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When murder strikes a young girl, police quickly make an arrest, but cutting-edge technology from NASA proves they have the wrong suspect behind bars.
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Insulated Evidence
A man is found strangled and burned in his San Antonio apartment and the killer thinks he has destroyed all the evidence.
Cold Hearted
When two men appear to die of heart disease six years apart, police notice they have one thing in common, they were each married to the same woman.
Wheel of Misfortune
Casino security cameras offer the final images of a woman, just before she vanishes without a trace; can these grainy images lead police to her killer?
Quite a Spectacle
A squashed tomato and a pinpoint reflection of light in a photo help catch a killer.
Transaction Failed
An ATM transaction allows Texas detectives to pinpoint a suspect in the slaying of a teacher, but a shoelace stolen from the victim's home proves to be the tie that binds her killer to the crime.
The Day the Music Died
Ten years after the murder of a rock singer, forensic scientists use evidence collected to finally bring her killer to justice.
Sole Survivor
After a Michigan State University grad student disappears and is presumed dead, a professor of geological sciences helps police get the dirt on her killer.
Traffic Violations
Police investigate a young woman found murdered two weeks after reporting a road rage incident; evidence leads not to the aggressive driver, but one of their own.
Brotherly Love
When a single mother is murdered, her brother vows to find the person responsible for the death of his sister, even if it takes more than 30 years.
Disrobed
A husband and wife get shot and their 16-year-old daughter manages to escape, but investigators suspect she may be involved in the murder.
Driven to Silence
After 10 years, a witness decides to do the right thing about the rape and murder of a young hairdresser.
Printed Proof
Police investigate the possibility of a hate crime when two women go missing and are later found murdered.
About Face
When a human skeleton is found on marshland and determined to be at least 18 months old, a computer consultant gives her a face and name.
In the Bag
A killer places all the incriminating evidence to the murder in a plastic bag, hoping it will float down the river.
Yes, in Deed
A woman's body is found inside a burned mobile home and the autopsy reveals she was beaten, making this a murder.
Guarded Secrets
Security guard who disappeared from his post was found a year later in a remote camp site; a decade later, a phone call and a paint smear on his boot helped scientists determine what happened during his final moments.
Smoking Out a Killer
When three students are brutally murdered close to campus, investigators must determine what the women had in common before their serial killer strikes again.
Frozen Assets
A bag full of evidence recovered from an iced-over river helps to reveal the murderer of a businesswoman in her own shop.
House Hunting
Eyewitness to real estate agent's murder is put under forensic hypnosis in an attempt to help him recall the killer's face.
Shoot to Thrill
Police launch a search for a killer after a teenager returns home to find his father's body in a pool of blood.
Political Thriller
Pathologist examining the death of a politician who was running for re-election finds tiny puncture wounds at the autopsy.
Palm Saturday
A killer leaves equally incriminating evidence at the scene when he meticulously wipes away his fingerprint and shoe impressions.
Runaway Love
After a woman is found dead at a yacht club in California in an apparent case of love gone wrong, investigators discover her home life was as dramatic as films made in nearby Hollywood.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
Water Logged
An Ohio woman and her two daughters go missing while vacationing in Florida; their corpeses are found floating in Tampa Bay with a hand-written note by one of the victims; putting it on five billboards helps them find the killer.
Social Circle
Four young adults are murdered in an affluent Texas neighborhood, with little evidence but two people walking by dressed in black.
Low Maintenance
A young college student is found dead in her apartment and the autopsy rules the death a homicide by an unknown male suspect.
Fate Date
The killer removed the computer that links him to the murder of a woman and her soon-to-be ex-husband that he had met online.
Trail of a Killer
A community is shocked when police discover a woman raped and murdered in broad daylight on a public trail.
Gone Ballistic
A real estate developer is shot and his wife becomes the prime suspect, until the bullet is linked to a weapon reported missing 20 years ago.
Seeing Red
A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.
Skeleton Key
A woman goes missing for a month with the only clues being a set of keys, a fingerprint and a code.
The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
The investigation into the disappearance of flight attendant Helle Crafts leads to the murder conviction of her pilot husband.
The Footpath Murders
Scientists and detectives use DNA to solve a string of rapes and murders.
Planted Evidence
Police use DNA profiles of seed pods from a truck to catch a killer.
Southside Strangler
Police believe they have a serial rapist and murderer, but DNA testing and research leads to another arrest and conviction.
Insignificant Others
When a man's wife kills herself 14 years after his college sweetheart commits suicide, police start to get suspicious.
Catch 22
A woman gets shot in her driveway; she may have been the victim of a co-worker half her age that she had recently rejected.
A Cinderella Story
A pair of tennis shoes are found near a victim who had been stabbed on the beach, less than ten yards from her hotel.
Screen Pass
Three fingerprints on a window screen are enough for a print examiner to uncover the work of a serial killer.
Pressed for Crime
With a long list of suspects, forensic experts agree on one thing in this brutal murder: the killer knew his victim.
Finger Pane
The only lead to finding a serial killer on the loose is a bloody fingerprint on the body of a victim.
Good as Gold
Tests reveal the race, eye color and hair color of the person responsible for killing two young women on Halloween night.
Freedom Fighter
A convicted arsonist claims his innocence and with no lawyer, no money and only a fifth-grade education, sets out to prove it.
Dog Day Afternoon
A canine behaviorist uses the family dogs, who are the only witnesses, to find the murderer of their owner.
Shattered Innocence
Investigators see through a killer trying to cover his tracks by staging the crime scene to learn what really happened.
All Butt Certain
A young girl beaten after watching her grandmother killed, identifies the wrong person; years later she tries to change her statement.
Jean Pool
In 1984 police failed to convict the murderer of a college student; new technology may finally help the police to catch her killer.
Traffic Violations
Police investigate a young woman found murdered two weeks after reporting a road rage incident; evidence leads not to the aggressive driver, but one of their own.
Brotherly Love
When a single mother is murdered, her brother vows to find the person responsible for the death of his sister, even if it takes more than 30 years.
Double Cross
A Naval officer who threatened to go public with tales of on-the-job sexual harassment and assault is brutally murdered, but when investigators find the allegations could be part of an elaborate scheme for money, they turn to forensic science.
Dancing With the Devil
A man is found stabbed to death after a night in a strip club; a drop of blood on a bedspread becomes critical evidence five years later.
Last Dance
After police identify a murder victim thanks to her butterfly necklace, they discover several co-workers had vendettas against the victim.
Constructive Criticism
The brutal murder of a construction site foreman looks like the work of a disgruntled employee, but forensic science points to an unlikely suspect.
Home Evasion
A shooting victim mutters the name of her apparent assailant before dying, but fingerprint comparisons, handwriting analysis, ballistics and DNA testing show someone else close to home is the true killer.
Window Watcher
A woman's story seemed far fetched; she tells investigators that a man broke into her home wearing only underwear and gloves, killed her boyfriend and raped and terrorized her.
Stranger in the Night
After a Delaware man's mother is found dead, he tells a story that's so improbable police think it can't possibly be true.
Kidnapping
A family vacation turns into a terrifying search for a missing wife and baby, then becomes a manhunt for a killer who committed a horrific crime.
Sands of Crime
A DNA dragnet catches a killer eight years after the kidnapping, rape and murder of a college coed in Oklahoma.
Calculated Coincidence
A nosy neighbor with a disturbing obsession becomes a suspect in a woman's murder at an upscale apartment complex; police discover an incredible link to an unrelated murder thousands of miles away.
Sworded Scheme
A college student turns up dead and her boyfriend becomes a prime suspect when blood splatters are discovered on his wall.
Unmasked
Texas police hunt frantically for a brutal rapist. No one knows where he'll strike next, but given the increasingly violent nature of his crimes, he must be found soon.
Fashion Police
When detectives find a mismatched button in relation to a woman's death, they know they can follow the clue back to the killer.
Church Dis-service
A woman heads home after church, but never makes it there alive, triggering a homicide investigation.
Watchful Eye
The brutal murder of a state park employee over $2,000 rattles her co-workers and tourists while leaving police to sift through hundreds of leads.
Waste Mis-Management
When evidence shows a woman's rape and murder, police must find the killer as well as the victim.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
In Deep
In the story of a Los Angeles kidnapping, ransom and murder ring, retired scientists use sonar equipment to locate victims at the bottom of a reservoir.
The Telltale Marks
Patients at the VA Hospital in Clarksburg, W.Va., keep dying after experiencing shockingly low blood sugar levels; an investigation into their deaths reveals an overnight nurse was injecting patients with lethal doses of insulin.
