Forensic Files
Upcoming episodes
Jan 20th
900a
Soiled Plan
Police instituted an intense search when the mother of two young children went missing and, less than a day later, they found her body. The evidence was little better than circumstantial, and the crime drifted to the bottom of the cold case files. Twenty years later, advances in technology enabled investigators to see the evidence in a new light, and discover it pointed directly to the killer.
Jan 20th
930a
Headquarters
When hunters reported finding a skull in a Texas canyon, police immediately began an investigation. At the scene, they found bits of clothing, a woman’s shoe, some small bones and a strand of hair. An anthropologist determined the victim was a Caucasian woman, and that she’d been stabbed repeatedly. A forensic artist reconstructed her face, and the image was released to media. Eventually, police learned who she was. Now all they had to do was find her killer.
Jan 20th
1000a
One for the Road
A married couple decided to escape the cold of winter with a mini-vacation in Key West. The wife went missing, and police searched every square inch of the island; they found nothing but a pair of sandals which might have belonged to her. Then two important pieces of video surfaced, and investigators began to wonder if they should be searching for a missing person… or a killer.
Jan 20th
1030a
Army of Evidence
A mother of two young children was found dead in her bedroom. It appeared she had killed herself: There were suicide notes near her body, and a pistol was in her hand. Her death was ruled a suicide – but when investigators learned she had almost died in a house fire three years earlier, they decided to take another look at the evidence.
Jan 20th
1100a
"Shear" Luck
In 1991, when the wife of a serviceman was brutally murdered in the Philippines, the Air Force Office of Special Investigators swung into action. Clues led to the victim’s husband, but he insisted he was innocent. To find out if he was telling the truth, investigators would have to do something unprecedented: Reassemble a 5-1/4” computer disk which had been cut to pieces with pinking shears.
Jan 20th
1130a
Tagging a Suspect
Bombings are difficult to solve, because the perpetrator isn’t usually at the scene, and the evidence goes up in smoke. But there are clues if investigators know where to look. In this case, pieces of plastic the size of grains of sand held the key to a man’s murder.
Jan 20th
900p
The List Murders
For 18 years, a man who murdered his entire family successfully eluded the FBI. This episode describes how investigators used art and forensic science to catch a killer.
Jan 20th
930p
Raw Terror
In the spring of 1991, a group of boy scouts spent a weekend in the woods, hoping to earn their “survival” merit badges. Ten days later, one of the scouts was fighting for his life. To cure him, doctors first had to find the cause of his mysterious illness.
Jan 20th
1000p
The Common Thread
The year was 1984, and a serial killer was on the loose in Florida. Eight women had been found dead. At each crime scene, investigators found tiny red fibers, fibers they hoped would lead them to the killer.
Jan 20th
1030p
The Dirty Deed
Eileen and Derrick Severs disappeared from their home in the small village of Hambleton in Great Britain, and police found evidence which suggested foul play. Careful analysis of a soil sample would tell investigators not only what happened to the couple, but who was responsible for the dirty deed.