Forensic Files
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Dec 15th
900a
Transaction Failed
When a dedicated, well-respected teacher disappeared, police had to determine if she’d gone on vacation without telling anyone, or if she was the victim of foul play. Investigators turned to forensic science, hoping to find the answers they needed.
Dec 15th
930a
The Day the Music Died
Seattle police had no suspects in the violent murder of a popular rock singer. More than a decade would pass before the evidence collected by an extraordinarily prescient medical examiner could be used by forensic scientists to identify the killer.
Dec 15th
1000a
Sole Survivor
A Michigan State University grad student disappeared and was presumed dead. With the help of a professor of geological sciences, police hoped to get the “dirt” on her killer.
Dec 15th
1030a
Insignificant Others
How unlucky could one man be? His wife had taken her own life, and his college sweetheart had killed herself in much the same fashion fourteen years earlier. Investigators had to determine if this was a bizarre coincidence, or an attempt to get away with murder... twice.
Dec 15th
400p
Badge of Deceit
For more than a decade, women in a small Louisiana city lived in fear of a serial rapist. Fortunately, computer technology and behavioral science combined to give police a new forensic tool: geographical profiling. Police narrow their search to one man, but to prove he’s the perpetrator they turn to an unlikely piece of evidence--- a discarded cigarette butt.
Dec 15th
430p
Dew Process
When the wife of a well-known dentist is found dead, police are unsure who killed her. As the investigation progress a 22 year-old woman confesses to the murders. But two years go by before some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open and reveal the real killer.
Dec 15th
500p
A Woman Scorned
When a young mother and her infant son are found dead in a cornfield, the obvious suspect is the husband and father of the victims. But some insects found on the bodies reveal a vital clue, as does a long, blonde hair found on the victims.
Dec 15th
530p
A Voice from Beyond
When a decomposed body is discovered inside a barrel, police immediately suspect foul play. But the body had been placed there 30 years earlier. One of the few clues was an address book found along with the body but years of moisture had washed away the ink. Scientists desperately searched for a way to unlock the secrets of that address book.
Dec 15th
600p
Burning Ambition
When a Seattle policeman’s house goes up in flames, fire experts suspect arson – possibly perpetrated by someone with a vendetta against the officer. One month later, in an ironic twist, the officer whose home was torched, arrests a low-level drug dealer, who confesses to the arson! But when the suspect vanishes - investigators start to question the authenticity of the “confession.”
Dec 15th
630p
Memories
A pregnant woman is brutally attacked in her own home - and her unborn child is killed. After coming out of her coma, she identifies her husband as the perpetrator. The semen left at the scene matches her husband’s blood type. The husband was convicted and spent 16 years in jail proclaiming his innocence. Then, a new DNA test and an innovative computer program lead investigators to question just how accurate the wife’s “recovered memory” really was.