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Forensic Files

No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problem.

  • 1996 – 2011
  • Ended
  • Crime · Documentary
  • ~23m / ep
  • 14 seasons
  • 7.9/10

Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.

Latest: Season 14 · 2010

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  1. E1. Purebread Murder

    Jul 16, 2010 · 23m

    A young mother is murdered after years of domestic abuse. There are clues at the scene: bloody footprints and DNA from the victim’s rape kit.

  2. E2. Hear No Evil

    Jul 30, 2010 · 23m

    Threatening emails, a missing person and an abandoned truck lead police to a home where they believe a murder was committed. The evidence is overwhelming and investigators are sure they have the killer. What they don’t have is the body of the victim.

  3. E3. Hell's Kitchen

    Aug 13, 2010 · 23m

    In 2000, Kristine Fitzhugh failed to show up for her music class and her husband Ken found her dead at the bottom of the stairs of their Palo Alto home. Upon further investigation, luminol reveals evidence of murder in the kitchen. As detectives investigate the crime further, they uncover a long-held family secret that provides motive.

  4. E4. Three's a Crowd

    Aug 27, 2010 · 23m

    As she left choir practice, a woman was gunned down in the church parking lot. Her husband became the prime suspect – particularly when police learned he found out just a month earlier that his wife had been cheating on him for three years.

  5. E5. A Squire's Riches

    Sep 10, 2010 · 23m

    In 2008, Illinois emergency response came upon a garage fire and a man was found crushed beneath a truck. Upon first glance, the victim was the homeowner Ari Squire. Investigators turned to forensic science to determine if they were dealing with a tragic accident or a carefully orchestrated murder.

  6. E6. Home of the Brave

    Sep 24, 2010 · 23m

    In 2007, the Florida mobile home of Effie and Michael Ratley catches fire and Michael heroically rescues his wife and infant son. A month later, his wife is found beaten to death in a bedroom of his parents' home. The cut window screen points to an intruder, but the lack of supporting evidence compels investigators to look within.

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