Tell No Tales
A 70-year-old retired veteran is found dead on his boat after a bad sea storm; detectives discover he was killed during an attempted robbery after winning $400 in keno.
The Obsession
The murder of teacher's aide leaves a hole in the heart of her small community; as rumors spread about suspects, the actual perpetrator slips further away.
The Ink Beads
Father and teacher are found hanging naked from a tree with the letters F-E-D on his chest; with barely any evidence to work with, investigators turn to these letters for answers.
The Rise
A single mom vanishes without a trace; foul play is confirmed after a truck toolbox opens with her body inside; homicide detectives investigate men she matched on dating sites, men from work, and a lover with a violent past.
Ten of Hearts
A 20-year-old woman sets out on her bike and never returns; her body is found a few miles from her house with a gunshot wound to the head; years go by without any evidence or leads, until new investigators and technology breaks the case.
Heavy Metal
A navy lieutenant is murdered while deployed out to sea; arsenic poisoning is the cause of death; investigators discover he had more than his fair share of enemies, but it takes years before investigators discover what really happened to him.
Knots
A building manager finds the lifeless body of a young woman in the bathtub; when questioned, an ex-con living downstairs lies to police; the lies do not prove murder and the case goes cold, then a new forensic tool examines the evidence.
The Reunion
A murder victim's final moments are caught on tape; the crime scene looks like a clear robbery-murder; text evidence at first points to a jilted lover, but police identify a second suspect with a motive.
The Orange Shorts
A wounded woman calls 911; her husband, who wants a divorce, gets a hard look from police, but he has an airtight alibi during the murder; forensic science of ballistics draws a direct connection.
Personal Penmanship
A religious woman is shot execution style in the suburbs of Michigan; surveillance video reveals it was a trio of killers; eventually, detectives get a break: a handwritten note.
Disrobed
A husband and wife get shot and their 16-year-old daughter manages to escape, but investigators suspect she may be involved in the murder.
Driven to Silence
After 10 years, a witness decides to do the right thing about the rape and murder of a young hairdresser.
Printed Proof
Police investigate the possibility of a hate crime when two women go missing and are later found murdered.
About Face
When a human skeleton is found on marshland and determined to be at least 18 months old, a computer consultant gives her a face and name.
In the Bag
A killer places all the incriminating evidence to the murder in a plastic bag, hoping it will float down the river.
Yes, in Deed
A woman's body is found inside a burned mobile home and the autopsy reveals she was beaten, making this a murder.
Guarded Secrets
Security guard who disappeared from his post was found a year later in a remote camp site; a decade later, a phone call and a paint smear on his boot helped scientists determine what happened during his final moments.
Smoking Out a Killer
When three students are brutally murdered close to campus, investigators must determine what the women had in common before their serial killer strikes again.
Frozen Assets
A bag full of evidence recovered from an iced-over river helps to reveal the murderer of a businesswoman in her own shop.
House Hunting
Eyewitness to real estate agent's murder is put under forensic hypnosis in an attempt to help him recall the killer's face.
Shoot to Thrill
Police launch a search for a killer after a teenager returns home to find his father's body in a pool of blood.
Political Thriller
Pathologist examining the death of a politician who was running for re-election finds tiny puncture wounds at the autopsy.
Double Cross
A Naval officer who threatened to go public with tales of on-the-job sexual harassment and assault is brutally murdered, but when investigators find the allegations could be part of an elaborate scheme for money, they turn to forensic science.
Dancing With the Devil
A man is found stabbed to death after a night in a strip club; a drop of blood on a bedspread becomes critical evidence five years later.
Seedy Intentions
Volunteers and police spend weeks searching for a missing girl. A psychic later leads them to a field where the body was found.
DNA Dragnet
Forensic investigators try to stop a killer who is apparently responsible for two slayings in a community in South Carolina.
Smiley Face
When DNA proves that a man who practically admits to a brutal attack is innocent, police wonder why he is willing to take the blame.
Dirty Laundry
When a businessman is murdered, motives and suspects are plentiful. Was it simply a disgruntled employee or client? Or do some racy photos hold the clue to the crime?
Drowning Sorrows
A family break turns into a nightmare when the wife is found face-down in a lake; with no idea whether it was murder, an accident or suicide, police turn to a new forensic technique.
As Fault
When friends see a woman in the back of a car flailing her arms and screaming, they assume she is having fun, but when they later come upon a jacket and a pool of blood, they realize they witnessed an abduction in progress.
Family Ties
An attack on a couple's home leaves the husband dead, the wife gravely injured and their son as a prime suspect; hundreds of miles away, a DNA sample may lead to the killer.
Trouble Brewing
Detectives think they've solved a murder when they find the weapon and victim's blood in a man's flat, but the evidence may have been planted.
Holy Terror
Detectives search for the bombers of two churches in Illinois, hoping that the materials used in the remnants of the handmade bombs will offer the clues to catch the culprits.
Needle in a Haystack
There was no apparent reason for the young, healthy college student to be dead; but when the medical examiner found the tiniest of clues during the autopsy, investigators were able to unravel the mystery of betrayal and revenge.
Room With a View
A woman is stabbed a hundred times and her body positioned in a suggestive manner. This could be a hate crime against women.
Dollars and Sense
Police are able to create a composite sketch of a man burnt beyond recognition. But tracking the killer is more challenging.
Hair Line
By cutting a strand of a murdered man's hair into sections, forensics reveal a record of his last six months alive, and find he was frequently ingesting huge amounts of arsenic.
All That Glitters Is Gold
A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses, an ambush or a random attack; the clue was something so tiny, it was measured in millionths of a meter.
Legionnaires' Disease
In 1976, 182 war veterans in Philadelphia become hospitalized with pneumonia-like symptoms and 29 die; the disease resurfaces every few years.
The Wilson Murder
After a wealthy Southern physician gets murdered with a baseball bat, his wife and a handyman become convicted of the crime.
The List Murders
In 1971, John List disappears after murdering his mother, wife and three children; he eludes the law for years until an age-scaled sculpture of the suspect and a true-crime TV program helps lead to his arrest in 1989.
Raw Terror
An 11-year-old boy comes down with a fever and diarrhea after eating an undercooked burger; when his condition worsens, his mother drives him to a hospital and doctors discover E. coli destroying his body.
The Common Thread
Florida police search for a serial rapist and murderer who left small red fibers on each of his 10 victims.
The Dirty Deed
When an English couple go missing, police suspect their son killed them and must rely on mud and blood samples found in the couple's two cars to find their bodies.
Killer Fog
Experts attempt to discover the source of heavy fog on Highway I-75 in Tennessee, which caused a 99-car accident and 12 deaths.
Sex, Lies and DNA
When a woman goes missing from her home, police focus on her husband when an airline luggage tag and luminol point to an affair and murder; footage from a TV crew and Coast Guard photographs lead investigators to the suspect's missing boat.
Bitter Potion
When a woman exhibits strange flu-like symptoms before dying, investigators discover someone added thallium to her soda; detectives initially suspect her husband, but the case takes a sinister turn.
The Blood Trail
Handwriting and simple doodles complicate a car-bomb case and an alleged self-defense shooting in a peaceful British farming village as police uncover a husband's plot to kill his wife for insurance money.
Fatal Fungus
When dozens of infants develop serious breathing problems in the Cleveland area, doctors and investigators search high and low for the cause.
Something's Fishy
A well-liked bank vice president collapses and dies after taking pain pills laced with cyanide; the search for a motive reveals a callous suspect who had murdered once before.
Sealed With a Kiss
Evidence reveals a teacher who complained of being stalked and harassed by another teacher was scamming police.
Postal Mortem
A man kills two people with bombs in an effort to get investors off his back, but authorities catch onto him and he becomes sentenced to life with no chance of parole.
Micro-Clues
A man arrested for the sexual assault and attempted murder of a boy in a European country becomes linked to a murder in Zurich, Switzerland, through analysis of microorganisms.
Deadly Parasites
Heavy rains and snow run-off carry manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people.
Last Dance
After police identify a murder victim thanks to her butterfly necklace, they discover several co-workers had vendettas against the victim.
Constructive Criticism
The brutal murder of a construction site foreman looks like the work of a disgruntled employee, but forensic science points to an unlikely suspect.
Home Evasion
A shooting victim mutters the name of her apparent assailant before dying, but fingerprint comparisons, handwriting analysis, ballistics and DNA testing show someone else close to home is the true killer.
Window Watcher
A woman's story seemed far fetched; she tells investigators that a man broke into her home wearing only underwear and gloves, killed her boyfriend and raped and terrorized her.
Stranger in the Night
After a Delaware man's mother is found dead, he tells a story that's so improbable police think it can't possibly be true.
