Forensic Files
Upcoming episodes
Aug 25th
1000a
Dollars and Sense
Even though the victim was burned beyond recognition, police were able to create a composite sketch from his remains and identify him. But knowing who he was isn’t enough. Investigators still had to determine where he was killed and who wanted him dead.
Aug 25th
1030a
Hair Line
Doctors don’t know why the young scientist is gravely ill. When tests finally reveal the cause, it’s too late to save him. Police hope that lab analysis of his hair -- showing when attempts were made on his life and what was used -- will lead to the killer.
Aug 25th
1100a
All that Glitters is Gold
A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses. Was this an ambush or a random attack? Had the victim been abducted or was she dead? The answers lay in a unique clue, so tiny it was measured in millionths of a meter.
Aug 25th
1130a
Deadly Rebellion
Even though their daughter had run away before, she’d always come back. Her parents were sure this time would be no different... but they were wrong. Workers discovered the teen’s half-naked body on the side of the road; her throat had been slit. Police hoped the single foreign hair found in a defensive wound on her thumb would lead them to the killer.
Aug 26th
1000a
Sign of the Crime
In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered. The similarities of the crime scenes led police to conclude they were dealing with a serial killer who harbored an intense hatred of women... and they had to find him before he struck again.
Aug 26th
1030a
Covet Thy Neighbor
When a college co-ed vanished without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety… and their own. Weeks later, the body of an unknown female was discovered 700 miles away in the ashes of a barn fire, and an alert police officer realized the two crimes might be connected.
Aug 26th
1100a
Writing on the Wall
The victim was well liked and successful, which made the brutality of the crime even harder to understand. In the final moments of her life, she’d written a name on the wall -- presumably that of the killer – in her own blood. But this wasn’t an open and shut case and, in order to solve it, investigators would have to read between the lines.
Aug 26th
1130a
Hundreds of Reasons
The assistant manager of the restaurant had been stabbed to death. Police knew why he’d been killed: $8,000 was missing from the safe. As to who was responsible, his family and friends couldn’t even imagine who’d want to hurt him.
Aug 27th
1000a
Cold Feet
The convenience store safe was empty and the clerk, missing. Hours later, her bound, half-naked body was discovered in nearby woods. Almost two decades would pass before advances in forensic science gave police the proof they needed to convict a killer.
Aug 27th
1030a
Separation Anxiety
Attempting to dispose of the body by incinerating it proved to be one of many mistakes... culminating in the killer’s grainy image in security video being brought into sharp focus by something ordinary and everywhere: a store discount card.