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When the victim of a violent crime is a member of law enforcement, the job of investigating becomes personal. At a United States border crossing, armed fugitives kidnapped a customs’ inspector then vanished.

In the 1980’s, thousands of violent criminals flooded into America from Cuba and Colombia. Drugs hit South Florida and the area bloated with illicit wealth became a violent powder keg.

Lies and deceit can often throw investigators off the trail of justice. But when hard evidence contradicts a killer’s story, police must use the clues to piece together the truth. Follow investigators as they unravel a web of lies to track down and catch the killers.

Teen Susana Morales vanishes on her way home. Months later, her remains and a stolen gun lead police to a shocking suspect—an officer once trusted to protect her neighborhood.

The wildest spring break arrests in Florida.

The sudden death of a 35-year-old man baffles Dr. G. And when the threat of a deadly bacteria surfaces, all bets are off... Then, a man is found dead in bed – and his family is left fearing the worst. Altered lives, baffling medical mysteries, shocking revelations. These are the everyday cases of Dr. G: Medical Examiner.

The woman seemed to have simply disappeared, and police were treating treated the case as that of a missing person. A blood trail leading to the basement of her home, and a partial excavation of the floor, yielded nothing. But a year later, with the help of groundbreaking forensic technology, police would find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.

Anonymous letters sent through the United States mail aren’t always untraceable. One such letter, an anonymous “tip” to police about a murder, mentioned information about the crime that had been withheld from the press. It was information only the killer would know. Laser technology helped to identify the state, city, street address and even the office number from where the anonymous letter was mailed.

Marie Robards suffered the devastating loss of her father while she was still in high school. The death was ruled the result of cardiac arrest. One year later, she won a part in her high school production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The lines she was required to recite onstage were more than the thoughts and feelings of her character; they struck a chord, and hinted at her own inner turmoil, from the secret she had been hiding.

When a federal agency rules that a fire was intentionally set, the mother of the child killed in the suspicious fire was charged with murder. But are government scientists, with all of their resources, always right? The accused in this case undertook her own arson investigation, and was able to poke enough holes in the governments scientific conclusions – to raise serious questions about whether the fire was intentionally set.

In Seattle, a young woman vanishes and her phone goes dark. As strange texts confuse family and friends, detectives lean on digital forensics and a badly damaged cellphone to uncover what happened and who was really using her device.

Neighbors are stunned when close friends Louis Matos and Colleen Johnson are gunned down in cold blood for no apparent reason. After a vexing series of false leads, the case kicks into high gear when Lt Joe Kenda locates a panic-stricken eyewitness who played an unwitting role in the bloodbath.

Murder-for-hire is a complex crime. Solving it means finding the killer, and whoever paid for the hit. In South Carolina a death first ruled accidental was no accident, but that was just the beginning.

Multiple murders in rural communities are always a shocking occurrence, but never more so than in Livingston County, Missouri in the late 1980Õs. Ray and Faye Copeland, an elderly farmer and his wife, would become AmericaÕs oldest couple on death row when a simple livestock scam escalated into murder.

In 1985, a popular high school girl is found murdered in the Angeles National Forest. Investigators run through a network of a classmates, rivals, and troublemakers to find her killer. Years later, a break in the cases exposes the shocking truth.

A maternal senior psychiatric nurse that fired a junior nurse and heroin addict causes a two-day hostage situation that resulted in the death of a person.