Thursday

In this episode, an ex-con tries to escape from jail, and gets tackled by a fleet footed cop. Then, russian mobsters start a turf war with factory workers… and a desperate criminal opens fire on police, forcing an explosive take-down. Tv-14-v

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 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.

Shortly after a young nurse ends up beaten and shot to death in her apartment, her lover’s wife reveals her knowledge about the affair, yet it takes nearly 40 years to match DNA evidence found at the crime scene to implicate the man behind it all.

On september 29, 1990, the body of twenty-two year old college student, linda yalem, is discovered off a bike path in a suburb of buffalo, new york. Yalem has been raped and strangled with a garrote. Dna evidence recovered from her body allows police to link the crime to six other recent rapes in the buffalo area. But other than dna evidence police have little to go on; the murderer remains at large. Over the next sixteen years, attacks slow but do not stop. There is another rape and two more murders. Then advances in dna technology and clues culled from unsolved rape cases lead police to the unlikely killer and rapist. He’s buffalo suburbanite, altemio sanchez. Sanchez is a pillar of the community: Married, with two children, and active in church and little league.

There was no apparent reason for the young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the medical examiner found the tiniest of clues during the autopsy, investigators were able to unravel the mystery of betrayal and revenge.

The victim had been stabbed more than a hundred times; her bedroom was blood-soaked. While her body was positioned in a suggestive way, she hadn’t been sexually assaulted. Was this a sex crime, or the random act of a man with an intense hatred of women?

Even though the victim was burned beyond recognition, police were able to create a composite sketch from his remains and identify him. But knowing who he was isn’t enough. Investigators still had to determine where he was killed and who wanted him dead.

Doctors don’t know why the young scientist is gravely ill. When tests finally reveal the cause, it’s too late to save him. Police hope that lab analysis of his hair -- showing when attempts were made on his life and what was used -- will lead to the killer.

A Chicago street gang thought they had figured out how to kidnap people for ransom again and again, and never get caught. But their one mistake was they underestimated the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In the 1970’s a string of bank robberies and bombings spread fear and destruction along the east coast. The FBI faced a new breed of criminal, the domestic terrorist.

When killers hide or destroy the remains of their victims, it becomes the mission of forensic scientists to reconstruct the scenes and prove murder for an absent witness.

Social media star Ali Abulaban’s perfect image crumbles when jealousy over his estranged wife leads to a brutal double murder, captured in digital evidence and chilling courtroom drama.

Inebriated suspects learn liquor and the law don't mix.

When a healthy, young man unexpectedly drops dead – Dr. G is baffled. But a trail of strange clues only deepens the mystery. Then, a woman is found dead on her bathroom floor… But something about this case raises troubling doubts.

A beautiful model goes missing and no one has a clue to her whereabouts until a park employee discovers photographs in a trash dumpster. With the photos are some vital pieces of information which eventually lead to a professional photographer. He claims the woman died during a consensual sexual encounter gone wrong, but the woman’s corpse and some high tech digital imagery tell a more sinister story.

A evening out to a “murder mystery” theater performance turns into a real life whodunit when a badly burned body is discovered after the performance ends. But even good “acting” can’t mask the true culprit. Lies, greed and medical trickery can’t match the skills of forensic scientists, who bring the curtain down on the real killer.

A young, happily married woman died tragically in a horseback riding accident. Her husband seemed far from grief-stricken and, when they investigated his background, police discovered a web of lies and a proficiency with pharmaceuticals... which led them to question whether the woman’s death truly was an accident.

When police in the Great Plains are called to retrieve a dead body, they do a background check on the victim. The trail leads them into a bizarre web of homeless drifters, cattle auctions and bad checks - all fronted by an elderly couple with a penchant for money and murder.

A Wisconsin couple’s drive turns tragic when a pipe allegedly flies off a truck and smashes their windshield. As bloodstain evidence and crash tests clash with the husband’s story, investigators ask if this was accident or foul play.

A 4th of July house party erupts in violence. A young man tries to flee the scene, but is shot dead behind the wheel of his car. To crack the case, Lt. Joe Kenda must sort through a mountain of suspects, until a peculiar clue puts him hot on the heels of a self-styled gangster with revenge on his mind.

When the victim of a violent crime is a member of law enforcement, the job of investigating becomes personal. At a United States border crossing, armed fugitives kidnapped a customs’ inspector then vanished.

Dorothea Puente spent much of the 1980Õs providing shelter for the elderly and infirm in her Sacramento boardinghouse. It wasnÕt until the first body was found in her backyard that authorities realized Dorothea was not the sweet old woman she first appeared to be.

In 1992, a church deacon from Upland, California, is found murdered in Tijuana, Mexico. Detectives wonder if a secret double life led to the death of this married father of four. Years later, a fresh look at the case helps investigators unravel the complex plot to murder the deacon.

A woman's ex-boyfriend hides video cameras and microphones in her home while he waits for an opportunity to seek a bloody revenge.

Foul play is immediately suspected when a young waitress suddenly vanishes, and rumors of her fate connect her to another mysterious disappearance.

In this episode, a mad mom storms a school bus and launches an assault on the driver. Plus, a pair of gun-toting female bandits open fire on a mini-mart clerk… and an ordinary pullover goes wild when a boozy babe does a striptease for a cop. Tv-14-lv