which jumpstarts a slow-paced murder case in New Jersey. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 26.
S6.E27 ∙ Cats, Flies and Snapshots
In 1989, 19-year-old Lori Auker left her Pennsylvania home for work but never arrived. Police investigators viewed this case as a missing persons or possible homicide and focussed on her estranged husband, Robert Auker. It takes space-age technology, cat hairs and insects to pinpoint the image of the woman's abductor before the real story can be told. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 27.
S6.E28 ∙ Naked Justice
An attorney's pregnant wife is found dead at home, shot in the head.
S6.E29 ∙ Treading Not So Lightly
In 1980, a four year-old is found unconscious in a parking lot with major head trauma. Police concluded it was a hit-and-run vehicle accident and closed the case. But Vicky's mother, Crystal, suspected there was more to the story and was determined to find out exactly what had happened. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 29.
S6.E30 ∙ Shopping Spree
Lisa Manderach and her daughter Devon left their home to go shopping, but didn't come back home at the expected time. Lisa's husband Jimmy called police in a panic to report their disappearance and directed them to a nearby shopping center. Later that day, Devon's body was found dumped off the side of the road, but there was no sign of Lisa. Originally aired as Season 6, Episode 30.
S7.E1 ∙ The Cheater
Walter Notheis Jr. was better known to the American public as entertainer Walter Scott, lead singer of the band, "Bob Kuban and the In-Men." Their most popular single was the 1966 hit, "The Cheater." Little did Walter know that the song would foreshadow the events that would lead to his demise. An autopsy on woman who died years earlier in a peculiar car wreck, a backyard hiding space, and years of investigation combine to finally solve the singer's disappearance.
S7.E2 ∙ Forever Hold Your Peace
Two men confess to a murder that took place behind a restaurant and are sentenced to a life in prison. Eight years later, another man, who sentenced for an unrelated crime, claims responsibility. Who really did it?
S7.E3 ∙ Reel Danger
The investigation into a brutal attack on two boys near a pond relies on evidence fished out of the murky water. It was the first case where Diatom evidence was used to place a suspect at the scene of the crime. The evidence helped in the conviction Christopher Green and Brian Davis. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 3.
S7.E4 ∙ Who's Your Daddy
Hair and fiber evidence help solve the 1988 murder of an Ohio woman whose body was discovered in a frozen river.
S7.E5 ∙ The Alibi
In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, we explore the case of 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, who was raped and murdered in her small town. When one of Crystal's male acquaintances' DNA matched semen at the crime scene, it raised the question, why would he volunteer for a DNA sample? Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 5.
S7.E7 ∙ Purr-Fect Match
In 1994, on Canada's Prince Edward Island, the body of Douglas Beamish's estranged wife, Shirley Duguay, was discovered. Authorities linked 20 cat hairs found on her jacket to a cat owned by Beamish's parents, with whom Doug Beamish lived. Scientists estimated that chances that the hairs came from another feline were one in 50 million. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 7.
S7.E8 ∙ Bio-Attack
The 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack: Investigators uncover a plot to overthrow the government, after a unique strain of salmonella makes people ill. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 8.
S7.E9 ∙ A Shot in the Dark
Two sets of scientists, probe a woman's death. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 9.
S7.E10 ∙ Without a Prayer
Forensic File, episode titled, "Without a Prayer", was created because of atheist, Madalyn Murray-O'Hair's activities in removing daily prayers, from public schools, in the early 1960's. There were three deaths, Madalyn, her second son, Jon Garth Murray, and Robin Murray-O'Hair. Robin was a daughter of Madalyn's Christian son, William J. Murray. All three were killed by a temporary atheistic member she fired, David Roland Waters. Madalyn fired Waters after he stole from the atheist headquarters. When Waters returned the stolen money and police did not jail him, this infuriated Madalyn! Leading her to write a story of Waters, calling him homosexual and claimed Waters even had sexual affairs with animals. After reading O'Hair's newspaper article, Waters' tension was so sharp, that David Roland Waters immediately planned to kill Madalyn Murray-O'Hair (and anyone else that was with her) as his quickest his way of revenge. He and Gary Karr also planned on torturing them so she and anyone else that maybe with her, died in heavy grieving pains! Waters' three murders were at the same time, because they were together, when he was wanting revenge to kill Madalyn O'Hair, for firing him and especially the deeply embarrassing newspaper article she composed, after Austin Police did not jail David Roland Waters, after he immediately paid back the money he had stolen. The three disappearances and deaths was almost five and a half years unsolved, are much like Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, near Detroit, Michagin, on Wednesday, July 30th, 1975. Hoffa's disappearance is still unsolved, being over forty years. Madalyn's first son, and father of Robin, O'Hair, William J. Murray personally spoke for himself, in this Forensic File. He become a Christian and picked Baptist faith, near Mother's Day weekend, of Sunday, May 11th, 1980. When Madalyn heard this, she never spoke to him anymore. William personally said that he regretted in being a part of taking prayer out of public schools. (March 2016)
S7.E11 ∙ A Clutch of Witnesses
While standing outside of a motorcycle gang's clubhouse, two witnesses watched in horror as a truck intentionally ran over an unconscious man. The truck was finally located, but the forensics lab could not find a single speck of evidence in it. And the body didn't turn up either. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 11.
S7.E12 ∙ Scout's Honor
Investigators turn to insects and the forensic entomologist are needed to solve this case.
S7.E13 ∙ A Touching Recollection
A clever Ohio girl remembers to leave fingerprints on her kidnapper's vehicle when she is abducted which aids police in their search along with a tire imprint in the mud.
S7.E14 ∙ A Leg to Stand On
When a severed leg is found in a dumpster, investigators are faced with the challenge of identifying the victim. Using anthropology, toxicology and DNA testing, police are able to determine who the victim was and follow the trail of evidence to his killer. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 14.
S7.E15 ∙ Partners in Crime
A man well-loved in the community is brutally stabbed to death and cash and valuables are missing. Detectives are stymied until one neighbor begins to show a peculiar obsessive interest. Finally a confession that seems half true.
S7.E16 ∙ Within a Hair
A look at the forensic evidence in the case of the "River Park Rapist," who assaulted four women in South Bend, Indiana during 1996. Three victims identify one man as the perpetrator, however, forensic evidence points to another man.
S7.E17 ∙ Chief Evidence
The murder of couple Raquel Rivera & Jay Johnson was first believed to be the result of a drug deal gone bad. However, no drugs are found in the house and the victims' blood isn't present on the clothing of the suspects. Evidence from the couple's dog eventually ties one of the murderers to the scene. This is one of the first cases where dog DNA was used. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 17.
S7.E18 ∙ A Bitter Pill to Swallow
A 33-year old woman meets, falls in love with, and marries a successful young doctor, but an unusual amount of discomfort during her pregnancy arouses her suspicions, prompting a personal investigation that culminates in a startling revelation.
S7.E19 ∙ Sip of Sins
A trio of unsolved murders that occurred in Wichita Falls, Texas during the 1980s, details how a fourth murder from the same time period provided the police with more than they realized. John Little, an investigator for the DA's office, picked up the cold cases years later. He soon connected the fourth crime's confessed killer to the other murders. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 40.
S7.E20 ∙ Telltale Tracks
The disappearance of Philadelphia college athlete Aimee Willard is investigated after her car was found, still running on the roadside. When her body is found, the police find unusual marks on her body and DNA evidence that eventually lead to her killer, Arthur Bomar. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 20.
S7.E21 ∙ Ghost in the Machine
A pastor's wife appears to have committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. But as the investigation progresses, detectives discover incriminating computer files and learn that the pastor had been having an affair.
S7.E22 ∙ Frozen in Time
A woman disappeared along a California highway in 1991; three years later, the case was solved when a man's refrigerated truck was looked upon with suspicion.
S7.E23 ∙ Cold Storage
Tracy Jo Shine disappeared in 1987, but the investigation went cold until 2000, when a cold case squad learned that the woman's ex-boyfriend Michael Neal had bragged about killing her.
S7.E24 ∙ The Metal Business
A man who runs a car restoration company believes his business partner is trying to kill him.
S7.E25 ∙ Dressed to Kill
When 6-year-old Michelle Door disappeared, her father became the prime suspect, having failed a polygraph. Years later, police learned that a man who'd been convicted of another murder lived just two doors away from Michelle when she disappeared. This discovery, and tiny drops of blood shed a decade earlier, helped police to solve the crime. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 25.
S7.E26 ∙ Palm Print Conviction
The 1996 investigation into 48-year-old Martha Hansen's murder in Anchorage is helped by a legal requirement that bars have video cameras installed on the premises. Using video, hair and blood evidence, investigators determine that Evans Lee Curtis was the murderer. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 26.
S7.E27 ∙ A Vow of Silence
When the mail-order bride of a former army sergeant goes missing, investigators look into the deaths of the man's previous two wives.
S7.E28 ∙ Elephant Tracks
The murders of an elderly couple leave police stumped. That is, until two years later when they get a huge break. A jeweler looking through old newspaper clippings recognizes a necklace the female victim wore as having been pawned in her own shop. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 28.
S7.E29 ∙ A Bag of Evidence
A plastic garbage bag leads authorities to the killer of a nine-year-old Florida girl.
