Forensic Files
Upcoming episodes
Apr 9th
1100a
Hundreds of Reasons
The assistant manager of the restaurant had been stabbed to death. Police knew why he’d been killed: $8,000 was missing from the safe. As to who was responsible, his family and friends couldn’t even imagine who’d want to hurt him.
Apr 9th
1130a
Cold Feet
The convenience store safe was empty and the clerk, missing. Hours later, her bound, half-naked body was discovered in nearby woods. Almost two decades would pass before advances in forensic science gave police the proof they needed to convict a killer.
Apr 9th
1200p
Separation Anxiety
Attempting to dispose of the body by incinerating it proved to be one of many mistakes... culminating in the killer’s grainy image in security video being brought into sharp focus by something ordinary and everywhere: a store discount card.
Apr 9th
1230p
Office Visit
A respected surgeon was stabbed to death in the parking lot next to his office. The most likely suspect is seen having dinner in a restaurant at the time of the murder. But a cryptic conversation leads police to believe that, while the suspect may not have wielded the knife, he could very well have hired the man who did.
Apr 10th
1100a
Shoe-In for Murder
Terrified, the young girl hid in her bedroom while her mother was attacked and stabbed to death. Investigators had a wealth of evidence: shoe impressions, distinctive blood drops, and the killer’s DNA. What they didn’t have was a basis for comparison.
Apr 10th
1130a
Family Interrupted
The gunman opened fire as the family of four entered their home, killing two and wounding the others. He’d pulled open a few drawers to make it look like a robbery, but the scene was clearly staged. When police pieced together the clues, they discovered an unlikely suspect and a carefully orchestrated plot.
Apr 10th
1200p
Palm Saturday
The killer obviously spent a great deal of time at the scene, wiping away his fingerprints and obscuring shoe impressions he’d tracked through blood trails on the floor. But in the process, he created new evidence which was just as incriminating.
Apr 10th
1230p
Runaway Love
It was classic “overkill.” The woman floating in the harbor of an upscale yacht club had been stabbed more than 50 times. Her ex-husband and daughter are missing, and investigators turn to forensic science to determine if they’re searching for victims... or perpetrators.
Apr 13th
1100a
Watchful Eye
A state park employee is murdered in the park office in the middle of the afternoon. There’s a wealth of evidence at the scene, but it doesn’t implicate the prime suspect, it clears him. Six years -- and 600 leads -- later, advances in DNA technology enable investigators to identify and convict the killer.
Apr 13th
1130a
Waste Mis-Management
The evidence suggested the woman had been bound, sexually assaulted and murdered. Afterwards, the killer spent hours at the crime scene, wiping away his fingerprints and disposing of everything which might incriminate him, including the woman’s body. Police now face a daunting task: They not only have to find the killer, they also have to find the body of the victim.