Forensic Files
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May 6th
1100a
Ultimate Betrayal
On a windy October night in 1995, a mysterious fire swept through the home of a doctor and his family. Two of the family members made it out alive; two did not. In the debris, investigators found evidence which told them much more than how the fire started.
May 6th
1130a
Cement the Case
Shirley and Ed Andronowich were regulars at a neighborhood bar. One night, Ed decided to leave early and Shirley wanted to stay. There was a brief argument, and Ed went home alone. The next day, Shirley’s badly beaten and mutilated body was found outside of a nearby high school. The murder weapon was a 55-pound piece of concrete. It was up to investigators to determine what had happened to Shirley Andronowich and who was responsible.
May 6th
1200p
Innocence Lost
Sometime during a neighborhood Christmas party, five-year-old Melissa Brannen disappeared. No one saw where she went or noticed anything unusual. Investigators turned to forensic science to help them see what the witnesses missed.
May 6th
1230p
til Death Do Us Part
The doctors at the hospital couldn’t determine the cause of Bobby Curley’s hallucinations and intense pain. At first, they treated it as a neurological disorder, but Bobby’s condition deteriorated. Something he was being given in the hospital wasn’t curing him, it was killing him.
May 7th
1100a
Ties That Bind
A serial killer of young boys was on the loose and people were terrified – especially since a criminal profiler from the FBI was certain he would kill again. A massive manhunt was organized, but it would be tiny, unique fibers which would tie the killer to the crimes.
May 7th
1130a
Body of Evidence
Karla Brown was found brutally murdered in the basement of her home. There was little evidence at the scene, and it began to look like the killer had committed the perfect crime. Then investigators noticed something in the crime scene photographs that had previously been overlooked: The killer had left behind an important clue after all.
May 7th
1200p
Accident or Murder?
The day began like most others in the Johnson household, and Clayton Johnson left for work at the usual time. Within hours, his wife, Janice, was dead and the lives of Clayton and his family would be forever changed. Police in Nova Scotia had to unravel the circumstances surrounding Janice’s death and answer the question: Was it an accident... or murder?
May 7th
1230p
Core Evidence
In 1996, more than a dozen children in Seattle, Washington, were fighting for their lives. Each one of them had contracted a serious illness, and no one knew what it was. When one of the children died, investigators knew the clock was ticking... and they needed to isolate the cause and find the cure before time ran out.
May 8th
1100a
Haunting Vision
On a September night in 1966, Dianne Keidel met a friend for a drink, and afterwards, she disappeared. Investigators were unable to determine if Dianne was the victim of foul play, or if she couldn’t face the responsibilities of being a single mother with four young children. That question was answered twenty-seven years later, when her daughter came forward with a fantastic tale of something she remembered seeing when she was only five-years-old.
May 8th
1130a
With Every Breath
The year was 1993, and young Navajos on a reservation in the southwest were dying at an alarming rate. CDC officials had never seen anything like it, and the mysterious illness had claimed the lives of more than 20 people. The tribe’s medicine men provided investigators with a critical clue... which would lead halfway around the world to a most unlikely killer.