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Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior. In this episode, cops corner a wanted fugitive but the standoff goes up in flames. And, when a father kidnaps his infant son, police have to unleash a k-9 cop to take him down. Plus, a pregnant postal worker is held at gunpoint when a man hijacks a mail truck. Tv-14v

These cases took a decade or more to solve. There’s no statute of limitations on murder. As a case turns cold, the clues become scarce, investigators must rely on science to close cold cases.

Every family has its secrets, and sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed. When murder becomes a family affair, investigators must turn to forensics to uncover family plots.

Some people murder for love. But these killers did it for the money. When greed is the motive, investigators must make every clue pay off.

A Virginia Tech student vanishes after a concert, leaving behind only a purse and shattered clues. Months later, her remains surface on a remote farm. The case goes cold—until another young woman disappears years later, unraveling a chilling link to a predator.

Between january 1994 and april 1996, in central florida, the bodies of four men are found in a wooded area known as the hog trails. All are severely decomposed, all are naked, and all have been genitally mutilated. Police realize they are chasing a serial killer, but the investigation is hampered by the fact that they are unable to identify any of the victims. Finally a fifth body yields a name, and soon puts authorities on the trail of nurse daniel conahan. Police are able to prove that conahan --a sexual sadist with a taste for bondage-- lured transients to the woods with promises of easy money posing for nude photographs. In the privacy of the wilderness, he tied them to trees and brutally murdered them.

When club dancers are confronted by law enforcement, it's not sexy.

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.

The driver said he couldn’t have hit and killed a pedestrian on a Harrisburg street. The Jeep Grand Cherokee he was leasing around that time had been sold months ago to a buyer in another state. Police were able to find the vehicle. They impounded it, took it apart, and discovered evidence which would tell them what really happened that night.

The medical examiner ruled the death an accident, but the detectives investigating the case thought the evidence at the scene indicated otherwise. It would take three years, an exhumation and a second autopsy to determine who was right.

When a hit-and-run boating accident caused the death of a popular young man, investigators faced the daunting task of searching for one boat among 1,200 others. They asked anyone who had seen the accident to come forward. The man who responded did much more than witness the crash; he was a passenger in that other boat.

A woman was found dead on the bedroom floor of her apartment. The crime scene yielded little of value, and investigators wondered if they would find enough evidence to make a case, much less catch a killer. But a bloodstained sheet and a breakthrough forensic technique enabled them to identify the murderer, and convince the jury of his guilt.

For serial killers, once is never enough. For investigators, the challenge is steep when the killers murder by numbers.

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.

Drops of blood and a torn screen were all that’s left to tell authorities what happened to a woman in Indiana. The 21 yr. old victim was taken from her home on a spring morning. She appeared to have no real enemies, there was no clear motive.

A masked shooter opens fire at a house party, killing three. Initial fears of a hate crime shift as detectives uncover a twisted motive driven by self-hatred and personal betrayal.

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.

After years of physical abuse, Karra Trichele Allen and her husband Brian take a dangerous turn in their relationship.

When 71-year-old Colleen Harris discovered her 73-year-old husband Robert was having a long-distance affair with a 35-year-old woman in Mongolia, she decided to teach him a lesson.

The sun set on the Wild West long ago, but some people refused to notice. Claude Dallas was one of them. A wily trapper, Dallas typified the rugged individualism that forged this country. He went too far when he killed two game wardens in 1981.

The Klaus family is getting ready for Christmas in the small town of Castor, Alberta. A fire engulfs their home in the middle the night while everyone is asleep, and the investigators suspect that it isn’t an accident. The whole case changes when the son starts seeing the spirits of his dead family.

When martial arts enthusiast Carl Hunt suffers a fatal knife wound to the gut, his friends and neighbors offer few viable leads. But Kenda discovers a cache of blood evidence that proves he’s being lied to.

Multiple murders in rural communities are always a shocking occurrence, but never more so than in Livingston County, Missouri in the late 1980Õs. Ray and Faye Copeland, an elderly farmer and his wife, would become AmericaÕs oldest couple on death row when a simple livestock scam escalated into murder.

The leading advocate for the controversial science of cold fusion is beaten to death and investigators run the full gamut of suspects, from corporate executives to drug-crazed burglars, to find his killer.

A single mother of two believes that she's found her romantic partner when she runs into a former schoolmate, but his charming ways hides his true character.

In Madisonville, Ky., a respected businesswoman is discovered bludgeoned and stabbed to death in her home, which leads to an investigation.

Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior. In this episode, a gunman raids a gold shop in broad daylight. Then officers use a fake camera crew to free a hostage from a knife-wielding suspect. Also, when a clerk is jumped he turns the tables and takes the robber down. Tv-14lv