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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.
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The victim was a self-made man who never minced words. Perhaps he was murdered by a disgruntled client.
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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.
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The woman in the back of the truck was flailing her arms, screaming. They thought she was doing something dangerous for the fun of it.
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When court clerk Peter Porco doesn't report to his work in November 2004, a courts officer is ordered to the Porcos' family home in Bethlehem, NY.
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Two suspects are linked to a murder by bloodstained boots and a gun, but the owner of the items says he has never met the victim.
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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.
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There was no clear reason for a young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the coroner discovered a tiny clue during the autopsy, investigators were able to uncover a mystery.
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A young woman is stabbed more than 100 times. The killer leaves DNA behind, but investigators must play a cat-and-mouse game to obtain a suspect's DNA to match.
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Police are able to create a composite sketch of a man burnt beyond recognition. But tracking the killer is more challenging.
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Doctors don't know why a scientist is gravely ill. When tests reveal the cause, it's too late to save him.
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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.
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Even though their daughter had run away before, she'd always come back. Her parents were sure this time would be no different, but they were wrong.
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In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered.
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When a college co-ed vanished without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety and their own.
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The victim was well liked and successful, which made the brutality of the crime even harder to understand.
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An assistant manager of a Florida steakhouse is stabbed to death. It appears to be a robbery gone wrong.
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James Kenneth Elmen Jr. abducted Julie Estes, then 21, from the Southside convenience store where she worked in 1985.
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Tracey Frame, 35, was convicted of killing David Nixon in April 2002 after he planned to end their relationship.
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A surgeon is stabbed to death, and the most likely suspect is seen in a restaurant at the time of the murder.
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A killer made great effort to obscure the shoe impressions left when he tracked blood on the floor, but he ended up creating new incriminating evidence...
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Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.
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On May 12, 1994, Crystal Perry was viciously murdered in her home in Bridgton, Maine. Michael Hutchinson, 32, was found guilty of murder in the 1994 slaying at Perry's home.
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Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.
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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.
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Foul play is suspected when Fort Worth factory worker Glenda Furch disappears after completing her shift.
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Police get a clue about a couple who disappeared on Memorial Day weekend during an in-progress robbery.
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Fifteen years later, DNA technology leads to justice for a murdered woman and her savagely beaten 4-year-old daughter.
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In 1995, Palm Beach waitress Denise O'Neill is abducted and murdered. Her neighbor Luis Caballero arouses suspicions by his odd behavior toward TV crews covering the crime.
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In 2007, Shamaia Smith disappeared from the strip club she worked at in East Hartford, CT. Police look at various customers of the strip club, but focus on local businessman Kenneth Otto.
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In 2000, Christina Sanoubane was murdered in her Cedar Rapids home after moving away from her abusive boyfriend. There are clues at the scene: bloody footprints and DNA from the victim's rape kit.
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In 2006, Darlene VanderGiesen received threatening emails and then disappeared. Tracking the source of the emails led police to the home of Daphne Wright, where they believe a murder was committed.
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In 2000, Kristine Fitzhugh failed to show up for her music class and her husband Ken found her dead at the bottom of the stairs of their Palo Alto home.
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In 1999, Susan Fassett was gunned down as she left church choir practice in Poughkeepsie, NY. Her husband Jeff became the prime suspect, until he was cleared by police.
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In 2008, Illinois emergency response came upon a garage fire and a man was found crushed beneath a truck.
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In 2007, the Florida home of Effie and Michael Ratley catches fire and Michael heroically rescues his family.
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In 2005, David Castor suffered a slow, agonizing death over a period of days. His wife Stacey maintained it was suicide, even though it was done with antifreeze.
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In the 1990s, the media dubbed Richard Rogers the Last Call Killer because he targeted men in gay bars.
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Avis Banks and her unborn child were brutally murdered. The body was discovered by her fiancé Keyon Pittman.
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In 2000, when teenager Tara Munsey goes missing after work, it is unknown if she ran away or was murdered.
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In 1989, the dead bodies of Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters were found floating in Tampa Bay.
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In 2003, Tiffany Rowell and three of her friends were brutally murdered in their affluent Clear Lake, Texas.
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In 2008, college co-ed Jenna Verhaalen was found dead in her Bryan, Texas apartment and petechial hemorrhages in her eyes indicated that she was strangled.
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In 2004, Rebecca Barney and her soon-to-be ex-husband Fred were found shot to death in their Tulsa, Oklahoma, home, which had been set on fire.
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In 2003, Kathy Lorick was murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail in the middle of the day while talking to her husband on her mobile phone.
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In 2008, Colorado real estate developer Alan Helmick was found shot to death at home by his wife Miriam.
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A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim.
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In 2004, nursing student Tamika Huston went missing from her Spartanburg, South Carolina home. A tip led detectives to her car and they find an unknown house key that could help solve the case.
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In 2002, funeral director Lonnie Turner, Sr. was found shot to death. His son Lonnie Jr. became the prime suspect, particularly after it was discovered that the murder was committed with his gun.
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Series premiere. A flight attendant went missing and was never seen again. Police proved her husband guilty of murder without finding the body.
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A boy is mysteriously shot in his father's gun club. Ballistics, laser technology, scale models and animation reveal the bullet's amazing path and who was responsible.
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A woman disappeared and her husband became the prime suspect especially after police found a huge bloodstain on the carpet of their bedroom. Complex DNA testing proved it was the wife's blood. Now all they had to do was find her body.
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British detectives worked with a pioneering scientist to solve crimes of sexual assault and serial murder. This 1986 case marked the first time DNA was used as evidence in a court of law.
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Early one morning in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, a motorcyclist discovered the body of a young woman.
