Forensic Factor

Forensic Factor

About the show

Based on true crimes solved by an elite team of investigators, Forensic Factor details the trade secrets used by the world's best sleuths to nab the most elusive criminals, with re-enactments of crucial incidents and firsthand accounts from the experts providing depth and insight.

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Upcoming episodes

May 10th
600a

The Barsock Case

A woman is found shot in her garage, and all eyes turn to her boyfriend after a friend names him as the attacker. When alibis, bullets, and DNA conflict with witness accounts, detectives must untangle a web of lies to find the real story.
May 10th
700a

The Morse Case

The body of a young woman surfaces in a Florida river with few clues beyond rope and duct tape. To identify her killer, investigators push forensic science to the limit, even turning to DNA from her former pet dog.
May 10th
800a

The Look in Her Eyes

After a body is found in a ditch, police link it to a missing father who lives nearby. With no clear crime scene, investigators scour his home and the roadway, using trace evidence and creative forensic tests to reconstruct what happened.
May 10th
900a

Deadly Foreclosure

After Heidi Firkus is shot during an alleged home invasion, detectives question the only other witness. Years later, they use digital reconstructions, trajectory tests and 911 audio to see if the story of a mysterious intruder makes sense.
May 11th
800a

Playing with Fire

After a fiery car crash, charred remains are identified as Clayton Daniels until forensic evidence suggests the death was staged. As questions mount, investigators follow burn patterns, autopsy clues and records to uncover a bizarre scheme.
May 11th
500p

To Catch a Serial Killer

The world’s top criminal investigators, forensic scientists and behavioral analysts go behind the scenes of some of their most challenging serial murder cases to reveal the cutting edge forensic science, technology, behavioral psychology and investigative techniques involved in tracking down a serial killer. The detection and apprehension of the gainesville ripper, who brutally attacked and murdered five college students in florida, provides the core narrative against which the unique forensic and investigative details of four other cases are compared and contrasted.
May 12th
800a

Killer Evidence

Hikers discover trash bags stuffed with human remains in a ravine, raising fears of a serial killer. Investigators turn to tattoos, DNA and cellphone records to identify the victim and reconstruct the events that led to her brutal death.
May 12th
500p

Forsaken

On the outskirts of hamilton, ontario, a jogger makes a gruesome discovery – the partially mummified remains of a human body. Using state of the art forensics, police are able to identify the body as that of a suburban wife and mother of two. She has been brutally bludgeoned to death, but no missing person’s report has ever been filed. As police investigate, they discover evidence of domestic strife, including a love triangle and charges of assault. Determined to find the killer, police dig further into the victim’s life, doggedly tracking down a former lover to new york city, where they uncover another crime. But it is a forensic entomologist and her knowledge of the minute lives of insects that leads investigators back to ontario and the arrest of the woman’s husband for murder.
May 13th
800a

The Impossible Solution

In suburban Boston, college students find a teenage boy dead in the street. Bloodstain experts rule out a hit-and-run, and his trail from North Carolina forces detectives to test a bizarre, almost impossible explanation for how he died.
May 13th
500p

The Smily Face Killer

One by one, prostitutes in spokane, washington are being hunted down and discarded in remote wooded areas by a vicious serial killer. On each victim’s head, police find his macabre calling card – a plastic bag emblazoned with an ironic smiley face. Investigators soon realize they are dealing with the worst type of serial killer – an average joe with no criminal background and with the extraordinary ability to blend in with the community. With few clues to work with – and as the death toll continues to rise – investigators turn to ballistics experts, space age fingerprinting technology, and to a forensic botanist who believes he can solve the crime by reading plants and trees.