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A woman never expected such extreme reprisals from a man she once called her partner, but her daughter is caught in the crosshairs.

When retired teacher Margaret Jack Sliger was found dead on her farm in Mooresburg, Tenn., the Hawkins County sheriff's department look for her unlikely killer.

Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior. In this episode, a mentally unstable man goes on a rampage in a dump drunk and nearly crushes two children. Then, an officer making a routine traffic stop is blindsided by a passing vehicle. Plus, teens behind the wheel of a stolen car attempt to make a get-away but meet a brutal end with a semi.

Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior. In this episode, an escaped convict runs cops off the road and finds himself exchanging bullets in a cemetery. Then, when a desperate fugitive refuses to surrender, a swat team has to take him down. Also, a violent crash puts an end to a chase but starts a furious gun battle with a teen. Tv-14lv

Fingerprinting: The identification division of the fbi relies on fingerprints as one of the most effective ways to identify criminals. Fingerprints, along with palmprints and footprints are an indisputable, time-tested method to establish someone's id beyond a shadow of a doubt. Computerization has all but eliminated the old inkpad, and print identification that used to take months now takes minutes.

Handwriting analysis: We’ve all heard that our handwriting tells more about our personalities than we think. Are we risk-takers, have low-esteem, fun loving, or are we capable of murder? While our handwriting may not reveal the nuances of our personalities, the dotting of the "i's and crossing of the "t"s is an important business in criminal investigation. Apparent suicide notes, letters from suspected offenders and signatures are scrutinized down to the last dot. Handwriting comparisons can tell if the victim really did sign that new life insurance policy, or if the person who had everything to live for actually wrote the eloquent suicide note.

Black boxes: Little evidence is left after an airplane takes a deadly plunge from the sky. Investigators' best hope for an answer comes from the flight data recorder known as a "black box." Virtually indestructible, the black box could be the only witness to the final horrifying moments of a doomed flight.

When a woman and her nephew are found brutally murdered with an answering machine recording having recorded it all, it takes three years to arrest the murderer and reveal how they’re in close contact with the deceased.

A six-year old girl, andrea atkinson, is found dead in the boiler room of her toronto tenement. Forensic investigators quickly determine she has been raped and smothered. There are no witnesses. Quick-thinking cops experiment with the sound in the boiler room by yelling with the door closed. Outside, total silence. Whoever killed andrea knew no one would hear him.

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.

A woman is murdered on a jogging trail in the middle of the day. The leads from cell phone records and search dogs go nowhere. Nine days later, a witness tells police about a chance encounter, and cigarette butts which may contain the killer’s DNA.

When a real estate developer is shot to death, his wife becomes the prime suspect. Police have a wealth of evidence against her, but it’s circumstantial. The case will turn on a .25 caliber bullet fired 20 years ago from the now-missing murder weapon.

The victim was discovered in a landfill, stuffed into a suitcase. She resembled another woman, missing for 18 months. Sure they were dealing with a serial killer, police faced the daunting task of combing through 225,000 tons of trash to find her body.

In the late 1980s the FBI matched wits with a cunning bank robber, a lone gunman responsible for the longest string of unsolved bank robberies in FBI history.

In Puerto Rico, a band of extremists waged a guerrilla war against the United States. Their goal, to make the island an independent nation, or die trying.

Forensics in the o.J. Simpson murder trial: Millions watched on television as the jury rendered their verdict. Orenthal james simpson was found not guilty of murder. The jury heard hundreds of hours of testimony and every twist and turn of the trial was played out in the media, but what was the evidence? Forensic scientists reconstructed the events that took place on the night nicole brown simpson was murdered. But was their report accurate, and could the evidence be trusted? We'll examine what forensics could and could not tell us about the trial of the century.

Charities lavished gifts on Gypsy Lee Blanchard, a sympathetic young girl confined to a wheelchair. The Make-a-wish foundation sent her on trips and Habitat for Humanity built her a home. But it all came to end when her mother was found murdered and Gypsy went missing, leaving her wheelchair behind. As the murder investigation got underway the local Sheriff reported “Things aren’t exactly what they seemed to be”.

Celebs find themselves in sticky situations when fame meets misfortune.

Both Alonzo Smith and Leesa Allen are urgent cases: Alonzo, the potential victim of a deadly and contagious disease that could put others at risk as well, and Leesa, a potential homicide victim whose killer could be on the loose. Now, the race is on for Dr. G to piece together what happened before it’s too late.

To the people of Olney, Texas, 39-year-old Faryion Wardrip was a model citizen: happily married, a valued employee and a respected Sunday school teacher. Faryion Wardrip was also a brutal serial killer who, for years, eluded police without suspicion. But smart police work and DNA from a discarded paper cup proved to be Wardrip’s undoing.

An abandoned car was found on a busy Philadelphia highway; the engine was running, the radio was blaring and the driver’s door was wide open. Investigators suspected the driver had been the victim of a car-jacking. The next day, police found the body of the driver: Aimee Willard, a young college co-ed, home for summer vacation. There were unusual marks on her body… marks which eventually led to her killer.

In May of 1999, a Presbyterian minister in South Dakota called 911. His wife was unconscious in the bathtub. Emergency medical crews could not revive her, and she died. She had ingested large doses of several medications, a behavior common in suicide. The minister said his wife had been distraught, but bits of deleted computer files suggested a murder plot. Bizarre tales of infidelity and the courtroom revelation of what could be a suicide note, challenge an array of forensic experts to find the truth: suicide, or murder?

A beautiful 23-year-old girl was driving home after a rock concert when her tire blew out. Investigators found her car, but no trace of her. At first there were hundreds of leads, but after three years, the trail turned cold. Police got a break when someone called to report a suspicious truck in a neighbor’s driveway; something inside that truck was plugged into an electrical outlet, allowing the device to run 24‑hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year. Suddenly, the cold trail turned even colder.

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.

When a beloved church official is found murdered in a popular public park investigators have few leads. A controversial method also fails to heat up the cold case. Then an old secret reveals a new suspect and leads Lt Joe Kenda down the right trail.

In 1984, a tragic murder led agents into the frightening world of domestic terrorism. Law enforcement vowed to dismantle the violent faction that claimed responsibility.

For three weeks in May of 1994, a brutal killer had a nation on edge. A bloody spree of rapes, kidnappings, and murders resulted in the deaths of six Oklahoma residents, including a local radio personality and an elderly widower. Gary Alan Walker, an emotionally disturbed ex-convict, was eventually captured and executed for these crimes.

In 2004, a former marine goes missing from his North Carolina home. Investigators sift through a mountain of tips and small-town rumors before a surprise witness comes forward who may hold the key to the mysterious disappearance.