Forensic Files
Upcoming episodes
Jul 1st
1100a
Cries Unheard
A 19-year-old girl was found dead in her car; the scene had been staged to make murder appear to be suicide. During their investigation, police discovered the victim was involved in a love quadrangle, giving several people a motive to kill her. The killer’s identity would be revealed by a piece of evidence found in a suspect’s trash.
Jul 1st
1130a
Buried Treasure
A man disappeared one year to the day after beginning an affair with his friend’s wife. Fifteen years later, with the help of a metal detector, police found evidence which would prove what had happened, and who was responsible.
Jul 1st
1200p
Badge of Betrayal
The body of a young California co-ed was found under an isolated ramp of the Interstate, and San Diego police had no idea who would want this girl dead. But their questions would be answered when they discovered a tiny, unique fiber on the victim’s clothing, which led them straight to the most unlikely of killers.
Jul 1st
1230p
Deadly Matrimony
A go-go dancer told her family she needed to get away for a while, and then she simply disappeared. Investigators were suspicious, because she took neither her car nor her clothes. The next twenty years passed slowly, and the family began to think they might never know what happened ‑‑ until they received a phone call which changed everything.
Jul 2nd
1100a
Muddy Waters
A Colorado hunter who’d been shot three times and killed was the victim of a well planned crime, not an accidental shooting. Investigators found a .243 caliber bullet in his lung and a .308 caliber shell casing near his body, and suspected they were looking for two murder weapons, and two killers. But analysis of the forensic evidence pointed them in a different direction… one much closer to home.
Jul 2nd
1130a
Point of Origin
In 1984, California firefighters had battled ten arson fires in three weeks. When cigarettes and a scrap of paper connected the southern California fires to several fires further north, the hunt was on for a dangerous pyromaniac. Investigators finally found a fingerprint, and it pointed to a most unlikely suspect.
Jul 2nd
1200p
Seeds for Doubt
A small community in upstate New York was devastated when a car accident claimed the life of a well-respected nurse. Investigators initially thought alcohol was to blame, but blood tests proved the victim was not intoxicated. The seed pods found in her hair and on her clothes would prove that this was no accident. It was cold-blooded murder.
Jul 2nd
1230p
Saving Face
When a woman disappeared without a trace, there were two possible explanations: kidnapping or murder. Concern was heightened when police learned that two other women had vanished under similar circumstances. Careful investigation, the talents of a forensic artist, and DNA profiling enabled police to link the crimes to a single suspect – an immigrant known to prey upon vulnerable women.
Jul 3rd
1100a
Northern Exposure
Hikers near Anchorage, Alaska discovered a body wrapped in sheets which were edged in orange stitching. Authorities hydrated the fingers and obtained a fingerprint, enabling them to identify the victim. Clinging to the sheet, they also discovered a tuft of red carpet fibers -- threads of evidence which led them straight to the killer.
Jul 3rd
1130a
Silk Stalkings
The news of a flight attendant’s brutal murder prompted the son of a victim who had been killed five years earlier to contact police. The MO of both murders was remarkably similar, and analysis of the biological evidence from the crime scenes proved that these were serial killings.