Law enforcement officials are able to re-hydrate the fingers of a body discovered near Anchorage, Alaska, in order to get prints and identify the body.
News of the brutal murder of a flight attendant prompts a phone call from the son of a woman who was killed five years previous under similar circumstances.
A small fishing community is sent reeling after a shrimp boat captain perishes in a gale, and by a subsequent ruling that the death was not an accidental one.
Skull of a real estate tycoon found with bullet holes and police investigate the fact that he made allowances in his will if he died under violent conditions.
A man stabs his wife and holds her head under the water in their pool to finish the job, and the entire episode is witnessed by the next-door neighbor.
When a bicycle rider is struck and fatally injured in a hit-and-run accident, forensic evidence provides the clues needed to identify the offending vehicle.
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.
Forensic scientists are on the trail of a serial arsonist when police find evidence that points to foul play in the rubble of a woman's burned-down apartment.
Law enforcement officials investigating the case of a flight attendant who was murdered in her home are led in the wrong direction by a clue at the scene.
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.
Two new pieces of evidence in the form of a pair of running shoes and a cell phone breathe new life into a murder case that went unsolved for eight years.
Police working on case concerning the apparent suicide of a mother of two decide to take another look at the evidence after learning of about woman's past.
Members of the Air Force Office of Special Investigators begin looking into the brutal murder of the wife of an Air Force serviceman in the Philippines.
Bomb attacks are typically difficult for investigators to solve, but forensic scientists manage to uncover miniscule pieces of plastic that hold a key clue.
The wife of an Air Force officer is found dead in her bed, and authorities initially believe the cause of death to be accidental suffocation by a laundry bag.
Police must search for a boy who goes missing mysteriously after his home burns down and they later find his body but the killer left behind numerous clues.
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.