Kidnapping
A family vacation turns into a terrifying search for a missing wife and baby, then becomes a manhunt for a killer who committed a horrific crime.
Sands of Crime
A DNA dragnet catches a killer eight years after the kidnapping, rape and murder of a college coed in Oklahoma.
Calculated Coincidence
A nosy neighbor with a disturbing obsession becomes a suspect in a woman's murder at an upscale apartment complex; police discover an incredible link to an unrelated murder thousands of miles away.
Sworded Scheme
A college student turns up dead and her boyfriend becomes a prime suspect when blood splatters are discovered on his wall.
Unmasked
Texas police hunt frantically for a brutal rapist. No one knows where he'll strike next, but given the increasingly violent nature of his crimes, he must be found soon.
Fashion Police
When detectives find a mismatched button in relation to a woman's death, they know they can follow the clue back to the killer.
Church Dis-service
A woman heads home after church, but never makes it there alive, triggering a homicide investigation.
Seedy Intentions
Volunteers and police spend weeks searching for a missing girl. A psychic later leads them to a field where the body was found.
DNA Dragnet
Forensic investigators try to stop a killer who is apparently responsible for two slayings in a community in South Carolina.
Deadly Rebellion
Teenager is found half-naked with her throat slit; a single foreign hair found on her thumb may finger the killer.
Sign of the Crime
Two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered; the similarities of the crime scenes led police to believe they were dealing with a serial killer who hated women, and they had to find him before he struck again.
Covet Thy Neighbor
Weeks after a student vanishes, the body of an unknown female is found in the ashes of a fire 700 miles away; an alert policeman realizes the crimes could be connected.
Writing on the Wall
Investigators face a growing list of suspects after a beautiful flight attendant is brutally murdered in her own home.
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.
Cold Feet
Florida authorities rely on DNA evidence to try to nail the killer of a woman who was abducted from her late-night job at a convenience store, raped and strangled.
Separation Anxiety
A wild fire in a secluded parking lot leads police to discover a dreadful homicide, with the suspect's image caught by security cameras.
Office Visit
After a prominent Arizona surgeon is found stabbed to death outside his office, investigators uncover an unlikely suspect with deep pockets and an even deeper hatred for the doctor.
Shoe-in for Murder
Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.
Family Interrupted
A masked gunman kills two members of a family and wounds two others after they interrupt his burglary at their upscale suburban home.
Palm Saturday
A killer leaves equally incriminating evidence at the scene when he meticulously wipes away his fingerprint and shoe impressions.
Runaway Love
After a woman is found dead at a yacht club in California in an apparent case of love gone wrong, investigators discover her home life was as dramatic as films made in nearby Hollywood.
Watchful Eye
The brutal murder of a state park employee over $2,000 rattles her co-workers and tourists while leaving police to sift through hundreds of leads.
Waste Mis-Management
When evidence shows a woman's rape and murder, police must find the killer as well as the victim.
Melanie Zanona; Catherine Lucey; Isaac Arnsdorf.
Without a Trace
Autopsies reveal that a string of unexplained deaths in Omaha resulted from poison-induced liver disintegration.
Knot for Everyone
In a series of murders near Sacramento, Calif., a killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case.
The Talking Skull
After the discovery of a skull in the forest near a boy scout camp, police use facial reconstruction to identify the body.
Deadly Delivery
Investigators use obscure evidence to find the person responsible for killing justice officials with mail bombs in the South.
Grave Evidence
Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder.
Deadly Formula
Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction.
Beaten by a Hair
When a young woman goes missing on the way to the train station, investigators use a strand of hair and a bloody pillowcase to find a suspect.
Crime Seen
Investigators reopen a case from 1984 involving the rape of a young Virginia woman when DNA testing refutes her identification of the rapist and calls everything into question, leading to the accused person's exoneration.
Speck of Evidence
A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.
Broken Bond
A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.
Out of the Ashes
Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.
Invisible Intruder
A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.
The Killing Room
A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.
Ultimate Betrayal
A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.
Smiley Face
When DNA proves that a man who practically admits to a brutal attack is innocent, police wonder why he is willing to take the blame.
Dirty Laundry
When a businessman is murdered, motives and suspects are plentiful. Was it simply a disgruntled employee or client? Or do some racy photos hold the clue to the crime?
Drowning Sorrows
A family break turns into a nightmare when the wife is found face-down in a lake; with no idea whether it was murder, an accident or suicide, police turn to a new forensic technique.
As Fault
When friends see a woman in the back of a car flailing her arms and screaming, they assume she is having fun, but when they later come upon a jacket and a pool of blood, they realize they witnessed an abduction in progress.
Family Ties
An attack on a couple's home leaves the husband dead, the wife gravely injured and their son as a prime suspect; hundreds of miles away, a DNA sample may lead to the killer.
Trouble Brewing
Detectives think they've solved a murder when they find the weapon and victim's blood in a man's flat, but the evidence may have been planted.
Holy Terror
Detectives search for the bombers of two churches in Illinois, hoping that the materials used in the remnants of the handmade bombs will offer the clues to catch the culprits.
Needle in a Haystack
There was no apparent reason for the young, healthy college student to be dead; but when the medical examiner found the tiniest of clues during the autopsy, investigators were able to unravel the mystery of betrayal and revenge.
Room With a View
A woman is stabbed a hundred times and her body positioned in a suggestive manner. This could be a hate crime against women.
Dollars and Sense
Police are able to create a composite sketch of a man burnt beyond recognition. But tracking the killer is more challenging.
Hair Line
By cutting a strand of a murdered man's hair into sections, forensics reveal a record of his last six months alive, and find he was frequently ingesting huge amounts of arsenic.
All That Glitters Is Gold
A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses, an ambush or a random attack; the clue was something so tiny, it was measured in millionths of a meter.
Deadly Rebellion
Teenager is found half-naked with her throat slit; a single foreign hair found on her thumb may finger the killer.
Sign of the Crime
Two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered; the similarities of the crime scenes led police to believe they were dealing with a serial killer who hated women, and they had to find him before he struck again.
Dirty Little Secret
A week after a couple disappears from the beach, police get a mysterious lead from a robbery.
Lights Out
Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.
Pet Rock
A quiet waitress who hasn't been to work in two days vanishes without a trace; police suspect a date gone wrong.
Best Foot Forward
The search for a missing exotic dancer led police to an isolated 75-acre site where someone had been shot and cremated, thus destroying all evidence... almost; piece of a foot provided enough DNA for a genetic profile and positive ID.
Purebread Murder
After years of suffering domestic abuse, a young woman is found murdered in her bathtub; among numerous clues, a hamburger bun proves the most incriminating.
Hear No Evil
Evidence that includes threatening emails, a missing person and an abandoned truck lead police to a woman's suspected killer, but they don't have the victim's body.
Hell's Kitchen
A woman has an accidental fall down a flight of stairs and appears to have hit her head, but the lack of blood splatter and misplaced shoes lead police to believe the fall was staged.
Three's a Crowd
A church member gets gunned down after leaving choir practice; although witnesses see little and not much evidence exists, investigators learn that she had been having affairs for years.
A Squire's Riches
When a man perishes in a fire while working in his garage, his death is initially ruled an accident until a forensic odontologist changes the direction of the case.
Home of the Brave
Lack of evidence compels investigators to look beyond the obvious when a woman is beaten to death at her in-laws house.
Freeze Framed
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide. But soon after, information emerges which reveals a much more menacing scenario.
A Touch of Evil
A dismembered body is dumped on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike and before police realize it, bodies are turning up between two states.
Textbook Murder
A young bride-to-be is gunned down in her own home. The attack is personal and as investigators start digging, they uncover the man she loved was living a lie.
Filtered Out
Tara Munsey went missing after a work shift at a Virginia restaurant and it is unknown if she ran away or if she was the victim of foul play.
Dirty Little Secret
A week after a couple disappears from the beach, police get a mysterious lead from a robbery.
Lights Out
Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
Cement the Case
A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.
Innocence Lost
In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.
Til Death Do Us Part
When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.
Body of Evidence
Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
Accident or Murder?
A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.
Core Evidence
A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
Haunting Vision
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
With Every Breath
After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.
Slippery Motives
While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.
Badge of Deceit
A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.
Dew Process
New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.
A Woman Scorned
Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.
Covet Thy Neighbor
Weeks after a student vanishes, the body of an unknown female is found in the ashes of a fire 700 miles away; an alert policeman realizes the crimes could be connected.
Writing on the Wall
Investigators face a growing list of suspects after a beautiful flight attendant is brutally murdered in her own home.
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.
Cold Feet
Florida authorities rely on DNA evidence to try to nail the killer of a woman who was abducted from her late-night job at a convenience store, raped and strangled.
