Forensic Files

Autopsies connect several deaths to poison-induced liver disintegration.

Microscopic evidence helps solve murders near Sacramento, Calif.

After the discovery of a skull in the forest, police use facial reconstruction to identify the body.

Investigators search for the person responsible for killing justice officials with mail bombs.

Detectives find a girl's disappearance has suspicious similarities to her sister's disappearance.

Forensic scientists re-examine a death previously ruled accidental.

Detectives learn a genetic disorder caused children's deaths, overturning their mother's conviction.

A strand of hair and traces of blood lead investigators to a woman's killer.

The use of DNA testing helps exonerate a person accused of raping a young Virginia woman.

A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel tie a suspect to the murder of a 9-year-old.

A mother with Munchausen syndrome by proxy kills one child and physically abuses another.

A drop of blood and burned bones provide evidence of murder two years after the investigation began.