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In 2003, Kathy Lorick was murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail while talking to her husband on her mobile phone.

In 1999, Susan Fassett was gunned down as she left her church choir practice in Poughkeepsie, NY. After clearing her husband, police turned their attention to Fred Andros, with whom Susan had an affair.

In 1985, Julie Estes was kidnapped from the Southside convenience store where she worked. Her body was found the next day, but the killing went unsolved until 2003.

The murder of an eccentric millionaire was not entirely unexpected; he flaunted his wealth and cared little for personal security. The evidence at the crime seemed to indicate robbery, but investigators wondered if there was something more.

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 19-year-old Lori Auker left her Pennsylvania home for work and never arrived, it took space-age technology, cat hairs and insects to pinpoint the woman's abductor.

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

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.

When a popular gym teacher is found dead of what appears to be an accidental gunshot wound, his family is suspicious. A tape recorded by the victim just before his death tells the true story of his strange marriage and his wife's insatiable greed.

A woman who was known to have suffered from depression apparently took her own life. But her sister told police that, a year before her death, she said if anything were to happen to her there would be a note in the china cabinet.

A fifteen-year-old boy dies from a mysterious gunshot wound to the head while sitting in the lobby of his father's gun club. Ballistics, laser technology, made-to-scale models and the latest in forensic animation are used to find the cause.

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.

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.

In 1986, Gary Dale Larson was stabbed to death in his Edmond, Oklahoma home. The killer then sexually assaulted Larson's girlfriend, Janet Haynes.

A go-go dancer told her family she needed to get away for a while and then she simply disappeared. Investigators were suspicious, because she took neither her car nor her clothes. 20 years later, her family received a call that changed everything.

In 1993, 82-year-old Kathryn Bishop was found dead in her Pennsylvania home. Tiny clues on the victim's body would tell police what happened that night.

Susie Mowbray was charged in her husband's death. Her son was so convinced of her innocence that he enrolled in law school, studied all of the evidence and, eventually, discovered the truth of what really happened between his parents.

Who was the sexual offender who murdered two adolescent boys in Nebraska? The key to stopping him would be the unique composition of the "junk rope" he used to tie his victims.

In 2000, teenager Tara Munsey went missing after a work shift at a Virginia restaurant. Did she run away, or was she the victim of foul play?

Emergency dispatch received a call from a man who said his girlfriend shot and killed herself. The autopsy revealed that the gunshot wound was not self-inflicted, and the evidence on her body would give police a golden opportunity to catch her killer.

When Rosemary Anderson is found dead on the side of the road, her boyfriend becomes the prime suspect. He eventually confessed to her murder, but so did another man: serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke.

The disappearance of Philadelphia college athlete Aimee Willard is investigated after her car is found on the roadside. When her body is found, the police find unusual marks and DNA evidence that eventually lead to her killer.

In 1988, the body of a young woman was discovered in an Ohio river. Most of the evidence had been washed away, but the victim's 6-year-old son unwittingly told investigators all they needed to know — without saying a word. The clue was in his genes.

A woman is found dead in a ravine, and crucial evidence has been washed away by severe thunderstorms. Twice, the trail turns cold. Almost 20 years later, an old hat and a chip of stainless steel brings the killer to justice.

When a pipe bomb rips through a rural home, police have no idea who is responsible. A 9-volt battery and the remnants of a mailing label ead investigators to the man who made the bomb.

The 1996 investigation into 48-year-old Martha Hansen's murder is helped by a legal requirement that bars have video cameras installed on the premises.

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.

How unlucky could one man be? His college sweetheart killed herself and fourteen years later, his wife ended her life in a similar way. Investigators had to determine if this was murder or simply a bizarre coincidence.

The prime suspect had a criminal record and his driver's license was found at the scene of a brutal double homicide.

On a cold December night in 1993, Rose Larner stopped in a convenience store on her way to her boyfriend's house. She was never seen or heard from again. Rose's disappearance remained a mystery, until a tiny clue is found years later.

On Christmas Eve 2005, a man's body is found burning near Baltimore. He's eventually identified as 26-year-old Wesley Person. Distinctive building materials from the 1930s play a crucial role in solving this case.

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.

In 1994, a human skull retrieved from an Ohio pond reveals a ghastly crime. Markings on the skull indicate that the victim had been stabbed multiple times and that the teeth had been removed with needle-nose pliers.

When police find the body of 11-year-old Krista Harrison, there are few clues to the killer's identity. But authorities are intrigued by unusual orange fibers embedded in clothing found near the victim.

Foul play is suspected when Fort Worth factory worker Glenda Furch disappears after completing her shift.

No one in a quiet residential community saw anything unusual the day one of their neighbors was brutally attacked and murdered. Fingerprints found at the crime scene and surveillance video helped investigators to apprehend the presumed killer.

Soon after organizing a workers' strike, a union official is executed in his home. Neither his wife nor anyone in the neighborhood hear any gunshots. It takes a forensic sound test, an electron microscope and a nightgown to explain why.

In 1993, the Amtrak Railroad experienced the deadliest train crash in United States history when the Sunset Limited derailed while crossing Alabama's Big Bayou Canot bridge. 47 passengers and crew were killed; scores more were injured.

Police are led on a wild goose chase when the wife of a prominent banker is kidnapped. An entomologist's unexpected discovery leads to a new suspect — and the realization that ordinary office equipment can leave extraordinary clues.

When a college student vanished without a trace, her fellow students were concerned about her safety and their own.

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.

After a Philadelphia Convention, 180 Legionnaires contract pneumonia-like symptoms and 29 of them die. The determination of one scientist helps identify the cause of this deadly disease.

In 2007, Brian and Beverly Mauck were found dead in their Graham, Washington home. Using a bloody palm print and shoe prints at the scene, investigators focus their attention on Daniel Tavares, who had previously inked a tattoo on Brian's back.

Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother, Barbara Mullenix, in 2006. She allegedly packed her mother's bloodied corpse in a cardboard box before dumping it in California's Newport Bay.

Authorities track a kidnapper who let his victim write a last will and informed the family of her murder. A phone number written on a previous page left a lasting impression, which helped to convict.

On the night of May 22, 1992, Betty Wilson returned home after a meeting and discovered her husband lying in a pool of blood. Jack Wilson had obviously been murdered — but how?

For 15 months, a serial killer was strangling prostitutes in Florida, then taunting police by leaving the bodies in plain sight. The only clues were a tire impression and some threads.

The murder of an American tourist in a Mexican resort draws law enforcement resources on both sides of the border. At first glance, the motive appears to be robbery, but careful analysis of the forensic evidence points to something more sinister.

A Michigan State University grad student disappeared and was presumed dead. With the help of a professor of geological sciences, police hoped to get the "dirt" on her killer.

In 2006, Texas real estate agent Sarah Anne Walker was found brutally murdered in a model home. Weeks later, a witness came forward who may have seen the killer. Police used forensic hypnosis to help him recall every detail of the man's appearance.

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.

In 2007, Shamaia Smith disappears from a strip club in East Hartford, CT. Police consider various patrons of the club, but focus on local businessman Kenneth Otto.

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