Separation Anxiety
A wild fire in a secluded parking lot leads police to discover a dreadful homicide, with the suspect's image caught by security cameras.
Office Visit
After a prominent Arizona surgeon is found stabbed to death outside his office, investigators uncover an unlikely suspect with deep pockets and an even deeper hatred for the doctor.
Shoe-in for Murder
Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.
Family Interrupted
A masked gunman kills two members of a family and wounds two others after they interrupt his burglary at their upscale suburban home.
Palm Saturday
A killer leaves equally incriminating evidence at the scene when he meticulously wipes away his fingerprint and shoe impressions.
Runaway Love
After a woman is found dead at a yacht club in California in an apparent case of love gone wrong, investigators discover her home life was as dramatic as films made in nearby Hollywood.
Watchful Eye
The brutal murder of a state park employee over $2,000 rattles her co-workers and tourists while leaving police to sift through hundreds of leads.
Waste Mis-Management
When evidence shows a woman's rape and murder, police must find the killer as well as the victim.
Dirty Little Secret
A week after a couple disappears from the beach, police get a mysterious lead from a robbery.
Lights Out
Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.
Water Logged
An Ohio woman and her two daughters go missing while vacationing in Florida; their corpeses are found floating in Tampa Bay with a hand-written note by one of the victims; putting it on five billboards helps them find the killer.
Social Circle
Four young adults are murdered in an affluent Texas neighborhood, with little evidence but two people walking by dressed in black.
Low Maintenance
A young college student is found dead in her apartment and the autopsy rules the death a homicide by an unknown male suspect.
Fate Date
The killer removed the computer that links him to the murder of a woman and her soon-to-be ex-husband that he had met online.
Trail of a Killer
A community is shocked when police discover a woman raped and murdered in broad daylight on a public trail.
Gone Ballistic
A real estate developer is shot and his wife becomes the prime suspect, until the bullet is linked to a weapon reported missing 20 years ago.
Seeing Red
A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.
Skeleton Key
A woman goes missing for a month with the only clues being a set of keys, a fingerprint and a code.
Funeral Services
Police discover a mask near the crime scene and hope that it leads to the killer of a funeral director.
Expert Witness
A killer assaults a young mother in her home, but despite meticulous washing of the crime scene, a single hair remains to lead authorities to the culprit.
The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
The investigation into the disappearance of flight attendant Helle Crafts leads to the murder conviction of her pilot husband.
The Footpath Murders
Scientists and detectives use DNA to solve a string of rapes and murders.
Planted Evidence
Police use DNA profiles of seed pods from a truck to catch a killer.
Southside Strangler
Police believe they have a serial rapist and murderer, but DNA testing and research leads to another arrest and conviction.
Pet Rock
A quiet waitress who hasn't been to work in two days vanishes without a trace; police suspect a date gone wrong.
Best Foot Forward
The search for a missing exotic dancer led police to an isolated 75-acre site where someone had been shot and cremated, thus destroying all evidence... almost; piece of a foot provided enough DNA for a genetic profile and positive ID.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
A Voice From Beyond
A decomposed body is found in a barrel, and a dilapidated address book may hold the answer, but investigators must find a way to read the pages because the passage of 30 years has turned them blank.
Burning Ambition
When a policeman's home burns to the ground, he later arrests a man who confesses to arson, but the confession seems dubious.
Memories
A woman identifies her husband as her attacker, but questions arise 16 years later regarding her recollections.
Material Evidence
A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex killer; there are few clues to the killer's identity, but authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.
Killigraphy
Police charge Alan ''The Zenith Man'' Ridley with murdering his wife, Virginia, but following an autopsy, medical detectives believe he may not have killed his wife after all.
Nursery Crimes
With children dying at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, authorities narrow down their probe to one nurse, but the murder weapon remains elusive.
Lasting Impression
When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity, but days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder.
Foundation of Lies
When a doctor's wife disappears, investigators use concrete from the doctor's yard and the recollections of a child to determine what happened.
Unholy Vows
Romanian archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, living in the U.S., is accused of being a Nazi war criminal, and forensic experts find evidence on an incriminating, 40-year-old postcard.
Broken Promises
Investigators look into the shooting death of Russ Stager, a popular gym teacher, and discover that his death was not an accident; a message the victim recorded before his death reveals a story of greed.
Time Will Tell
A money launderer is found dead in the ocean and the only obvious clues to his identity are a Rolex watch and a tattoo; the anchor with which he is weighed down proves most helpful in solving the crime.
Second Shot at Love
The apparent suicide of Dr. Darryl Sutorius, a respected heart surgeon, is questioned when an investigation reveals his new wife's violent history.
Pet Rock
A quiet waitress who hasn't been to work in two days vanishes without a trace; police suspect a date gone wrong.
Best Foot Forward
The search for a missing exotic dancer led police to an isolated 75-acre site where someone had been shot and cremated, thus destroying all evidence... almost; piece of a foot provided enough DNA for a genetic profile and positive ID.
Purebread Murder
After years of suffering domestic abuse, a young woman is found murdered in her bathtub; among numerous clues, a hamburger bun proves the most incriminating.
Hear No Evil
Evidence that includes threatening emails, a missing person and an abandoned truck lead police to a woman's suspected killer, but they don't have the victim's body.
Hell's Kitchen
A woman has an accidental fall down a flight of stairs and appears to have hit her head, but the lack of blood splatter and misplaced shoes lead police to believe the fall was staged.
Three's a Crowd
A church member gets gunned down after leaving choir practice; although witnesses see little and not much evidence exists, investigators learn that she had been having affairs for years.
A Squire's Riches
When a man perishes in a fire while working in his garage, his death is initially ruled an accident until a forensic odontologist changes the direction of the case.
Home of the Brave
Lack of evidence compels investigators to look beyond the obvious when a woman is beaten to death at her in-laws house.
Freeze Framed
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide. But soon after, information emerges which reveals a much more menacing scenario.
A Touch of Evil
A dismembered body is dumped on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike and before police realize it, bodies are turning up between two states.
Textbook Murder
A young bride-to-be is gunned down in her own home. The attack is personal and as investigators start digging, they uncover the man she loved was living a lie.
Filtered Out
Tara Munsey went missing after a work shift at a Virginia restaurant and it is unknown if she ran away or if she was the victim of foul play.
Water Logged
An Ohio woman and her two daughters go missing while vacationing in Florida; their corpeses are found floating in Tampa Bay with a hand-written note by one of the victims; putting it on five billboards helps them find the killer.
Social Circle
Four young adults are murdered in an affluent Texas neighborhood, with little evidence but two people walking by dressed in black.
Legionnaires' Disease
In 1976, 182 war veterans in Philadelphia become hospitalized with pneumonia-like symptoms and 29 die; the disease resurfaces every few years.
The Wilson Murder
After a wealthy Southern physician gets murdered with a baseball bat, his wife and a handyman become convicted of the crime.
The List Murders
In 1971, John List disappears after murdering his mother, wife and three children; he eludes the law for years until an age-scaled sculpture of the suspect and a true-crime TV program helps lead to his arrest in 1989.
Raw Terror
An 11-year-old boy comes down with a fever and diarrhea after eating an undercooked burger; when his condition worsens, his mother drives him to a hospital and doctors discover E. coli destroying his body.
The Common Thread
Florida police search for a serial rapist and murderer who left small red fibers on each of his 10 victims.
The Dirty Deed
When an English couple go missing, police suspect their son killed them and must rely on mud and blood samples found in the couple's two cars to find their bodies.
Killer Fog
Experts attempt to discover the source of heavy fog on Highway I-75 in Tennessee, which caused a 99-car accident and 12 deaths.
Sex, Lies and DNA
When a woman goes missing from her home, police focus on her husband when an airline luggage tag and luminol point to an affair and murder; footage from a TV crew and Coast Guard photographs lead investigators to the suspect's missing boat.
Bitter Potion
When a woman exhibits strange flu-like symptoms before dying, investigators discover someone added thallium to her soda; detectives initially suspect her husband, but the case takes a sinister turn.
The Blood Trail
Handwriting and simple doodles complicate a car-bomb case and an alleged self-defense shooting in a peaceful British farming village as police uncover a husband's plot to kill his wife for insurance money.
Fatal Fungus
When dozens of infants develop serious breathing problems in the Cleveland area, doctors and investigators search high and low for the cause.
Something's Fishy
A well-liked bank vice president collapses and dies after taking pain pills laced with cyanide; the search for a motive reveals a callous suspect who had murdered once before.
Sealed With a Kiss
Evidence reveals a teacher who complained of being stalked and harassed by another teacher was scamming police.
