Forensic Files
Upcoming episodes
May 21st
1100a
Line of Fire
When a fundamentalist group starts attacking and robbing banks in the Pacific Northwest, authorities know immediately that they are dealing with experienced criminals. A tip leads them to the alleged perpetrators and the evidence found at their homes is extensive and incriminating. But in court, this wealth of evidence must withstand a well-funded defense.
May 21st
1130a
Bad Blood
A young doctor in a rural community is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting two of his female patients. DNA tests demonstrate that the doctor is innocent, but the women continue to insist that he sedated and raped them. On three occasions, blood was taken from the doctor’s arm for DNA testing, and each time, the results were “No Match.” Seven years later, a private investigator hired by one of the women takes a chap stick from the Doctor’s car, and has it DNA-tested. The results surprised everyone.
May 21st
1200p
Pure Evil
Creating a “profile” of a serial killer is part science and part intuition. The science involves studying criminals who have committed similar crimes, to see what characteristics they have in common. In a search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas, a behavioral profile led to a possible suspect - and hard science proved the profile was correct.
May 21st
1230p
Root of all Evil
For three years, investigators searched for the wife of a prominent farmer, who disappeared from her home without a trace. Eventually, a former lover of the missing woman’s estranged husband came forward with a fantastic tale of rage, murder, mutilation and cremation, but there was no way to test the validity of her story... that is, until a plant pathologist and a dendrochronologist conducted some tests on the plant life on the farm, which led to a surprising revelation.
May 22nd
1100a
Where the Blood Drops
When someone dies under mysterious circumstances, the spouse almost always is a suspect -- especially if they are in bed, sleeping beside the individual at the time of their death. This is the story of a woman convicted of her husband’s murder, whose son was so convinced of her innocence that he enrolled in law school; he studied all of the evidence to learn the truth of what happened between his mother and father that fateful night.
May 22nd
1130a
Punch Line
When a patient in a hospital emergency room said he cut his hand on a dumpster, the doctor recognized the injury as something else. That doctor became the chief witness in a crime involving the murder of a 67-year-old grandmother.
May 22nd
1200p
Sibling Rivalry
Two of America’s premier pornographers happen to be brothers. When one turns up dead, his brother confesses to shooting him. The question for investigators is whether the shooting was pre-meditated. A 911 call in which the fatal shots can be heard, and a computer reconstruction of the crime scene, provide the answer.
May 22nd
1230p
Pastoral Care
When the body of a female prison guard shows up in a landfill, investigators immediately suspect the hundreds of prisoners in the facility where she worked. The medical examiner not only discovered the cause of her death, he found an important clue. It was a “signature” element, which figured in two other murders committed years earlier. The perpetrator of those crimes was an inmate at the prison. Was it possible he committed this crime, too?
May 26th
1100a
Bagging a Killer
When a nine year old girl headed for school vanishes from her quiet suburban neighborhood, an entire community starts searching for her abductor. Investigators wonder if her long-lost mother might be connected to the disappearance. Finally, police use satellites surveilling the Pacific Northwest to find who took her and where. Tracing the perpetrator's movements not only leads them to the girl, but shows the twisted motive in the perpetrator's mind.
May 26th
1130a
Double Trouble
When a Maine State Trooper is attacked during a routine stop, it triggers a chain of events which jump starts a stalled murder case hundreds of miles away. The Maine attack appears strikingly similar to the brutal sexual assault and murder of a young woman in New Jersey. There is very little forensic evidence in the New Jersey crime, but the “signature” the killer left behind – the ritualistic similarities in both of these crimes -- identified him just as convincingly as a DNA match.