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When single mom Rosita accepts a stranger's friend request, she has no idea he's hiding a terrifying secret that will lead to a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Can the sound of a suspect’s voice reveal his lie? Can the crucial moment of crime, buried deep in damaged video, be revealed? Can computers isolate a guilty face in a crowd? No longer science fiction, these are the high-tech tools of the forensics trade.

Colorado v. Kevin Eastman. Jazz trumpet player Scott Sessions failed to show up for a gig. A well-known local musician, he played with groups including the Elvis Experience band. His body was found a few days later, wrapped in plastic, partially burned and hidden in a forest. Investigators opened a murder case and traced his last known whereabouts to the residence of his new love interest, Heather Frank. Frank was nowhere to be seen, but investigators followed up on a tip about her former boyfriend, Kevin Eastman. Dogged detectives placed a tracking device on Eastman's car. When they went to investigate, they discovered Frank's body on the property of Eastman's employer.

Ohio v. Brian Golsby. When Ohio State senior Reagan Tokes failed to respond to messages from her parents, they feared the worst. Their nightmare became a reality when a 911 caller reported the discovery of a female body in the local park. She had been shot execution style. Knowing a brutal killer was on the loose, detectives raced to solve the crime, gathering surveillance video and photos that tracked Reagan's last moments. Brian Golsby, a previously convicted sex offender, was arrested. Golsby confessed to abducting Tokes, admitting he forced her to withdraw money from ATM accounts, but he adamantly denied killing her, insisting an accomplice he called "TJ" committed the murder. At trial Golsby continued to maintain his innocence; but even his highly regarded defense team couldn't produce TJ.

Killers often attempt to deflect attention away from their crimes by hiding the remains of their victims. Bodies may lay hidden for years before they are discovered. That’s when forensic scientists are called upon to reveal hidden clues that lead investigators to the killers.

When a victim is gunned down at point-blank range, police often assume that a friend or acquaintance is to blame. After all, it is difficult for a stranger to commit an assault at such close range. Follow investigators as they use clues to track down the most unlikely of killers.

In most homicides, police rely on motive to pursue a murderer.But when the killer is a stranger…the crime may go unsolved for years.It takes a full arsenal of forensic techniques…to trace… a lethal encounter.

When the bodies of two college sweethearts are found on the side of a Washington highway, it takes another gruesome murder, one lone fingerprint and four long years of investigating to uncover the murderer is someone already convicted of abduction and rape.

A case of road rage ends in the homicide of Timothy Sypher. Police have little to go on to solve this seemingly random incident. Tenacious investigators pin their hopes on a tiny, damaged bullet.

"Untouchable" suspects square off with police.

In a tiny hamlet just outside the town of Bonnyville, Alberta, Canada, 58-year-old Doreen Bradley, owner and operator of a successful fast food restaurant, is found murdered in her rural home. Authorities are unable to find any clues that point them toward possible suspects. When they uncover a small amount of DNA from an unknown person, investigators must get creative to try to match it to possible killer – and the entire town is shocked and horrified by the results.

On a rainy night in Edmonton, Alberta police are called to a trucking yard where the body of a 6-year-old girl laying face down in the mud rattles the most seasoned homicide detectives. Few clues are left at the crime scene, and a mysterious marking left in the soft ground is the only lead that police have to follow. The city residents are overcome with fear for their children, which prompt an immense response of tips from across the province. However, despite the thousands of tips and leads that are processed, the investigation enters its 10th year, and the police are no closer to finding the killer. Finally, an officer unexpectedly finds the one clue that ties a man by the name of Clifford Sleigh to the crime committed almost a decade earlier. Revolutionary DNA analysis conclusively determines that he is the Boogeyman that police have been searching for.

When killers are driven by jealousy and desire, their desperation is evident in both the crime and their efforts to avoid detection. But forensic science can reveal even the slightest mistake to solve crimes of passion.

On October 1, 1993, a stranger abducted 12-year-old Polly Klaas during a slumber party in her home.  The FBI was immediately called in.  Agents collected fibers from her bedroom and discovered, through the use of laser light sources, a palm print on Polly’s bed, previously invisible to the naked eye.  After a massive two-month investigation, the FBI arrested Richard Allen Davis.  Palm prints and fibers matched and Davis was convicted of abduction and murder.

Young pregnant couple Elizabeth and Tony are viciously attacked in their home, just hours after evicting three down-on-their-luck men who had been staying with them. Is it a home invasion motivated by revenge, or something even more sinister?

37-year-old Ruben Delgado is found dead by his girlfriend. Her story is suspicious and Ruben is surrounded by pill bottles. Dr. G must work quickly to find what or who killed Ruben. / Pregnant 19-year-old Claudia Alvarez dies in her sleep while at a mental hospital. Dr. G is now tasked with figuring out the mystery of what killed this young girl.

A body found in a trunk remains unidentified for years until a mysterious email sparks a breakthrough. The case unfolds into a story of betrayal, a cover-up, and an international manhunt.

The 1996 summer olympics in atlanta, georgia are rocked by a massive pipe bomb explosion. A woman is killed and hundreds injured. Subsequent bombs at an abortion clinic and a gay bar show a similar m.O., And increasing refinement. Police have no clue who is behind the bombings until they receive a letter signed by ‘the army of god’, an anti-abortion, anti-gay, white supremacist group. When another abortion clinic is bombed in birmingham, alabama, a witness sees a suspicious man leaving the scene and gets his license number. Police are soon on the trail of christian extremist eric rudolph, but it will take a five year manhunt through the rugged terrain of the natahala national forest before they can catch america’s most wanted criminal.

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

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

Pregnant Ashley Bush believes she is meeting a woman offering support and baby supplies. Instead, investigators allege she walks into a deadly trap. The shocking case exposes a horrifying scheme involving Amber Waterman and leaves a community struggling to comprehend the brutality involved.

Fredrick Banks is an eccentric senior who loves to show off his vintage cars and wallet stuffed with cash. When he is found slain in his garage, authorities hunt for the mysterious stranger who has recently been spotted lurking in town. And it turns out, the drifter has a lot to hide.

Legal scholar Dan Markel was gunned down execution style as he pulled into the driveway of his Florida home. Detectives hunted for a killer - who would hire a hitman to murder a law professor?

After confessing to the brutal murder of Clarence Pellet in Shelby, Montana, Frank Dryman, a mysterious hitchhiker, is sentenced to hang. DrymanÕs verdict attracts considerable attention and the public outcry results in DrymanÕs penalty being reduced to life behind bars. After serving 18 years Dryman is paroled but disappears in 1971. In 2009, discovering that Dryman is alive and still at large, victim Clarence PellettÕs grandson Clem finally sees justice done.

In 1995, our nation’s capital was also our nation’s murder capital. Even the police weren’t safe. While Washington, DC, law enforcement targeted criminals, the criminals targeted law enforcement, even gunning down officers on patrol.