S7.E30 ∙ Tooth or Consequences
An investigation into the murder of Katie Poirier is stymied by the lack of a body, but they find a few charred remains including a tooth. The unique properties of the filling in the tooth helps investigators identify her remains. Further forensic evidence is then used to convict Donald Blom of her murder. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 30.
S7.E31 ∙ The Sniffing Revenge
The Janet Overton Case. The investigation into a suspicious death hits a dead end when the autopsy indicates that no foul play was involved. But a telephone tip and the sensitive nose of a forensic examiner indicate otherwise.
S7.E32 ∙ Sleight of Hand
In 1981, an 86-year-old California woman was murdered and her house was ransacked. The crime would remain unsolved for sixteen years, until DNA profiling and new fingerprint technology helped identify the killer.
S7.E33 ∙ Scratching the Surface
In Miami, Florida, a sniper opened fire from the rooftop of a manufacturing plant, killing one employee and injuring two others in the parking lot below. When the gun was found, the police discovered that the shooter had scratched the serial number off of it to make it untraceable. But forensic scientists had a way to make the number reappear. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 33.
S7.E34 ∙ Fire Proof
A mysterious arsonist sets dozens of fires in Seattle in the early 1990s.
S7.E35 ∙ X Marks the Spot
The use of the computers by law enforcement is detailed in this look at a series of crimes in St. Louis that stumped the local police and the FBI.
S7.E36 ∙ All Charged Up
The case of the Center City Rapist and the murder of Shannon Schieber. Philadelphia authorities use an anonymous letter and geographic profiling to hone in on a suspect who attacks victims who live on upper floors of apartment buildings.
S7.E37 ∙ Breaking the Mold
Investigators look into what is making a family unwell.
S7.E38 ∙ House Call
A murder investigation in St. Petersburg, Florida, crosses jurisdictions from New York and Jamaica. The police rely heavily on cell phone mapping, wiretapping and a host of forensic evidence to reveal a suspect to the crime. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 38.
S7.E39 ∙ Marathon Man
The wife of a murdered horse rancher explains that the last time she saw her husband was when he was leaving the house to go jogging, but police become suspicious when forensic evidence eventually leads investigators back to the ranch.
S7.E40 ∙ The Sniper's Trail
An examination of the 2002 DC-area shooting spree that resulted in ten murders.
S7.E41 ∙ Plastic Fire
An elderly Georgia woman dies in a car fire. Police claim the woman was murdered by her daughter, but an expert witness believes otherwise.
S7.E42 ∙ Last Will
Sharon ("Shari") Smith, kidnapped and murdered in South Carolina in 1985, died about two hours after writing her last will which her killer sent to her parents. The document itself enabled police to identify and convict Larry Gene Bell.
S8.E1 ∙ Dessert Served Cold
Emergency personnel were called to the home of Richard Alfredo, who was slumped over, dead of an apparent heart attack. No one thought foul play was a possibility until police looked into the odd behavior of his girlfriend Christina Martin. Controversy surrounded the case for almost a decade, which pitted competing teams of toxicologists against each other. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 1.
S8.E2 ∙ The Music Case
In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, the sense of security in Waseca, Minnesota shatters when 12-year-old Cally Jo Larson is found dead in her home. Despite an exhaustive investigation, only a string of burglaries, which lead police to a cache of stolen goods, brings a killer to justice. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 2.
S8.E3 ∙ Paintball
In 1962, the people of the small town of Hanford, California lost their sense of peace when one of their own, 15 year-old Marlene Miller, was murdered. It would take 24 years and countless retrials before forensic scientists discovered the microscopic evidence that brought the killer to justice. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 3.
S8.E4 ∙ Sign Here
A mother of two disappears after a shopping trip. Her body is found a month later. Witnesses saw the victim being forced into a car by an unknown person. Police learn that the car had been rented, but the signature on the rental agreement does not match that of their number one suspect. A forensic handwriting expert points to the murderer. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 4.
S8.E5 ∙ Shadow of a Doubt
The day before she was scheduled to testify against the man accused of robbing her, a woman is shot to death in her store. Police ask a physics professor to examine the would-be defendant's alibi: a time-stamped videotape.
S8.E6 ∙ Tourist Trap
In 1993, thieves were robbing and killing tourists in Florida, making worldwide headlines. One victim fought back, suffering a bite mark that became key evidence against a determined suspect - who ran into a even more determined detective.
S8.E7 ∙ Once Bitten
Due to a bite mark, an Arizona man is convicted and sentenced to death for the 1991 murder of a bartender. However, he fights to prove his innocence.
S8.E8 ∙ All Wet
A woman's death in Pennsylvania triggers a homicide investigation into another woman's death in North Carolina. The similarities in the two cases are shocking, and medical examiners must determine if the suspect's story about accidental drowning is all wet. Originally aired as Season 8 Episode 8.
S8.E9 ∙ Shot of Vengeance
A nurse has a variety of flu-like symptoms. None of her doctors are able to find the cause, until she visits the gynecologist for a routine check-up. Then she learns it's something far worse than the flu. She is HIV-positive. Science determines not only how she had been infected, but also by whom. They will discover that it wasn't an accident. Orginially aired as Season 8 Episode 9.
S8.E10 ∙ Dinner and a Movie
Time of death becomes pivotal when a pregnant woman is found murdered in her Connecticut home. The couple's adventurous sex life comes into play, and a striking similarity between the woman's death and an HBO movie gives forensic examiners the clues they need to thaw out the alibi of a cold-blooded killer.
S8.E11 ∙ A Wrong Foot
In Peoria, Illinois, police discover a footprint that could identify an intruder who killed a young man and attacked two teenage girls.
S8.E12 ∙ Order Up
A man is found shot to death in his home. Determining time of death becomes fatally important, and in order to do so, investigators need to know when the victim ate his last meal. An endocrinologist, a forensic botanist and a short-order cook try to solve their mystery. Orginially aired as Season 8 Episode 12.
S8.E13 ∙ When the Dust Settled
Neighbers do not hear the gunshots when a union official is killed in his home.
S8.E14 ∙ A Welcome Intrusion
A man is declared a hero after claiming that he shot an intruder who killed his wife, but four years later, newly acquired forensic evidence leads authorities to reexamine his story.
S8.E15 ∙ Within Arm's Reach
When a police officers wife is found dead from an apparent shotgun blast at close range investigators and peers of the officer are quick to make judgment in the case. Were the original conclusions and theories about the wife's mysterious deaths accurate? And would the suspicions for and against the officer righteous? Investigators and forensic professionals unveil the truth about who pulled the trigger ending this young woman's life one tragic day.
S8.E16 ∙ Private Thoughts
William "Blaine" Hodges, a U.S. Postal Service employee, is convicted of embezzlement in Roanoke, Virginia. But before he can report to prison, the Hodges family home is found on fire and the entire family is found dead inside. Mom, Teresa Hodges, has been strangled, and Dad, Blaine Hodges, and his daughters Winter and Anah have all been shot in the head. Although the crime scene appears to be a murder-suicide, the coroner rules that out quickly: Blaine Hodges was not only dead before the fire was set, but his body had already started to decay. As the police interview friends and family, Blaine's best friend, Earl Bramblett, zooms to the top of the suspects list, and then the police find his storage unit filled with audiotapes...
S8.E17 ∙ Brotherhoods
The double homicide of a gay couple leads investigators into the twisted world of White Supremacists. Shell casings, paint chips and an analysis of glass shards help authorities link their prime suspects to a string of hate crimes in California U.S.A.
S8.E18 ∙ Hair of the Dog
With no forensic evidence inside a murder scene, investigators are left puzzled. But they suspected that the victim's dog had witnessed the crime. If she had, forensic scientists would have to find some way to know what the dog had seen. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 18.
S8.E19 ∙ Breaking News
A killer ends the life of a young TV news producer using a knife from her own kitchen. Witnesses see a shirtless man with a tattoo on his chest running from her apartment, but the truest witness proves to be the killer's own blood.
S8.E20 ∙ All the World's a Stage
A homicide detective murders his corrections officer wife, staging the scene to make it look as if she shot herself in the head by accident.
S8.E21 ∙ The Big Chill
For years, a woman suffered from what appeared to be the unpleasant side effects of lithium, a drug prescribed to treat bipolar disorder. Her search for help led her to severals doctors and hospitals and resulted in a 4000-page medical file. When she died, investigators had to determine if her death was caused by natural causes, suicide or murder. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 21.
S8.E22 ∙ Bound for Jail
A woman is found dead in a ravine near a jogging path. Significant crime scene evidence had been washed away by a series of thunderstorms. Twice, the trail turned cold. Then, almost twenty years later, an old hat and a chip of stainless steel no longer than a fingernail would finally bring the killer to justice. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 22.
S8.E23 ∙ Sphere of Influence
When an 11-year-old girl disappeared from a small town in a remote area of Alaska, investigators wondered if she'd been attacked by a bear or become lost in the dense woods. Her body was discovered 10 days later; she'd been shot twice at close range, and sexually assaulted. An eyewitness led police to a suspect and trace evidence found at the crime scene. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 23.
