Thursday

In this episode, an amateur arsonist accidentally sets fire to himself; thieves try to heist an atm but have to ditch their vehicle after getting it stuck in the store; plus, cops spot a brief-wearing man in the middle of a window bashing rampage. Tv-14-l

Terrorism: Thanks to new technology and, perhaps, the approaching millennium, terrorism is a growing international threat. The oklahoma city explosion and the bombing of the world trade center are just two of the incidents of this growing problem. With the expertise of bomb squads, chemists and tool mark experts, bombs are deactivated and criminals are caught.

Some people will let nothing stand between them and their goals. In their tortured minds, raw desire replaces all reason, and homicide becomes a convenient means to an end. Blinded by love, torn by jealousy, or hungry for power, the obsessive murderer justifies his crimes and is capable of almost anything. While forensic investigators follow the physical evidence, psychologists study the muddled workings of the criminal mind.

Sometimes the scales of justice are balanced by just a few milligrams of evidence – a couple of fibers, a tooth filling, or a smudge on a piece of tape. The biggest cases are often solved by the smallest clues.

A wealthy attorney, a secluded estate, and a masked intruder with a deadly plan—Randy Gori’s brutal murder shocked the Edwardsville community. What started as a calculated scheme for ransom quickly spiraled into bloodshed, leaving behind chilling evidence and unanswered questions.

When Joleen Cummings misses a Mother’s Day pickup, her family calls police. Detectives find a blood-soaked workplace, a felon boyfriend and a suspect with shifting identities, using forensic evidence and an old ruse to uncover the truth.

Tourists get a little too rowdy and their beach walks turn into perp walks.

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.

When a well-respected young woman goes missing, her boyfriend and family fear she has been murdered. A police investigation reveals details about her past that no one -- not even her closest friends -- suspected: She was a student by day and a $100-an-hour call-girl by night. Her many clients were all suspects in her disappearance, as was her boyfriend. But when her body is discovered, police obtain evidence that reveals her killer and more details about a bizarre double life and its tragic consequences.

When a popular gym teacher is found dead of what appears to be an accidental gunshot wound, his family is suspicious. They think his wife may have planned his murder. When police find that her previous husband died in questionable circumstances, they re-examine the crime scene and find evidence that the death was no accident. But it is a tape recorded by the victim just before his death that tells the true story of his strange marriage and his wife’s insatiable greed.

In this international case of extortion, murder, and stolen identities, a Canadian financier assumed the name of a co-worker as part of a money-laundering scheme. The man turned up dead in the ocean, with an anchor tied around his torso. Police hoped to identify him with a tattoo and the watch he was wearing. But it would be the ten-pound anchor which enabled them to crack the case.

When a respected heart surgeon is found dead in the basement of his upscale Cincinnati home, police assume he committed suicide. Friends and family indicate that the man suffered prolonged bouts of depression and had spoken of killing himself. But a further investigation revealed that his new wife had a history of violence and an insatiable desire for money.

George orwell’s concept of big brother remains in the realm of fiction. But as technology becomes more a part of our lives, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to make a move without leaving behind an electronic trace. Cell phones, surveillance cameras, and atms track virtually every move. When it comes to solving murders, this isn’t such a bad thing.

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.

At a coffee shop in Washington, DC, three employees were shot to death. Evidence at the crime scene pointed in many different directions. Was this a hate crime, a robbery gone wrong or an act of cold-blooded vengeance?

In 1979, 18-year-old Michelle Martinko was found brutally stabbed to death in her car in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. For decades, the police and her family searched for answers -- who did this and why? But the case grew cold. Thirty-nine years later, DNA evidence from the crime scene finally led to a suspect and a murder trial.

Summer, 2001 and southern louisiana is held in the terrifying grip of a serial killer whose initial ‘hot zone’ is the louisiana state university area of baton rouge. The number of victims is growing and all are attractive, successful young women -- women whose mainstream, “low risk” lifestyle should never put them on the radar of a killer. But this is the hardest kind of serial killer to catch -- impulsive, always changing his m.O.

While her 10-year-old daughter listens upstairs, failed self-help guru Derek Medina shoots his wife during an argument, then casually posts pictures of her dead body on Facebook.

After a night of drinking, 45-year-old Ana Trujillo bludgeons her on-again-off-again lover Stefan Andersson to death with a blue suede stiletto shoe.

Richard and Aon have a blended family and a second chance at love. When a gunman surprises one of them while getting out of the shower, the daughters of the other are immediately suspicious. But was it the spouse? Or a former business partner, who seems just a little too close to the family?

Keith is known in his small community as a quiet but a highly skilled artisan who takes good care of his mother. When she becomes mysteriously ill and Keith is not heard from for three weeks, all eyes turn to Keith’s girlfriend. As detectives look deeper into the case, and further into Betty’s background, a final, brutal discovery is uncovered.

The brutal rape and murder of a young woman leads Lt Joe Kenda on a late night hunt where the clues point to a dangerous rendevous. Then a stunning second murder in the same apartment building throws the investigation into turmoil. Who was the killer; the suspect or the witness?

In the winter of 1968, the prairie city of Saskatoon is ravaged by a string of savage rapes. A few months later, fears are bolstered when a young nurse is found raped and murdered in an alley near her home. Police attention is brought to a young man named David Milgaard - the evidence on him is thin, but the court finds him guilty. After spending nearly 20 years in prison, David continues to plead his innocence. Through the undying faith of his mother, the real killer is slowly discovered to be a man named Larry Fisher. Approaching the turn of the century new DNA technologies finally exonerate David and plant the real killer, Larry Fisher, behind bars for life.

When the brutalized body of an eight year-old boy is found in the woods outside Gary, Indiana, investigators begin a decades-long search for a sadistic child-killer.

When an 18-year-old girl falls in love with a man nearly 15 years her senior, her parents warn against it, but no one could predict the danger she is in.

Residents in the small town of Grand Ledge, Mich., are shocked when a retired police officer and his wife are found brutally murdered inside of their home.

In this episode, car thieves turn a mad escape into a demolition derby; a biker with a bad attitude bites the dust with a bone-breaking bang; and an armed man who opens fire on a cop ends up in a deadly crash. Tv-14