Bloodline Detectives

In 1999, hospital worker Jennifer Watkins was sexually assaulted and murdered. Two decades later, revolutionary DNA testing helps to solve this cold case.

In 1992, a woman is sexually assaulted in Sacramento, California by a man wearing a ski mask. This sexual predator continues to commit heinous crimes until new evidence exposes his identity.

A small community in Utah is shocked when an elderly woman is brutally attacked in her own home. Detectives use innovative techniques to solve the case.

When two teens are found dead in Montana, detectives suspect an infamous gangster might be responsible. But it will take 65 years to find the true culprit.

After decades of searching, Ohio detectives use ground-breaking technology to hunt down the man who abducted and sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman.

In 1997, two women are sexually assaulted in separate attacks. Forensic evidence suggests the crimes are linked, but it takes over two decades to find the perpetrator.

In 1974, a community in Montana was rocked by the sexual assault and murder of a young girl. The case went unsolved for 46 years before advances in DNA technology found the culprit.

Ricky Davis was convicted of the 1985 murder of a woman, but always maintained his innocence. It took 18 years before re-examined DNA evidence proved him right.

On the 24th of December in 1984, a body is discovered in a shallow grave. When a second body is discovered, police fear a serial killer is at work. The victims remained unidentified for decades before a new DNA technology gave them justice.

When a woman takes a genealogy test to learn what happened to her estranged mother, she is shocked to learn that her DNA has helped law enforcement identify a Jane Doe who remained a mystery for over 40 years.

In 1981, a young woman is found murdered on the side of the road. Who killed her remains a mystery for decades until law enforcement can utilize genetic genealogy to crack the case.

A young woman out jogging is attacked and viciously raped at knifepoint.

In Alexandria, Virginia, a young female lifeguard is raped while working at a local pool. Police soon learn of a similar incident in Fairfax, two years previously.

In August 1977, the body of a young girl was discovered by blackberry pickers in Everett, WA. She had been strangled and shot. Investigators launched a two-tiered investigation.

February 1968 in South Dakota, 60-year-old Gwen Miller, a pharmacist fails to show up for work.

Portageville, Missouri 1998, the bodies of Megan and Sherri Scherer are found lifeless in their sitting room.

In 1976, Leslie Penrod Harris storms out of a restaurant after an argument with her husband. She never returns.

December 1987 Ohio, the nude body of 17 year old Barbara Blatnik is found face down on a rural road.

1988 Indiana, Janet Tinsley reports her 8 year old daughter April missing after she fails to return home.

June 11th, 1963, a man fishing in Keene Creek Reservoir in Oregon reels in the body of a toddler.