Postal Mortem
A man kills two people with bombs in an effort to get investors off his back, but authorities catch onto him and he becomes sentenced to life with no chance of parole.
Purebread Murder
After years of suffering domestic abuse, a young woman is found murdered in her bathtub; among numerous clues, a hamburger bun proves the most incriminating.
Hear No Evil
Evidence that includes threatening emails, a missing person and an abandoned truck lead police to a woman's suspected killer, but they don't have the victim's body.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
Journey to Justice
The 1992 hit-and-run death of 6-year-old Nicole Rae Walker leads to a groundbreaking trial as experts submit a video reconstruction of the incident, implicating a drunk driver and demonstrating the viability of video testimony.
Video Diary
Specialists including a NASA vendor help police reconstruct a damaged surveillance video to catch the murderer of convenience store employee Wanda Mason in Lansing, Mich.
Deadly Knowledge
When a young woman goes missing, the police investigation reveals that she led a double life -- student by day, call girl by night -- but when her body is discovered, even more strange truths are uncovered.
Missing in Time
A tiny clue inside a suspect's watchband and a popular television show help solve the case of a woman's disappearance.
Missing Pearl
One year after Maine resident Pearl A. Bruns' disappearance, forensic technology helps to find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.
Man's Best Friend?
When 4-year-old April Renee Tucker is found dead in her backyard, her parents tell the police that neighborhood dogs attacked and killed her, but the injuries on her body don't match their account of what happened.
Hand Delivered
San Diego police investigate the murder of a missing person whose hands turn up in a dumpster; an anonymous letter, containing details only the killer would know, offers clues to solving the case.
Death Play
One year after her father's death, a teen's role in a high school production of ``Hamlet`` causes her to reveal the chilling truth behind her family's tragedy.
Fire Dot Com
A mother puts her hope in the internet and an independent investigation to clear her name after authorities charge her with murdering her 17-month-old son in a fire considered to be intentionally set.
Mistaken for Dead
When a man dies unexpectedly in the office of a noted California doctor, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation, but discoveries of false identities and insurance fraud raise questions about the doctor's role.
Frozen Evidence
A forensic scientist uses his skills to preserve a footprint left in snow to help authorities nab two men suspected of robbing an Ontario couple and shooting the husband in the head.
Soft Touch
Fingerprints taken from a piece of cloth help solve the rape and murder of a 22-year-old woman in Henrico County, Va.
Low Maintenance
A young college student is found dead in her apartment and the autopsy rules the death a homicide by an unknown male suspect.
Fate Date
The killer removed the computer that links him to the murder of a woman and her soon-to-be ex-husband that he had met online.
Trail of a Killer
A community is shocked when police discover a woman raped and murdered in broad daylight on a public trail.
Gone Ballistic
A real estate developer is shot and his wife becomes the prime suspect, until the bullet is linked to a weapon reported missing 20 years ago.
Seeing Red
A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.
Skeleton Key
A woman goes missing for a month with the only clues being a set of keys, a fingerprint and a code.
Funeral Services
Police discover a mask near the crime scene and hope that it leads to the killer of a funeral director.
Expert Witness
A killer assaults a young mother in her home, but despite meticulous washing of the crime scene, a single hair remains to lead authorities to the culprit.
The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
The investigation into the disappearance of flight attendant Helle Crafts leads to the murder conviction of her pilot husband.
The Footpath Murders
Scientists and detectives use DNA to solve a string of rapes and murders.
Planted Evidence
Police use DNA profiles of seed pods from a truck to catch a killer.
Southside Strangler
Police believe they have a serial rapist and murderer, but DNA testing and research leads to another arrest and conviction.
Legionnaires' Disease
In 1976, 182 war veterans in Philadelphia become hospitalized with pneumonia-like symptoms and 29 die; the disease resurfaces every few years.
The Wilson Murder
After a wealthy Southern physician gets murdered with a baseball bat, his wife and a handyman become convicted of the crime.
Micro-Clues
A man arrested for the sexual assault and attempted murder of a boy in a European country becomes linked to a murder in Zurich, Switzerland, through analysis of microorganisms.
Deadly Parasites
Heavy rains and snow run-off carry manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people.
Without a Trace
Autopsies reveal that a string of unexplained deaths in Omaha resulted from poison-induced liver disintegration.
Knot for Everyone
In a series of murders near Sacramento, Calif., a killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case.
The Talking Skull
After the discovery of a skull in the forest near a boy scout camp, police use facial reconstruction to identify the body.
Deadly Delivery
Investigators use obscure evidence to find the person responsible for killing justice officials with mail bombs in the South.
Grave Evidence
Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder.
Deadly Formula
Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction.
Beaten by a Hair
When a young woman goes missing on the way to the train station, investigators use a strand of hair and a bloody pillowcase to find a suspect.
Crime Seen
Investigators reopen a case from 1984 involving the rape of a young Virginia woman when DNA testing refutes her identification of the rapist and calls everything into question, leading to the accused person's exoneration.
Speck of Evidence
A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.
Broken Bond
A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.
Out of the Ashes
Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.
Invisible Intruder
A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.
Hell's Kitchen
A woman has an accidental fall down a flight of stairs and appears to have hit her head, but the lack of blood splatter and misplaced shoes lead police to believe the fall was staged.
Three's a Crowd
A church member gets gunned down after leaving choir practice; although witnesses see little and not much evidence exists, investigators learn that she had been having affairs for years.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
Church Disappearance
The FBI profiles a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old girl during an evening church service; a witness leads authorities to the likely killer, but then becomes a victim herself.
Photo Finish
Photographs found in a dumpster lead to the killer of Los Angeles model Linda Sobek; the man claims he did not intentionally kill her despite evidence to the contrary.
Whodunit
A murder mystery theater performance in Easton, Md., turns into a real-life mystery when a body is found after the performance ends.
Horse Play
When a woman dies in a horseback riding accident, police uncover a web of lies in her husband's background after his suspicious behavior prompts a closer look.
Treads and Threads
A serial killer in Tampa, Fla., taunts police by strangling prostitutes and leaving their bodies in plain sight, but tire marks and fibers lead to the culprit.
Killer's Cattle Log
Missouri police are thrust into a bizarre web of homeless drifters and cattle auctions when they are called to retrieve a dead body.
Skin of Her Teeth
A killer wants to outwit the police and keep the identity of his victim secret so he removes the teeth; however, lab tests on the skull reveal not just the horrific nature of the murder, but the identity of the victim too.
Line of Fire
When a fundamentalist group is accused of robbing banks, authorities know they are dealing with experienced criminals and overwhelming evidence, but the defense is very well-funded.
Bad Blood
When a young doctor is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting two of his female patients, DNA tests show him to be innocent, but the women persist with their claims; seven years later, a private investigation leads to a surprising discovery.
Pure Evil
The search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas shows a behavioral study on how most serial killers also have a history of abusing animals.
Root of All Evil
When a farmer's wife disappears, the tests of a plant pathologist and a dendrochronologist lead to a surprising revelation.
Where the Blood Drops
A son who is convinced of his mother's innocence in the death of his father enrolls in law school to try and clear her name.
The List Murders
In 1971, John List disappears after murdering his mother, wife and three children; he eludes the law for years until an age-scaled sculpture of the suspect and a true-crime TV program helps lead to his arrest in 1989.
Raw Terror
An 11-year-old boy comes down with a fever and diarrhea after eating an undercooked burger; when his condition worsens, his mother drives him to a hospital and doctors discover E. coli destroying his body.
The Common Thread
Florida police search for a serial rapist and murderer who left small red fibers on each of his 10 victims.
The Dirty Deed
When an English couple go missing, police suspect their son killed them and must rely on mud and blood samples found in the couple's two cars to find their bodies.
Killer Fog
Experts attempt to discover the source of heavy fog on Highway I-75 in Tennessee, which caused a 99-car accident and 12 deaths.
Sex, Lies and DNA
When a woman goes missing from her home, police focus on her husband when an airline luggage tag and luminol point to an affair and murder; footage from a TV crew and Coast Guard photographs lead investigators to the suspect's missing boat.
Bitter Potion
When a woman exhibits strange flu-like symptoms before dying, investigators discover someone added thallium to her soda; detectives initially suspect her husband, but the case takes a sinister turn.
The Blood Trail
Handwriting and simple doodles complicate a car-bomb case and an alleged self-defense shooting in a peaceful British farming village as police uncover a husband's plot to kill his wife for insurance money.
Fatal Fungus
When dozens of infants develop serious breathing problems in the Cleveland area, doctors and investigators search high and low for the cause.
