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When Katerina leaves her husband, he fights back in imaginative ways to cause her pain, including getting Katerina locked up for a crime she hasn't committed.

How do bugs, pigs and even the weather help investigators solve crimes? From tropical hawaii to the frigid waters of lake ontario, forensic experts reveal, in gory detail, the clues nature leaves behind on a human corpse.

Florida v. Kimberly Kessler. Hairstylist Joleen Cummings, a mother of three, was last seen working at Tangles Hair Salon on Mother’s Day in 2018. But when she failed to pick up her children for a planned celebration, she was reported missing by her ex-husband. Investigators discovered a bloody scene at the salon – Cummings and her SUV were gone. The next day, authorities found the car but not Joleen, parked outside a nearby Home Depot. Soon, police were on the hunt for Joleen’s killer and would first arrest the suspect for Grand Theft Auto and later for first degree murder.

Florida v. Dayonte Resiles. An heir to the Halliburton oil dynasty fortune, Jill Halliburton Su, was found by her son Justin dead in the bathtub at her upscale home in a Florida gated community in 2014. The security cameras weren't working, a glass door had been shattered, and at least one room of the house had been ransacked. Police quickly focused on Justin as the prime suspect, grilling him intensely for hours. But despite the dramatic interrogation room sessions, the son never admitted guilt. A few days later, when crime scene DNA forensic tests were finally processed, Justin was cleared; and investigators were after a new suspect.

A teenager is abducted on a shopping trip. Two hikers disappear from the appalachian trail. A grandmother never returns home from work. Forensic artists turn witness statements into pictures as they try to recreate the face of their killers.

A millionaire is found dead, murdered for a stash of buried silver. A young woman dates violent men, only to be killed by her best friend. A decomposed body is found, but the victim’s organs look as if he died the day before. When real crimes are stranger than fiction, forensic science can sort fact from fantasy.

For the forensic entomologist, the insects that nest in dead bodies are like tiny witnesses to a crime. By studying their behavior, scientists learn everything from when a murder was committed to the weapon used in a stabbing death.

When a recently married woman is found shot to death in a mobile home, her husband claims it was an accident and the case is closed until the death certificate is changed, new interviews surface, and autopsy findings uncover the truth behind the gruesome murder. 

Culinary instructor Daniel Brophy is found dead on his kitchen classroom floor. When the forensic evidence points to murder, investigators must rewrite the script as they examine the evidence leading to a calculated killer.

Wildest arrests at fast food restaurants.

The small town of Enderby, British Columbia is shattered after well- loved residents, Derk Roelfsema and Audrey Foster-Roelfsema, are found murdered in their own home. As rumours fly about the violent crime, authorities struggle to solve a case with multiple theories, little evidence, and no clear suspects.

A hunter on the outskirts of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan stumbles across human remains. Police are called to the scene and over the next two months, two more full sets of remains are uncovered in the same vicinity. At the same time, forensic anthropology determines that the remains are less than two years old and all three were female and Aboriginal. The threat of a serial killer is soon on everyoneÕs mind and threatening the Saskatoon Aboriginal community. An unprecedented tip from an unreliable source soon has the RCMP working in conjunction with the local media. Together they will attempt to pull-off an elaborate sting operation designed to record the incriminating truth straight from the mouth of John Martin Crawford.

Photography has long been a vital tool in homicide investigations. A single image captures enough information to identify a suspect, and to preserve a vital clue long after a witness’ memory fades.

Etna, New Hampshire is a small town. It’s the kind of place where people trust their neighbors and leave their doors unlocked. A double murder shattered that trust and left the entire community terrified.

Bob and Farah are locked in a messy custody battle over their three young children. When one of them ends up dead, the men accused of the murder point the finger at the surviving spouse. But when a judge rules that the gunman's testimony can't be admitted at trial, will the killer escape justice?

Dr. G is in a race against the clock to figure out what killed 25-year-old Johnny Tran. It could be a contagious infection and Dr. G must figure it out before others die. Dr. Stephany performs the autopsy on Dario Romano who died in his home. He looks to Dr. G to help put the pieces together.

Border patrol agents discovered the bodies of a young mother and her toddler son along the Rio Grande.  Detectives closed in on a surprising suspect.

April, 1992. An elderly couple is found dead in the trunk of their car at their home in upscale toronto. The investigation eventually leads authorities to the couple’s vacation home one hour north of the city. Police soon learn of the “house hermit”— a mysterious intruder breaking into area cottages and camping in them. He becomes the prime suspect in the murders, but though police finally identify him they cannot find him anywhere. That’s because he’s moved 3,000 miles away to vancouver, where he abducts and assaults three women before finally being caught red handed tstrangled one of his victims

Former Deputy Sheriff of Colbert, Georgia, Tracy Fortson shoots her boyfriend Douglas Benton as he sleeps, then abandons his body in a cement-filled trough in the woods.

Nicole Abusharif, 26, murders her partner Rebecca Klein for the insurance money, then leaves her body in the boot of her car for a night of drinking with her young lover, Rose.

The discovery of human remains on a remote Pennsylvania property launches one of the state’s most notorious murder investigations. Detectives unravel a web of disappearances, buried secrets and multiple victims as they build their case against Hugo Selenski.

Eighteen-year-old Taylor Van Diest is on her way to meet friends and go trick-or-treating when she is assaulted and left for dead. She is discovered by her mother and friends and succumbs to her injuries the following day. Now investigators in Armstrong, B.C. must work tirelessly to bring her killer to justice and restore a sense of peace to the fractured community.

When Ilene Gowan, a popular waitress at a local bar in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was found dead by the side of the road, her family called in famous forensic examiner Dr. Michael Baden to help solve the case.

ItÕs just another meeting for Los Angeles real estate developer Meyer Muscatel. Unfortunately Muscatel meets with Iouri Mikhel, a Russian immigrant with murderous intent. A week later, MuscatelÕs body is found floating in a northern California lake. Mikhel masterminds a kidnap-for-ransom scheme, and he and his crew kill and dump four more victims. With a storyline that includes a bank account in Abu Dhabi and a mysterious Moscow middleman, the case is solved by FBI agents Lour Perez and Jim Davidson and prosecuted by Assistant US Attorney Robert Dugdale. Mikhel and his co-conspirator Jurijus Kadamovas are convicted of five cold-blooded, ruthless murders and, in 2007, are sentenced to death.

Beginning in 1990, Europe found itself in the clutches of a serial killer. He became an international outlaw, hopping from country to country to evade capture and to kill again.