Friday

In this episode, politicians go berserk and bash each other with everything within reach; a drunken madman takes on two men and a woman, and then goes after the cameraman; and, a scrappy fighter silences all with jaw jolting knockout blows. Tv-14-v

Hiding a body can be difficult; it’s sometimes easier to obscure or disguise the circumstances of the death, turning murder into suicide, or pinning the blame on someone else. The truth is told through subtle clues taken from the crime scene.

No matter how chaotic or how clean a crime scene appears to be, the culprit is bound to leave something telling behind. Occasionally, it’s nothing more than a fingerprint or shoe tread. Sometimes that’s all that’s needed.

Men don’t have a monopoly on murder, but it’s still extraordinary when women kill. Though female killers are as deadly as males, they choose less violent methods. They’re often more cunning, calculating; but thanks to forensics, no more likely to get away with it.

A holiday homecoming turned into horror when a Tennessee couple was brutally slain in their own house. Their meticulously planned retirement was shattered by a chilling betrayal, leaving behind a crime scene so gruesome it stunned even seasoned investigators.

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 boating and alcohol are mixed, police get involved.

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.

What does a prosecutor do when he has evidence linking a habitual drunk driver to a hit-and-run in which a child is killed, and he needs to make the crash clear to jurors? In this case, he combines the talents of an accident reconstruction expert with a video specialist to create a graphic demonstration of the moment of impact. This case was the first in which video in the courtroom withstood an appeal, and helped make “video testimony” viable in other cases.

When a convenience store employee was found shot at point blank range, investigators discovered the murder had been captured on the store’s videotape security camera. But the image of the killer was so degraded it seems impossible to positively identify him... until old fashioned forensic science was combined with space age technology.

A young woman was reported missing after a fight with her husband. She was presumed dead and her husband was the prime suspect. Police were suspicious of a secondary suspect when he reported a fire in his car. Two tiny drops of blood were discovered in the burned interior. Traditional DNA testing was difficult without a body for comparison. But a tiny clue inside the suspect’s watchband, and a popular television show, helped solve the case.

The woman seemed to have simply disappeared, and police were treating treated the case as that of a missing person. A blood trail leading to the basement of her home, and a partial excavation of the floor, yielded nothing. But a year later, with the help of groundbreaking forensic technology, police would find her body and determine who was responsible for her death.

For a price, anything’s possible. Contract killings arose out of the need to establish the perfect alibi. By hiring someone else to do the dirty work, a person can deflect guilt, at least in theory. Forensics is changing that, leading investigators from the killers to their employers.

A small town without any crime was turned inside out by the arrival of one dangerous stranger. Some killers are cold and calculating; others are impulsive, unpredictable, and hard to pin down.

In Langley, Virginia, a terrorist fired into rush hour traffic. The victims seemed randomly selected, but the motive appeared to be political, targeting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency.

When Shirley Carter was found murdered in her farmhouse kitchen, her abusive husband Bill was considered a prime suspect. But Bill Carter pointed the finger at someone else--his son Jason. It was up to the jury to decide whom to believe.

A series of over sixty spectacular fires rips through california’s san joaquin valley, killing four people and devastating the landscape. An extensive investigation by the atf, police and forensic scientists reveals a common pattern among all the blazes, and to their horror, authorities soon realize that a serial arsonist is on the loose. As they painstakingly study the evidence from each crime scene, a single fingerprint leads them to one suspect. He is john leonard orr, a respected arson investigator for the glendale fire department in southern california and one of the worst serial arsonists of the 20th century.

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.

Christine and Jo Ann are neighbours caught up in a bitter feud. When one of them is gunned down in the driveway of her own home, the vicious crime is caught on home surveillance video. But there's no way to identify the shooter – until he brags to one too many people about his crime.

On the edge of the Rocky Mountains, near the small town of Gunnison, Colorado, Jake Millison has gone missing. His family isn’t too concerned with his whereabouts, claiming he’s run off before, but Jake’s loyal friends know better

When a married mother of two turns up dead in the trunk of her own car, clues point to a secret life. Lt Joe Kenda must comb through a past riddled with sex related scams and international intrigue. Just who didn’t wanted the victim dead?

Near Montreal, a husband comes home from work and finds his wife bound, gagged and shot in the head. There is no evidence of sexual assault or theft and police are left without a lead to go on. Some years later, police are called out to a crime scene very similar to the scene four years earlier, but this time they find that the killer has stolen the victimÕs bankcard. They trace the card to a convenience store and by ingeniously matching the security camera to the bank records detectives acquire an image of their prime suspect. Police quickly locate and arrest the man who promptly admits to both murders as well as the murder of a woman gone missing 7 years earlier.

When a business traveler is found dead on the floor of his locked hotel room, a Texas detective and a veteran private investigator must think outside the box to solve the mystery and bring a remorseless killer to justice.

When Jane turns down the advances of Jim Martin, he is unable to cope with the rejection and so turns his focus to a sickening video project on Jane.

When the owner of the most frequented bar in Poteau, Oklahoma, goes missing, he leaves behind a splatter of blood and many unanswered questions.

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