S8.E24 ∙ Nailed
Just weeks before a witness is to testify against the man accused of sexually assaulting her, she is murdered in the front yard of her own home. Investigators immediately suspect her attacker, but they don't have enough evidence to prove his guilt. It would take fifteen years, and the remarkable advances in forensic science and DNA testing which occurred during that time, to enable police to nail the killer.
S8.E25 ∙ Sign of the Zodiac
From 1990 to 1993 a killer terrorized New York murdering 8 random people. Investigators begin finding with each new victim a strange pattern began to immerge. Each victim found at different locations and appeared to be unrelated victims were being killed each month representing the astrological sign of the new victims. With little evidence and no apparent connection between the victims the investigators were stumped as the city began to fear the unknown self proclaimed zodiac killer. Investigators needed a break and confident this suspect was not the same one who terrorized San Francisco the case needed another victim if they were to get a new clue. And the next victim of the zodiac proved to be the break needed. Growing sloppy or unlucky, the zodiac failed to kill the next victim, giving investigators their first account of the suspect. Next in his letters to authorities the second clue was uncovered: a licked envelope by the suspect provided the DNA of the zodiac to authorities. They now possibly had the forensic evidence needed to bring down this maniac and end his murdering spree haunting the City
S8.E26 ∙ Letter Perfect
A healthy young man dies mysteriously in his sleep. There are no signs of trauma or injury, but toxicology tests reveal a lethal dose of lidocaine in his blood. Investigators find a suicide note, and presume he killed himself -- until a forensic linguist examines the note and determines that what the victim said is less important than how he said it. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 26.
S8.E27 ∙ True Lies
Kathleen Lipscomb's body was found on a deserted street outside of San Antonio. Months passed, then years, and the crime went cold. Then Kathleen's family hired a private investigator who discovered a diary among her personal effects. Two of the diary entries helped police to piece together what had happened to Kathleen Lipscomb, and why. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 27.
S8.E28 ∙ Bed of Deceit
A retired police officer is found fatally shot in his bed, the apparent victim of a suicide. But evidence at the crime scene, along with forensic textbooks and a bank surveillance tape, prove it was murder.
S8.E29 ∙ Smoke in Your Eyes
A fire guts guts an apartment while its tenants are out of town, and the aftermath includes the corpses of two young women, neither of whom died in the fire. In fact, one died a day before the other.
S8.E30 ∙ Flower Power
Two men called police to report the same murder. Apparently, neither one knew that the other had called and the investigation uncovered even more unusual circumstances. But a few small seeds and a discarded candy wrapper will ultimately tell a story of revenge.
S8.E31 ∙ Past Lives
The body of a rich businessman was found in his rental car. Teeth and bone fragments were all that remained of the body; miraculously, an engraved wristwatch and medic alert bracelet had survived the inferno. When the victim's wife filed a claim for $7 million worth of life insurance, investigators sought the help of a renowned forensic anthropologist.
S8.E32 ∙ Over and Out
When a pipe bomb ripped through a rural home, killing a young man and seriously injuring his mother, police had no idea who was responsible. A lot number on a 9-volt battery and the remnants of a mailing label found on a computer's hard drive enabled investigators to determine who sent the bomb, and why. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 32.
S8.E33 ∙ Death by a Salesman
No one in a quiet residential community saw or heard anything unusual the day one of their neighbors was brutally murdered. Fingerprints found at the crime scene and surveillance video from a security camera helped investigators to apprehend the presumed killer within twelve hours - even though he'd already left the state and was on a bus, headed for New York City.
S8.E34 ∙ Web of Seduction
A Michigan junk yard owner is killed and the police can't find any evidence. It is only when computer experts examine two hard drives that the killers are eventually traced and an unusual story of sex and crime is uncovered.
S8.E35 ∙ Grounds for Indictment
A drive-by shooting leaves one man dead and another seriously wounded. Cell phone calls and shell casings point to a suspect, but authorities are unable to place him at the crime scene. When a forensic geologist compared soil from the crime scene with soil found in the wheel wells of the suspect's car, he proved that dirt is anything but dumb. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 35.
S8.E36 ∙ Duelling Confessions
In 1963, Australian teenager John Button is accused of running down his girlfriend on the roadway after a fight. After a brutal police interrogation he confesses, than recants. He is tried and convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to a primitive Victorian-era prison. He regains his physical freedom, but is branded a guilty man. Almost forty years later, a writer uncovers evidence that another man, a known serial killer, might really be responsible. In fact, he had confessed. An accident reconstruction expert tracks down antique cars to re-create the accident, and clear a man's name decades after a cruel injustice.
S8.E37 ∙ Traces of Truth
A high school gym teacher mysteriously leaves town without saying goodbye to anyone. He later sends letters to explain why. But a closer forensic look at those letters and a microscopic piece of tissue gives investigators an entirely different explanation for where he went and why. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 37.
S8.E38 ∙ Honor Thy Father
Detectives try to discover the cause of a Palestinian daughter's death in America. Did she provoke her parents and attack them or did her parents commit an honor killing?
S8.E39 ∙ Hack Attack
A mysterious computer crash pushes a thriving manufacturing company to the brink of collapse, jeopardizing the jobs of hundreds of employees. There is no apparent cause and no obvious clues. Forensic investigators must determine if the crash was the result of a computer defect, human error, or sabotage. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 39.
S8.E40 ∙ Deadly Curve
Investigating a 1983 vehicle crash between law enforcement officers on the occasion of a visit from the Queen of England.
S8.E41 ∙ Visibility Zero
In 1993, the Amtrak Railroad experienced the deadliest train crash in United States history, when the Sunset Limited derailed while crossing Alabama's Big Bayou Canot bridge. Forty-seven passengers and crew were killed; scores more were injured. The clues to the cause of the crash lay etched in twisted steel and buried in the mud of the Big Bayou Canot. Originally aired as Season 8 Episode 41
S8.E42 ∙ Flashover
A fire erupted in the Kings Cross Underground Station in London, killing 31 people and injuring dozens more. Arson investigators were able to pinpoint the cause of the fire, but it would take state-of-the-art computer technology and experts in the field of fluid dynamics to explain why it became a deadly inferno.
S9.E1 ∙ Road Rage
In the Season Nine premiere of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, the investigation of a discarded sleeping bag, containing bloody sneakers and a purse, leads police to the body of a young woman. Only a mark found on the victim's body enables police to track the killer. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 1.
S9.E2 ∙ Hunter or Hunted?
On the last day of deer hunting season, a woman is killed while walking her dogs in the woods. Police assume it was a hunting accident, until a strange letter turns up, allegedly written by the woman before her death. Police begin to wonder if the woman may have been the target all along. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 2.
S9.E3 ∙ In Harm's Way
An Alaskan police officer discovered a woman's body while patrolling a public park. A knife thought to be the murder weapon was found days later, two thousand miles away. Forensic scientists now had an opportunity, which seldom occurs: to compare the microscopic marks on the presumed murder weapon with the marks on the victim's bone. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 3.
S9.E4 ∙ No Corpus Delicti
Nearly two decades after a photographer went missing, her skeletal remains are discovered in the Colorado mountains.
S9.E5 ∙ News at 11
A talented television news anchor was shot to death outside her home; it appeared to be a crime of passion, perpetrated by an obsessed fan. A police dog tracked the scent of the killer through the adjacent woods and back to the crime scene. Could the murderer be one of the onlookers, watching the police conduct their investigation? Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 5.
S9.E6 ∙ Burning Desire
Investigators sifted through the ashes of a fire that had killed a 40-year-old woman, the estranged wife of a police officer. At first glance, the fire appeared to have been started by an unattended cigarette. But when forensic scientists looked closely, they discovered the cause was far more complicated. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 6.
S9.E7 ∙ Cloak of Deceit
During the 1990s, a trio of bank robbers struck in both North and South Carolina. They got away with their crimes for years, until forensic experts studied the bank surveillance tapes and identified them by their clothes and stances.
S9.E8 ∙ Bad Medicine
When a plastic surgeon's wife becomes the victim of arsenic poisoning, investigators must determine who is trying to kill her and why.
S9.E9 ∙ Stick 'em Up
Residents of Noel, Missouri were stunned to learn that their bank had been robbed and the bank president was found floating in a lake, securely bound to a chair with duct tape. When the tape was carefully reassembled using a technique known as end match analysis, investigators discovered one piece was missing, and that piece would solve the crime. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 9.
S9.E10 ∙ Head Games
A young couple goes camping in Oregon with their dog and only one of them comes out alive. Detectives work to determine whether the incident was accidental or intentional.
S9.E11 ∙ Making the Collar
The body of a 16-year-old girl was discovered nine months after she disappeared. Forensic scientists found clues that painted a virtual portrait of her killer. They knew that he had a dog, that he worked for the postal service, and that he had red carpeting in his home. Now all they had to do was find him. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 11.
S9.E12 ∙ The Financial Downfall
In California, woman appears to have accidentally fallen to her death from a cliff, until an investigation uncovers proof of murder and a financial motive.
S9.E13 ∙ A Daughter's Journey
Haunted by the disappearance of her mother some twenty years earlier, a young woman undertook an investigation of her own. Her mother's diary was in the now "cold" case file; there, in her mother's own handwriting, she discovered a dark family secret, which might have been the reason her mother vanished. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 13.
