Forensic Files

A talented television news anchor was shot to death outside her home; it appeared to be a crime of passion, perpetrated by an obsessed fan. A police dog tracked the scent of the killer through the adjacent woods and back to the crime scene.

Investigators sifted through the ashes of a fire that had killed a 40-year-old woman, the estranged wife of a police officer. At first glance, the fire appeared to have been started by an unattended cigarette.

Residents of Noel, Missouri were stunned to learn that their bank had been robbed and the bank president was found floating in a lake, securely bound to a chair with duct tape.

The body of a 16-year-old girl was discovered nine months after she disappeared. Forensic scientists found clues that painted a virtual portrait of her killer.

Haunted by the disappearance of her mother some twenty years earlier, a young woman undertook an investigation of her own.

A small community in upstate New York was devastated when a car accident claimed the life of a well-respected nurse. Investigators initially thought alcohol was to blame, but blood tests proved the victim was not intoxicated.

When a wealthy real estate tycoon went missing, it appeared to be foul play. He had been aware that he was in danger.

In the middle of the night, a neighbor witnessed a man stab his wife, push her into the swimming pool, and hold her head under water.

A woman disappeared without a trace; twenty years would pass before police were able to link a clump of hair found in a remote area with the missing woman.

After a street fight claimed the life of a national wrestling champion, a jury decided it was murder, and sentenced the accused to twenty years in prison.