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

Nov 1st
600a

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.
Nov 1st
700a

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.
Nov 1st
800a

Tangled Identities

When Joleen Cummings misses a Mother’s Day pickup, her family calls police. Detectives find a blood-soaked workplace, a felon boyfriend and a suspect with shifting identities, using forensic evidence and an old ruse to uncover the truth.
Nov 1st
900a

Death In The Desert

Nancy Woodrum vanishes in the dead of night, leaving only a smeared bloody hand-print behind. With no body and multiple suspects, investigators turn to new and unproven forensic tech to retrace her last moments.
Nov 2nd
800a

Preaching Evil

Joseph Musante is found dead inside a respected pastor's office and the cause is unknown. Suicide? Murder? Or something else? As forensic clues mount, a web of lies unravels, exposing a dark history of violence tied.
Nov 2nd
500p

The Hog Trail Murders

Between january 1994 and april 1996, in central florida, the bodies of four men are found in a wooded area known as the hog trails. All are severely decomposed, all are naked, and all have been genitally mutilated. Police realize they are chasing a serial killer, but the investigation is hampered by the fact that they are unable to identify any of the victims. Finally a fifth body yields a name, and soon puts authorities on the trail of nurse daniel conahan. Police are able to prove that conahan --a sexual sadist with a taste for bondage-- lured transients to the woods with promises of easy money posing for nude photographs. In the privacy of the wilderness, he tied them to trees and brutally murdered them.
Nov 3rd
100a

Natures Clues

How do bugs, pigs and even the weather help investigators solve crimes? From tropical hawaii to the frigid waters of lake ontario, forensic experts reveal, in gory detail, the clues nature leaves behind on a human corpse.
Nov 3rd
800a

A Novel Murder

Culinary instructor Daniel Brophy is found dead on his kitchen classroom floor. When the forensic evidence points to murder, investigators must rewrite the script as they examine the evidence leading to a calculated killer.
Nov 3rd
500p

House Hermit

April, 1992. An elderly couple is found dead in the trunk of their car at their home in upscale toronto. The investigation eventually leads authorities to the couple’s vacation home one hour north of the city. Police soon learn of the “house hermit”— a mysterious intruder breaking into area cottages and camping in them. He becomes the prime suspect in the murders, but though police finally identify him they cannot find him anywhere. That’s because he’s moved 3,000 miles away to vancouver, where he abducts and assaults three women before finally being caught red handed tstrangled one of his victims
Nov 4th
100a

The Profilers

Serial killers are often twisted geniuses; so cunning that catching them seems almost impossible. But from jack the ripper to those who terrify us today, their bizarre behaviour is as specific as a signature. Sophisticated crime fighters map the psychological and physical terrain of multiple murderers.