S9.E14 ∙ Over a Barrel
Murder of a retired couple in California. It took 10 years to bring their killer to justice.
S9.E15 ∙ Pinned by the Evidence
After a street fight claimed the life of a national wrestling champion, a jury decided it was murder, and sentenced the accused to twenty years in prison. Six years later, he was granted another trial; a forensic animator, who testified on his behalf, gave a different explanation for the most shocking piece of evidence. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 15.
S9.E16 ∙ Cries Unheard
19 year old Devon Guzman is part of a love quadrangle that ends up getting her killed.
S9.E17 ∙ Buried Treasure
A man fond of square-dancing disappears exactly one year after starting an affair with his friend's wife. Fifteen years later, a hobbyist with a metal detector helps police find evidence proving what happened, and who was responsible.
S9.E18 ∙ Badge of Betrayal
The body of a young California co-ed was found under an isolated ramp of the Interstate, and San Diego police had no idea who would want this girl dead. But their questions would be answered when they discovered a tiny, unique fiber on the victim's clothing, which led them straight to the most unlikely of killers. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 18.
S9.E19 ∙ Deadly Matrimony
An Ohio go-go dancer went missing in 1974. Twenty-six years later, her disappearance was solved with the help of tool mark analysis, a homemade box, and an old car.
S9.E20 ∙ Muddy Waters
Newlyweds go on a hunting trip in the Colorado wilderness. Three bullets end the husband's life, in an "accident" that authorities believe is murder.
S9.E21 ∙ Point of Origin
In 1984, California firefighters had battled ten arson fires in three weeks. When cigarettes and a scrap of paper connected the southern California fires to several fires further north, the hunt was on for a dangerous pyromaniac. Investigators finally found a fingerprint, and it pointed to a most unlikely suspect. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 21.
S9.E22 ∙ Seeds for Doubt
A small community in upstate New York was devastated when a car accident claimed the life of a well-respected nurse. Investigators initially thought alcohol was to blame, but blood tests proved the victim was not intoxicated. The seedpods found in her hair and on her clothes would prove that this was no accident. It was cold-blooded murder. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 22.
S9.E23 ∙ Saving Face
A woman in Austin, Texas disappears and police begin investigating two possible explanations: kidnapping, and murder. They become even more concerned when they learn two other women vanished under similar circumstances. Careful investigation, the talents of a forensic artist, forensic anthropology and DNA profiling enabled police to link the crimes to a single suspect.
S9.E24 ∙ Northern Exposure
Hikers near Anchorage, Alaska discovered a body wrapped in sheets that were edged in orange stitching. Authorities hydrated the fingers and obtained a fingerprint, enabling them to identify the victim. Clinging to the sheet, they also discovered a tuft of red carpet fibers - threads of evidence that led them straight to the killer. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 24.
S9.E25 ∙ Silk Stalkings
Nancy Ludwig is found stabbed to death her hotel room in Detroit. Nancy's death is similar to another woman who was murdered 5 years earlier, Margaret Eby.
S9.E26 ∙ Fishing for the Truth
Two fishermen get caught in the gulf in the middle of a storm. Only one man swims out alive. Was it an accident or was it murder?
S9.E27 ∙ For Love or Money
When a wealthy real estate tycoon went missing, it appeared to be foul play. He had been aware that he was in danger. In his will, he left instructions regarding what was to happen if he died under violent circumstances - instructions which were carried out after a hiker came across a bullet-ridden skull. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 27.
S9.E28 ∙ South of the Border
The cold-blooded murder of an American tourist in a Mexican resort focused law enforcement resources on both sides of the border. At first glance, the motive appeared to be robbery, but careful analysis of the forensic evidence pointed to something much more sinister. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 28.
S9.E29 ∙ The Stake-Out
Entomology and computer forensics help solve the 1988 kidnapping and murder of a Pennsylvania banker's wife.
S9.E30 ∙ Walking Terror
In the middle of the night, a neighbor witnessed a man stab his wife, push her into the swimming pool, and hold her head under water. When questioned by the police, the husband not only had no explanation for his actions, he had no recollection of the crime. A jury would have to decide between the evidence at the scene and the mysteries of the mind. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 30.
S10.E1 ∙ Trial by Fire
Beverly Jean Long of Jackson, Georgia is put on trial for murdering her husband James on a cold night in 2003 and setting their home on fire. The state's experts say it was clearly arson. But defense experts say it was an accident.
S10.E2 ∙ Marked for Life
It would take forty-six years, handwriting analysis, and new fingerprint technology to solve the 1957 murders of two California police officers.
S10.E3 ∙ Plastic Puzzle
A van strikes down a bicyclist in the middle of the night. Pieces of orange plastic left at the scene become part of a jigsaw puzzle that helps solve the crime.
S10.E4 ∙ Up in Smoke
Investigators must determine what caused a house fire that killed an elderly couple and whether the victims' son is responsible.
S10.E5 ∙ Soiled Plan
Detectives are suspicious after a woman is killed in a hunting accident, but it takes more than twenty years before a trace evidence analyst is able to match fibers on a soiled blanket to the killer.
S10.E6 ∙ Headquarters
Hunters make a grisly find in a Texas canyon: a human skull. Crime scene analysis reveals bits of clothing, a woman's shoe, some small bones and one strand of hair. An anthropologist determines the victim was a Caucasian woman who had been stabbed repeatedly. A forensic artist reconstructs her face and police eventually learn who she was. Now all they have to do is find her killer.
S10.E7 ∙ One for the Road
A married couple decided to escape the cold of winter with a vacation in Key West. The wife went missing and police searched every inch of the island; they found nothing but a pair of sandals that may have belonged to her. Then two pieces of video surfaced and investigators started to wonder if they should be searching for a missing person or a murderer. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 7.
S10.E8 ∙ Army of Evidence
An Army wife's death appears to be a suicide, but detectives are suspicious when they learn that the woman almost died in a house fire a few years earlier.
S10.E9 ∙ Shear Luck
The violent death of an Air Force officer's wife outside a Philippines air base is examined, amid accusations of a love triangle involving the murdered woman's husband. Investigators use groundbreaking computer forensics to make their case.
S10.E10 ∙ Tagging a Suspect
Bombings are difficult to solve, because the perpetrator isn't usually at the scene, and the evidence goes up in smoke. But there are clues if investigators know where to look. In this case, pieces of plastic the size of grains of sand held the key to a man's murder. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 10.
S10.E11 ∙ Strong Impressions
The wife of an Air Force officer was found dead in her bed, with a plastic laundry bag near her face. At first glance, it appeared she'd been doing laundry, fell asleep, rolled onto the bag, and suffocated. But further investigation proved that the scene had been staged. Her death wasn't an accident; it was cold-blooded murder. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 11.
S10.E12 ∙ Cereal Killer
When a fire destroyed most of a home and a young boy went missing, police organized the largest search in the history of their small town. First the boy's backpack was discovered five miles from home, and then his body was found 50 miles away. But the killer had been careless, and the evidence he left behind would lead police directly to him. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 12.
S10.E13 ∙ Crash Course
A highway patrolman was dispatched to what he thought would be a routine traffic accident. While he had no formal training in forensic science, he had seen hundreds of accidents, but none had had as much blood as this. He was shocked by the coroner's ruling of accidental death. Then, an anonymous phone call breathed new life into his investigation. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 13.
S10.E14 ∙ A Leg Up on Crime
The decomposed body of a young woman was discovered in a Bakersfield irrigation canal. If there was trace evidence, it had been washed away. Another victim was found in that same canal a year later; this time, the perpetrator had been careless. The shoe prints found at the scene would lead police to the most unlikely of killers. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 14
S10.E15 ∙ Tight-fitting Genes
By reconstructing DNA, molecular biologists help Baton Rouge police catch a serial killer.
S10.E16 ∙ Deadly Valentine
On Valentine's Day, an obstetrician finds his wife dead and calls 911. However, police discover inconsistencies between the blood spatter evidence and his version of events.
S10.E17 ∙ Picture This
Weed analysis and photogrammetry are used to help solve the 1995 murder of a California teenager who was found dead after disappearing from her home.
S10.E18 ∙ Oily in the Morning
When police recovered the submerged car of a man reported missing, they expected to find his body - but it wasn't there. His broken eyeglasses were on the floor of the vehicle and the interior was coated with motor oil. The investigation which followed would uncover an obsession turned deadly, and the motive for murder. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 18.
S10.E19 ∙ Gold Rush
Emergency dispatch received a call from a man saying his girlfriend shot and killed herself. Police found the victim in the caller's house, lying in a pool of blood with the gun next to her on the floor. The autopsy revealed the gunshot wound was not self-inflicted, and the evidence found on her body gave police a golden opportunity to catch her killer. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 19.
