Forensic Files
Upcoming episodes
Jan 5th
900a
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.
Jan 5th
930a
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.
Jan 5th
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.
Jan 5th
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.
Jan 5th
500p
Root of all Evil
For three years, investigators searched for the wife of a prominent farmer, who disappeared from her home without a trace. Eventually, a former lover of the missing woman’s estranged husband came forward with a fantastic tale of rage, murder, mutilation and cremation, but there was no way to test the validity of her story... that is, until a plant pathologist and a dendrochronologist conducted some tests on the plant life on the farm, which led to a surprising revelation.
Jan 5th
530p
Where the Blood Drops
When someone dies under mysterious circumstances, the spouse almost always is a suspect -- especially if they are in bed, sleeping beside the individual at the time of their death. This is the story of a woman convicted of her husband’s murder, whose son was so convinced of her innocence that he enrolled in law school; he studied all of the evidence to learn the truth of what happened between his mother and father that fateful night.
Jan 5th
600p
Punch Line
When a patient in a hospital emergency room said he cut his hand on a dumpster, the doctor recognized the injury as something else. That doctor became the chief witness in a crime involving the murder of a 67-year-old grandmother.
Jan 5th
630p
Sibling Rivalry
Two of America’s premier pornographers happen to be brothers. When one turns up dead, his brother confesses to shooting him. The question for investigators is whether the shooting was pre-meditated. A 911 call in which the fatal shots can be heard, and a computer reconstruction of the crime scene, provide the answer.
Jan 6th
900a
Office Visit
A respected surgeon was stabbed to death in the parking lot next to his office. The most likely suspect is seen having dinner in a restaurant at the time of the murder. But a cryptic conversation leads police to believe that, while the suspect may not have wielded the knife, he could very well have hired the man who did.
Jan 6th
930a
Shoe-In for Murder
Terrified, the young girl hid in her bedroom while her mother was attacked and stabbed to death. Investigators had a wealth of evidence: shoe impressions, distinctive blood drops, and the killer’s DNA. What they didn’t have was a basis for comparison.