Forensic Files

When a young girl was found dead, police quickly arrested the most likely suspect.

It's usually easy to determine how a criminal entered the crime scene...but not in this case.

A young fireman died from what appeared to be serious but undiagnosed heart disease.

Security cameras in a casino tracked a young woman's movements until shortly before she disappeared.

It was one of the most unusual cases in forensic history.

Police started to investigate when a dedicated, well-respected teacher disappeared.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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