S10.E20 ∙ Four on the Floor
'Four on the Floor' dealt with New Mexico law enforcement's successful effort to find and convict the killer of Betty Lee, a Navajo mother of five who was found brutally slain in a remote area near Farmington, N.M.. Once the police investigation led to Robert Fry, currently a death row inmate in New Mexico, it was learned that Fry might also be connected to other violent crimes in the area. This eventually led to Fry and an accomplice being suspected of the murder of Donald Tsosie, a Native American man found slain near the Navajo reservation, as well as to the deaths of two young men killed at the 'Eclectic' counterculture store in Farmington. Production locations inside New Mexico included Farmington, Aztec, Kirtland, Shiprock, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Locations outside of New Mexico included Portland, Oregon, San Francisco, Phoenix and Red Valley, Az. This episode originally aired during 'Forensics Week' on Court TV in October, 2005 and later aired in reruns.
S10.E21 ∙ Writer's Block
A brilliant young architect was poisoned and died just before she was to testify in a criminal trial.
S10.E22 ∙ A Clean Getaway
An employee of a drycleaner was raped and killed in the store, and investigators thought themselves fortunate to have two witnesses. Their descriptions were similar but not identical, and the prime suspect didn't come close to resembling that person. Police turned to forensic science for the answers they were looking for. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 22.
S10.E23 ∙ Prints Among Thieves
The murder of an eccentric millionaire was not really unexpected; he showed off his wealth and cared little for personal security. The evidence at the crime seemed to lean towards robbery, but investigators questioned if there was something more. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 23.
S10.E24 ∙ Unholy Alliance
The disappearance of a woman last seen in a grocery-store parking lot in Colorado is investigated. The probe turns up bloody gloves and strange tire tracks.
S10.E25 ∙ Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
A car carrying three young men pulls alongside another on an Alaskan highway and a shot is fired, leaving a passenger in another vehicle dead. One of the passengers in the killer's car agrees to testify against his friends. The resulting trials don't end the carnage.
S10.E26 ∙ Cop Out
A college student was found dead, and the evidence suggested he knew his killer. Three hairs and some microscopic cells helped police to unravel a web of lies, and find the motive for murder. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 26.
S10.E27 ∙ Summer Obsession
In an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, police were called to the scene of what appeared to be an accidental drowning. The investigation gradually focused on one person, a suspect who had more than a million reasons to want the victim dead. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 27.
S10.E28 ∙ Elemental Clue
When two women from the same town were killed in the same way, police feared a serial killer was on the loose. At first they thought the victims had nothing in common until they found very small clues linking them to one man. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 28.
S10.E29 ∙ Moss, Not Grass
A young woman was found dead on a golf course in the Bahamas. The grass on that course was so distinctive that it had evidentiary value. The evidence led police to two suspects. Each blamed the other, and they had to find out who the killer was. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 29.
S10.E30 ∙ Material Witness
A teenager went missing after an evening of horseback riding; her body was found a month later, three miles from her home. The killer unknowingly left trace evidence behind, tiny but unmistakable clues that pointed to him and him alone. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 30.
S10.E31 ∙ Garden of Evil
When a popular disc jockey Debbie Dicus was found murdered in a community garden, police swung into action. A sniffer dog and a blood spatter expert led police to the killer... and he'd been much closer than they realized. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 31.
S10.E32 ∙ Sunday School Ambush
When a woman's husband was gunned down in his own garage by intruders, investigators worked tirelessly to find the assassins. But when they discovered that a wound sustained by the grieving widow during the attack may have been self-inflicted, they turned to science to help them unravel a twisted tale of lust, greed and deception. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 32.
S10.E33 ∙ Penchant for Poison
Three seemingly unrelated deaths proved to be serial murders. The killer had been careful - he used poison which had no taste or odour. Fortunately for investigators, it also had a unique chemical signature. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 33.
S10.E34 ∙ Bump in the Night
The crime scene was awash with blood. The victim had been brutally murdered as he slept in his own bed. There were no foreign fingerprints in his home, but investigators did find a shoe impression in the mud outside... physical evidence they hoped would lead them to the killer. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 34.
S10.E35 ∙ Sole Searching
While on the phone with 911, a woman is murdered in her bathroom, during a break in at her home. The investigation's strongest evidence is a shoe print on a piece of glass.
S10.E36 ∙ Murder on the Menu
The owner of a historic restaurant killed. Investigators uncover tales of debt and deceit. But the case remains open, until one detective gets inspired by an earlier episode of "Forensic Files", and looks for clues in an empty holster.
S10.E37 ∙ Hot on the Trail
A serial arsonist was on the loose in Washington, DC. Each of the fires was started with the same type of incendiary device. The perpetrator was very careful, and seemed to leave no evidence behind... but there were clues in the ashes and it was up to forensic scientists to find them. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 37.
S10.E38 ∙ High 'n' Dry
When a woman was found dead in her bathroom, the evidence pointed to suicide. But a coroner's inquest and a unique application of forensic science gave investigators a different explanation for her death. It was a theory that, if true, could turn the grieving husband into the prime suspect. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 38.
S10.E39 ∙ To the Viktor
Three homicides on two continents looked like professional executions. Investigators on both sides of the Atlantic needed to find out if they were related and, if they were, who or what they had in common. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 39.
S10.E40 ∙ Wired for Disaster
A 29-year-old woman was killed instantly when a bomb exploded in her home. The device was so powerful that shrapnel was imbedded in houses across the street. The bomber had not only knowledge and skill, but also a motive for murder. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 40.
S10.E41 ∙ Wood-be Killer
A killer tried to destroy everything which could link them to the crime. But in doing so, they inadvertently created new forensic evidence - evidence which came to light using a technique never before used in a criminal investigation. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 41.
S10.E42 ∙ Enemy Within
A Kansas City attorney is beaten to death in his office and suspicion falls on his business partner.
S11.E1 ∙ Naughty or Nyce
Investigators examine evidence left at an automobile accident to determine if this was murder, including footprints leading away from the scene, blood on the outside of the car, and the victim was not wearing shoes in the middle of winter.
S11.E2 ∙ Going for Broke
After a corpse is found without its head and hands at a compose site, a single finger tip leads to the identity of the body. A single dog hair found on the body, witness tips, and blood evidence lead to the suspect.
S11.E3 ∙ Just Desserts
The bodies of a murdered Florida couple are discovered along a dirt road. A man with a criminal record is suspected since his driver's license is discovered at the crime scene, until DNA extracted from a spoon points to another man.
S11.E4 ∙ Sunday's Wake
After moving with her family from Sudan to the United States, a little girl becomes ill and dies; authorities must determine how and why it happened.
S11.E5 ∙ Shattered Dreams
In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, a man and woman are found shot dead in car in a drainage ditch. The windows are broken and shattered glass should be everywhere, but it isn't. A fingertip torn from a latex glove points investigators to both the crime scene and the killer. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 5.
S11.E6 ∙ Dockter Visit
A World War II veteran was found dead in his home, and the investigation ground to a halt when the prime suspect had a solid alibi. But a lucky break led to a shady character who wore distinctive boots and had a sweet tooth. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 6.
S11.E7 ∙ Murder She Wrote
A woman who was known to have suffered from depression seemingly took her own life. But her sister told police that, a year before her death, she said if anything were to happen to her, there would be a note in the china cabinet. Police read the note and found the killer. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 7.
S11.E8 ∙ Concrete Alibi
Karen Slover, 23, model and mother, is killed in 1996. Thanks to a forensic geologist, the police may now be able to solve the puzzling IL case after many years.
S11.E9 ∙ Key Evidence
In 2001, Kevin Rice, 38, had stopped his car in a Rockford, IL residential area. The husband, father and policeman is shot to death inside the car. There are some clues left behind, including an asthma inhaler, hoodie, and keys. Forensic Science coupled with old-fashioned detective work must now be used in tandem in order to track down his killer(s).
S11.E10 ∙ The Gambler
The world of high rollers and offshore gambling becomes the focus of the investigation into a Wisconsin triple murder.
S11.E11 ∙ Weakest Link
The body of a young girl was discovered on a remote farm near Delano, California. She had no ID, but investigators found mailbox and house keys in the pocket of her jeans. With no other clues to follow, they checked the mailboxes of every apartment building in Delano and their persistence finally paid off. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 11.
S11.E12 ∙ Capitol Crimes
The driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian on a Harrisburg street. The Jeep Grand Cherokee he was leasing around that time had been sold months ago to a buyer in another state. Police were able to find the vehicle. They impounded it, took it apart, and discovered evidence which would tell them what really happened that night. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 12.
S11.E13 ∙ Undertaken
A funeral handyman is found dead underneath a parked car in Paterson, New Jersey. Although a medical examiner rules the death an accident, three years of investigation and a second autopsy prove it was murder.
S11.E14 ∙ Dark Waters
A local celebrity is killed and a passenger injured in a hit-and-run boating accident in New York State, leaving very little forensic evidence.
S11.E15 ∙ Nice Threads
Bible missionary student is murdered whilst baking cookies on Mother's Day Weekend for her mother. Police use a bloody palm print to provide forensic evidence as to the identity of her rapist and murderer.
S11.E16 ∙ Grave Danger
A young man was killed in a mysterious car crash, but the evidence at the scene led investigators to believe it was not an accident. Forensic science revealed what really happened, and the truth devastated three families. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 16.
S11.E17 ∙ Internal Affair
When a woman went missing, friends and family were determined to find her. Their worst fears were confirmed weeks later when her body was discovered. Blood evidence and computer forensics helped investigators to catch the killer, and convince the jury of his guilt. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 17.
