Forensic Files

A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath.

A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace.

Days after the woman sold her home and moved to a modest trailer, a fire took both the trailer and her life.

After shooting the victims in the head, the killer staged the scene.

A human skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands.

Two women went missing and were later found brutally murdered.

A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon.

The crime scene was especially violent: A husband and wife had been shot to death in their bedroom.

In 1969, 25-year-old phone operator Diane Maxwell is raped and murdered.

The body of an attractive young woman was found a mile from her abandoned car.

In 1984, the body of college co-ed Laura Salmon was found on a Middle Tennessee farm.

A six-year-old girl ran and hid when she saw her grandmother being beaten to death.

The killer hoped to cover their tracks by staging the crime scene but failed.

A woman was brutally murdered in her home, and the only witnesses to the crime were the family dogs.

After the suspect was convicted of arson and murder, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

On Halloween night 2004, Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara were brutally murdered in their home.

A serial killer was on the loose and police had to find them before they struck again.

Investigating a brutal murder, the forensics were clear on one thing: The killer knew their victim.

A 13-year-old girl went missing from her Colorado home.

The victim had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the beach.

In 1996, 54-year-old Gayle Isleib was ambushed in her Manchester, Connecticut driveway and shot to death.

His wife and his college sweetheart killed themselves in much the same fashion.

A Michigan State University grad student disappeared and was presumed dead.

Seattle police had no suspects in the violent murder of post-grunge singer Mia Zapata.