Friday

Dr. G takes us through the most surprising results of some shocking autopsies.

The bodies of three women were found floating in Tampa Bay. The water washed away any evidence, but police hoped a handwritten note found in the victims’ car would lead to the killer – so they posted huge copies of the note on five highway billboards.

Four young adults are brutally murdered in an affluent Texas neighborhood, and the crime scene yields little evidence. The next door neighbors see two young people dressed in black walking nearby, and their descriptions are used to create composite drawings which become a key element in solving the crime.

A young college student is found dead in her apartment. There are no obvious signs of foul play, but skin cells under her fingernails yield DNA of an unknown male suspect, and petechial hemorrhages in her eyes prove this is a homicide.

Twenty-four hours after her face-to-face meeting with a man she met online, the woman and her soon-to-be ex-husband were shot to death. Only the computer had been taken from her home, and with it, the means to identify the killer.

Drowning deaths often look like accidents and water can destroy the scant clues the killer may have left behind. Investigators must turn to forensic science to solve cases where the victim is found dead in the water.

The sun set on the Wild West long ago, but some people refused to notice. Claude Dallas was one of them. A wily trapper, Dallas typified the rugged individualism that forged this country. He went too far when he killed two game wardens in 1981.

For nearly two decades a mathematical genius with delusions of single-handedly destroying industrial society, planted or mailed powerful bombs to unsuspecting innocent victims.

Police Officer, Brian Fanion, frantically called 911 for an ambulance, saying his wife Amy had shot herself and lay dying. But when Fanion’s fellow officers arrived at the house, the crime scene posed more questions than answers.  

In three days of savagery the picturesque town gainesville florida is sent reeling with shock. Five university students are brutally attacked and killed.

After years of physical abuse, Karra Trichele Allen and her husband Brian take a dangerous turn in their relationship.

When 71-year-old Colleen Harris discovered her 73-year-old husband Robert was having a long-distance affair with a 35-year-old woman in Mongolia, she decided to teach him a lesson.

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?

In 1989, residents of a close-knit apartment community in Virginia gathered for a holiday celebration. For Tammy Brannen and five-year-old daughter Melissa, Christmas was always a special time. Then…without warning, the little girl was gone.

Terrorist bombings are what happen in other countries. Not here in the United States. And yet, in 1993, it happened in New York City.

John Gotti was ambitious, powerful and ruthless. He ruled with flash and conspicuous style, playing celebrity with the media and cat and mouse with the FBI. They called John Gotti the Teflon Don. Serious charges just wouldn’t stick.

It’s a model’s job to rivet the public’s attention. But in 1984, some aspiring models began attracting publicity in a terrible new way.

Jennifer gets a visit from a member of her church congregation as Bill wants to visit her, but the visit soon turns to fear as he wants to take her.