S11.E18 ∙ A Case of the Flue
This robbery/homicide was unusual. The evidence at the scene proved that the perpetrator had been running out of the house, not breaking into it. Tiny clues on the victim's body would tell police what happened that night, and who was responsible. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 18.
S11.E19 ∙ No Safe Place
A wealthy man and his wife were mugged by three men outside of their luxurious Louisiana home. He was shot dead and she was forced to open their hidden safe. The woman was unable to identify the men because they wore masks. To solve the case, police would have to find out who knew about the concealed safe, and who would benefit from the crime. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 19.
S11.E20 ∙ Live Wire
The bomb was constructed to cause as much damage as possible... and it did, killing the victim with deadly force and flame. A painstaking search yielded tiny clues, which identified the killer as surely as if he'd signed them. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 20.
S11.E21 ∙ Van-ished
A twelve-year-old girl claims that she was abducted and sexually assaulted. However, her story seems unbelievable until police discover fibers on her clothing.
S11.E22 ∙ A Novel Idea
In December 2001, Emergency Dispatch in Durham, North Carolina received a frantic call from a man who said his wife fell down the stairs; she was unconscious but still breathing. When paramedics arrived, they could do little more than pronounce the woman dead. The number and volume of bloodstains at the scene was greater than usual. Forensic scientists had to find out why. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 22.
S11.E23 ∙ Chief Suspect
On April 11, 1995 the wife of a respected Springboro, Ohio police officer was murdered in her own home. The crime went unsolved for more than a decade, and then a newly formed Cold Case Unit took a fresh look at the evidence. A few seconds of a 911 call enabled them to determine not only who was responsible for the victim's death, but also the motive for her murder. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 23.
S11.E24 ∙ Water Hazard
A flawed envelope is an unlikely clue to identifying a killer who laced a water cooler with cyanide and caused the death of a woman.
S11.E25 ∙ Shell Game
When a mussel-shell diver and his fiancée are found dead in their burned home, it doesn't take investigators long to realize that the fire was arson and their death was murder. And when detectives discover thousands of dollars worth of shells missing from the property, it's up to a ballistics expert to find the clues to put the greedy killers behind bars.
S11.E26 ∙ Ring Him Up
For ten years, the disappearance of a college co-ed remained a mystery. And then new scientific testing cast a different light on a man who had been a suspect all along. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 26.
S11.E27 ∙ Killer Impression
For sixteen years, the death of woman was considered an accident; then someone called police to suggest her husband had murdered her. Before the investigation could begin, the tipster was found dead... in much the same manner as the wife. Was this an unfortunate coincidence, or the MO of a serial killer? Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 27.
S11.E28 ∙ If I Were You
The murder of 53-year-old Paul Gruber is examined and the evidence points to Darryl Robin Kuehl, who was later convicted of the crime.
S11.E29 ∙ As the Tide Turns
A woman is shot to death on a Florida beach. Her husband is also shot, but survives. He claims it was a robbery gone wrong, but investigators look further and learn that he had recently downloaded a song containing violent lyrics.
S11.E30 ∙ A Tight Leash
How did the stalker obtain the security system code for his victim's home? How did he steal her personal photographs? Police needed answers, and they found them in the most unlikely of places: the letters he wrote to frighten the victim and taunt those trying to protect her. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 30.
S11.E31 ∙ Muffled Cries
After inspecting storm damage to a home in Tampa, the insurance assessor simply disappeared. Thirty hours later, her body was found in a nearby river. But the killer had been careless, using a murder weapon so unique and leaving behind clues so blatant that police would have no trouble tracking him down. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 31.
S11.E32 ∙ Critical Maneuver
When a hit-and-run accident claimed the life of a young high school athlete, everyone in town mourned his passing. Finding the killer was a long shot at best, but investigators hoped tiny paint chips and bits of plastic found at the scene would direct them to the person who was driving. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 32.
S11.E33 ∙ Skirting the Evidence
She won $5,000 at the Blackjack tables. Three hours later, she was abducted; a month after that, she was found dead. Then the trail turned cold, until police got a call from a woman whose husband had a criminal past and a fondness for Chevy Berettas. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 33.
S11.E34 ∙ Small Town Terror
A small town in Colorado is on edge after a series of deadly bombings, and police race to find the culprit before he strikes again. Ultimately, it was the tools the bomber used which led investigators to the perpetrator.
S11.E35 ∙ Fresh Heir
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 not only a clue no one had seen before... but also the identity of the killer. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 35.
S11.E36 ∙ Ticker Tape
Scientists analyze the memory of a murdered man's pacemaker to catch his killers.
S11.E37 ∙ Step by Step
When a wealthy socialite died after falling down the stairs, the eyewitnesses said one thing and the evidence seemed to indicate another. To find out what really happened, investigators turned to forensic science, a physicist and an expert in accident reconstruction. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 37.
S11.E38 ∙ Blanket of Evidence
Two women murdered in the same state park. Indiana police feared it was the work of a serial killer until the forensic evidence pointed them in two different directions.
S11.E39 ∙ Fired-Up
When a house burned to the ground and a woman's charred remains were found in the rubble, investigators had to determine if it was an unfortunate accident, or arson and murder. Microscopic clues on a piece of pipe would give them the answers they needed. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 39.
S11.E40 ∙ Two in a Million
A millionaire and his family were executed in their own home. For three years, the murders went unsolved... and then a 30-year-old box of ammunition and some fluorescent fibers revealed the ultimate betrayal. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 40.
S11.E41 ∙ Bitter Brew
It was one of the most brazen crimes of the 20th century. Adolph Coors, chairman of the Coors Brewing Company, was kidnapped and held for ransom... prompting one of the most intense manhunts in United States history. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 41.
S11.E42 ∙ Message in a Bottle
For twelve years, the murder of a young woman went unsolved, but with the passage of time came the development of technology. Would a used tissue found at the crime scene give police the evidence they needed to bring a killer to justice?
S12.E1 ∙ Sharper Image
In the Season 12 premiere of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, a young girl is found dead, and police quickly arrest the most likely suspect. But when cutting-edge technology from NASA enables a forensic odontologist to prove the wrong man is behind bars, the investigation resumes. Originally aired as Season 12, Episode 1.
S12.E2 ∙ Insulated Evidence
When a Texas man is found dead in his fire-damaged San Antonio apartment, police discover fiber evidence that leads to a killer who entered and exited the apartment through a ceiling.
S12.E3 ∙ Cold Hearted
When a young fireman died from what appeared to be serious but undiagnosed heart disease, his family and friends were devastated but they had no proof of foul play. Then they learned that six years earlier in a nearby town, a young police officer died in the same way. The men had one thing in common: they had been married to the same woman. Originally aired as Season 12, Episode 3.
S12.E4 ∙ Wheel of Misfortune
Security cameras in a casino tracked a young woman's movements until shortly before she disappeared. She was never seen again, but through the evidence she left behind, she was able to tell investigators what happened to her and who was responsible. Originally aired as Season 12, Episode 4.
S12.E5 ∙ Quite a Spectacle
Police in Canada received a chilling 9-1-1 call from a woman who was just attacked in her apartment, but by the time they arrived, she was dead. Little evidence remained at the scene, except for a pair of eyeglasses and a shoeprint in a squished tomato. With the help of Canada's only forensic optometrist, police put away a killer that is larger than life.
S12.E6 ∙ Transaction Failed
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. Investigators turned to forensic science, hoping to find the answers they needed. Originally aired as Season 12, Episode 6.
S12.E7 ∙ The Day the Music Died
The mystery surrounding the 1993 slaying of Mia Zapata, the lead singer for the Seattle punk-rock band the Gits, is solved a decade later with DNA evidence.
S12.E8 ∙ Sole Survivor
A case of a disappearance and presumed death of a Michigan State student. A professor of geological sciences is on hand to help dig up some dirt of her killer.
S12.E9 ∙ Insignificant Others
When the investigation of a woman's apparent suicide turns up some anomalies, investigators reopen the case of the suicide of another woman that had dated the same man.
S12.E10 ∙ Catch 22
A Wal-Mart shoe clerk is gunned down in her driveway with a 22-caliber weapon. Police suspect first her husband, then a coworker and spurned would-be lover half her age.
S12.E11 ∙ A Cinderella Story
The victim had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the beach, just ten yards from the hotel where she was staying. A pair of men's tennis shoes was discovered near her body. Police were sure that if they found the man who fit the shoes, they would also find the man who committed the crime. Originally aired as Season 12, Episode 11.
S12.E12 ∙ Screen Pass
Fingerprints on a window screen hold the key to solving the abduction and murder of a 13-year-old Colorado girl.
S12.E13 ∙ Pressed for Crime
A killer drives off in his victim's car after the crime. Forensic scientists match an iron found in the car to some broken pieces of plastic found near the victim's body.
S12.E14 ∙ Finger Pane
Two women are found dead in a Texas field, and a bloody fingerprint is found on one of the bodies. Police hope it will lead them to the killer.
