Forensic Files

A fire investigator determines if a kerosene heater is the cause of a fire that killed one person, or if it was murder.

It would take forty-six years, handwriting analysis, and new fingerprint technology to solve the 1957 murders of two California police officers.

In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, a man riding a bicycle is fatally injured, and police believe he is the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Tiny clues found at the scene create a picture of the vehicle that struck him... and lead police to its driver.

Investigators must determine what caused a house fire that killed an elderly couple and whether the victims' son is responsible.

Police instituted a search when the mother of two young children went missing. Less than a day later, they found her body. The evidence was little better than circumstantial, and the case turned cold. Twenty years later, advances in technology allowed investigators to see the evidence in a new light, and to learn that it pointed directly to the killer.

When hunters reported a skull in a Texas canyon, police quickly began an investigation. At the scene, they found clothing, a shoe, some bones, and a strand of hair. An anthropologist determined the victim was a Caucasian woman and that she'd been stabbed repeatedly. Eventually, police learned who she was. Now all they had to do was track down her killer.

A married couple decided to escape the cold of winter with a vacation in Key West. The wife went missing and police searched every inch of the island; they found nothing but a pair of sandals that may have belonged to her. Then two pieces of video surfaced and investigators started to wonder if they should be searching for a missing person or a murderer.

An Army wife's death appears to be a suicide, but detectives are suspicious when they learn that the woman almost died in a house fire a few years earlier.

The violent death of an Air Force officer's wife outside a Philippines air base is examined, amid accusations of a love triangle involving the murdered woman's husband; investigators use groundbreaking computer forensics to make their case.

Bombings are difficult to solve, because the perpetrator isn't usually at the scene, and the evidence goes up in smoke. But there are clues if investigators know where to look. In this case, pieces of plastic the size of grains of sand held the key to a man's murder.

The wife of an Air Force officer was found dead in her bed, with a plastic laundry bag near her face. At first glance, it appeared she'd been doing laundry, fell asleep, rolled onto the bag, and suffocated. But further investigation proved that the scene had been staged. Her death wasn't an accident; it was cold-blooded murder.

When a fire destroyed most of a home and a young boy went missing, police organized the largest search in the history of their small town. First the boy's backpack was discovered five miles from home, and then his body was found 50 miles away. But the killer had been careless, and the evidence he left behind would lead police directly to him. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 12.

A patrol officer is shocked by the amount of blood at a traffic accident and is shocked by the coroner's ruling until an anonymous phone call re-ignites the case.

The decomposed body of a young woman was discovered in a Bakersfield irrigation canal. If there was trace evidence, it had been washed away. Another victim was found in that same canal a year later; this time, the perpetrator had been careless. The shoe prints found at the scene would lead police to the most unlikely of killers. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 14

A behavioral profile caused the Baton Rouge Police Department to search for the wrong man. They might not have made an arrest had it not been for a DNA picture of the suspect painted by a molecular biologist.

On Valentine's Day, an obstetrician finds his wife dead and calls 911. However, police discover inconsistencies between the blood spatter evidence and his version of events.

Weed analysis and photogrammetry are used to help solve the 1995 murder of a California teenager who was found dead after disappearing from her home.

When police recovered the submerged car of a man reported missing, they expected to find his body - but it wasn't there. His broken eyeglasses were on the floor of the vehicle and the interior was coated with motor oil. The investigation which followed would uncover an obsession turned deadly, and the motive for murder. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 18.

Emergency dispatch received a call from a man saying his girlfriend shot and killed herself. Police found the victim in the caller's house, lying in a pool of blood with the gun next to her on the floor. The autopsy revealed the gunshot wound was not self-inflicted, and the evidence found on her body gave police a golden opportunity to catch her killer. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 19.

A Native American woman was brutally killed in the desert of New Mexico, and the crime scene was rich in evidence: tire tracks, shoe impressions and even the murder weapons. The site was less than 10 miles from another crime scene where a male Native American was murdered two years earlier. Police began to wonder: Was a serial killer on the loose?

A brilliant young architect became ill and died just before she was to testify in a criminal trial. The autopsy revealed she'd been poisoned with arsenic. Investigators had to determine which person who knew her had a motive for murder.

An employee of a drycleaner was raped and killed in the store, and investigators thought themselves fortunate to have two witnesses. Their descriptions were similar but not identical, and the prime suspect didn't come close to resembling that person. Police turned to forensic science for the answers they were looking for. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 22.

The murder of an eccentric millionaire was not really unexpected; he showed off his wealth and cared little for personal security. The evidence at the crime seemed to lean towards robbery, but investigators questioned if there was something more.

The disappearance of a woman last seen in a grocery-store parking lot in Colorado is investigated. The probe turns up bloody gloves and strange tire tracks.