Friday

Drug trafficking has spawned a violent and deadly criminal underground. It’s providing a challenge to forensic investigators devoted to cracking drug rings.

Some of the best clues come from the least likely places. Baffling crimes have been solved and criminals betrayed through evidence provided by insects, beer bottles, and other seemingly meaningless objects.

Amanda Plasse’s life was taken suddenly, but the real horror comes in the form of disrespect and betrayal after her death. The quest for justice exposes disturbing actions within the community.

In upstate New York, a wife is found dead after an apparent shower fall. When bloodstain patterns in the bedroom raise doubts, forensic experts re-examine the scene to decide if it was a tragic accident or a carefully staged crime.

Wildest arrests at fast food restaurants.

Keith is known in his small community as a quiet but a highly skilled artisan who takes good care of his mother. When she becomes mysteriously ill and Keith is not heard from for three weeks, all eyes turn to Keith’s girlfriend. As detectives look deeper into the case, and further into Betty’s background, a final, brutal discovery is uncovered.

A weeklong crime spree began with the murder of a young woman, found naked, stabbed and strangled in the closet of an abandoned apartment in London, Ontario. Then, a Toronto man was found murdered in a parking garage, bludgeoned to death with a pipe. Now on the run and headed into rural Ontario, Peter John Peters embarked on a desperate journey of abduction, rape, and robbery in an attempt to fuel his escape. It is the skill of five police services that bring this man to a halt near Sault Ste. Marie, ending his reign of terror over Ontario.

They know as much about crime as any crime fighter, or any criminal. They’re the crime writers, and through their eyes we see murder most foul. Combining perspectives of law enforcement, felons, and journalism, crime writers provide us with as near a first-person account as possible.

The average bank robbery yields roughly 3,000 dollars. Yet some criminals risk everything for the take. In suburban Chicago, a disguised gunman began a series of robberies, growing more violent with each one.

Christine and Jo Ann are neighbours caught up in a bitter feud. When one of them is gunned down in the driveway of her own home, the vicious crime is caught on home surveillance video. But there's no way to identify the shooter – until he brags to one too many people about his crime.

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.

Sarah Boone claims a deadly game of hide-and-seek went wrong. But videos on her phone reveal her boyfriend's final pleas from inside a suitcase—and turn an accident into a murder case.

From the tips of their ears to the soles of their feet - criminals are betrayed by the clues their own bodies leave behind. A killer’s ear against a wall, his hand on a door, the path that he walks – even the slightest impressions left at the scene help crime fighters find their man.

After a night of drinking, 45-year-old Ana Trujillo bludgeons her on-again-off-again lover Stefan Andersson to death with a blue suede stiletto shoe.

Former Deputy Sheriff of Colbert, Georgia, Tracy Fortson shoots her boyfriend Douglas Benton as he sleeps, then abandons his body in a cement-filled trough in the woods.

The abduction and murder of teenager Carla Walker becomes one of Texas’s most infamous cold cases. Decades later, advances in forensic science finally identify Rodney McCurley as a suspect, breathing new life into a mystery that haunted Fort Worth for nearly fifty years.

The small town of Enderby, British Columbia is shattered after well- loved residents, Derk Roelfsema and Audrey Foster-Roelfsema, are found murdered in their own home. As rumours fly about the violent crime, authorities struggle to solve a case with multiple theories, little evidence, and no clear suspects.

In a frantic 911 call as he raced his bleeding wife to the hospital, hog farmer Todd Mullis told dispatchers Amy Mullis accidentally fell on a four-pronged corn rake in their barn. But when investigators found more than four holes in Amy’s body, they knew her death was no accident.

When two suburban housewives are killed in their homes within a week of each other in May 1970, it leaves the rural areas surrounding Toronto in fear. Thirty years later, the murders are solved, and the man responsible is caught, thanks to the meticulous collection and preservation of DNA evidence. But there is a surprising twist - Ronald West was a Toronto police officer at the time of the murders.

In 1980, a teen girl is brutally murdered in her Colorado home. In her brave efforts to defend herself, the victim leaves investigators a clue-her attacker’s blood. Years later, tireless investigators expose a killer that no one could have predicted.