S12.E15 ∙ Good as Gold
On Halloween night 2004, Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara were brutally murdered in their Napa, California home. The killer was not seen by their downstairs roommate, but he left his DNA behind in some cigarette butts and a groundbreaking test determined his race and even the color of his eyes and hair. Originally aired as Season 12, Episode 15.
S12.E16 ∙ Freedom Fighter
A county social worker is murdered and her home set on fire. Bite marks are used to convict a man who had threatened people in her office. The man, Roy Brown, protests his innocence, and spends 15 years in jail finding the real killer.
S12.E17 ∙ Dog Day Afternoon
When the only witness to a brutal killing is the family dog, investigators turn to a microscopic analysis of some articles of clothing to find the guilty party.
S12.E18 ∙ Shattered Innocence
A lawyer's son calls 911 after hearing a shot fired from his father's locked bedroom. Discrepancies in the stories of key witnesses reveal the killer.
S12.E19 ∙ All Butt Certain
A man is sent to jail based on eye-witness testimony that he killed his mother-in-law. But it was dark and the witness was a young child - is her identification reliable? His family says no, and armed with a DNA sample of the real, unidentified, killer; his courageous wife conducts her own investigation.
S12.E20 ∙ Jean Pool
The 1984 murder of a college student, Laura Salmon, seems to have plenty of suspects, but nothing which solidly links any of them to the crime. After a decade now, this cold case has a breath of new life.
S12.E21 ∙ Traffic Violations
On March 30, 1997 an attractive waitress, Kim Medlin, is found dead in Monroe, North Carolina a mile and a half from her abandoned vehicle.
S12.E22 ∙ Brotherly Love
Fingerprints from a 1969 murder investigation turn up more than 30 years later, and detectives wonder if there could be a match in a modern fingerprint database.
S12.E23 ∙ Disrobed
Diane and Alan Johnson are shot to death in their Idaho bedroom. The killer's careful efforts to avoid leaving DNA evidence go for naught when forensic scientists take a careful look at the scene.
S12.E24 ∙ Driven to Silence
A witness comes forward to help solve the murder of a South Carolina hairdresser.
S12.E25 ∙ Printed Proof
A pair of lesbian women are found murdered in Oregon. Forensic investigators trace fingerprints on duct tape used to bind them and make a composite sketch of a man seen nearby.
S12.E26 ∙ About Face
A skeleton found in the woods behind a rented home in Wilmington, North Carolina is matched to a missing person using a free photo editing application.
S12.E27 ∙ In the Bag
A 4-year-old finds his great-grandparents murdered. Investigators find a shotgun and plastic bag in a nearby river, and forensic analysts recover the serial number of the gun and also manage to get a fingerprint from a glove in the bag.
S12.E28 ∙ Yes in Deed
When a woman's body is found in the remains of a burned mobile home, an autopsy is performed, revealing that she had been beaten to death before the fire began. Can forensic analysis break the solid alibi of one suspect?
S12.E29 ∙ Guarded Secrets
When a security guard disappeared from work without a trace, investigators couldn't determine if he left willingly or if foul play was involved. But homicide was confirmed when the body was found 19 months later. Without any substantial evidence or leads the case went cold. 14 years later, a cold case investigator solved the case after finding crucial evidence hidden beneath the victim's sole.
S12.E30 ∙ Smoking Out a Killer
Susan Schumake, an SIU (Carbondale) student, was strangled to death in a wooded area on the SIU campus. Over 20 years later, implementing new forensic techniques by revisiting DNA evidence was required in order to convict killer Daniel Woloson.
S13.E1 ∙ Frozen Assets
A bag full of evidence recovered from an iced-over river helps to reveal the murderer of a businesswoman in her own shop.
S13.E2 ∙ House Hunting
A successful and well-liked real estate agent is brutally murdered in a model home. Can the police find out who did it?
S13.E3 ∙ Shoot to Thrill
Two teen boys murders one of the boys father in the winter in Minnesota.
S13.E4 ∙ Political Thriller
After a politician dies of an apparent heart attack, an observant medical aide suspects poisoning and takes blood and urine samples. They become crucial evidence when investigators learn of incriminating remarks made by a suspect.
S13.E5 ∙ Double Cross
A U.S. Navy air traffic controller is found raped and murdered in her own home, and the body of one of her male co-workers is found right next to her bed. Is this crime the result of workplace sexual harassment and rape?
S13.E6 ∙ Dancing with the Devil
A man is found stabbed to death after a night in a strip club. A drop of blood on a bedspread becomes critical evidence five years later.
S13.E7 ∙ Last Dance
The body of Rachel Siani, an exotic dancer, is found underneath a bridge in New Jersey. It appears that she had committed suicide by jumping to her death, until police discover evidence of murder.
S13.E8 ∙ Constructive Criticism
A construction foreman's murder is solved when an investigator notices some unusual characteristics of a few drops of blood.
S13.E9 ∙ Home Evasion
In 2000, Judy Southern came home from work and was shot by a gunman waiting for her. Her husband Allen arrived afterwards, called 911 and drove her to the hospital. She died on arrival and the investigation focused on her husband Allen, but forensic analysis and a suicide note found at the scene pointed to someone else. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 9.
S13.E10 ∙ Window Watcher
A woman's story seemed far fetched: A man wearing only underwear and gloves broke into the house, stabbed her boyfriend to death, and raped and terrorized her for hours afterward. But the evidence at the scene supported her story, and investigators turned for help to the FBI and their criminal profilers.
S13.E11 ∙ Stranger in the Night
Suspected in the murder of his mother, a Delaware man tries to convince detectives that the real killer is a hitchhiker he had picked up.
S13.E12 ∙ Kidnapping
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. The witness pointed to Andre Edwards as the culprit. When Ginger and Nicholas were found, Ginger had been beaten to death, but Nicholas was still alive. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 12.
S13.E13 ∙ Sands of Crime
A college student is abducted and murdered five days before Christmas. Eight years pass before a cell phone and a pair of running shoes implicates a suspect.
S13.E14 ∙ Calculated Coincidence
A North Carolina woman is raped and strangled in her apartment. Authorities are unable to link the prime suspect to the homicide, until they discover a connection to an unsolved Michigan murder that was committed a few years earlier.
S13.E15 ∙ Sworded Scheme
Blood spatters at a suspect's house reveal the identity of the victim, the murderer, and the weapon used to commit the crime.
S13.E16 ∙ Unmasked
Police pursue a masked serial rapist who is terrorizing a Texas community.
S13.E17 ∙ Fashion Police
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. If they can find the owner of the shirt the button came from, they'll also find the killer. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 17.
S13.E18 ∙ Church Dis-Service
A young woman heads home after church, but never makes it there alive. Police learn that car trouble lead the victim to accept help from someone she thought was a Good Samaritan. But when the search for suspects and forensic science points to employees from other churches investigators learn that looks truly are deceiving.
S13.E19 ∙ Seedy Intentions
When a nine-year-old girl goes missing, police and volunteers spend weeks searching for her. A psychic's vision leads to a field where her body is discovered, along with what investigators hope is enough evidence to help them to also find her killer. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 19.
S13.E20 ∙ DNA Dragnet
Digital enhancement of security camera video shows that what appears to be a casual encounter is actually a forced abduction, leading to murder. The perpetrator's MO is remarkably similar to another murder which occurred five months earlier, 15 miles away. When investigators learn the crimes might not be isolated or random, they also realize a serial killer may be on the loose.
S13.E21 ∙ Smiley Face
A sadistic serial rapist runs rampant through Delaware and Maryland. One woman had been sexually assaulted, stabbed repeatedly, and left for dead. Brenda Robinson survived, and gave police a detailed description of her attacker. When someone who fit that description practically turned himself in, police were sure they had their man. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 21.
S13.E22 ∙ Dirty Laundry
The murder of a Kentucky businessman appears to have been the work of an intruder. But when police discover racy photos, they suspect the victim knew his killer.
S13.E23 ∙ Drowning Sorrows
A medical examiner is suspicious when a drowning victim's brain shows signs of an attack hours before death. A computer analysis and paint on a shoe reveal the murderer's identity.
S13.E24 ∙ As-Fault
Two friends out on the town see a red truck drive by with a woman screaming in the back. Later, their friend is reported missing, and her body is found in a nearby river.
S13.E25 ∙ Family Ties
A court official and his wife are attacked in their sleep by an ax-wielding murderer. Is the killer a member of 'the family'?
S13.E26 ∙ Trouble Brewing
Two suspects living together are linked to a murder by bloodstained boots and a gun, items that belonged to one who said he'd never met the victim. Investigators think the manufacturing code on the beer bottles will determine the truth.
S13.E27 ∙ Holy Terror
Church bombings rock Eastern Illinois and police apprehend suspects. But they are baffled when the bombings continue so they must reopen the case. A rare type of wire, a rhinestone dog collar and a hypnotist help them in the investigation.
S13.E28 ∙ Needle in a Haystack
There was no clear reason for a young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the medical examiner discovered the tiniest of clues during the autopsy, investigators were able to uncover the mystery filled with betrayal and revenge. Originally aired on August 28, 2009. Season 13, Episode 28.
S13.E29 ∙ Room with a View
A young woman is stabbed more than 100 times. The killer leaves DNA behind, but investigators must play a cat-and-mouse game trying to obtain a suspect's DNA to match. Will he make a mistake?
