A doctor was the main witness in a murder case after he treats the hand wound of a man who says he cut his hand on the dumpster, when it is really a fight bite.
The body of a female prison guard is discovered in a landfill, and a distinctive element provides a key clue towards uncovering the identity of her killer.
A mother and her daughter fail to return from a day of shopping; the daughter's body is found on the side of the road, but the mother is nowhere to be found.
A highway patrolman is dispatched to a traffic accident; the car's interior is saturated with blood, and the coroner's accidental ruling stuns the officer
Shoe prints left by a careless criminal while dumping the body of his victim in an irrigation canal give authorities the evidence they need to track him down.
An obstetrician claims to have returned home from the hospital and found his wife's lifeless blood covered body on the bathroom floor, with no signs of life.
After looking at the logistics of the evidence presented, forensic specialists believe foul play is involved in a car accident that led to a teen's death.
Emergency vehicles are dispatched after a man calls in claiming that his girlfriend shot and killed herself, but forensics reveals evidence to the contrary.
Authorities begin to see a pattern when a Native American woman is murdered less than 10 miles away from the scene of a similar murder two years previously.
A young female architect becomes ill and dies shortly before she was scheduled to testify in a criminal trial, and police discover that she was poisoned.
When an eccentric millionaire who was notorious for neglecting security measures is murdered, investigators initially suspect that the motive was robbery
Police think a killer has struck again when a woman's body is found but clues such as bloody gloves and tire tracks show them that it is entirely different.
When a young, well-known gay college student is found slain near his apartment, investigators fear the victim's death could be a related to a hate crime.
Police are called to the scene of a seemingly accidental drowning. As evidence surfaces, they realize that one suspect had reasons to want the attorney dead.
Two missing women are suspected as being the work of a serial killer, though metal and fibers sent to be analyzed disprove theories of a serial killer.
Detectives are able to confirm that what appeared to be a casual encounter was in fact a forced abduction by analyzing digitally-enhanced security footage.
After a Kentucky businessman is murdered in the safety of his own home, police are left to question whether the brutal crime could be blamed on a home intruder.
A criminal's unique occupational habit gives investigators the important clue they need to apprehend him in relation to the death of a college student.
Law officials seek the assistance of forensic scientists to investigate a case involving a Pennsylvania man who was found dead almost 100 miles from his home.
Two young boys are brutally attacked in a pond, the severity of the assaults prove that the intent was to murder; authorities suspect a band of bullies.
A clue barely bigger than a human hair offers investigators important evidence regarding the case of a woman who was strangled and dumped in an icy river.
When a popular student is raped and killed police ask all of her male friends for DNA samples but everyone is shocked when her best friend is linked to scene.
Hundreds of people succumbed to food poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon, resulting in the discovery of a cult with an ultimate goal of overthrowing the government.
Abduction and the hatred which fueled it might never have been told, had it not been for the discovery of a headless, handless body, and an artificial hip.
An unconscious man is run over in an alley outside a bar and when police arrive they discover that the body and the vehicle are no longer on the scene.
A clever Ohio girl remembers to leave fingerprints on her kidnapper's vehicle when she is abducted which aids police in their search along with a tire imprint.
Conventional identification methods are rendered useless when law enforcement officials attempt to investigate a severed leg that was found in a dumpster.