Something's Fishy
A well-liked bank vice president collapses and dies after taking pain pills laced with cyanide; the search for a motive reveals a callous suspect who had murdered once before.
Sealed With a Kiss
Evidence reveals a teacher who complained of being stalked and harassed by another teacher was scamming police.
Postal Mortem
A man kills two people with bombs in an effort to get investors off his back, but authorities catch onto him and he becomes sentenced to life with no chance of parole.
Micro-Clues
A man arrested for the sexual assault and attempted murder of a boy in a European country becomes linked to a murder in Zurich, Switzerland, through analysis of microorganisms.
Deadly Parasites
Heavy rains and snow run-off carry manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people.
The Killing Room
A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.
Ultimate Betrayal
A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.
Cement the Case
A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.
Innocence Lost
In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.
Til Death Do Us Part
When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.
Body of Evidence
Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
Accident or Murder?
A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.
Core Evidence
A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
Haunting Vision
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
With Every Breath
After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.
Slippery Motives
While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.
Badge of Deceit
A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.
Dew Process
New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.
A Woman Scorned
Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.
A Squire's Riches
When a man perishes in a fire while working in his garage, his death is initially ruled an accident until a forensic odontologist changes the direction of the case.
Home of the Brave
Lack of evidence compels investigators to look beyond the obvious when a woman is beaten to death at her in-laws house.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
Full Circle
Three sex workers are murdered and left along a river; a serial killer was on the loose and for years the perp was never identified.
Matching Palms
He is a sex offender and a murderer who attacks in a terrifying rage; this predator manages to evade capture for years, but he leaves evidence behind, his palm print; detectives are determined to put a face to the print.
Incendiary
When a house fire kills the only doctor in a small town, an arson investigation leads to the son of the doctor's nurse; the prosecutor worries this might have been a miscarriage of justice.
Grave Justice
A young woman is found murdered on the side of a rural driveway; the victim had been out with friends; the investigation would remain unsolved; until three decades later, when forensics from an unrelated crime helps break the case.
Smoking Gun
A hearing impaired 77-year-old on a road trip is shot to death because the man cannot hear his assailant's demands; random murders are among the hardest crimes to solve, but investigators are determined to bring this case to justice.
Pulp Friction
A massive explosion claims the life of a California farmhand, and authorities think it's an accidental death, but analysis of debris shows it's a bomb; investigators have few suspects until they hear ominous rumors about a jealous rage.
Sole Mate
When a beautiful college student is stabbed to death in her Knoxville apartment, suspicion immediately falls on her roommate; a bloody shoe print left by the killer exposes a murderer with no history of violence and no reason to kill.
Marked for Murder
Numerous suspects emerge after someone starts targeting law enforcement officers in a peaceful Texas county.
Words Matter
An Illinois mother and her two young children are brutally murdered in their beds, and lurid threats are spray painted all over the walls of the crime scene.
Last Dance
A young Texas teenager and her boyfriend are brutally attacked on Valentine's Day; she is found dead while her boyfriend escapes; the case goes cold for nearly 50 years before a new forensic test exposes a family man with a dark secret.
Dog Proof
Three Indiana construction workers are found shot on a work site.
Mix Matched
A Texan who vows to live a reformed life after being released from prison is subsequently convicted of murder, despite insisting his innocence, so he uses forensic science from behind bars to try to prove his case.
Without a Trace
Autopsies reveal that a string of unexplained deaths in Omaha resulted from poison-induced liver disintegration.
Knot for Everyone
In a series of murders near Sacramento, Calif., a killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case.
The Talking Skull
After the discovery of a skull in the forest near a boy scout camp, police use facial reconstruction to identify the body.
Deadly Delivery
Investigators use obscure evidence to find the person responsible for killing justice officials with mail bombs in the South.
Grave Evidence
Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder.
Deadly Formula
Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction.
Beaten by a Hair
When a young woman goes missing on the way to the train station, investigators use a strand of hair and a bloody pillowcase to find a suspect.
Crime Seen
Investigators reopen a case from 1984 involving the rape of a young Virginia woman when DNA testing refutes her identification of the rapist and calls everything into question, leading to the accused person's exoneration.
Speck of Evidence
A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.
Broken Bond
A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.
Out of the Ashes
Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.
Invisible Intruder
A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.
The Killing Room
A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.
Ultimate Betrayal
A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.
A Voice From Beyond
A decomposed body is found in a barrel, and a dilapidated address book may hold the answer, but investigators must find a way to read the pages because the passage of 30 years has turned them blank.
Burning Ambition
When a policeman's home burns to the ground, he later arrests a man who confesses to arson, but the confession seems dubious.
Memories
A woman identifies her husband as her attacker, but questions arise 16 years later regarding her recollections.
Material Evidence
A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex killer; there are few clues to the killer's identity, but authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.
Killigraphy
Police charge Alan ''The Zenith Man'' Ridley with murdering his wife, Virginia, but following an autopsy, medical detectives believe he may not have killed his wife after all.
Nursery Crimes
With children dying at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, authorities narrow down their probe to one nurse, but the murder weapon remains elusive.
Lasting Impression
When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity, but days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder.
Foundation of Lies
When a doctor's wife disappears, investigators use concrete from the doctor's yard and the recollections of a child to determine what happened.
Unholy Vows
Romanian archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, living in the U.S., is accused of being a Nazi war criminal, and forensic experts find evidence on an incriminating, 40-year-old postcard.
Broken Promises
Investigators look into the shooting death of Russ Stager, a popular gym teacher, and discover that his death was not an accident; a message the victim recorded before his death reveals a story of greed.
Time Will Tell
A money launderer is found dead in the ocean and the only obvious clues to his identity are a Rolex watch and a tattoo; the anchor with which he is weighed down proves most helpful in solving the crime.
Second Shot at Love
The apparent suicide of Dr. Darryl Sutorius, a respected heart surgeon, is questioned when an investigation reveals his new wife's violent history.
Journey to Justice
The 1992 hit-and-run death of 6-year-old Nicole Rae Walker leads to a groundbreaking trial as experts submit a video reconstruction of the incident, implicating a drunk driver and demonstrating the viability of video testimony.
Video Diary
Specialists including a NASA vendor help police reconstruct a damaged surveillance video to catch the murderer of convenience store employee Wanda Mason in Lansing, Mich.
Paintball
When 15 year-old Marlene Miller was murdered, it would take 24 years and several retrials before forensic scientists discovered the evidence to bring her killer to justice.
Sibling Rivalry
The pornography empire cultivated by brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell crumbles when one turns up dead and his brother confesses to shooting him; investigators question whether the shooting was premeditated.
Pastoral Care
When prison guard Donna Payant's body is discovered at a landfill, a medical examiner uses a ``signature`` clue to link her death to a murder the same examiner investigated 10 years earlier.
Bagging a Killer
When a 9-year-old girl vanishes on her way to school, the entire community helps with the search; detectives believe her mother may be involved, and a hidden fingerprint seals the case.
Double Trouble
The investigation of a murder case in New Jersey is stalled until a similar attack occurs on a state trooper in Maine.
Cats, Flies and Snapshots
A young woman goes missing without leaving many clues, but the advanced technology on offer makes it possible for cat hairs and insects to help build an image of the abductor.
Naked Justice
Blood spatter analysis and an investigation lead police to the truth when a pregnant woman is found dead in her home.
Treading Not So Lightly
A mother is determined to discover what happened when her daughter is injured in a hit-and-run accident.
Shopping Spree
Forensic science and deductive reasoning determine what happened to a mother and daughter while they were on a shopping spree.
The Cheater
Exploring how an American hit single from 1966 -- ``The Cheater`` by Bob Kuban and the In-Men -- foreshadowed the demise of the group's lead singer, Walter Scott.
Forever Hold Your Peace
Eight years after a man confessed to the murder of a young woman, another man claims that he committed the crime, and investigators must use forensic evidence to determine the true killer.
Reel Danger
Although a group of teenage thugs are suspected of attacking two boys on a fishing trip, there is no solid evidence until a murky fishing hole provides some answers.
Who's Your Daddy
When young prostitute's body turns up in an Ohio waterway, authorities have one tiny clue which could point to her killer, but face huge challenges due to her policemen clients and DNA evidence being washed away.
The Alibi
In a small South Carolina town in 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, a popular high school student, is raped, murdered and dumped in a deserted field; with few leads, authorities test the DNA of several friends, and one match shocks everyone.
Purr-fect Match
In a groundbreaking case using animal DNA, investigators use forensic testing on a cat to help them solve the case of a woman who vanished from her home on Prince Edward Island.
Bio-Attack
A look into the 1984 Oregon food poisonings, where detectives track down the outbreak to a cult which aims to use germ warfare to take down the government.
