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A young life is tragically cut short… And Dr. G is forced to consider the worst-case scenario. Then, a woman dies after being released from the hospital with a simple case of bronchitis. But at autopsy Dr. G’s findings reveal an astonishing oversight.

After shooting his victims in the head, the killer staged the scene, placed the incriminating evidence into a plastic bag and tossed it into the river. Instead of floating downstream, it became entangled in overhanging branches. Days later, when police found it, they hoped clues to the killer’s identity and the solution to the crime were “in the bag.”

In a tragic twist of fate, just days after the woman sold her home and moved to a modest trailer, a fire took both the trailer and her life. But the autopsy proved this was no accident. It was arson and murder. Investigators had to determine who wanted the woman dead... and why.

A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace; his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site. More than a decade would pass before a phone call breathed life into the cold case, and a paint smear on the bottom of the victim’s boot helped scientists determine what happened during the last hour of his life.

A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other. Five years earlier, a student was assaulted and killed in her off-campus apartment and, a year after that, another student was killed in almost the same way. Police feared a serial killer was on the loose and they needed to determine what -- or who -- these women had in common.

A russian woman is found nude and dead in the bathtub in her toronto apartment. Homicide detectives process the apartment, and transport the woman to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy is performed, and a forensic odontologist is brought in, as teeth marks were discovered on the woman’s body. The teeth marks were analyzed, and samples were taken. The woman appeared to have several boyfriends, all of whom were questioned, and had teeth molds made to attempt to match to the bite marks on the woman’s body. A perfect match was found, the only evidence linking the man to the murder.

In the 1970’s a string of bank robberies and bombings spread fear and destruction along the east coast. The FBI faced a new breed of criminal, the domestic terrorist.

In the 1990’s the war on drugs was in full swing. The front lines were often America’s inner cities where gangs use violence and murder to rule their empires.

Michigan v. Kemia Hassel. New Year’s Eve and a seemingly random murder, in the small town of Benton Harbor , on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Police body cam video captured the heartbroken cries of young Army Sergeant Kemia Hessel as she cradled her handsome, dying young husband in her arms, as he was loaded into an ambulance. But despite the happy outward appearance of the attractive young military couple, investigators soon accused Kemia of directing a murder-for-hire plot with the help of a lover she met while deployed in Korea. Her boyfriend quickly confessed and in a dramatic, videotaped jail house phone call, laid out the murder plot to the victim’s father. Kemia at first denied involvement and despite admissions in a lie detector exam, strongly defended her innocence, claiming her comments to police came from exhaustion and grief. She pointed the finger of blame at her jealous boyfriend who she said acted alone.

After Heidi Firkus is shot during an alleged home invasion, detectives question the only other witness. Years later, they use digital reconstructions, trajectory tests and 911 audio to see if the story of a mysterious intruder makes sense.

Encouraged by life insurance money, 33-year-old Kimberly Hricko takes her 35-year old husband Stephen on a romantic murder mystery weekend.

Patty White attempts to rob former flatmate Michele O'Dowd, but ends up leaving something unexpected under the Christmas tree.

They swept through six states like a plague, thrill killers acting without rhyme or reason. They targeted adults and young girls, kidnapping, and murdering. And in their rampage, they left plenty of clues, but moving targets are the hardest to hit.

Former pro-wrestler Ivan Radocaj, known as ‘The Croatian Giant’, is ambushed and brutally murdered in the tiny Manitoba hamlet of Inwood. It looks like a robbery gone wrong. But when small town tongues start to wag, the police get interested and initiate a massive sting operation. What they hear over a wire tap brings to light a monstrous plot that seems alien to a tranquil community.

When mother of two Shaundra Murr is run over in front of her house, officers initially suspect a hit and run. Until Lt. Joe Kenda uncovers evidence proving Shaundra’s murder was a crime of passion, and the killer was driven by jealousy and rage.

American atheist madalyn murray o'hair and her family vanished in august 1995, leaving behind an ominous note claiming a family emergency. When the irs started looking for some of the organization’s missing money, they instead found a former employee with the motive to commit murder. Fellow atheist david waters was convicted and the complex case was finally put to rest.

A day after Katrina hits the Gulf Coast, a Lafayette, LA, man is shot by masked burglars. Police work through a list of suspects, to no avail. Three years later, crime scene evidence leads investigators to the opportunistic culprits.

Beautiful cheerleader Kathleen becomes the victim of a sick and twisted high school stalker, who had a crush on her that turned into a dangerous obsession.