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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.

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.

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?

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.

Forensic entomology: Bugs have roamed the earth for 250 million years, but their intimate association with death is just now coming to life. The kinds of insects on bodies, along with their stage of development, can pinpoint time of death and help identify victims.

New York City is not stranger to gang violence. But when a 12-year-old child was kidnapped, the gangs had crossed a line. Law enforcement raced to find the missing boy before it was too late.

Across the Midwest, a band of armed robbers struck banks at the rate of nearly one per month. They attacked with lightning precision and lethal force. They were in and out in five minutes.

Veteran journalist Jeff German is stabbed outside his home. Clues point not to the mob, but a disgraced official with a vendetta, exposed in one of German’s hard-hitting investigations.

A self-appointed angel of death on a mission beyond the law. A sniper who targets abortion doctors and then disappears into the shadowy underground that supports and protects him. But when the sniper’s mission moves to murder, a city is thrown into blind panic that spreads across the country and beyond. Armed with the very latest in forensic technology, this is one game the cops have no intention of losing.

Encouraged by life insurance money, 33-year-old Kimberly Hricko takes her 35-year old husband Stephen on a romantic murder mystery weekend.

Patty White attempts to rob former flatmate Michele O'Dowd, but ends up leaving something unexpected under the Christmas tree.

When questionable abuse allegations are proven false, Greg and Diana divorce. Shortly after, one of them is contacted by a private investigator and lured out to a dirt road. Is the sniper in the bushes there to commit a murder, or not?

A young Jackson, Michigan police officer investigates a missing woman and finds that her husband has just had brain surgery and is acting strangely. When the officer follows his instincts and inspects the couple’s restaurant, he finds their kitchen has a become a slaughterhouse. But who could be responsible for such atrocity?

When a spate of violent robberies spreads terror across the city, Kenda and the major crimes unit are called in to bring the masked gunman to justice. But when the brazen bandit strikes yet again, it looks as if Kenda’s case is going down in flames.

An international student is found raped and murdered in the bathroom of her high-rise apartment. Police on the scene have few concrete leads, but painstaking fingerprint analysis finally connects a Malaysian bodybuilder named Tien Poh Su to the crime scene. To bolster the circumstantial evidence, police pursue an elaborate undercover operation to get the blood sample they need to convict a rapist who practices crime Ôby the bookÕ.

In 1985, the body of an 11 year-old boy is found, days after he disappeared from his father’s Flint, Michigan home. A mother’s tireless pursuit of justice leads investigators to a crucial clue and the devastating truth behind her son’s death.