Forensic Files
Upcoming episodes
Feb 10th
900a
Pressed for Crime
A brutal murder, lots of suspects, and conflicting evidence... but the forensics were clear on one thing: The killer knew his victim. And that alone gave investigators a head start
Feb 10th
930a
Finger Pane
A serial killer was on the loose and police had to find him before he struck again. Their most promising lead was an unusual one: a bloody fingerprint on the body of one of the victims.
Feb 10th
1000a
Good as Gold
Two young women were brutally murdered in Napa, California on Halloween night. The killer left his DNA behind, and a groundbreaking test revealed his race and even the color of his eyes and hair. Technology was able to tell investigators what he looked like... now all they had to do was find him
Feb 10th
1030a
Freedom Fighter
After the suspect was convicted of arson and murder, he steadfastly maintained he did not commit the crimes, but he was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison. He had no money, no lawyer and only a fifth grade education, but he never gave up. He turned to the law books in the prison library and television programs about forensic science, and set out to prove his innocence.
Feb 10th
1100a
Dog Day Afternoon
A woman was brutally murdered in her home, and the only witnesses to the crime were the family dogs. An expert in canine behavior was convinced the killer knew both the victim and the animals, and he was determined find-out exactly what the dogs had seen.
Feb 10th
1130a
Shattered Innocence
The killer probably hoped to cover his tracks by staging the crime scene. But investigators saw through the attempt almost immediately, and they turned to forensic science to learn what really happened that night.
Feb 10th
900p
Missing Pearl
The woman seemed to have simply disappeared, and police were treating treated the case as that of a missing person. A blood trail leading to the basement of her home, and a partial excavation of the floor, yielded nothing. But a year later, with the help of groundbreaking forensic technology, police would find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.
Feb 10th
930p
Hand Delivered
Anonymous letters sent through the United States mail aren’t always untraceable. One such letter, an anonymous “tip” to police about a murder, mentioned information about the crime that had been withheld from the press. It was information only the killer would know. Laser technology helped to identify the state, city, street address and even the office number from where the anonymous letter was mailed.
Feb 10th
1000p
Death Play
Marie Robards suffered the devastating loss of her father while she was still in high school. The death was ruled the result of cardiac arrest. One year later, she won a part in her high school production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The lines she was required to recite onstage were more than the thoughts and feelings of her character; they struck a chord, and hinted at her own inner turmoil, from the secret she had been hiding.
Feb 10th
1030p
Fire Dot Com
When a federal agency rules that a fire was intentionally set, the mother of the child killed in the suspicious fire was charged with murder. But are government scientists, with all of their resources, always right? The accused in this case undertook her own arson investigation, and was able to poke enough holes in the governments scientific conclusions – to raise serious questions about whether the fire was intentionally set.