Programação de Forensic Files

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In 2000, construction manager Darrell North was found dead in his work trailer in Ft. Worth, Texas. When investigators arrived, they found that he had been stabbed 46 times, indicating a personal relationship between the victim and the attacker.

An investigation into the murder of a World War II veteran slowed to a halt when the prime suspect had a solid alibi. But a lucky break led to a shady character who wore distinctive boots and had a sweet tooth.

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.

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.

It was a tragic twist of fate. Just days after a woman sold her home and moved to a modest trailer, a fire took both the trailer and her life. But the autopsy proved this was no accident.

A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other.

Nancy Newman and her two daughters are found brutally murdered. The crime scene has no shortage of evidence, but investigators cannot find a conclusive link to their prime suspect. To solve the puzzle, an FBI analyst designs a unique experiment.

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

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.

A woman was found dead on the bedroom floor of her apartment. The crime scene yielded little of value and investigators wondered if they would find enough evidence to make a case, much less catch a killer.

When a dedicated, well-respected teacher disappeared, police had to determine if she'd gone on vacation without telling anyone or if she was the victim of foul play.

Police investigate a missing college girl and discover her double life: attending school by day and working as a call-girl by night. Her body is found and investigators find her killer.

When a popular disc jockey was found murdered in a community garden, police swung into action. A sniffer dog and a blood spatter expert led police to the killer, who had been much closer than they realized.

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.

In 2001, Ginger Hayes and her infant son were abducted during a carjacking. The crime had been reported by a witness within minutes of occurrence.

A 19-year-old woman was found dead in her car; the scene had been staged to make murder appear to be suicide. During their investigation, police discovered the victim was involved in a love quadrangle, giving several people a motive to kill her.

At the scene of a vicious murder, the killer went to a great deal of effort to wipe away his fingerprints and obscure his shoe impressions left when he tracked blood trails on the floor.

In 1991, San Francisco pornographer Artie Mitchell was murdered in his home. His brother and business partner, who was found near the scene carrying a rifle, later confesses to shooting Artie.The question is whether the shooting was premeditated.

While investigating the murder of 9-year-old Jessica Knott, police use a garbage bag to connect suspect James Edward Crow, Jr. to the crime.

When a hit-and-run accident claimed the life of a high school athlete, everyone in town mourned his passing. Finding the killer was a long shot at best.

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.

In 1980, Michigan resident Shannon Mohr died in what her new husband, David Davis, reported to be a horseback riding accident. After her death, Shannon's family reported that Davis seemed far from grief-stricken.

In 1998, a Maryland murder mystery performance turns into a real whodunit when the badly burned body of Stephen Hricko is discovered in his hotel room.

A woman is killed while walking her dogs in the woods. Since she has no enemies and her husband has an alibi, police assume it's a hunting accident — until they find a strange letter, allegedly written by the woman before her death.

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.

In 2003, St. Cloud teenager Jason MacLennan returned home after a night out with friends and discovered his father's body lying in a pool of blood.

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.

In 1996, a federal agency ruled that Terri Strickland had intentionally set the fire that killed her 17-month-old son, Josh Hinson. Using the then-emerging resources of the internet, Strickland undertook her own investigation.

The doctors at the hospital couldn't determine the cause of Bobby Curley's hallucinations and intense pain. They treated it as a neurological disorder but his condition deteriorated. He was being poisoned.

When a decomposed body is found stuffed in a barrel, it's easy to presume murder. But the body had been placed in the barrel 30 years earlier. One of the few clues was an address book found along with the body.

In 1962, the small town residents of Hanford, California lost their sense of peace when one of their own, 15-year-old Marlene Miller, was murdered.

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?

In 1995, Palm Beach waitress Denise O'Neill is abducted and murdered. Her neighbor Luis Caballero arouses suspicions by behaving oddly toward TV crews covering the crime.

When a victim is brutally murdered in his own bed, investigators find a shoe impression in the mud outside — physical evidence they hope will lead to the killer.

In 1969, 25-year-old phone operator Diane Maxwell was raped and murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible and bring the killer to justice.

Prompted by news of a flight attendant's brutal murder, the son of a previous victim contacts police. Both murders have similar MOs, and biological evidence proves that these were serial killings.

By using techniques she saw on forensic science TV shows, a mother determines who was responsible for the accident that permanently injured her 4-year-old daughter.

Bombings are difficult to solve because the perpetrator isn't usually at the scene and the evidence goes up in smoke. In this case, pieces of plastic the size of grains of sand hold the key to finding a murderer.

When court clerk Peter Porco doesn't report to work in November 2004, a courts officer is ordered to the Porcos' family home in Bethlehem, NY.

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.

When a woman and her daughter didn't return home from shopping, her husband directed police to a nearby mall. The child's body was found, but there was no sign of the wife.

Police discover a bullet-riddled car, a missing driver and no witnesses. Had the victim been abducted or was she dead? The answers are found in a unique clue, so tiny it was measured in millionths of a meter.

A young hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn't match any of the suspects and, after the initial investigation, the case went cold for ten years.

It was one of the most brazen crimes of the 20th century. Adolph Coors III, chairman of the Coors Brewing Company, was kidnapped and held for ransom. The crime prompted one of the most intense manhunts in United States history.

On May 20, 2001, Carrie Nelson was beaten to death while working alone in a park office. The case went unsolved for six years. Finally, police found a match with DNA samples gathered from the crime scene.

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.

Doctors don't know why a young scientist has fallen gravely ill. When tests finally reveal the cause, it's too late to save him.

An investigation into the murder of Katie Poirier is stymied by the lack of a body. Finally, investigators use a single tooth found among some charred remains to identify her.

When Joann Katrinak is found dead in a corn field with her infant son, the obvious suspect is the husband and father of the victims. But insects found on the bodies reveal a vital clue which uncovers a twisted story of passion gone wrong.

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.

This episode documents a deadly bombing at a church in Oakwood, Illinois, in December 1997.

The body of a wealthy American businessman was found in his rental car. Teeth and bone fragments were the only remains. When the victim's wife files an insurance claim for $7 million, investigators seek the help of a renowned forensic anthropologist.

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