Forensic Files
Upcoming episodes
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.
May 8th
1200p
Slippery Motives
While on a business trip in 1986, Ed Post started his day by jogging in downtown St. Louis. When he returned, he found his wife lying face-down in the bathtub, unconscious. She was rushed to the hospital, but it was too late. The medical examiner determined the cause of her death was drowning... but it may not have been an accident.
May 8th
1230p
Badge of Deceit
For more than a decade, women in a small Louisiana city lived in fear of a serial rapist. Fortunately, computer technology and behavioral science combined to give police a new forensic tool: geographical profiling. Police narrow their search to one man, but to prove he’s the perpetrator they turn to an unlikely piece of evidence--- a discarded cigarette butt.
May 11th
1100a
Dew Process
When the wife of a well-known dentist is found dead, police are unsure who killed her. As the investigation progress a 22 year-old woman confesses to the murders. But two years go by before some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open and reveal the real killer.
May 11th
1130a
A Woman Scorned
When a young mother and her infant son are found dead in a cornfield, the obvious suspect is the husband and father of the victims. But some insects found on the bodies reveal a vital clue, as does a long, blonde hair found on the victims.
May 11th
1200p
A Voice from Beyond
When a decomposed body is discovered inside a barrel, police immediately suspect foul play. But the body had been placed there 30 years earlier. One of the few clues was an address book found along with the body but years of moisture had washed away the ink. Scientists desperately searched for a way to unlock the secrets of that address book.
May 11th
1230p
Burning Ambition
When a Seattle policeman’s house goes up in flames, fire experts suspect arson – possibly perpetrated by someone with a vendetta against the officer. One month later, in an ironic twist, the officer whose home was torched, arrests a low-level drug dealer, who confesses to the arson! But when the suspect vanishes - investigators start to question the authenticity of the “confession.”
May 12th
1100a
Memories
A pregnant woman is brutally attacked in her own home - and her unborn child is killed. After coming out of her coma, she identifies her husband as the perpetrator. The semen left at the scene matches her husband’s blood type. The husband was convicted and spent 16 years in jail proclaiming his innocence. Then, a new DNA test and an innovative computer program lead investigators to question just how accurate the wife’s “recovered memory” really was.
May 12th
1130a
Trail of Truth
A mother and her two young daughters are found