Forensic Factor

A detailed look at the investigation of a high-profile crime. Explaining how the work of forensic experts applying revolutionary technology helps solves the most violent crimes.

Nature's Clues

Nature's Clues

How do bugs, pigs and even the weather help investigators solve crimes? From tropical Hawaii to the frigid waters of Lake Ontario, forensic experts reveal, in gory detail, the clues nature leaves behind on a human corpse.

The Profilers

The Profilers

Sophisticated crime fighters map the psychological and physical terrain of multiple murderers.

Lasting Impressions

Lasting Impressions

Criminals are betrayed by the clues their own bodies leave behind. A killer’s ear against a wall or his hand on a door, any impressions left at the scene help.

Future Crime

Future Crime

Can the sound of a suspect’s voice reveal his lie? Can the crucial moment of crime, buried deep in damaged video, be revealed? Can computers isolate a guilty face in a crowd? No longer science fiction, these are the high-tech tools of the forensics trade.

Murder Weapon

Murder Weapon

Weapons are the hallmark of violent crime, tools designed to harm - or kill. Forensic science has developed a world of techniques for tracking and identifying these devices.

The Cover Up

The Cover Up

Fire, water, earth – killers call on all the elements in their attempt to cover up their crimes. But even a body burned to ashes, sunk deep into the sea or reduced to fragments will still tell its forensic tale.

Forensics on Trial

Forensics on Trial

A six-year old girl, Andrea Atkinson, is found dead in the boiler room of her Toronto tenement. Forensic investigators quickly determine she has been raped and smothered. There are no witnesses.

Bloody Valentine

Bloody Valentine

The cry for help comes from Oklahoma City's most exclusive neighborhood. "My wife's bleeding all over the place," Dr. John Baxter Hamilton tells the 911 operator.

A Deadly Affair

A Deadly Affair

Caretaker Larry Mallory notices something unusual while on his way to work. Lying in the middle of the highway is a leg from a department store dummy. When he gets closer, Mallory sees two crows feeding on it, the leg is not plastic.

Killing Spree

Killing Spree

In three days of savagery the picturesque town Gainesville Florida is sent reeling with shock. Five university students, Christina Powell, Sonja Larson, Christa Hoyt, Manny Taboada and Tracy Paules, are brutally attacked and killed.

No Body, No Crime

No Body, No Crime

A millionaire boards a commercial flight in New York City and disappears into thin air. Authorities believe his former business associate is the man behind the disappearance.

Beauty Queen

Beauty Queen

Karyn Slover is a pretty small town dreamer who's finally got her big break. She has been offered work as a model by an agency in Los Angeles. Now she can move away with her three-year old son.

Fremont Bomber

Fremont Bomber

In one violent evening, a series of bombs rocks the sleepy California city of Fremont. The targets include both the Chief and Ex-Chief of police.

Vanished

Vanished

When Thomas Ku vanishes, police scramble to find him. Time begins to run out on the diabetic man who is in desperate need of his medication.

Betrayed

Betrayed

The discovery of an abandoned suitcase containing a young Asian woman's body, Jin Ho Jong, leads North Yorkshire police to London.

Summer of Hate

Summer of Hate

The murder of a gay couple in rural California has police stymied - who would want to hurt the well-liked pair?

Promised Land

Promised Land

When a Russian prostitute is found murdered, Los Angeles Homicide detectives quickly find the case to be anything but routine.

Rampage

Rampage

Four brutal murders in one bloody weekend devastate the small town of Barrie, Ontario. The prime suspects, three violent, escaped convicts, are on the loose.

Hog Trail

Hog Trail

Between January 1994 and April 1996, in central Florida, the bodies of four men are found in a wooded area known as The Hog Trails. Police realise they are chasing a serial killer.

Yosemite

Yosemite

Carole Sund, her daughter Juli and friend Silvina Pelosso go missing while vacationing in Yosemite National Park. The theory is that they had a car accident.

