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When a severed leg is found in a dumpster, investigators are faced with the challenge of identifying the victim. Conventional methods – fingerprinting, comparison with dental records, reports of missing persons – are useless. Using anthropology, toxicology and DNA testing, police are able to determine who the victim was, and follow the trail of evidence to his killer.

In suburban Boston, college students find a teenage boy dead in the street. Bloodstain experts rule out a hit-and-run, and his trail from North Carolina forces detectives to test a bizarre, almost impossible explanation for how he died.

A woman’s lifeless body is dumped on a lonely mountain pass. Leads are scarce, until a seemingly unrelated murder brings Kenda within arm’s reach of her killer. But an unexpected roadblock will force him to make a painful decision.

Two armed bank robbers hit a Seattle bank taking over 150,000 dollars. Before they can escape police confront them and the pair splits up. As authorities search block by block they learn one was a career criminal with a long history of violence.

In november 1986, a snowstorm rips through connecticut, leaving wife and mother helle crafts missing. Her husband, airline pilot richard crafts, evades suspicion for weeks by claiming that helle had left the country to visit her sick mother. Groundbreaking forensic work and an eyewitness to a gruesome scene involving an industrial-sized woodchipper, results in a conviction that shocks a community.

In 2005, a fortuneteller and her daughter are brutally murdered in their Westminster, CA home. Ritualistic elements leave investigators baffled until a paper trail leads them to their coldblooded culprit.