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Soon after becoming pregnant by Dr. Maynard Muntzing, firefighter Michelle Baker's health quickly deteriorates. Eventually, she raises suspicions that Muntzing is doing her harm.

In 1971, John List left a note with the bodies of his mother, wife and three children in his mansion ballroom before disappearing completely. Detectives must solve the case, despite having only an outdated photograph of List.

One warm summer afternoon, the town of Verona, Wisconsin faced its first triple homicide. To solve the case, investigators had to delve into the world of high rollers and offshore betting.

When the decomposed body of a teenage girl is discovered, police have no clues to her identity. To solve the case, investigators turn to bug larvae found on the body and a tiny wad of chewing gum found near the victim's body.

A woman convicted of killing her mother in a car fire is granted a new trial. An expert witness has a different opinion as to how the fire started and, if proven, would clear the woman of any culpability.

In 2007, the Florida mobile home of Effie and Michael Ratley catches fire. Michael heroically rescues his wife and infant son. A month later, his wife is found beaten to death in a bedroom of his parents' home.

A 13-year-old girl went missing from her Colorado home. The only evidence the kidnapper left behind was three fingerprints on a window screen.

The victim was well liked and successful, which made the brutality of the crime even harder to understand.

Alaskan hikers discover a body wrapped in sheets which were edged in orange stitching. Investigators find a tuft of red carpet fibers clinging to the sheet — threads of evidence which lead them straight to the killer.

When convenience store employee Wanda Mason is found dead, investigators find the entire murder has been caught on the store's security camera. But the image of the killer is so degraded it seems impossible to positively identify him.

In 1995, San Diego police are baffled by a pair of hands found in a dumpster. Through further investigation, they determine that the hands are those of missing person Don Hardin.

Between 1985 and 1988, 18 people were choked, molested and left for dead in the remote mountains of California. The only witnesses were the insects — and they play an important role in solving the crimes and bringing the killer to justice.

When a young girl was found dead, police quickly arrested the most likely suspect. But cutting-edge technology from NASA enabled a forensic odontologist to prove the wrong man was behind bars.

Digital enhancement of security camera footage shows that what appears to be a casual encounter is actually a forced abduction. When investigators suspect the crimes are not random, they fear a serial killer may be on the loose.

A man riding a bicycle was fatally injured in what police believed to be a hit-and-run accident. Tiny clues found at the scene created a picture of the vehicle which struck him and led police to its driver.

When hunters reported finding a skull in a Texas canyon, police immediately began an investigation. With a forensic artist's reconstruction, police eventually learned the victim's identity. Now all they had to do was find her killer.

When a wealthy socialite died after falling down the stairs, witness accounts contradicted evidence. To find out what really happened, investigators employed a physicist and an expert in accident reconstruction.

When an elderly couple died in a suspicious house fire, their son became the prime suspect. Investigators turned to forensic science to determine if the fire had been set deliberately, or if it was an unfortunate accident.

In 1996, when a fundamentalist group begins robbing banks near Spokane, authorities know immediately that they are dealing with experienced criminals.

The woman had been sexually assaulted, stabbed repeatedly and left for dead. When a perfect suspect practically turned himself in, police were sure they had their man — until DNA evidence proved them wrong.

After being admitted to the hospital with unexplained bleeding, 11-month-old Chad Shelton dies. Investigators and scientists frantically search for a cause when others from the same house fall ill.

In 2004, Mary Ann Clibbery was found brutally murdered at her Illinois business. Investigators had to determine if this was a robbery gone wrong or a calculated murder.

After inspecting storm damage to a home in Tampa, an insurance assessor simply disappeared. Thirty hours later, her body was found in a nearby river. But the killer had been careless.

On October 15, 1985, two bomb explosions rocked Salt Lake City and resulted in two deaths. A third explosion occurred the next day; this time, the victim survived.

In 1984, the body of college student Laura Salmon was found on a Middle Tennessee farm, covered with her own denim jeans as well as the jeans of the killer.

