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In this episode we meet some very dumb criminals including one fugitive being chased by police who runs out of gas and tries to push his truck to freedom. Also, a thief dips his fingers into a cash collection at a hospital chapel. Then, when a soft-spoken robber can’t scare a shop owner into giving up some dough, he begs for it. Tv-pg-l

In this episode, a man hits his sister-in-law with the broad side of a machete, then gets broadsided by a village of vigilantes looking to give him a taste of his own medicine. And, a gas station attendant fights off a knife-wielding robber and nearly losses an eye in the struggle. Plus, a man with a rifle enters a pawn shop demanding the store’s purse, but only ends up with a good hit on the head and seven years in prison. Tv-14-v

In this episode, a knife-wielding woman threatens to kill her hostage, drawing swat into a volatile standoff. Then, a robber pulls a gun on an officer, sparking a point-blank shootout. Also, a ruthless gunman makes a run towards a crowded restaurant, forcing cops to take him down. Tv-14-v

It is difficult to convict a murderer if the body can't be found. But forensic science is finding ways to do it. Devious killers can think up many was to dispose of their victim's remains, but they are often no matches for creative and devoted investigators. A speck of blood, a piece of a fingernail or a strand of hair may now be enough evidence to prove a murder and capture a killer.

Hairs and fibers: The tiniest filament can become a mark of distinction in the most singular and intimate of ways. Investigators have come to rely on forensic evidence as fine as a carpet fiber or as innocent as an eyelash to crack difficult cases.

Forensic botany & geology: Plants help provide oxygen and nutrients for existence. Soil is the fertilizer of life. Yet both can yield clues to the time and location of a person's death. In criminal investigations, a simple seedpod can provide the missing link by placing a suspect at a crime scene. Dirt left on shoes, tires or clothes can pinpoint a crime scene.

Toxicology: While drugs can cure disease and ease pain, they can also be agents of murder. Toxicologists can examine blood and tissue to uncover cases where death is not as natural as it may seem--from slow arsenic poisoning to quick cocaine overdoses.

Tool marking: A tool used to commit a crime can often be the same tool used to solve it. The pattern a machine leaves on an item, the unusual way a tool crimps a wire, and even something as innocuous as the shape of a wood chip can lead to a killer.

After a mother is found murdered on a deserted road outside of town, four years go by with investigators linking evidence to an air force base where a standardized testing scheme helps link the murderer to the crime.

When a Hollywood cameraman is found shot to death, it takes two years for investigators to piece together the evidence and uncover layer upon layer of hired killings in order to hide the identity of the person behind it all.

The chief of police in Sparta, MI leads an investigation into what happened to his family friend and babysitter, Julia Dawson. Julia is reported missing when she doesn't come from Christmas shopping, and her body is found beneath a snowbank, weeks later. While evidence mounts against one suspect, it would take more than three years before investigators are able to make an arrest.

A young Jackson, Michigan police officer investigates a missing woman and finds that her husband has just had brain surgery and is acting strangely. When the officer follows his instincts and inspects the couple’s restaurant, he finds their kitchen has a become a slaughterhouse. But who could be responsible for such atrocity?

Millionaire Peteco Morgan was infatuated with a beautiful young escort, Georgina Symonds. His jealousy led to her death and his mistakes led to his capture.

If she couldn't have her handsome, young lover, then nobody could. Few would suspect the middleaged mother of murder but a litany of lies and mistakes led police to her door

Alice Farquharson was the centre of her family. Her husband Keith was a police officer with a chequered history of misogyny and extramarital affairs. When Alice unexpectedly died, her family and police were shocked to discover the cause.

From the outside, Assia Newton had it all: a big, happy family, beautiful home and holidays to far flung destinations. But she lived in fear of her violent and controlling husband, Kelvin. When Assia finally escaped her unhappy marriage, she dreamt of a new life with her Tunisian lover. But Kelvin still ruled her life….and he would end it

A carjacking murder is far more than it appears when police piece together surveillance videos and track the killer who parked the car and walked away.

When Jennifer Cave fails to show up at her new job, her family fears the worst. Unfortunately, their fears are confirmed when they take their search for her into their own hands.

Ohio v. Erica Stefanko. In a tale of jealousy, betrayal and revenge, 25-year old Ashley Biggs, a single mom and pizza delivery driver, was murdered on a late night run for Dominos. Police arrested her former boyfriend Chad Cobb, saying he killed her over a bitter custody dispute involving their seven-year old daughter. For eight years, Cobb had refused to tell police who had helped him lure Ashley to her death, protecting his then-wife Erica Stefanko. But once he learned that Erica had become romantically involved with his best friend and that she was allegedly abusing his daughter, Cobb revealed Erica’s role in the murder.

Florida v. Grant Amato. The Amatos were a close knit, middle class family with three professional sons, who enjoyed Florida Gators football games together. So it was a shock when Margaret and Chad Amato and their youngest son Cody were found dead, shot execution-style in their suburban Seminole Florida home. Suspicion quickly turned to middle son Grant, a trained nurse, who had quarrelled with his family over money he had stolen from them to pay for the attentions of a Buglarian sex model on a pay-per-view website. Grant’s high powered public defense team argued that despite the horrific bloody scene there was no blood found on their client and no forensic evidence of any kind linking him to the murders. The drama in the courtroom heightened as Grant’s sole surviving brother, Jason Amato, took the stand.

2021 was a significant year in the life of Don Miller...despite having murdered 4 women, he was due a parole hearing. He began killing in the seventies. He failed in bid for freedom this time...but Don Miller’s sentence ends in 2031. At 77 years old, he will be released from prison. How can a four times killer hope to ever be free?

New York nanny Yoselyn Ortega had been part of the Krim family for two years, looking after Kevin and Marina’s three young children as if they were her own. One day, plagued by psychotic thoughts and hearing demonic voices, she snapped, with devastating consequences for two tiny lives.

Bellevue, Washington...a comfortable suburb just south of Seattle. On a quiet Saturday night in 1997, a young woman found strangled to death in a local park leads police back to her home where they find her family has been brutally murdered. This seemingly unprovoked atrocity leaves the town shaken to its core. March 4th 1991...as the sun sets on the Wadsworth Military Housing Complex in Virginia, fears rise: 7-year-old Scot Weaver and 9-year-old Daniel Geier are missing. For their families, it is just the beginning of the nightmare.

There are those who are born with silver spoons in their mouths; for others, it's something far more lethal. In Fort Worth, Texas, privilege bred very bad behavior, and what daughter Kristi Ann convinced two friends to do sent shock waves through the well-heeled community. Friction between mother and daughter is hardly a new story, but Marlene Olive's spin on the subject was. She talked her boyfriend into ending her problem... for good.