The New Detectives

In San Diego, California, a killer has left behind pieces of evidence. Detectives must sort through these small clues to prove murder. Some killers go to great lengths to leave little trace of their violence or their victims, but the twisted path that led them to murder is often paved with lies.

A woman’s body is found and investigators have little time and few clues to lead them to a killer who could strike again. Perpetrators try to conceal their crimes, yet savvy investigators can take the most obscure data and recreate a murder.

A woman is found dead at the bottom of the basement stairs. As detectives look into the accident, they begin to question the sequence of events. Sometimes first impressions mask the truth. A tragic accident, a happy marriage, a solid alibi. In the face of murder, all these come under scrutiny. To solve the demanding cases, investigators must sift through the debris of Shattered Vows.

911 receives a desperate call in Fort Worth, Texas. A man’s wife is shot. Forensic investigators search for clues in unlikely places, hoping the victim herself could provide information needed to determine how and why she died.

In Northern California, a fire rages in the middle of the night. A woman’s charred body is discovered in the smoldering aftermath. But how she turned up dead remains a mystery. Detectives turn to forensic science in the hopes of uncovering the answers to their many questions. When investigators start shifting through the ashes, they have no idea it will lead to a trail of deception.

A killer may strike in the middle of the night, and hide clues well. But the police are always there, ready and working, and they will never give up when they’re on the trail of criminals who decide it’s Killing Time.

In Canada, two people die suddenly of unknown causes, and their deaths may not be as coincidental as they first appear. But a mixture of intuition and science leads detectives on a journey to uncover the deadly answers half a world away. Perpetrators try to disguise their actions to avoid prosecution.

An abandoned car outside Philadelphia brings heartbreak to a family and terror to a community. A young woman is dead, the killer gone. But the marks of his passage remain. South of Chicago another mystery. A missing boy, a frantic search, heartbreaking clues. Investigators struggle to find the boy and whoever took him.

At a Midwest lodge, two men are dead and a safe filled with cash is missing. But the investigation runs cold until several crucial tips and equally solid lab work pry the case wide open. In Michigan, an elderly man is found brutally bludgeoned, dead in his own home. Detectives have more questions than answers, as they follow a forensic trail of lies and deception leading to an unlikely killer.

In Columbus, Ohio, a woman is found shot in the head. The death is ruled a suicide, but something is not right and detectives refuse to let the matter rest. To find answers, investigators must decipher a pattern unraveling the mystery that leads to murder. The meticulous work of forensic experts can often find even the smallest traces left by a killer and put an end to their Murderous Attraction.

A New York homebuyer gets more than he bargained for when a house inspection turns up a mummified corpse. For decades, the crime had gone undiscovered. The victim unmissed, and the killer unpunished.

Using science as their most powerful weapon, investigators must find these hired killers and make them pay the true price of murder.

A young girl playing in her yard in Spokane, Washington suddenly vanishes. In St. Louis another girl leaves to visit a friend. She never arrives. Horrified parents worry their children have been abducted or worse. When children go missing without a trace detectives must use knowledge, experience and science to find them and apprehend those who intend to harm them.

A victim usually never foresees danger when the perpetrator turns out to be a friend or a lover. Science and microscopic evidence can unmask these killers and find justice for those who are Loved To Death.

In North Carolina, the home of a prominent couple becomes an unlikely scene of terrible bloodshed. Across the country, a California woman vanishes, worrying her family and the investigators trying to find her. In a violent crime’s aftermath, a spray of blood is sometimes the only clue to what happened. When nobody is talking, investigators must decipher cryptic answers written in blood.

To the astute detective and forensic specialist, the biggest clues often hide in plain sight, and what seems trivial to some is in reality Critical Evidence.

A southeastern Virginia community is stunned by a crime no one can believe. A pregnant woman murdered, her baby lost. Across the state, another town feels a similar shock, a brutal, random slaying in a most unexpected setting. Two crimes no one could predict with no eyewitnesses, few clues, and killers on the run. To solve the crimes investigators must find the Fatal Twist.

In New York, an ambitious college student has her whole life ahead of her, until she crosses the path of a killer. It’s a random murder, the hardest kind to solve. But forensics reveals an unexpected pattern, leading to a game of cat-and-mouse with the prime suspect.