Wednesday

Dr. G takes us through the most surprising results of some shocking autopsies.

When hunters reported finding a skull in a Texas canyon, police immediately began an investigation. At the scene, they found bits of clothing, a woman’s shoe, some small bones and a strand of hair. An anthropologist determined the victim was a Caucasian woman, and that she’d been stabbed repeatedly. A forensic artist reconstructed her face, and the image was released to media. Eventually, police learned who she was. Now all they had to do was find her killer.

A married couple decided to escape the cold of winter with a mini-vacation in Key West. The wife went missing, and police searched every square inch of the island; they found nothing but a pair of sandals which might have belonged to her. Then two important pieces of video surfaced, and investigators began to wonder if they should be searching for a missing person… or a killer.

A mother of two young children was found dead in her bedroom. It appeared she had killed herself: There were suicide notes near her body, and a pistol was in her hand. Her death was ruled a suicide – but when investigators learned she had almost died in a house fire three years earlier, they decided to take another look at the evidence.

In 1991, when the wife of a serviceman was brutally murdered in the Philippines, the Air Force Office of Special Investigators swung into action. Clues led to the victim’s husband, but he insisted he was innocent. To find out if he was telling the truth, investigators would have to do something unprecedented: Reassemble a 5-1/4” computer disk which had been cut to pieces with pinking shears.

The forces of nature can reduce a body to bones in a matter of weeks. Using a unique combination of art and science, forensic anthropologists give victims a face long after they have been forgotten.

It’s a model’s job to rivet the public’s attention. But in 1984, some aspiring models began attracting publicity in a terrible new way.

When three people were found murdered in their home, it appeared like a burglary gone awry. But a crime this horrific deserved a closer look.

Sarah Boone claims a deadly game of hide-and-seek went wrong. But videos on her phone reveal her boyfriend's final pleas from inside a suitcase—and turn an accident into a murder case.

In three days of savagery the picturesque town gainesville florida is sent reeling with shock. Five university students are brutally attacked and killed.

Neuroscientist Amy Bishop is denied tenor, and it results in deadly consequences for her co-workers.

While her 10-year-old daughter listens upstairs, failed self-help guru Derek Medina shoots his wife during an argument, then casually posts pictures of her dead body on Facebook.

The abduction and murder of teenager Carla Walker becomes one of Texas’s most infamous cold cases. Decades later, advances in forensic science finally identify Rodney McCurley as a suspect, breathing new life into a mystery that haunted Fort Worth for nearly fifty years.

In the small town of Logan, OH., a quiet community known for its annual Washboard Festival, Summer Inman is violently abducted in a back alley behind her work. With multiple eye-witness accounts, investigators quickly zero in on three suspects. But when they refuse to cooperate, the odds of bringing Summer home alive start to look grim.

One month after 24 year old single mother, Lorraine Laribo is reported missing, a jogger discovers her body lying in a creek bed. Lt Joe Kenda and his team must uncover the mystery of her death and sort out the guilty party. Was it her boyfriend or her sister’s boyfriend?

When two suburban housewives are killed in their homes within a week of each other in May 1970, it leaves the rural areas surrounding Toronto in fear. Thirty years later, the murders are solved, and the man responsible is caught, thanks to the meticulous collection and preservation of DNA evidence. But there is a surprising twist - Ronald West was a Toronto police officer at the time of the murders.

A serial killer plagues Spokane, Washington, claiming the lives of more than a dozen victims. The reexamination of an old clue finally helps investigators zero in on the murderer.