Cement the Case
A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.
Innocence Lost
In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.
Til Death Do Us Part
When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.
Body of Evidence
Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
Accident or Murder?
A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.
Core Evidence
A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
Haunting Vision
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
With Every Breath
After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.
Slippery Motives
While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.
Badge of Deceit
A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.
Dew Process
New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.
A Woman Scorned
Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.
A Voice From Beyond
A decomposed body is found in a barrel, and a dilapidated address book may hold the answer, but investigators must find a way to read the pages because the passage of 30 years has turned them blank.
Burning Ambition
When a policeman's home burns to the ground, he later arrests a man who confesses to arson, but the confession seems dubious.
Deadly Knowledge
When a young woman goes missing, the police investigation reveals that she led a double life -- student by day, call girl by night -- but when her body is discovered, even more strange truths are uncovered.
Missing in Time
A tiny clue inside a suspect's watchband and a popular television show help solve the case of a woman's disappearance.
Missing Pearl
One year after Maine resident Pearl A. Bruns' disappearance, forensic technology helps to find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.
Man's Best Friend?
When 4-year-old April Renee Tucker is found dead in her backyard, her parents tell the police that neighborhood dogs attacked and killed her, but the injuries on her body don't match their account of what happened.
Hand Delivered
San Diego police investigate the murder of a missing person whose hands turn up in a dumpster; an anonymous letter, containing details only the killer would know, offers clues to solving the case.
Death Play
One year after her father's death, a teen's role in a high school production of ``Hamlet`` causes her to reveal the chilling truth behind her family's tragedy.
Fire Dot Com
A mother puts her hope in the internet and an independent investigation to clear her name after authorities charge her with murdering her 17-month-old son in a fire considered to be intentionally set.
Mistaken for Dead
When a man dies unexpectedly in the office of a noted California doctor, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation, but discoveries of false identities and insurance fraud raise questions about the doctor's role.
Frozen Evidence
A forensic scientist uses his skills to preserve a footprint left in snow to help authorities nab two men suspected of robbing an Ontario couple and shooting the husband in the head.
Soft Touch
Fingerprints taken from a piece of cloth help solve the rape and murder of a 22-year-old woman in Henrico County, Va.
Church Disappearance
The FBI profiles a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old girl during an evening church service; a witness leads authorities to the likely killer, but then becomes a victim herself.
Photo Finish
Photographs found in a dumpster lead to the killer of Los Angeles model Linda Sobek; the man claims he did not intentionally kill her despite evidence to the contrary.
Whodunit
A murder mystery theater performance in Easton, Md., turns into a real-life mystery when a body is found after the performance ends.
Horse Play
When a woman dies in a horseback riding accident, police uncover a web of lies in her husband's background after his suspicious behavior prompts a closer look.
Melanie Zanona; Catherine Lucey; Isaac Arnsdorf.
A Shot in the Dark
A woman is found dead from a gunshot wound and police suspect her husband, however, forensic teams prove what really happened and the truth is stranger than fiction.
Without a Prayer
After American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair disappears, the discovery of a mutilated body helps police catch the culprit.
A Clutch of Witnesses
Two people witness a truck driving over an unconscious man and flee into a nearby bar, but when the police turn up, the truck, the man and the witnesses are gone.
Scout's Honor
Insect evidence helps to solve the mystery of a woman found dead near a river bank.
A Touching Recollection
A girl who is abducted and then released soon afterwards uses her knowledge of forensics to lead police to the kidnapper.
A Leg to Stand On
A trash collector finds a severed human leg in a trash bin but police cannot use conventional methods of victim identification; investigators turn to toxicology and DNA tests to find the murder-mutilator.
Partners in Crime
A coroner finds telltale clues on the badly burned body of a murder victim, sending police in pursuit of a couple of killers.
Within a Hair
A man is arrested and convicted for a series of sexual assaults in Indiana; years later, forensic developments reveal new facts about the case.
Chief Evidence
The murder of a young Seattle couple puzzles investigators until the victims' dog, Chief, leads police to the killer.
A Bitter Pill to Swallow
A handsome young doctor's fiancee experiences severe illness after revealing that she is pregnant, and launches her own investigation to determine if the doctor is somehow responsible.
Sip of Sins
A seemingly model citizen turns out to be a serial killer.
Telltale Tracks
An abandoned, still-running car leads investigators to a body with unusual marks and a DNA trail that lead to the killer.
Ghost in the Machine
Police find fragments of deleted computer files leading them to suspect a woman's suicide is really murder.
Frozen in Time
A suspicious neighbor gives police a break in a cold case.
Memories
A woman identifies her husband as her attacker, but questions arise 16 years later regarding her recollections.
Material Evidence
A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex killer; there are few clues to the killer's identity, but authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.
Killigraphy
Police charge Alan ''The Zenith Man'' Ridley with murdering his wife, Virginia, but following an autopsy, medical detectives believe he may not have killed his wife after all.
Nursery Crimes
With children dying at an alarming rate at a Texas hospital, authorities narrow down their probe to one nurse, but the murder weapon remains elusive.
Lasting Impression
When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity, but days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder.
Foundation of Lies
When a doctor's wife disappears, investigators use concrete from the doctor's yard and the recollections of a child to determine what happened.
Unholy Vows
Romanian archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, living in the U.S., is accused of being a Nazi war criminal, and forensic experts find evidence on an incriminating, 40-year-old postcard.
Broken Promises
Investigators look into the shooting death of Russ Stager, a popular gym teacher, and discover that his death was not an accident; a message the victim recorded before his death reveals a story of greed.
Time Will Tell
A money launderer is found dead in the ocean and the only obvious clues to his identity are a Rolex watch and a tattoo; the anchor with which he is weighed down proves most helpful in solving the crime.
Second Shot at Love
The apparent suicide of Dr. Darryl Sutorius, a respected heart surgeon, is questioned when an investigation reveals his new wife's violent history.
Journey to Justice
The 1992 hit-and-run death of 6-year-old Nicole Rae Walker leads to a groundbreaking trial as experts submit a video reconstruction of the incident, implicating a drunk driver and demonstrating the viability of video testimony.
Video Diary
Specialists including a NASA vendor help police reconstruct a damaged surveillance video to catch the murderer of convenience store employee Wanda Mason in Lansing, Mich.
Deadly Knowledge
When a young woman goes missing, the police investigation reveals that she led a double life -- student by day, call girl by night -- but when her body is discovered, even more strange truths are uncovered.
Missing in Time
A tiny clue inside a suspect's watchband and a popular television show help solve the case of a woman's disappearance.
Treads and Threads
A serial killer in Tampa, Fla., taunts police by strangling prostitutes and leaving their bodies in plain sight, but tire marks and fibers lead to the culprit.
Killer's Cattle Log
Missouri police are thrust into a bizarre web of homeless drifters and cattle auctions when they are called to retrieve a dead body.
Skin of Her Teeth
A killer wants to outwit the police and keep the identity of his victim secret so he removes the teeth; however, lab tests on the skull reveal not just the horrific nature of the murder, but the identity of the victim too.
Line of Fire
When a fundamentalist group is accused of robbing banks, authorities know they are dealing with experienced criminals and overwhelming evidence, but the defense is very well-funded.
Bad Blood
When a young doctor is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting two of his female patients, DNA tests show him to be innocent, but the women persist with their claims; seven years later, a private investigation leads to a surprising discovery.
Pure Evil
The search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas shows a behavioral study on how most serial killers also have a history of abusing animals.
Root of All Evil
When a farmer's wife disappears, the tests of a plant pathologist and a dendrochronologist lead to a surprising revelation.
Where the Blood Drops
A son who is convinced of his mother's innocence in the death of his father enrolls in law school to try and clear her name.
Sign Here
Detectives use a forged signature to find a woman's abductor.
Sibling Rivalry
The pornography empire cultivated by brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell crumbles when one turns up dead and his brother confesses to shooting him; investigators question whether the shooting was premeditated.
Pastoral Care
When prison guard Donna Payant's body is discovered at a landfill, a medical examiner uses a ``signature`` clue to link her death to a murder the same examiner investigated 10 years earlier.
Bagging a Killer
When a 9-year-old girl vanishes on her way to school, the entire community helps with the search; detectives believe her mother may be involved, and a hidden fingerprint seals the case.
Double Trouble
The investigation of a murder case in New Jersey is stalled until a similar attack occurs on a state trooper in Maine.
Cats, Flies and Snapshots
A young woman goes missing without leaving many clues, but the advanced technology on offer makes it possible for cat hairs and insects to help build an image of the abductor.
Freeze Framed
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide. But soon after, information emerges which reveals a much more menacing scenario.