House Hermit

House Hermit

An elderly couple is found dead in the trunk of their car, the investigation leads authorities to their vacation home north of Toronto. Police soon learn of the “House Hermit”— a mysterious intruder breaking into cottages and camping in them.

Sniper

Sniper

For 23 days in October, 2002, a sniper terrorises the Washington DC area, shooting thirteen people and killing ten. The victims are ordinary people doing routine activities.

Dead Man's Hollow

Dead Man's Hollow

A retired fireman notices a burning bundle in a farmer's field... and recognises the smell of burning human flesh. Investigators at the scene find an unrecognisable body.

Olympic Bomber

Olympic Bomber

The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia are rocked by a massive pipe bomb explosion. A woman is killed and hundreds are injured.

Forsaken

Forsaken

Near Hamilton, Ontario, a jogger makes a gruesome discovery - the partially mummified remains of a human body. Using forensics, police are able to identify the body.

Atomic Dog

Atomic Dog

A sniper targets abortion doctors and then disappears into the shadowy underground that protects him. When the sniper's mission moves to murder, a city is thrown into blind panic.

Knock, Knock, You're Dead

Knock, Knock, You're Dead

In the Summer of 2001, Southern Louisiana is held in the terrifying grip of a serial killer, Derrick Todd Lee, whose initial 'hot zone' is the Louisiana State University area of Baton Rouge.

Pyromaniac

Pyromaniac

A series of fires rip through California's San Joaquin Valley, killing four people. An investigation concludes that a serial arsonist may have started them.

The Fifth Commandment

The Fifth Commandment

Two undertakers, Daniel O'Connell and James Ellison, are shot and killed while at work at a funeral home in Hudson, Wisconsin. The case goes cold after two years.

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

Las Vegas is famous for wealth, lady luck and second chances. But when homicide detectives discover the charred remains of a prominent businessman, Sin City reveals a darker side.

Greetings From Yahweh

Greetings From Yahweh

The FBI probes bombings and bank robberies attributed to a white supremacist group; the Phineas Priesthood, in Spokane, Washington.

Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect

In Bartow, Florida four bodies are found slaughtered in a factory. It's the largest mass murder in county history. Each victim is connected to the factory and the family business.

Bike Path Rapist

Bike Path Rapist

In September 1990, the body of twenty-two year old college student, Linda Yalem, is discovered off a bike path in a suburb of Buffalo, New York.

Smiley Face Killer

Smiley Face Killer

Prostitutes in Spokane, Washington, are being hunted down and discarded in remote wooded areas by a vicious serial killer. On each victim's head, police find his macabre calling card.

Colchester Rapist

Colchester Rapist

A serial rapist preys on elderly women living in isolated Southern Ontario. Who is this monster that continues to elude Colchester police?

Eclectic Murders

Eclectic Murders

Killer Robert Fry is on a rampage and hides within a group of Goth youths.

To Catch A Serial Killer

To Catch A Serial Killer

The world's top criminal investigators, forensic scientists and behavioural analysts investigate three cases of serial killers.

Million Dollar Murder

Million Dollar Murder

A brutal murder shakes millionaire row in a Texas resort town.

Shopping Spree Murders

Shopping Spree Murders

An 86-year-old woman, June Roberts, is stabbed and strangled in her home, within the secure walls of the upscale gated community of Canyon Lake, California.

Thrill Kill

Thrill Kill

Days after Christmas 2005, Phoenix, Arizona is shocked by a drive-by shooting rampage that injures multiple people and leaves two men dead.

Abbotsford Killer

Abbotsford Killer

A Special Task Force hunts down a deadly stalker on the loose in small-town Abbotsford, British Columbia - where one teenage girl is found brutally killed and another barely alive.

Jack

Jack

A series of seemingly random shootings have terrorised the city of East Point. Police are baffled as to the killer's motive, and when he will strike again.

Love Bites

Love Bites

A vivacious teenage girl is found stabbed to death in her car in a small Pennsylvania city. The motive is elusive.