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Forensic Files

Forensic Files profiles intriguing crimes, accidents, and outbreaks of disease from around the world. Follow coroners, medical examiners, law enforcement personnel and legal experts as they seek the answers to baffling and mysterious cases, which have been ripped from the headlines. Forensic Files puts a new spin on the "whodunit" genre and will satisfy the most ardent true-crime buffs.
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Episodes

  1. S5 E1 - Burning Ambition
    October 9, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, a Seattle policeman's home is destroyed by an arsonist. One month later, the officer arrests a low-level drug dealer, who confesses to the arson. But when the suspect vanishes, investigators begin to question the authenticity of his confession. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 5.
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  2. S5 E2 - Trail of Truth
    October 23, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    A mother and her two young daughters are found brutally murdered. The crime scene yielded a good deal of evidence, but no conclusive link to the prime suspect. To solve the puzzle, an FBI analyst designs a unique experiment. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 7.
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  3. S5 E3 - Material Evidence
    October 30, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    A young girl is found dead, the victim of an apparent sex-killer. Authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim. Months pass and the case goes cold, until a van turns up with what appear to be the same orange fibers. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 8.
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  4. S5 E4 - Lasting Impression
    November 20, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    When the decomposed body of a young girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity. But days earlier, a stabbing victim told them she thought she might have witnessed a murder. Police think the cases might be related, and to prove it, they turn to an unusual piece of evidence: a tiny wad of chewing gum found near the victim's body. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 11.
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  5. S5 E5 - Unholy Vows
    December 4, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    Some of the refugees who sought asylum in the United States after World War II lied about the atrocities in which they'd participated. Years later, when a high-ranking religious figure was suspected of war crimes, there seemed to be no way to prove his guilt or innocence... Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 13.
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  6. S5 E6 - Time Will Tell
    December 18, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    A Canadian financier assumed the name of a co-worker as part of a money-laundering scheme. The man turned up dead in the ocean, with an anchor tied around his torso. Police hoped to identify him with a tattoo and the watch he was wearing. But it would be the ten-pound anchor which enabled them to crack the case. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 15.
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  7. S5 E7 - Journey to Justice
    January 1, 2001
    23min
    TV-14
    When a prosecutor discovers evidence linking a habitual drunk driver to a hit-and-run in which a child is killed, he combines the talents of an accident reconstruction expert with a video specialist. This case was the first in which video in the courtroom withstood an appeal, and helped make "video testimony" viable in other cases. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 17.
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  8. S5 E8 - Dew Process
    September 18, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    When the wife of a high-profile dentist is found dead, police are unsure who killed her and injured her husband. Some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open and identify the killer. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 2.
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  9. S5 E9 - "Kill"igraphy
    November 6, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    The autopsy played an important role in a murder investigation fof the suspicious 1997 death of Georgia resident Virginia Ridley. Police charged her mentally-unstable husband Alan with murder, but a medical examiner discovered that she died of other causes. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 9.
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  10. S5 E10 - Foundation of Lies
    November 27, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    Police suspect Dr. Boyle in the disappearance of his wife Noreen after he signs mortgage papers for a new house with a woman pretending to be his spouse. Using the recollections of their twelve year-old son regarding what he heard the night his mother went missing, investigators discover Noreen's body in the basement of Dr. Boyle's new house. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 12.
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  11. S5 E11 - Deadly Knowledge
    December 4, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    The investigation into a missing college coed leads police to discover that, unbeknownst to her friends, she lived a bizarre double life, attending school by day and working as a call-girl by night. When her body is found, investigators gather evidence that implicates her killer. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 14.
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  12. S5 E12 - Broken Promises
    December 11, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    When Russ Stager, a popular gym teacher, is found dead of what appears to be an accidental gunshot wound, his family becomes suspicious. They think his wife may have planned his murder. When police find that her previous husband died in questionable circumstances, they re-examine the crime scene and uncover evidence that the death was no accident. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 16.
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Nudityviolencesubstance usealcohol usesmokingfoul languagesexual content
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Directors
Michael JordanRichard Monahan
Starring
Peter Thomas
Studio
FilmRise
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