Thursday

Forensic psychologists delve into the minds of serial killers, explaining why, most often, they can be a friendly neighbor or the tenacious co-worker - the one who hides his or her dark side better than anyone else. Detectives show us what forensic techniques, the vicap system and clever investigating have done to bring these killers to justice.

In 1980 the FBI faced the largest explosive device they had ever seen. The bomb was sophisticated, carefully constructed, and designed to destroy an entire building.

When the streets of New York flooded with crack cocaine in the 1980’s a wave of violence threatened to drown the city. Colombian cartels brought the coke in and ran their operations with an iron fist.

Shortly after midnight on Valentine’s Day, police found Amie Harwick, a prominent sex therapist and Drew Carey’s former fiancé, dying on the patio under the balcony of her Hollywood Hills apartment. Detectives began to investigate — did she fall, or was she murdered?

When Joleen Cummings misses a Mother’s Day pickup, her family calls police. Detectives find a blood-soaked workplace, a felon boyfriend and a suspect with shifting identities, using forensic evidence and an old ruse to uncover the truth.

Applebee's waitress Rachel Wade, 19, stabs 18-year-old Sarah Ludemann to death in a vicious teen-girl cat fight over shared bad boy boyfriend Josh Camacho.

Submissive 'good wife' Mary Winkler takes fate into her own hands, before fleeing the scene for a day at the beach with her children.

Fred and Pat live a quiet life in North Carolina. When one of them is shot and killed in a robbery on a stretch of rural highway, the crime goes unsolved for years. But an arrest in another case leads police to a letter detailing the crime – and a shocking family connection.

In the quaint community of West Kelowna, British Columbia, Taekwondo instructor Keith Black has disappeared without a trace. His family alerts the authorities, but a lack of evidence slows the investigation. It isn’t until years later that the truth behind Keith’s whereabouts comes to light — and with it, comes the revelation of a vicious plot, one provoked by greed and resentment.

In his first case with the homicide unit, rookie burglary detective Joe Kenda volunteers to work a bloody multi-victim shooting deemed “unsolvable” by the veterans. But has the ambitious young investigator bitten off more than he can chew?

In november 1996, raymond collin went missing in his hometown of timmins, ontario. The discovery of his body days later in a snow-covered truck in downtown timmins led police to an assortment of possible suspects. However, police picked up the trail of the killers following another murder in southern ontario. The co-operation of two ontario police departments led to the arrest and conviction of robin graves and wayne jones.

When an eight-year old Ocean Shores, WA girl is found strangled to death, a local woman is instrumental in helping detectives bring the girl’s brutal killer to justice.

A female moves into a home, but notices her privacy is invaded by a man who films her through the window causing her to consider a violent showdown.