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Following her divorce, a woman buys a new home that needs work and hopes that a handyman can fix it up, she ends up getting more than she bargained for.

In Walsenburg, Colo., a panic-stricken 911 call to help an assaulted neighbor leads to a bizarre investigation in the small community.

In this episode, a drug-crazed man ditches his clothes and takes a flying leap at cops. Then, an intoxicated new bride spends her big day behind bars. Plus, high seas smugglers make a run with four thousand pounds of pot but their scheme goes up in smoke. Tv-14

In this episode, rival bus drivers stage an impromptu demolition derby in the streets. A murder victim’s enraged family unleashes justice of their own on the accused.  Two unarmed police officers come under a brutal attack by soccer hooligans.  Plus, political protectors turn violent, storming the streets and unleashing their wrath on riot police. Tv-14-lv

Tool marking: A tool used to commit a crime can often be the same tool used to solve it. The pattern a machine leaves on an item, the unusual way a tool crimps a wire, and even something as innocuous as the shape of a wood chip can lead to a killer.

New forensic techniques used to solve old cases: Advancement in science and technology are encouraging people to revisit the past in hopes of answering questions that have remained unanswered, and solving crimes that seemed unsolvable. Techniques from the 20th century are applied to cases from as far back as ancient times.

High tech forensics: Investigators are always on the cutting edge of new forensic techniques that can help them solve cases more accurately. An experimental "brain fingerprinting" technique has already won the acquittal of a police officer accused of a drug charge. Solving crimes by computer and robotic police offers provide investigators allow crime-solving to take on a new-age dimension, and provide safer and more efficient ways to capture an embezzler, a drug-dealer or a killer.

In 1985, 30-year-old Patricia Stichler was brutally murdered in her Sylvania, Ohio home while her three daughters slept nearby. The case went cold for 37 years until DNA technology led investigators to an unexpected suspect, finally bringing answers to her family.

In suburban Boston, college students find a teenage boy dead in the street. Bloodstain experts rule out a hit-and-run, and his trail from North Carolina forces detectives to test a bizarre, almost impossible explanation for how he died.

Police encounter people using odd methods of transportation.

Dr. G works on unexplained deaths in orange and osceola counties in florida, as well as similar deaths from her previous employment as an associate medical examiner in bexar county, texas. The show features dramatic re-enactments of the events leading up to the person's death as well as the autopsies. Interviews with dr. G, family members, and other people connected to the deaths are also shown.

Why do children at a Texas hospital seem to be dying at a higher rate than at any other hospital in the country? Medical investigators have no answers until they discover that one nurse seems to be on-duty in almost all the fatal cases. But proving the connection seems impossible until an international team of doctors uncovers an unlikely murder weapon.

When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity. But days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder. Police think the cases might be related, and to prove it, they turn to an unusual piece of evidence: a tiny wad of chewing gum found near the victim’s body.

Authorities believe the disappearance of a doctor’s wife may have something to do with his alleged involvement in shady adoption practices. Investigators use concrete found in the doctor’s yard and the hazy recollections of a young child to determine what happened to the missing woman.

Some of the refugees who sought asylum in the United States after World War II lied about the atrocities in which they’d participated. Years later, when a high-ranking religious figure was suspected of war crimes, there seemed to be no way to prove his guilt or innocence... until a postcard allegedly written by him 40 years earlier was found in a German archive.

Arson investigation: Insurance torchings, mob burnouts and arson murders: These crimes are designed to take all clues with them. But a solid case can be built from a heap of ashes. Arson investigators do everything from gathering physical evidence to mounting undercover and sting operations.

In June of 1997, a crime wave swept Iowa like a tornado. It left a trail of robbery, kidnapping, and murder in its wake, and then it moved on. No one knew where.

A suspected drug dealer would stop at nothing to keep local and federal authorities from building a case against him. When his organization started targeting the government itself, federal agencies went on high alert.

When a beautiful young teacher was found shot to death in a Wisconsin farm field, police quickly arrested her live-in boyfriend who had waited 18 hours to report her missing. But his Fitbit device proved he was asleep at home the night of the murder and a stranger Nicole met at a heavy metal concert in a local bar became a prime suspect.

One by one, prostitutes in spokane, washington are being hunted down and discarded in remote wooded areas by a vicious serial killer. On each victim’s head, police find his macabre calling card – a plastic bag emblazoned with an ironic smiley face. Investigators soon realize they are dealing with the worst type of serial killer – an average joe with no criminal background and with the extraordinary ability to blend in with the community. With few clues to work with – and as the death toll continues to rise – investigators turn to ballistics experts, space age fingerprinting technology, and to a forensic botanist who believes he can solve the crime by reading plants and trees.

In a jealous rage, 57-year-old professor George Zinkhan murders his wife, her lover and shoots other members of their amateur theatre troupe

Neuroscientist Amy Bishop is denied tenor, and it results in deadly consequences for her co-workers.

Ramon and Lulu are living the American Dream, until one of them ends up in a shallow grave – and a man from their boxing gym is right in the middle of the murder plot.

In the small town of Logan, OH., a quiet community known for its annual Washboard Festival, Summer Inman is violently abducted in a back alley behind her work. With multiple eye-witness accounts, investigators quickly zero in on three suspects. But when they refuse to cooperate, the odds of bringing Summer home alive start to look grim.

After a twenty year old recovering drug addict is found strangled in the backseat of her own car, an autopsy reveals an unusual sexual clue. While on the case, Lt Joe Kenda pursues the killer through the seedy side of Colorado Springs and sort through the endless suspicious characters in Vicki’s past. When Kenda finally comes face to face with Vicki’s killer, will he be able to put the violent sociopath away for good?

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.

When a young college student is abducted from a friend’s home in the middle of the night, the city of Reno lives in fear of who might be next. Dogged investigation leads detectives to a serial rapist who’s just escalated to murder.