S13.E30 ∙ Dollars and Sense
On Christmas Eve, the corpse of a black male was found burning near Baltimore. He was eventually identified as twenty-six year-old Wesley Person. Distinctive building materials from the 1930s found near the body played a critical role in solving this puzzling case. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 30.
S13.E31 ∙ Hair Line
Doctors don't know why the young scientist is gravely ill. When tests finally reveal the cause, it's too late to save him. Police hope that lab analysis of his hair, showing when attempts were made on his life and what was used, will lead to the killer. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 31.
S13.E32 ∙ All That Glitters Is Gold
A bullet-riddled car is discovered under a California freeway and the driver, a twenty-year-old woman, is found dead a month later. Red glitter leads police to her killer.
S13.E33 ∙ Deadly Rebellion
Workers discovered a teenage girl's half-naked body on the side of the road; her throat had been slit. Police hoped the single foreign hair found in a defensive wound on her thumb would lead them to the culprit. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 33.
S13.E34 ∙ Sign of the Crime
A woman is found dead in the rubble of her burned Seattle apartment. The body another woman is later found in the same apartment complex under similar circumstances, leading authorities to believe the two homicides are connected.
S13.E35 ∙ Covet Thy Neighbor
When a college co-ed disappeared without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety and their own. Weeks later, the body of an unknown female was found hundreds of miles away in the ashes of a barn fire, and an alert police officer was convinced the two crimes might be connected. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 35.
S13.E36 ∙ Writing on the Wall
When a woman is found murdered in her Florida home, her former boyfriend's name is discovered written in blood on a nearby wall. Detectives must determine whether it was written by the victim to name her killer, or by the killer as a ruse.
S13.E37 ∙ Hundreds of Reasons
A manager of a Florida restaurant is stabbed to death and the motive appears to be robbery. Blood drops near the sink and fingerprints on a folder are the clues to solving the crime.
S13.E38 ∙ Cold Feet
While working the night shift at a Florida convenience store, a woman was abducted, raped, and murdered. Nearly two decades later, a reexamination of the case revealed DNA on the victim's socks.
S13.E39 ∙ Separation Anxiety
When a man's body is found burned in a parking lot, investigators use tire track impressions and security camera video to find the killer.
S13.E40 ∙ Office Visit
A respected surgeon was stabbed to death in the parking lot next to his office. The most likely suspect is seen having dinner in a restaurant at the time of the murder. But a cryptic conversation leads police to believe that, while the suspect may not have wielded the knife, he could very well have hired the man who did. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 40.
S13.E41 ∙ Palm Saturday
A young couple is found murdered in their Graham, Washington home; detectives discover shoe impressions, a partial palm print, and a neighbor's criminal past.
S13.E42 ∙ Shoe-in for Murder
Terrified, the young girl hid in her bedroom while her mother was attacked and stabbed to death. Investigators had a wealth of evidence: shoe impressions, distinctive blood drops, and the killer's DNA. What they didn't have was a basis for comparison. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 41.
S13.E43 ∙ Family Interrupted
The gunman opened fire as the family of four entered their home, killing two and wounding the others. He'd pulled open a few drawers to make it look like a robbery, but the scene was clearly staged. When police pieced together the clues, they discovered an unlikely suspect and a carefully orchestrated plot. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 42.
S13.E44 ∙ Runaway Love
In Newport Beach, California, a woman is fatally stabbed and her body is found in the harbor near a yacht club. Suspecting it was a rage killing, police investigate the victim's daughter and ex-husband.
S13.E45 ∙ Watchful Eye
A Minnesota state park employee is murdered and a wristwatch is discovered at the crime scene, leading investigators to believe it belonged to her killer.
S13.E46 ∙ Waste Mis-Management
A Texas factory worker disappears, but her family does not believe it was voluntary.
S13.E47 ∙ Dirty Little Secret
A couple goes on a trip to Ocean City, Maryland, where they encounter another couple and disappear.
S13.E48 ∙ Lights Out
A Texas housewife is murdered and her young daughter is attacked but survives. An in-law is suspected, but no arrests are made until DNA advancements help crack the case 15 years later.
S13.E49 ∙ Pet Rock
A woman is bound with electrical cords from a reptile tank heated rock, and murdered. Investigators are able to match forensic evidence to the owner of a boa constrictor living nearby.
S13.E50 ∙ Best Foot Forward
Shamaia Smith disappeared from the strip club where she worked in East Hartford, CT. Police focus on local businessman Kenneth Otto when there are inconsistencies with his story. Otto's property is searched and cadaver dogs find something in a fire pit. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 50.
S14.E1 ∙ Purebread Murder
A woman is found stabbed to death in her bathtub and her abusive ex-boyfriend becomes a suspect; footprints, including one on a hamburger bun, hold the key to solving the murder.
S14.E2 ∙ Hear No Evil
A deaf woman, caught up in a love triangle, is brutally murdered. Forensic scientists subpoena Yahoo records and find evidence at the assailant's residence.
S14.E3 ∙ Hell's Kitchen
It appeared the victim had accidentally fallen and hit her head at the bottom of the stairs. But the odd position of her shoes and the absence of blood spatter led police to suspect the scene had been staged... and Luminol proved they were right.
S14.E4 ∙ Three's a Crowd
As she left choir practice, the woman was gunned down in the church parking lot. Her husband became the prime suspect - particularly when police learned he found out just a month earlier that his wife had been cheating on him for three years. Originally aired as Season 14, Episode 4.
S14.E5 ∙ A Squire's Riches
A man's truck slips off the jack, crushing him and starting a fire. But the forensic evidence makes detectives wonder: was the man who was killed really the owner of the truck?
S14.E6 ∙ Home of the Brave
A woman is stabbed to death in her bed. Investigators become suspicious after learning of a series of close-call incidents in her life.
S14.E7 ∙ Freeze Framed
A man's apparent suicide by drinking antifreeze turns into a murder investigation when forensic evidence seems to indicate the poison might have been administered by someone else.
S14.E8 ∙ Touch of Evil
A serial killer targets gay people in New York and New jersey. Can forensic evidence lead police to the killer?
S14.E9 ∙ Textbook Murder
A pregnant woman is murdered in her home, and suspicion logically falls on her fiancé. But shoe prints and ballistic testing prove otherwise.
S14.E10 ∙ Filtered Out
A Virginia teenager is murdered and her body is found in a ravine; investigators discover shell casings and a cigarette filter nearby, along with a shoe impression on her body.
S14.E11 ∙ Water Logged
The bodies of a woman and her two daughters are found floating in Tampa Bay, Florida. Police discover a handwritten note in their car and hope it will solve the triple murder.
S14.E12 ∙ Social Circle
In an upscale Texas neighborhood, four young people are brutally murdered; a neighbor's eyewitness account helps produce composite sketches of two suspects dressed in black.
S14.E13 ∙ Low Maintenance
When a Texas college student is found murdered in her apartment, three men are under suspicion: The victim's boyfriend, a neighbor, and a custodian. Investigators must determine which man is the killer.
S14.E14 ∙ Fate Date
A report of a fire leads investigators into a bizarre scene: A couple is found fatally shot inside their home, while another victim is found executed in his car. E-mail tracking takes police into the seductive world of Internet dating.
S14.E15 ∙ Trail of a Killer
In 2003, Kathy Lorick was killed on a Concord, California jogging trail in the middle of the day while talking to her husband on her cell phone. The evidence from Kathy's cell phone records and search dogs lead nowhere. Nine days later, a witness tells police about a chance encounter and cigarette butts that contain the killer's DNA. Originally aired as Season 14, Episode 15.
S14.E16 ∙ Gone Ballistic
Investigators are able to identify the gun used in a homicide by matching it to a bullet fired more than twenty years before.
S14.E17 ∙ Seeing Red
The body of a young mother was found in a suitcase in a Texas landfill. The suitcase leads investigators to Rosendo Rodriguez who had an overwhelming amount of forensic evidence against him. But upon an extensive search of the same landfill, Rogers' decomposing body was also found in a suitcase. Originally aired as Season 14, Episode 17.
S14.E18 ∙ Auto-Motive
A woman going through a bitter divorce is reported missing the morning after 9/11. Investigators are frustrated until a suspect makes a verbal mistake.
S14.E19 ∙ Skeleton Key
A set of keys found at the crime scene leads investigators to a woman's killer.
S14.E20 ∙ Funeral Services
Two family members are suspects in the shooting of a funeral director. Does the forensic evidence show which one was the killer?
S14.E21 ∙ Expert Witness
A man becomes a suspect after he discovers his common-law wife sexually assaulted and murdered in her apartment. But when a young woman is raped three years later, it becomes clear that the same person committed both crimes.
S15.E1 ∙ Payback
Covers the disappearance and murder of 20 year old Bobby Kent in Florida. The case, which became well known, is also the subject of a book and movie.
S15.E2 ∙ See No Evil
Police in Dallas, Texas uncover a string of murdered prostitutes. Each victim has had her eyes carved out.
S15.E3 ∙ The Buddhist Monk Murders
A massacre of several monks at a Buddhist temple in Arizona. Police are stunned when they discover the man they arrested isn't the real killer.
