The parents of a 16-year-old girl admit to killing their daughter out of self-defense in their own home, but an unlikely piece of evidence proves otherwise.
A successful manufacturing company is suddenly hit with a massive computer crash, jeopardizing the future of the company and its hundreds of employees.
In a motorcade escorting the Queen of England, a car driven by a sheriff's deputy strikes one carrying three Secret Service agents, killing them instantly.
An underground station in London becomes a deadly inferno as a small fire on an escalator turns into a deadly flashover that throws out a jet of flames.
A woman's butchered body's found, and the medical examiner preserves her rib cage bearing mortal wound and containing the identifying microscopic marks.
The 1991 slaying of a Michigan TV news anchor is investigated, leading the police to rule out a potential stalker and focus on her husband as a suspect.
Investigators initially believed a house fire that killed a woman was unintentionally caused by a cigarette but a closer look by scientists uncovers more.
A trio of successful bank robbers manages to elude authorities for seven years until forensic examination of their clothes and posture reveals new clues.
A seemingly healthy young woman suddenly becomes severely ill with no discernable explanation, and medical tests reveal the cause to be arsenic poisoning.
Residents of Noel, Missouri were stunned to learn that their bank had been robbed and the bank president was missing. His body was found floating in a lake.
Law officials and forensic scientists attempt to ascertain the connection between three female college students who were murdered in a similar fashion.
A female naval officer is found murdered after threatening to expose the cycle of sexual harassment, assault and corruption within the military hierarchy.
Police initially suspect suicide when a woman's body is found under a bridge, but further investigation reveals that she was carried and thrown over the side.
A Delaware man who is suspected of killing his mother tries to convince detectives that an unidentified hitchhiker to whom he gave a ride committed the murder.
After eyewitnesses report the crime, law enforcement officials begin working fervently to locate a mother and child who were kidnapped during a carjacking.
A missing teacher's bankcard's used, but not by her, and Texas homicide investigators hope that a shoe lace taken from the victim's home may lead to her killer.
DNA evidence produced a decade after the slaying of Mia Zapata, the lead singer for Seattle punk band the Gits, allowed to police to solve the 1993 murder.
Forensic scientists are assisted by a geology professor in their attempts to analyze dirt evidence related to a fellow university instructor who went missing.
A look at the case of Georgia dentist Barton Corbin recalls how he confessed to killing his wife and girlfriend and making their deaths look like suicides.
Forensic specialists investigating the case of a woman who was murdered on the beach uncover key evidence in the form of a pair of men's athletic shoes.
A 13-year old girl's missing from her CO home, and the only clue to the kidnapper's identity is three prints on a screen; two years later, a breakthrough.
Police detectives are confounded by a murder with several suspects and a mountain of conflicting evidence, but forensic evidence offers them one clue to go on.
Texas criminologist, forensic experts, and investigators combine their resources to solve the 2001 murders of Cammy Lynn Keleman and Dana Denise Feazell.
After a wife claims her husband's death was a hunting accident, authorities use psychological analysis and ballistics tests to investigate the incident.
A teenage girl was missing for nine months before her body was found, but investigators still manage to procure a surprising amount of evidence from the corpse.
In her attempts to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her mother, a woman discovers a dark family secret in the pages of her mother's journal.
A jury votes that a man was murdered in cold blood during a street fight, and the man's sentenced to 20 years in prison; six years later new evidence surfaces.
Police are baffled when they find the body of woman next to California freeway but the discovery of a unique gold thread on the victim leads them to the killer.
California is terrorized by a number of arson fires at the hands of an unknown assailant and it is not until a lone fingerprint leads them to a suspect.