Wednesday

Despite what you see in the movies, most bank robbers come in quietly, pass a note, and slip away. They want cash, not bloodshed. But in Richmond, Virginia, a pair of gunmen entered a bank with their guns blazing.

In Pennsylvania, an inmate escaped with the help of his female accomplice. Following a trail of fraudulent credit card receipts and deaths, authorities track the pair, but always find themselves one step behind.

Killers often attempt to deflect attention away from their crimes by hiding the remains of their victims. Bodies may lay hidden for years before they are discovered. That’s when forensic scientists are called upon to reveal hidden clues that lead investigators to the killers.

Veteran journalist Jeff German is stabbed outside his home. Clues point not to the mob, but a disgraced official with a vendetta, exposed in one of German’s hard-hitting investigations.

People who believe American laws don't apply to them find out the hard way that they do.

A man takes a nap and never wakes up. But when the clues don’t add up, Doctor G finds herself in uncharted waters. And then a woman is stricken with an intense but mysterious pain. The son is absolutely flabbergasted that she’s dead. It just really came as a shock to him.

When a man dies unexpectedly in the office of a noted California doctor, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation. What they find throws doubt on the identity of the dead man and raises questions about the doctor’s role in his death. Soon they uncover a bizarre story of corpse stealing, faked identities, and sexual perversion -- all part of an elaborate insurance case that will center on what actually caused the victim’s death: a sex act gone wrong, or premeditated murder.

If a perpetrator leaves a shoe print in the mud, investigators use established techniques to made a mold of the shoe impression for later identification. But what happens if the impression is left in the snow? Here’s the story of one investigator, whose quick thinking and knowledge of science enabled him to capture a shoe impression made in snow, before the evidence melted away.

When we think of looking for fingerprints at a crime scene, we generally think of hard objects that a perpetrator may have touched… a doorknob, a drinking glass – but a fabric? Is it possible that a piece of cloth could contain a fingerprint that would identify a killer? There now exists the technology to do just that – and in this case, it meant justice for the parents of a young woman, who was killed in a senseless act of revenge.

When a six-year-old girl disappeared from church during a Sunday service, investigators feared a stalker was preying on children. A psychological profile of the perpetrator leads investigators to a taxi cab driver who was in the vicinity of the church at the time of the disappearance.

Texas officers respond to what looks like a murder-suicide between a mother and her teenage son. Forensic testing of gunshot residue, body temperatures, and toxicology will decide whether this was a family tragedy or a staged scene.

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.

Caught in the act, a disguised bank robber hurled explosives at police and disappeared in a hail of bullets. When police identified the suspect, they connected him to an armed kidnapping, but they couldn’t find him.

In Sacramento in the mid 1980Õs, a ruthless killer was making his way through the fringe community of Oak Park. Behind him, he left a trail of victims, stuffed in closets, hidden under debris and even buried alive. Handyman Morris Solomon was eventually captured and sentenced to death for these crimes.

In Georgia, just days before Christmas, Beverly Eller is found murdered in her apartment. After years of tireless investigation, a critical piece of evidence helps investigators unravel the bizarre chain of events that led to Beverly’s tragic murder.

Mary Lynn falls for a divorcee, but she notices that his son is not quite right; she also discovers that his son does not just like her, he wants to be her.