Friday

In this episode, a dangerous drunk runs from the law…and then runs himself over. Also, an intoxicated sword swinging madman stages a violent protest on a rooftop…and a liquor store thief opens fire on police and meets a sobering end. Tv-14-lv

Missing person: Approximately 1.8 million americans are reported missing each year. Worldwide, the number of missing persons nearly triples. In addition to pictures on milk cartons, store windows, and in mass mailings, authorities use nationwide computer databases to help locate missing persons or match them with unidentified bodies. Even so, many of the missing are never seen again.

Identifying burned remains: It's difficult to have a murder investigation without a body, and burning up the victim is a time-honored method of destroying physical evidence. But what happens when the charred remains are found, unrecognizable, seemingly impossible to identify? Dr. John verano and dr. Doug owsley of the smithsonian have faced these challenges, identifying the burned remains of two american journalists found in guatemala seven years after their reported disappearance. It seems as though fire can unveil lies, as well as conceal truths.

Explosives investigations: The crime lab is the place where science meets murder. In new york state, eleanor fowler opened a small package, which as mailed to her home. When she lifted the lid the box exploded killing her instantly. Within minutes, five other bombs exploded proving to be as fatal as the first. The investigation into this serial bombing case became one of the most massive investigations in history.

A young mother is found brutally murdered in her home, her infant son left unharmed just feet away. With no forced entry and few clues, the case goes cold for decades—until groundbreaking DNA technology leads investigators to an unexpected answer.

From the tips of their ears to the soles of their feet - criminals are betrayed by the clues their own bodies leave behind. A killer’s ear against a wall, his hand on a door, the path that he walks – even the slightest impressions left at the scene help crime fighters find their man.

People who believe American laws don't apply to them find out the hard way that they do.

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.

A Modesto, California teenager went missing. There was no sign of a struggle in her home, and police suspected she’d simply run away… until her naked, bruised body was discovered in a ditch 20 miles away.

When police recovered the submerged car of a man reported missing, they fully expected to find his body... but it wasn’t there. His broken eyeglasses were on the floor of the vehicle and the interior was coated with motor oil. The investigation which followed would uncover an obsession turned deadly, and the motive for murder.

Emergency dispatch received a call from a man who said his girlfriend shot and killed herself. Police found the victim in the caller’s house, lying in a pool of blood with the gun next to her on the floor. The autopsy revealed that the gunshot wound was not self-inflicted… and the evidence found on her body would give police a golden opportunity to catch her killer.

A native American woman was brutally killed in the desert of New Mexico, and the crime scene was rich in forensic evidence: tire tracks, shoe impressions and even the murder weapons. The site was less than 10 miles from another crime scene where, two years earlier, a male native American was beaten and stabbed to death. Police began to wonder: Was a serial killer on the loose?

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.

Many escape the poverty of India to start new lives in the United States. One turned the American dream into a nightmare. People started turning up dead in New York’s Indian community-authorities struggled to link fraud and murder to a powerful man.

In Miami, the discovery of a mutilated body sent investigators on the trail of a deadly cult. But agents found a wall of silence around the cult’s members. Potential witnesses, terrified of reprisals, refused to talk.

Shortly after midnight on Valentine’s Day, police found Amie Harwick, a prominent sex therapist and Drew Carey’s former fiancé, dying on the patio under the balcony of her Hollywood Hills apartment. Detectives began to investigate — did she fall, or was she murdered?

The world’s top criminal investigators, forensic scientists and behavioral analysts go behind the scenes of some of their most challenging serial murder cases to reveal the cutting edge forensic science, technology, behavioral psychology and investigative techniques involved in tracking down a serial killer. The detection and apprehension of the gainesville ripper, who brutally attacked and murdered five college students in florida, provides the core narrative against which the unique forensic and investigative details of four other cases are compared and contrasted.

Law student Adrienne Hickson fatally stabs her boyfriend Shawn Washington with the knife for her birthday cake when he helps his friends move instead of spending the day with her.

Applebee's waitress Rachel Wade, 19, stabs 18-year-old Sarah Ludemann to death in a vicious teen-girl cat fight over shared bad boy boyfriend Josh Camacho.

A motel housekeeper in Oakley, Kansas, discovers the body of her co- worker, Alice Pepperl. The room lacks hard evidence to point to any one suspect, but a special coin taken from the cash registered could be all it takes. Even after a suspect confesses, the question of responsibility looms over the town.

When the days-old corpse of a tenacious female pilot is found in her ransacked house trailer, police are stumped; until Lt Joe Kenda learns of a startling connection between the victim and her killer. Then… Kenda is called to the scene of a bloody barroom shooting, only to discover that the murder victim is an old family friend.

The United States is one of the most profitable drug markets in the world. For ruthless and sophisticated drug traffickers, it is truly the land of opportunity.

An international student is found raped and murdered in the bathroom of her high-rise apartment. Police on the scene have few concrete leads, but painstaking fingerprint analysis finally connects a Malaysian bodybuilder named Tien Poh Su to the crime scene. To bolster the circumstantial evidence, police pursue an elaborate undercover operation to get the blood sample they need to convict a rapist who practices crime Ôby the bookÕ.

When a popular young woman turns up murdered in Lancaster County, PA, investigators must piece together the last few moments of her life to determine who killed her.

A female moves into a home, but notices her privacy is invaded by a man who films her through the window causing her to consider a violent showdown.

The town of Glendive, Montana is horrified to learn that Susan Casey has disappeared; investigators are quick to consider one of Susan's former lovers.

Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior.  In this episode, a drunken dame climbs to the top of a 100-foot billboard, and then hits rock bottom…and an armed woman storms a police station and forces cops to blow her away.  Plus, a glamour girl scalps her best friend and exposes a bald spot in their relationship. Tv-14-lv