Forensic Factor

Forensic Factor

About the show

Based on true crimes solved by an elite team of investigators, Forensic Factor details the trade secrets used by the world's best sleuths to nab the most elusive criminals, with re-enactments of crucial incidents and firsthand accounts from the experts providing depth and insight.

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Upcoming episodes

Feb 6th
800a

Thrill Kill

Days after christmas 2005, the desert city of phoenix, arizona is shocked by a drive-by shooting rampage that injures multiple people and leaves two men dead. Forensics determines that this isn’t the first time the shooters have struck. It appears that phoenix police have a unique serial killer team on their hands. But just as the trail of the bloody christmas shootings is going cold, the killers come back with a vengeance. In the heat of the summer, the city is tormented by the murderous duo who get their thrills stalking and shooting innocent people under the cover of night. A challenging investigation is made worse because the shooters use a gun that’s virtually untraceable forensically. As the bodies continue to pile up, detectives race to put the pieces together to find the two killers and end their reign of terror. When at last police get the serials shooters in their sights, they must endure an agonizing night of surveillance as they follow them on the hunt. Can detectives and forensic scientists ensure that both serial shooters are convicted and taken off the streets forever?
Feb 6th
500p

Rampage

Four brutal murders in one bloody weekend devastate the small town of barrie, ontario. The prime suspects, three violent, escaped convicts, are on the loose. But while police conduct a massive manhunt, they begin to discover that the evidence isn’t adding up. As the frightened city demands answers, detectives and forensic scientists find themselves in a desperate race to find those responsible – before they can kill again.
Feb 8th
600a

The Abbotsford Killer

A special task force hunts down a deadly stalker on the loose in small-town abbotsford, british columbia – where one teenaged girl is found brutally killed and another barely alive. Turning to the latest in forensic dentistry and acoustic technology, investigators try to decipher mysterious marks left on the dead girl’s body and a series of taunting messages from the killer himself. In piecing together their puzzle – and with the life of every resident in abbotsford hanging in the balance – investigators are forced to consider that the killer may even be a member of their task force
Feb 8th
700a

Jack

A series of seemingly random shootings have terrorized the city of east point, georgia, just outside atlanta. Police are baffled as to the killer's motive, how he is choosing his victims and when he will strike again. Apart from leaving behind taunting messages, mysteriously signed "jack", the shooter leaves behind little evidence. And investigators are baffled as to why he always seems to be one step ahead of them. As the citizens of east point hide behind locked doors, the police use every forensic trick at their disposal to unmask this brazen killer and bring him to justice.
Feb 8th
800a

Love Bited

A vivacious teenage girl is found brutally stabbed to death in her car in a small pennsylvania city. The motive is elusive; she wasn’t sexually assaulted, and she was happy and popular. But as police look closer, they discover she was involved in a shocking love triangle that breaks all the rules. When the suspects’ stories overlap and raise more questions than they answer, investigators turn to forensics to separate the lies from the startling truth. One tenacious detective goes to surprising lengths to obtain that evidence, and in the end, in a dramatic twist, it’s the victim herself who gives police what they need.
Feb 8th
900a

The Neulander Case

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.
Feb 9th
800a

The Haggard Case

In Seattle, a young woman vanishes and her phone goes dark. As strange texts confuse family and friends, detectives lean on digital forensics and a badly damaged cellphone to uncover what happened and who was really using her device.
Feb 9th
500p

The Yosemite Park Murders

Carole sund, her daughter juli and friend silvina pelosso go missing while vacationing in yosemite national park. The theory is that they had a car accident. What begins as a search and rescue operation becomes a chilling case of murder when the bodies of two of the women are discovered in the trunk of their burned out rental car. An anonymous letter to the fbi leads authorities to the body of the third victim – sexually assaulted and murdered by a lake. Confusing and contradictory evidence keeps police off the trail of a sadistic killer until after he strikes again. When they finally catch cary stayner, the handyman at the motel where the women were murdered, he confesses that he used forensic science to mislead and manipulate investigators.
Feb 10th
800a

The Payne Case

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.
Feb 10th
500p

The Hog Trail Murders

Between january 1994 and april 1996, in central florida, the bodies of four men are found in a wooded area known as the hog trails. All are severely decomposed, all are naked, and all have been genitally mutilated. Police realize they are chasing a serial killer, but the investigation is hampered by the fact that they are unable to identify any of the victims. Finally a fifth body yields a name, and soon puts authorities on the trail of nurse daniel conahan. Police are able to prove that conahan --a sexual sadist with a taste for bondage-- lured transients to the woods with promises of easy money posing for nude photographs. In the privacy of the wilderness, he tied them to trees and brutally murdered them.