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Timothy Wilson Spencer was identified as the man who raped and strangled five young women in Virginia. With the use of DNA profiling, an innocent man is freed and the real killer is convicted.
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After a Philadelphia convention, 180 legionnaires contract pneumonia-like symptoms and 29 of them die.
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On the night of May 22, 1992, Betty Wilson returned home and walked up the stairs to the bedroom. She discovered her husband lying in a pool of blood. Jack Wilson had obviously been murdered...but how? And by whom? Even the experts couldn't agree.
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From 1985 to 1988, 18 people were choked, molested and left for dead in the remote mountains of California.
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In 1985, 121 people in South Dakota and Minnesota were struck by a mysterious illness. There had been only one outbreak like it, and when it happened again no one could figure out why.
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In 1971, John List left a note with the bodies of his family members in his mansion before he disappeared.
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An 11-year-old Boy Scout 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.
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Ten bodies had been found between May and November 1984 in Florida. A 17-year-old female named Lisa McVey was abducted but released, leading police to the perpetrator, Bobbie Joe Long.
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Eileen and Derrick Severs disappeared from their home in the small village of Hambleton in Great Britain.
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Almost a hundred vehicles were involved in the single most deadly automobile accident in American history.
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While Earl Morris was vacationing in California, he learned his wife Ruby Morris had gone missing from their home in Arizona. The results of the investigation surprised everyone...especially Earl Morris.
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The flu-like symptoms of a mother and her children proved to be something more serious: thallium poisoning.
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In a quiet village in Great Britain, a farmer came upon a chilling sight. Impaled on his fence post was a severed lamb's head along with a note which read, "You next."
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An infant was rushed to the emergency room with serious breathing problems. Within months, there were more than 30 cases. Doctors searched frantically for the cause and a cure.
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Shortly after daybreak in Vancouver, British Columbia, a fire was set in a dumpster. No one saw either the arsonist or the fire, and it burned for hours in the deserted parking lot.
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Two people in Seattle, Washington died after taking an over-the-counter pain reliever. Lab analysis of the pills showed they were tainted with a lethal concentration of cyanide.
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For more than a year, hateful letters were sent to a school teacher in Pennsylvania. DNA analysis would eventually help seal the perpetrator's fate.
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On October 15, 1985, two bomb explosions rocked Salt Lake City and resulted in two deaths. A third explosion occurred the next day. This time, the victim was injured but survived.
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After a day of fishing in a small, quiet village in Switzerland, a teenage boy did not return home as planned. The investigation revealed some important microscopic evidence in the water near where he was last seen.
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Heavy rains and snow run-off carried manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people.
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Eleven-month-old Chad Shelton was admitted to the hospital with unexplained bleeding and later died. Investigators and scientists frantically searched for a cause when others from the same house fell ill.
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In the mid-1980s, bodies of nude women were found on a remote hill of California. The police got a break when a known prostitute escaped an attacker and was able to identify him and his automobile.
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In 1987, a human skull and some bones were discovered at a boy scout camp near Farmington, Missouri. A facial reconstruction aided the investigators in this case.
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A serial bomber was waging a vendetta against the legal profession. A judge, two attorneys and even a courthouse had been targeted. Employing a range of forensic techniques, investigators used evidence from the bombs to lead them to the perpetrator.
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Robert Sims returned home after working the night shift and found his wife, Paula, unconscious on the kitchen floor. Their two-year-old son, Randy, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, but their six-week-old daughter, Heather, was missing.
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Stephen Scher and Martin Dillon went skeet shooting on a beautiful spring day and Martin was shot dead.
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When four-month-old Ryan died under suspicious circumstances, his mother was convicted of his murder.
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In 1992, Laura Houghteling disappeared from her Bethesda home and was never seen again. Laura's bedroom was searched and forensic science was used to direct them a to prime suspect.
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Edward Honaker was sentenced to three life terms in prison, but he steadfastly maintained his innocence.
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On September 17, 1984, in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona, eight-year-old Vicki Hoskins left home on her pink bicycle to mail a letter for her mother. She never returned, but her slightly damaged bicycle was found nearby.
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A two-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital suffering from brain seizures and breathing difficulties.
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On a cold December night in 1993, Rose Larner stopped in a convenience store on her way to her boyfriend's house. She was never seen or heard from again. A tiny clue found years later revealed a tragic tale of drugs, romance and revenge.
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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.
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Scott Dunn was missing and when the police sprayed his bedroom with Luminol, a scene of horrific violence emerged. Now investigators faced a daunting task.
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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.
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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.
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Sometime during a neighborhood Christmas party, five-year-old Melissa Brannen disappeared. Investigators turned to forensic science to help them see what the witnesses missed.
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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.
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Who was the sexual offender who murdered two boys in Nebraska? The key to stopping him would be the unique composition of the "junk rope" he used to tie his victims.
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Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
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Janice Johnson was found dead at the foot of her stairs. Police in Nova Scotia had to answer the question: Was it an accident or murder?
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A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
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A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
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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.
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While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.
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Women in a Louisiana city live in fear of a rapist who leaves no clues to his identity. But technology and behavioral science combine to give police a new forensic tool.
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When the wife of a well-known dentist is found dead, police struggle to identify a suspect. Some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open.
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When Joann Katrinak is found dead in a corn field with her son, the obvious suspect is her husband. But insects found on the bodies reveal a vital clue which uncovers a twisted story.
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When a decomposed body is found stuffed in a barrel, it's easy to presume murder. One of the few clues was an address book found along with the body.
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When a policeman's house goes up in flames, experts suspect arson. The officer whose home was torched arrests a low-level drug dealer, who confesses. But then the suspect vanishes.
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Dianna Green was brutally attacked in her own home and her unborn child was killed. After coming out of a coma and regaining her memory, she is able to identify her husband as the perpetrator.