Archivos Forenses

When a man's body is discovered burned in a parking lot, police use tire track impressions and security camera video to track down the killer.

While working the night shift at a Florida convenience store, a woman was abducted, raped, and murdered. Nearly two decades later, a reexamination of the case revealed DNA on the victim's socks.

An assistant manager of a Florida steakhouse is stabbed to death. It seemed like it was robbery gone wrong, but a bloody fingerprint shows that the victim knew his killer.

The victim was well-liked and successful, which made the violence of the crime even harder to understand. In the last moments of her life she'd written a name on the wall, presumably that of the killer - in her own blood. But this wasn't an open and shut case; investigators would have to read between the lines.

When a college co-ed disappeared without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety and their own. Weeks later, the body of an unknown female was found hundreds of miles away in the ashes of a barn fire, and an alert police officer was convinced the two crimes might be connected.

A woman is found dead in the rubble of her burned Seattle apartment. The body another woman is later found in the same apartment complex under similar circumstances, leading authorities to believe the two homicides are connected.

Workers discovered a teenage girl's half-naked body on the side of the road; her throat had been slit. Police hoped the single foreign hair found in a defensive wound on her thumb would lead them to the culprit. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 33.

A bullet-riddled car is discovered under a California freeway and the driver, a twenty-year-old woman, is found dead a month later. Red glitter leads police to her killer.

On Christmas Eve, the corpse of a black male was found burning near Baltimore. He was eventually identified as twenty-six year-old Wesley Person. Distinctive building materials from the 1930s found near the body played a critical role in solving this puzzling case.

The victim had been stabbed more than a hundred times, leaving her bedroom soaked with blood. Even though her body was positioned in a suggestive way, she hadn't been sexually attacked. Was this a sex crime, or was it a random act of violence?

There was no clear reason for a young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the medical examiner discovered the tiniest of clues during the autopsy, investigators were able to uncover the mystery filled with betrayal and revenge.

A serial bomber was on the loose in Illinois. Two churches had been bombed and one person was killed. Investigators had to capture the criminal before he struck again and they hoped to catch him by following a thin copper wire.

Two suspects living together were linked to a murder by bloodstained boots and a gun, items that belonged to the man who said he'd never met the victim. Investigators hoped the manufacturing code on beer bottles would determine who was telling the truth.

A court official and his wife are attacked in their sleep by an ax-wielding murderer. Is the killer a member of 'the family'?

Two friends out on the town see a red truck drive by with a woman screaming in the back. Later, their friend is reported missing, and her body is found in a nearby river.

Suspected in the murder of his mother, a Delaware man tries to convince detectives that the real killer is a hitchhiker he had picked up.

In 2000, Judy Southern came home from work and was shot by a gunman waiting for her. Her husband Allen arrived afterwards, called 911 and drove her to the hospital. She died on arrival and the investigation focused on her husband Allen, but forensic analysis and a suicide note found at the scene pointed to someone else.

A construction foreman's murder is solved when an investigator notices some unusual characteristics of a few drops of blood.

In 2000, the body of a exotic dancer was found beneath a New Jersey bridge, making police believe she committed suicide. But evidence at the scene proved not only that she'd been carried to the bridge and thrown over the side, but also that she was alive when she fell.

A man is found stabbed to death after a night in a strip club. A drop of blood on a bedspread becomes critical evidence five yeas later.

In 2003, Jason MacLennan returned home after a night out with friends and found his father's body lying in a pool of blood. There were shoe impressions outside in the snow. Police needed to determine who had the most to gain from his death.

A successful and well-liked real estate agent is brutally murdered in a model home. Can the police find out who did it?

A bag full of evidence recovered from an iced-over river helps to reveal the murderer of a businesswoman in her own shop.

A Texas housewife is murdered and her young daughter is attacked but survives. An in-law is suspected, but no arrests are made until DNA advancements help crack the case 15 years later.