The New Detectives

For homicide investigators, it’s a race against time as they track their deadliest foe.

Ballistic analysis is the key to finding killers who turn guns on their victims.

When a criminal needs a new identity, theft becomes a matter of life and death.

Seemingly small and insignificant clues become a victim’s silent witness.

When abduction turns to murder, forensic science is the only key to finding justice.

The tread of a tire, a single shoe print and even the shape of a bruise help track down killers.

Investigators rely on forensic odontology to identify a body from a single tooth.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service uses forensic science to solve three perplexing murders.

Investigators use advanced DNA analysis to shed new light on crimes that happened long ago.

Forensic scientists find clues written in blood as they investigate the deaths of three women.

Using a combination of art and science, forensic anthropologists give long forgotten victims a face.

DNA analysis overturns the convictions of three men who are paying for crimes they did not commit.

Forensic artists turn witness statements into pictures as they recreate the face of their killers.

When real crimes are stranger than fiction, forensic science can sort fact from fantasy.

For the forensic entomologist, the insects that nest in dead bodies are like witnesses to a crime.

Photography has long been a vital tool in homicide investigations.

When teenagers are driven to kill, their victims are but the first to fall.

A story of sleuths who solve a murder case from a missing shoe, and prove homicide without a body.