Forensic Files
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Feb 19th
1100a
Crush Course
A highway patrolman was dispatched to what he thought would be a routine traffic accident… until he looked in the car. While he had no formal training in forensic science, he had seen hundreds of accidents -- but never as much blood as this. He was shocked by the coroner’s ruling of “accidental death,” and then an anonymous phone call breathed new life into his investigation.
Feb 19th
1130a
A Leg Up on Crime
The decomposed body of a young woman was discovered in a Bakersfield irrigation canal. If there was trace evidence, it had been washed away. Another victim was found in that same canal a year later; this time, the perpetrator had been careless. The shoe prints found at the scene would lead police to the most unlikely of killers.
Feb 19th
1200p
Tight Fitting Genes
A behavioral profile is helpful in a murder investigation, but it's not a road map to the killer. One such profile caused the Baton Rouge Police Department to search for the wrong man. They might not have made an arrest, had it not been for a DNA picture of the suspect, painted by a molecular biologist.
Feb 19th
1230p
Deadly Valentine
An obstetrician returned home from the hospital and found his wife on the floor of the bathroom; she was covered with blood, not breathing. He tried unsuccessfully to revive her, staining his clothes with her blood in the process, and then he called 911. His version of events was not supported by the blood spatter evidence, and investigators had to determine why.
Feb 20th
1100a
Picture This
A Modesto, California teenager went missing. There was no sign of a struggle in her home, and police suspected she’d simply run away… until her naked, bruised body was discovered in a ditch 20 miles away.
Feb 20th
1130a
Oily in the Morning
When police recovered the submerged car of a man reported missing, they fully expected to find his body... but it wasn’t there. His broken eyeglasses were on the floor of the vehicle and the interior was coated with motor oil. The investigation which followed would uncover an obsession turned deadly, and the motive for murder.
Feb 20th
1200p
Gold Rush
Emergency dispatch received a call from a man who said his girlfriend shot and killed herself. Police found the victim in the caller’s house, lying in a pool of blood with the gun next to her on the floor. The autopsy revealed that the gunshot wound was not self-inflicted… and the evidence found on her body would give police a golden opportunity to catch her killer.
Feb 20th
1230p
Four on the Floor
A native American woman was brutally killed in the desert of New Mexico, and the crime scene was rich in forensic evidence: tire tracks, shoe impressions and even the murder weapons. The site was less than 10 miles from another crime scene where, two years earlier, a male native American was beaten and stabbed to death. Police began to wonder: Was a serial killer on the loose?
Feb 23rd
1100a
Writer's Block
A brilliant young architect became ill and died just before she was to testify in a criminal trial. The autopsy revealed she’d been poisoned with arsenic; it was a slow and painful death, so suicide was unlikely. Investigators had to determine who among her family, friends and business associates had a motive for murder.
Feb 23rd
1130a
A Clean Getaway
An employee of a dry-cleaner was raped and murdered in the store, and investigators thought themselves fortunate to have two eyewitnesses. Their descriptions were similar but not identical, and the prime suspect didn’t come close to resembling that person. So police turned to forensic science for the answers they needed.