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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. S17 E1 - With Every Breath
    December 21, 1999
    22min
    TV-14
    Young Navajos on a reservation in the Southwest were dying at an alarming rate. CDC officials had never seen anything like it; the mysterious illness had claimed the lives of more than 20 people. The tribe's medicine men provided investigators with a critical clue... which would lead halfway around the world to a most unlikely killer.
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  2. S17 E2 - Badge of Deceit
    September 11, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    For more than a decade, women in a small Louisiana city lived in fear of a rapist who becomes so experienced, he leaves no clues to his identity. But computer technology and behavioral science combine to give police a new forensic tool: geographical profiling. Police narrow their search to one man, local policeman Randy Comeaux.
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  3. S17 E3 - A Woman Scorned
    September 25, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    When Joann Katrinak is found dead with her infant son Alex next to her, the obvious suspect is the husband and father of the victims. But some insects found on the bodies reveal a vital clue, as does a blonde hair found on the victims which shares a commonality with the brunette hair of the husband's former love interest.
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  4. S17 E4 - A Voice from Beyond
    October 2, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    A decomposed body is found stuffed in a barrel -- but the body had been placed in the barrel 30 years earlier. One of the few clues was an address book found along with the body, however, years of moisture had washed away the ink. Scientists desperately searched for a way to reveal the information written on the pages of the address book.
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  5. S17 E5 - Nursery Crimes
    November 13, 2000
    23min
    TV-14
    A police investigation of a pediatrician, after the mysterious death of one of her patients, leads them to a Texas hospital where the pediatric mortality rate was higher than at any hospital in the country. The common link was nurse Genene Jones.
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  6. S17 E6 - Man's Best Friend?
    June 3, 2001
    23min
    TV-14
    In 1989, 4-year-old April Loveless was found dead in the backyard of her Texas home. Her mother, Debbie Loveless, and step-father John Miller told police that April was attacked and killed by the family dogs. Investigators did not agree and believed that April's wounds were not dog bites at all.
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  7. S17 E7 - Soft Touch
    July 15, 2001
    23min
    TV-14
    In 1992, 22-year-old Dawn Bruce was brutally murdered in her Virginia apartment. The killer left very little evidence, but investigators did notice a blood smear on a pillow case that appeared to have been made by one of the killer's fingers. New technology enabled investigators to identify a fingerprint from the cloth surface of the pillow case.
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  8. S17 E8 - Photo Finish
    July 29, 2001
    23min
    TV-14
    In 1995, California model Linda Sobek goes missing. Some vital pieces of information are found in a dumpster, which eventually led investigators to professional photographer Charles Rathbun. Rathbun claims Sobek died during a consensual sexual encounter gone wrong, but Sobek's corpse and some high tech digital imagery tell a more sinister story.
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  9. S17 E9 - Treads and Threads
    August 19, 2001
    23min
    TV-14
    For 15 months, a serial killer was strangling prostitutes in Florida, then taunting police by leaving the bodies in plain sight. The only clues were a tire impression and some threads. By the time scientists identified the source of these treads and the threads, police discovered that the killer James Randall was right under their noses the entire time.
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  10. S17 E10 - Bad Blood
    September 16, 2001
    23min
    TV-14
    Dr. John Schneeberger is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting one of his female patients and his step daughter. DNA tests demonstrate that the doctor is innocent, but the patient still insists he's guilty. Years later, Schneeberger's lip balm is tested for DNA and it's a match. So, how did Dr. Schneeberger trick earlier investigators?
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  11. S17 E11 - Where the Blood Drops
    October 7, 2001
    23min
    TV-14
    In 1987, Susie Mowbray was charged for the death of her husband, Bill Mowbray, which had the appearance of suicide. Her son was so convinced of her innocence that he enrolled in law school, studied all of the evidence and, eventually, discovered the truth of what really happened that fateful night between his mother and father.
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  12. S17 E12 - Cats, Flies & Snapshots
    November 18, 2001
    23min
    TV-14
    In 1989, 19-year-old Lori Auker left her Pennsylvania home for work but never arrived. Police investigators viewed this case as a missing persons or possible homicide and focussed on her estranged husband, Robert Auker. It takes space-age technology, cat hairs and insects to pinpoint the image of the woman's abductor before the real story can be told.
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  13. S17 E13 - Forever Hold Your Peace
    January 7, 2002
    23min
    TV-14
    Two men confess to a murder that took place behind a restaurant and are sentenced to a life in prison. Eight years later, another man, who sentenced for an unrelated crime, claims responsibility. Who really did it?
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  14. S17 E14 - Reel Danger
    January 14, 2002
    23min
    TV-14
    The investigation into a brutal attack on two boys near a pond relies on evidence fished out of the murky water. It was the first case where Diatom evidence was used to place a suspect at the scene of the crime. The evidence helped in the conviction Christopher Green and Brian Davis.
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  15. S17 E15 - Purr-fect Match
    February 11, 2002
    23min
    TV-14
    In 1994, on Canada's Prince Edward Island, the body of Douglas Beamish's estranged wife, Shirley Duguay, was discovered. Authorities linked 20 cat hairs found on her jacket to a cat owned by Beamish's parents, with whom Doug Beamish lived. Scientists estimated that chances that the hairs came from another feline were one in 50 million.
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  16. S17 E16 - Bio-Attack
    November 29, 2002
    23min
    TV-14
    The 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack: Investigators uncover a plot to overthrow the government, after a unique strain of salmonella makes people ill.
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  17. S17 E17 - A Shot in the Dark
    December 6, 2002
    23min
    TV-14
    Two sets of scientists, probe a woman's death.
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  18. S17 E18 - Without a Prayer
    December 13, 2002
    23min
    TV-14
    Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of American Atheists, disappeared in 1995 along with one of her sons, her granddaughter and $500,000 in gold coins. The police honed in on several suspects, including David R. Waters, Office Manager for O'Hair's organization.
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Violencealcohol usesmokingsexual content
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Directors
Richard MonahanMichael Jordan
Starring
Peter Thomas
Studio
FilmRise
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