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Sometimes the scales of justice are balanced by just a few milligrams of evidence – a couple of fibers, a tooth filling, or a smudge on a piece of tape. The biggest cases are often solved by the smallest clues.

George orwell’s concept of big brother remains in the realm of fiction. But as technology becomes more a part of our lives, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to make a move without leaving behind an electronic trace. Cell phones, surveillance cameras, and atms track virtually every move. When it comes to solving murders, this isn’t such a bad thing.

In 1989, 24-year-old Peggy Gill was working the night shift at a Days Inn in Merrillville, Indiana, when she was attacked, robbed, and murdered. The case went cold for decades until DNA technology linked her killer to a chilling trail of victims along I-65.

A six-year old girl, andrea atkinson, is found dead in the boiler room of her toronto tenement. Forensic investigators quickly determine she has been raped and smothered. There are no witnesses. Quick-thinking cops experiment with the sound in the boiler room by yelling with the door closed. Outside, total silence. Whoever killed andrea knew no one would hear him.

The wildest arrests at Florida's Disney World.

Dr. G works on unexplained deaths in orange and osceola counties in florida, as well as similar deaths from her previous employment as an associate medical examiner in bexar county, texas. The show features dramatic re-enactments of the events leading up to the person's death as well as the autopsies. Interviews with dr. G, family members, and other people connected to the deaths are also shown.

Three seemingly unrelated deaths proved to be serial murders. The killer had been careful; he used poison which has no taste or odor. Fortunately for investigators, it also had a unique chemical signature.

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.

Now it’s not only a fingerprint which can link a killer to a crime; a shoe print can be just as telling. Armed with little else, police hoped the shoe impressions found at a Lansing, Michigan crime scene would put their investigation back on track.

When the head chef of a historic Philadelphia restaurant was found dead, investigators interviewed the usual suspects: family, friends and co-workers. As they sifted through the evidence, police uncovered a chilling tale of debt and deceit.

Hiding a body can be difficult; it’s sometimes easier to obscure or disguise the circumstances of the death, turning murder into suicide, or pinning the blame on someone else. The truth is told through subtle clues taken from the crime scene.

A burning body in a dark alley shed light on a cold-blooded killer. His partners in crime would tell the story, if they lived. In the underworld of the drug trade, even a childhood friend can quickly become an enemy.

New York City is not stranger to gang violence. But when a 12-year-old child was kidnapped, the gangs had crossed a line. Law enforcement raced to find the missing boy before it was too late.

Police receive a frantic 911 call about a woman who witnessed a murder. But during her interrogation, detectives begin to wonder - was she the victim or was she the killer?

A series of over sixty spectacular fires rips through california’s san joaquin valley, killing four people and devastating the landscape. An extensive investigation by the atf, police and forensic scientists reveals a common pattern among all the blazes, and to their horror, authorities soon realize that a serial arsonist is on the loose. As they painstakingly study the evidence from each crime scene, a single fingerprint leads them to one suspect. He is john leonard orr, a respected arson investigator for the glendale fire department in southern california and one of the worst serial arsonists of the 20th century.

Investigators uncover a bizarre web of lies involving a conman posing as a doctor, Lisa Henning obsessed with reptilian conspiracies—leading to one of New Mexico's strangest and most chilling murder cases.

When an affluent couple is brutally murdered a seemingly random home invasion unravels into a sinister plot of greed, deception, with Kara Lounsbury shockingly close to the family circle.

Nicholas Brophy is excited to start his senior year of high school in Thompson Manitoba. But, after going out to visit a friend late on a school night, he never returns. What starts as a missing person’s case evolves as investigators connect the night of Nicholas’s disappearance to gang activity in the area.

In the dead of night, a shooter on a rampage rips through a home, leaving a grandmother disfigured, her 24 year old daughter dead, and a two year-old child clinging to life. Investigators pursue a convoluted trail that ultimately puts Lt. Joe Kenda face to face with a cold-blooded killer.

The day began like any other for Cheryl and Paul Chapman, until the silence of a peaceful Sunday morning was shattered with a phone call.

In the winter of 1968, the prairie city of Saskatoon is ravaged by a string of savage rapes. A few months later, fears are bolstered when a young nurse is found raped and murdered in an alley near her home. Police attention is brought to a young man named David Milgaard - the evidence on him is thin, but the court finds him guilty. After spending nearly 20 years in prison, David continues to plead his innocence. Through the undying faith of his mother, the real killer is slowly discovered to be a man named Larry Fisher. Approaching the turn of the century new DNA technologies finally exonerate David and plant the real killer, Larry Fisher, behind bars for life.

The killer of a young North Carolina woman keeps police guessing until he slips up and detectives get what they need to put him behind bars.

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.