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When a former hockey player discovers his wife murdered in their home, his daughter says she saw a burglar.

Police investigate when a 23-year-old woman goes missing from a shopping mall in Plano, Texas.

After a young mom is found dead on the side of a country road, 40 miles from her Knoxville home, investigators scramble to figure out how she ended up there.

Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior. In this episode, a criminal mastermind is ready for his close-up as he breaks into a video surveillance store. Then, a chain gang makes a run for it, only to be stopped by a nearby pole. And, a few young couch potatoes tow their sofa through the streets of san francisco. Tv-14

Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior. In this episode, a trooper stops to help a stranded motorist but gets caught in the path of an oncoming vehicle careening out of control. Plus, a car passenger brandishes a pistol, triggering a shootout with police. And, black ice sets off a chain reaction, leading to a multi-car pile-up. Tv-14v

Most shocking is the ultimate 'caught-on-camera' reality show featuring high-adrenaline, action-packed stories of criminal behavior. In this episode, a homicidal fugitive takes refuge inside a mansion, exchanging gunfire with police. Then, three men abduct a wheelchair-bound woman but their flight from justice comes to a crushing end. And, cops bulldoze a convenience store to get at a kidnapper but it takes a sniper’s bullet to bring him down. Tv-14v

Blood was found on the ground in front of an abandoned vehicle that police learn was driven by a college woman. The victim’s body was found in a neighborhood away from the vehicle. Tire impressions are taken, as well as other evidence. Investigators receive a tip about a man with a history of impersonating police officers. Investigators take tire samples of the man’s car, and find blood matching that of the dead woman. Dna samples from the man also match those found in the victim.

A self-appointed angel of death on a mission beyond the law. A sniper who targets abortion doctors and then disappears into the shadowy underground that supports and protects him. But when the sniper’s mission moves to murder, a city is thrown into blind panic that spreads across the country and beyond. Armed with the very latest in forensic technology, this is one game the cops have no intention of losing.

When the police in farmington, new mexico discover a broken window at a local head shop called the eclectic, they expect to find evidence of a robbery. Instead they uncover a horrific crime scene, with two badly mutilated bodies. One year later, a battered body is found tossed into a canyon, the eyes and genitals gouged. Then the bloodied corpse of a naked woman is discovered on a remote road outside of town. As police search for clues to her death, tracking a lost cell phone, scattered footprints and layers of tire marks far into the desert, they soon come to a terrible realization - that one man and his friends are suspected in all three crimes. And when a renowned blood spatter expert finally determines who the murderer is, the community is shocked to learn that a serial killer has been living in their midst.

Seattle police had no suspects in the violent murder of a popular rock singer. More than a decade would pass before the evidence collected by an extraordinarily prescient medical examiner could be used by forensic scientists to identify the killer.

A Michigan State University grad student disappeared and was presumed dead. With the help of a professor of geological sciences, police hoped to get the “dirt” on her killer.

How unlucky could one man be? His wife had taken her own life, and his college sweetheart had killed herself in much the same fashion fourteen years earlier. Investigators had to determine if this was a bizarre coincidence, or an attempt to get away with murder... twice.

A woman was ambushed in her driveway and shot to death. During their investigation, police learned that a co-worker half her age was in love with her, and that she’d spurned his advances. They now had to determine if love had turned into obsession... and a motive for murder.

The victim had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the beach, just ten yards from the hotel where she was staying. A pair of men’s tennis shoes was discovered near her body. Police were sure that if they found the man who fit the shoes, they would also find the man who committed the crime.

A 13-year-old girl went missing from her Colorado home, and the only evidence the kidnapper left behind was three fingerprints on a window screen. Two years later, a latent print examiner, new to the county and the crime lab, changed the course of the investigation by sharing a little-known fact with his colleagues.

Two men are found dead, beaten to death in the bar where they work. They had both sustained multiple blows to the head. A safe from the bar was missing, as well as the money from a cigarette machine that had been pried open. A local television station received an anonymous letter about the murders, though no fingerprints are obtained from it. Witnesses tell police of a man who frequents the bar, and investigators arrest him on unrelated charges. A search of his home and vehicle turn up several objects, including a tire iron, which lab tests conclude was the same object used to pry open the cigarette machine. Handwriting analysis also links the man to the letter. He is sentenced to consecutive life terms for the murders.

A detective promises to get justice for a victim whose body turns up at a trash facility.

A man claims to have shot his wife after mistaking her for an intruder.

Police initially suspect natural causes as they investigate a man's death.

Texas v. Brenda Delgado. Popular pediatric dentist Dr. Kendra Hatcher was happily dating fellow Dallas doctor Ricardo Paniagua when she was brutally murdered in her home in what appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. Police arrested former drug dealer, Kristopher Love, and his girlfriend for the horrific crime which shocked the upscale community. But facing murder charges, the couple revealed a more sinister and stunning murder plot saying they had been hired by Paniagua’s jealous and obsessed ex-girlfriend Brenda Delgado who had been secretly stalking him since their breakup.

Iowa v. Cristhian Rivera. When 20 year old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts went missing during her regular evening jog, her disappearance was headline news. Police had few clues until a local resident shared his garage surveillance camera which had captured a brief glimpse of Mollie running down the street and later a black car driving by. Following the lead Police moved quickly to arrest undocumented immigrant Christhian Bahena Rivera who worked at a nearby dairy farm and charged him with murder.

Colorado V Mark Redwine. 13 year old Dylan wasn’t eager to fly to Colorado for the court ordered long distance visit with his dad Mark who tried to placate his son with a visit to McDonald’s and shopping at Walmart straight from the airport. But when the boy didn’t show up for a playdate the next morning, he was reported missing, setting off a manhunt in the rough Colorado wilderness terrain. Mark Redwine and his ex-wife took to the airwaves to plead for their son’s return but to no avail. Then in a stunning twist in a national television interview Dylan’s brother Cory accused Mark of being responsible for his brother’s disappearance, a charge the father vigorously denied. But three years later when Dylan’s badly decomposed remains were found by hikers , prosecutors did indeed charge Mark Redwine with his murder, saying he killed his son out of anger and shame after Dylan confronted him with compromising photos of his sexual deviancy.

Shele Covlin’s death in her home seemed accidental, but clues suggest a darker motive. As suspicions grow, the investigation reveals shocking details.

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.

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.

While dreaming a great career, opera singer Leandra Ramm meets a man masquerading as a musical sponsor, but he is actually just a psychotic cyber stalker.