A Touch of Evil
A dismembered body is dumped on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike and before police realize it, bodies are turning up between two states.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
Cold Storage
A family suspects their teenage daughter's new friends were involved in her disappearance.
The Metal Business
When a 62-year-old man opens a car restoration business and becomes seriously ill, his doctors cannot find the cause, but forensics can; identification of a highly toxic metal in the victim's blood leads to his poisoner.
Dressed to Kill
When a 6-year-old disappears, her father becomes the prime suspect; he fails a polygraph test and even confesses, but 10 years later, the investigation gets turned on its head.
Palm Print Conviction
Investigators build a makeshift tent around a woman's body and use super glue fumes to lift the killer's palm print from the victim's skin.
A Vow of Silence
The disappearance of a mail-order bride proves suspicious when detectives learn that two of the Texas husband's previous wives had died in mysterious circumstances.
Elephant Tracks
A jeweler's search through old sales records helps police find likely suspects in the murder of elderly couple Edward Kowalzck and Gertrude Thompson.
A Bag of Evidence
A garbage bag leads police to a child's killer.
Tooth or Consequences
An investigation into the disappearance of a young woman uncovers a tooth that helps police solve a crime without a body.
The Sniffing Revenge
The sensitive nose of a forensic examiner sniffs out murder.
Sleight of Hand
Discovering that an assault suspect is left-handed is crucial to a police investigation dating back 16 years.
Scratching the Surface
Forensic scientists try to find a way to ''lift'' the serial number from a shotgun that's their only clue in a case.
Fire Proof
Investigating the worst arson spree in U.S. history -- a rash of more than 75 fires near Seattle.
Missing Pearl
One year after Maine resident Pearl A. Bruns' disappearance, forensic technology helps to find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.
Man's Best Friend?
When 4-year-old April Renee Tucker is found dead in her backyard, her parents tell the police that neighborhood dogs attacked and killed her, but the injuries on her body don't match their account of what happened.
Hand Delivered
San Diego police investigate the murder of a missing person whose hands turn up in a dumpster; an anonymous letter, containing details only the killer would know, offers clues to solving the case.
Death Play
One year after her father's death, a teen's role in a high school production of ``Hamlet`` causes her to reveal the chilling truth behind her family's tragedy.
Fire Dot Com
A mother puts her hope in the internet and an independent investigation to clear her name after authorities charge her with murdering her 17-month-old son in a fire considered to be intentionally set.
Mistaken for Dead
When a man dies unexpectedly in the office of a noted California doctor, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation, but discoveries of false identities and insurance fraud raise questions about the doctor's role.
Frozen Evidence
A forensic scientist uses his skills to preserve a footprint left in snow to help authorities nab two men suspected of robbing an Ontario couple and shooting the husband in the head.
Soft Touch
Fingerprints taken from a piece of cloth help solve the rape and murder of a 22-year-old woman in Henrico County, Va.
Church Disappearance
The FBI profiles a suspect in the kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old girl during an evening church service; a witness leads authorities to the likely killer, but then becomes a victim herself.
Photo Finish
Photographs found in a dumpster lead to the killer of Los Angeles model Linda Sobek; the man claims he did not intentionally kill her despite evidence to the contrary.
Whodunit
A murder mystery theater performance in Easton, Md., turns into a real-life mystery when a body is found after the performance ends.
Horse Play
When a woman dies in a horseback riding accident, police uncover a web of lies in her husband's background after his suspicious behavior prompts a closer look.
Treads and Threads
A serial killer in Tampa, Fla., taunts police by strangling prostitutes and leaving their bodies in plain sight, but tire marks and fibers lead to the culprit.
Killer's Cattle Log
Missouri police are thrust into a bizarre web of homeless drifters and cattle auctions when they are called to retrieve a dead body.
Naked Justice
Blood spatter analysis and an investigation lead police to the truth when a pregnant woman is found dead in her home.
Treading Not So Lightly
A mother is determined to discover what happened when her daughter is injured in a hit-and-run accident.
Shopping Spree
Forensic science and deductive reasoning determine what happened to a mother and daughter while they were on a shopping spree.
The Cheater
Exploring how an American hit single from 1966 -- ``The Cheater`` by Bob Kuban and the In-Men -- foreshadowed the demise of the group's lead singer, Walter Scott.
Forever Hold Your Peace
Eight years after a man confessed to the murder of a young woman, another man claims that he committed the crime, and investigators must use forensic evidence to determine the true killer.
Reel Danger
Although a group of teenage thugs are suspected of attacking two boys on a fishing trip, there is no solid evidence until a murky fishing hole provides some answers.
Who's Your Daddy
When young prostitute's body turns up in an Ohio waterway, authorities have one tiny clue which could point to her killer, but face huge challenges due to her policemen clients and DNA evidence being washed away.
The Alibi
In a small South Carolina town in 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, a popular high school student, is raped, murdered and dumped in a deserted field; with few leads, authorities test the DNA of several friends, and one match shocks everyone.
Purr-fect Match
In a groundbreaking case using animal DNA, investigators use forensic testing on a cat to help them solve the case of a woman who vanished from her home on Prince Edward Island.
Bio-Attack
A look into the 1984 Oregon food poisonings, where detectives track down the outbreak to a cult which aims to use germ warfare to take down the government.
A Shot in the Dark
A woman is found dead from a gunshot wound and police suspect her husband, however, forensic teams prove what really happened and the truth is stranger than fiction.
Without a Prayer
After American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair disappears, the discovery of a mutilated body helps police catch the culprit.
A Clutch of Witnesses
Two people witness a truck driving over an unconscious man and flee into a nearby bar, but when the police turn up, the truck, the man and the witnesses are gone.
Scout's Honor
Insect evidence helps to solve the mystery of a woman found dead near a river bank.
Textbook Murder
A young bride-to-be is gunned down in her own home. The attack is personal and as investigators start digging, they uncover the man she loved was living a lie.
Filtered Out
Tara Munsey went missing after a work shift at a Virginia restaurant and it is unknown if she ran away or if she was the victim of foul play.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
X Marks the Spot
Computers aid the police and FBI in solving a string of crimes.
All Charged Up
Using an anonymous letter and geographical profiling, investigators close in on a serial rapist, and a cleverly obtained DNA sample confirms their suspicions.
Breaking the Mold
When a young boy has serious respiratory problems and his father shows signs of early Alzheimer's disease, a chance encounter with a stranger kicks off an investigation into the cause.
House Call
Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., use cell phone mapping, wiretapping and a host of forensic evidence to find a surgeon's killer.
Plastic Fire
A woman wins her release after being imprisoned for allegedly killing her mother in a car fire.
Last Will
Authorities are able to apprehend a kidnapper because he allowed his victim to write a will on a telltale pad of paper.
Dessert Served Cold
Experts debate whether an apparent heart attack victim died from natural causes or alleged poisoning by his girlfriend.
The Music Case
When a 12-year-old was found dead in her home, police were left clueless until a string of burglaries months later. A trail of stolen goods may help solve a murder.
Paintball
When 15 year-old Marlene Miller was murdered, it would take 24 years and several retrials before forensic scientists discovered the evidence to bring her killer to justice.
Sign Here
Detectives use a forged signature to find a woman's abductor.
Shadow of a Doubt
A woman is killed two days before she was scheduled to testify against a man accused of assaulting her and the prime suspect has an alibi.
Tourist Trap
A bite mark is all the evidence needed to convict a suspect who was robbing tourists in Florida.
Skin of Her Teeth
A killer wants to outwit the police and keep the identity of his victim secret so he removes the teeth; however, lab tests on the skull reveal not just the horrific nature of the murder, but the identity of the victim too.
Line of Fire
When a fundamentalist group is accused of robbing banks, authorities know they are dealing with experienced criminals and overwhelming evidence, but the defense is very well-funded.
Bad Blood
When a young doctor is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting two of his female patients, DNA tests show him to be innocent, but the women persist with their claims; seven years later, a private investigation leads to a surprising discovery.
Pure Evil
The search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas shows a behavioral study on how most serial killers also have a history of abusing animals.
Root of All Evil
When a farmer's wife disappears, the tests of a plant pathologist and a dendrochronologist lead to a surprising revelation.
Where the Blood Drops
A son who is convinced of his mother's innocence in the death of his father enrolls in law school to try and clear her name.
Shadow of a Doubt
A woman is killed two days before she was scheduled to testify against a man accused of assaulting her and the prime suspect has an alibi.
Sibling Rivalry
The pornography empire cultivated by brothers Artie and Jim Mitchell crumbles when one turns up dead and his brother confesses to shooting him; investigators question whether the shooting was premeditated.