Flu-like symptoms of a mother and her children prove to be something more serious: thallium poisoning. After the mother's death, investigators turn their attention to finding the killer.

When a 9-year-old girl goes missing, police and volunteers spend weeks searching for her. A psychic's vision leads to a field where her body is discovered, along with what investigators hope is enough evidence to find her killer.

In 1987, the death of Crystal Purcell was considered an accident. Then in 2001, Barbara Purcell called police to suggest that her estranged husband had killed Crystal.

The crime scene was especially violent: a husband and wife had been shot to death in their bedroom. Was their 16-year-old daughter complicit?

A behavioral profile caused the Baton Rouge Police Department to search for the wrong man. The real perpetrator may have eluded arrest, had it not been for a molecular biologist who painted DNA picture of the suspect.

Firefighters find an entire family dead inside their home in an apparent murder-suicide, but there are several inconsistent clues in the rubble. Could ballistics, a time card and some secret audiotapes unravel the mystery?

A 34-year-old nurse experiences a variety of flu-like symptoms. None of her doctors are able to discover the cause, until she visits her gynecologist for a routine check-up.

On a windy Kansas night in 1995, a mysterious fire swept through the home of a prominent doctor. In the debris, investigators found evidence which told them how the fire started.

In 2000, Christina Sanoubane was murdered in her Cedar Rapids apartment after moving away from her abusive boyfriend. There are clues at the scene: bloody footprints and DNA from the victim's rape kit.

When the wife of a well-known dentist is found dead, police struggle to identify a suspect. Some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open and reveal the killer.

Lives changed in the 20 years following an unsolved murder, and so did forensic science. In time, a high-powered microscope and DNA profiling revealed a clue no one had seen before.

Young Navajos in the Southwest were dying at an alarming rate. The tribe's medicine men provided investigators with a critical clue that would lead halfway around the world to a most unlikely killer.

A beautiful young woman falls to her death from a cliff overlooking the ocean. Initially, investigators think it was a tragic accident. But after a forensic examination, police uncover a very different picture of what happened.

When an 11-year-old girl disappears from a remote Alaska town, investigators wonder if she has been attacked by a bear or become lost in the dense woods. Eventually, they realize that neither assumption is true.

An investigation of a pediatrician, prompted by the mysterious death of one of her patients, leads to a Texas hospital where the pediatric mortality rate is higher than at any hospital in the country.

A retired police officer is found dead with a single gunshot wound to the head. His wife says the motive was robbery, but later tells police he committed suicide.

The police investigate when a severed leg is discovered among garbage. Conventional means of identifying the victim are impossible, leading investigators to rely on DNA, forensic anthropology and toxicology.

In 1984, a passerby finds the torso of a woman in a cardboard box. A forensic entomologist analyzes nearby insect activity to determine when the victim was killed.

When police in the Great Plains are called about a dead body, a background check on the victim leads them into a bizarre web of homeless drifters, cattle auctions and bad checks — all fronted by elderly couple Ray and Faye Copeland.

When the head chef of a historic Philadelphia restaurant was found dead, investigators interviewed the usual suspects: family, friends and coworkers. As they sifted through the evidence, police uncovered a chilling tale of debt and deceit.

A mysterious computer crash pushed a thriving manufacturing company to the brink of collapse, jeopardizing hundreds of employees' jobs. Forensic investigators must determine if the crash was the result of a computer defect, human error or sabotage.

Even though their daughter had run away before, she had always come back. Her parents were sure this time would be no different, but they were wrong.

On Halloween night 2004, Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara were brutally murdered in their Napa, California home.

It would take 46 years, handwriting analysis and new fingerprint technology to solve the 1957 murders of two California police officers.

In 1988, when a patient dies unexpectedly in the office of California neurologist Richard Boggs, police begin what they think will be a routine investigation. Soon they uncover a bizarre story of corpse stealing, fake identity and sexual perversion.

The wife of an Air Force officer was found dead in her bed with a plastic laundry bag near her face. Further investigation proved that the scene had been staged. Her death wasn't an accident — it was cold-blooded murder.

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