Wednesday

The best of most shocking: Four wheel demolition is a television special event featuring wild wheelmen and gunning grannies.  With never before seen destruction, and new interviews with those who lived to tell their stories, this special edition includes a driver plowing into a gas station, nearly decapitating the clerk.  And, a barreling boozehound gets smashed in a liquor store and takes more than one for the road.  Plus, a politician goes berserk and turns his pickup into a battering ram. Tv-pg-v

Accidental deaths, suicides, disappearances, and fires; they're an everyday part of an insurance investigator's life. But cases shouldn't be taken at face value. Forensics has become a tool for exposing insurance fraud.

Drowning deaths often look like accidents and water can destroy the scant clues the killer may have left behind. Investigators must turn to forensic science to solve cases where the victim is found dead in the water.

A dog can be a dead man's best friend. Dogs have been trained to sniff out corpses, drugs, explosives, and missing persons. They're often the first to find the essential clue that sets an investigation in motion.

A brutal slaying in a dark alley, a witness haunted for decades, and a serial predator nearly set free. As time ran out, a long-buried memory resurfaced, leading to a trial that finally secured justice—just in time to stop a monster from walking free.

When a russian prostitute is found murdered, los angeles homicide detectives quickly find the case to be anything but routine. Following a tangled string of clues, investigators are drawn into the murky world of high-end prostitution, illegal alien smuggling and russian organized crime. Police must navigate their way through the dark underworld of los angeles – and hope that forensic science can nail the killer.

Suspects slipping out of their handcuffs and making things ten times worse for themselves.

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 four-year-old girl is found unconscious in a parking lot, police concluded it was a hit and run vehicle accident, and left it at that. But the girl’s mother was determined to find out exactly what had happened. She was a fan of murder mysteries and forensic science shows, and used much of what she had learned to determine who was responsible for the accident which severely injured her daughter.

A mother and her daughter leave home for a day of shopping, but never return. The little girl’s body was found dumped off of a roadside, but there was no sign of her mother. The suspects included the mother, the girl’s father, and anyone who had come in contact with the two while they were shopping. It took forensic science and deductive reasoning to determine if the baby’s mother was a suspect or a victim. Once that was established, the meaning of other forensic clues became clear.

Walter Notheis, Jr. was better known to the American public as entertainer Walter Scott, lead singer of the band, “Bob Kuban and the In-Men.” Their most popular single was the 1966 hit, “The Cheater.” Little did Walter know that the song would foreshadow the events that would lead to his demise.

When a young man confessed to the rape and murder of a woman in a restaurant, police were convinced the case was solved. Eight years later, another man imprisoned for an unrelated crime, admitted HE committed the murder. But authorities viewed that admission as unfounded. They could not understand why an innocent man would confess to a crime he did not commit, and if he were innocent, why he said nothing during his eight years in prison.

For homicide investigators, it's a race against time as they track their deadliest foe: A serial killer for whom killing is the only way to feel alive.

While camping with her family in Montana, a seven-year-old girl was abducted from her tent. No one in the campground witnessed the crime and the kidnapper left no clues.

When a paramilitary faction used bombs and robbery to further their cause, they crossed the line. The well-organized terror cell was difficult to define, and even harder to stop.

Missouri v. Joseph Elledge. An exchange student found a career and a love match in the idyllic Missouri university town of Columbia. It was a shock to their friends and family when she disappeared, leaving both her child and cell phone behind. The missing persons case made headlines as police divers painstakingly searched a nearby river without success. But then a discovery - hikers stumbled on the remains of a corpse in the woods, and forensic experts confirmed it was Mengqi. The “no body” case was now officially a murder case with strong forensic evidence matching dirt on the killer’s boots to the dirt at her gravesite.

An 86-year-old woman is stabbed and strangled in her home, within the secure walls of the upscale gated community of canyon lake, california. Before the body is cold, another elderly woman is brutally slain. Investigators can’t find a motive, and the violence against the frail victims is so shockingly over-the-top, they fear there’s a psychopathic serial killer on the loose. While the community cowers in fear, and people move their elderly parents out of canyon lake, police race to stop the killer in time. In their investigation, they dig deep for the scanty forensic evidence, befriend potential suspects, and are appalled by a callous post-kill ritual that becomes the murderer’s trademark.

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.

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.

New couple Leon and Valerie have one unfortunate thing in common – they both hate their exes. When Leon's ex-wife and Valerie's ex-husband are targeted for murder, it becomes a case of he said/she said. Who hired a hitman?

The small town of Enderby, British Columbia is shattered after well- loved residents, Derk Roelfsema and Audrey Foster-Roelfsema, are found murdered in their own home. As rumours fly about the violent crime, authorities struggle to solve a case with multiple theories, little evidence, and no clear suspects.

When mother of two Shaundra Murr is run over in front of her house, officers initially suspect a hit and run. Until Lt. Joe Kenda uncovers evidence proving Shaundra’s murder was a crime of passion, and the killer was driven by jealousy and rage.

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.

Fear grips the students of Southern Illinois University when the violated body of senior Susan Schumake is discovered near a popular campus trail. Years of tireless investigation finally reveals a remorseless killer.

When police reveal that a slew of murders are the work of a serial killer, a 36-year-old woman believes the killer could be the man who is stalking her.

Investigators try to determine which suspect fatally shot 40-year-old Terri Ann McCoy, during a home invasion and robbery at her home near Chesapeake City, Md.

The best of most shocking: Young & dumb is a television special event featuring never-before-seen acts of mind-boggling lawlessness and new, exclusive first-hand accounts.  This special edition includes reckless teens in a stolen car who lose control and plunge upside down into a lake.  And, a speeding motorcyclist in possession of crystal meth hits one-fifty, but the law catches up with him.  Plus, a rowdy group of high-schoolers tear it up on a late-night binge and try to ignite an unsuspecting bystander’s car. Tv-14-lv