Programação de Forensic Files

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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 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.

In 1996, police received a call from Darlie Routier telling them of her two sons' murders. The police found the killer by analyzing blood spatter, doing behavioral profiling and analyzing Darlie's 911 call.

There was no clear reason for a young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the coroner discovered a tiny clue during the autopsy, investigators were able to uncover a mystery filled with betrayal and revenge.

After shooting his victims in the head, the killer staged the scene, placed the incriminating evidence into a plastic bag and tossed it into the river.

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.

A family vacation turns into a nightmare when a woman is found face-down in a lake.

In the summer of 1986, Kathleen Lipscomb's body was found on a deserted road outside of San Antonio. Months and years passed, but the crime was never solved. Finally, a private investigator discovered Kathleen's diary.

The victim had been stabbed more than thirty times and the crime scene was awash with her blood. Near her head, police discovered a distinctive button with strands of thread still attached.

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.

A young woman attends evening church services, then disappears. When her abandoned car is found, the tank is empty and a gas can she kept in her trunk for emergencies is missing.

One morning in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, a motorcyclist discovers the body of a young woman. She had been beaten, bound, strangled and possibly raped. Nearby plants tell investigators more about the killer.

In 1991, when the wife of a serviceman was brutally murdered in the Philippines, investigators had to reassemble a tiny computer disk that had been cut to pieces in order to find the killer.

A serial arsonist starts several fires that cause millions of dollars worth of damage and the deaths of three people. He is discovered, partly through the use of forensic hypnosis.

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

The body of a young woman was found a mile from her abandoned car. Police were especially concerned when they realized the victim had come to them for protection just two weeks earlier after a road rage incident.

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 1989, 4-year-old April Loveless was found dead in the backyard of her Texas home. Her parents told police that she was attacked and killed by wild dogs. Investigators did not agree.

The driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian on a Harrisburg street. The Jeep Grand Cherokee he was leasing around that time had been sold months ago to a buyer in another state.

In an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, police were called to the scene of what appeared to be an accidental drowning. The investigation gradually focused on one suspect who had more than a million reasons to want the victim dead.

In 2005, the body of young mother Summer Baldwin was found in a suitcase in a Texas landfill.

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.

Two eyewitnesses may hold the key to the death of a motorcycle gang member.

The body of 16-year-old Leanne Tiernan was discovered nine months after she disappeared. Forensic scientists found clues that painted a virtual portrait of her killer.

When a fire destroyed most of a home and a young boy went missing, police organized the largest search in the history of their small town. First the boy's backpack was discovered five miles from home, then his body was found 50 miles away.

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.

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.

Just weeks before a witness is to testify against the man accused of sexually assaulting her, she is murdered in the front yard of her own home. Investigators immediately suspect her attacker, but they don't have enough evidence to prove his guilt.

Robert Sims returns home after working the night shift and finds his wife unconscious on the kitchen floor. Their son is fast asleep in an upstairs bedroom, but their six-week-old daughter, Heather, is missing.

A 6-year-old girl ran and hid when she saw her grandmother being beaten to death, but the man followed, beat and assaulted her. She said the assailant was her uncle, who was later convicted. She recanted her testimony years later.

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.

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 1987, a human skull and some bones were discovered at a Boy Scout Camp near Farmington, Missouri. Facial reconstruction aids the investigators in this case.

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.

When a dry cleaner employee is raped and murdered in her store, police turn to forensic science for the answers they need.

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.

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.

Tracey Frame, 35, was convicted of killing David Nixon in April 2002 after he planned to end their relationship.

Armed with little else, police hoped that shoe impressions found at a Lansing, Michigan crime scene would put their investigation of Audrey Nichols' murder back on track.

The victim had been stabbed more than thirty times and the crime scene was awash with her blood. Near her head, police discovered a distinctive button with strands of thread still attached.

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.

Seattle police had no suspects in the violent murder of grunge singer Mia Zapata. More than a decade passed before evidence collected by a prescient medical examiner could be used by forensic scientists to identify the killer.

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.

Police get a clue about a couple who disappeared on Memorial Day weekend during an in-progress robbery. The evidence found solves a brutal crime.

How did the stalker obtain the security system code for his victim's home? How did he steal her personal photographs? Police needed answers and they found them in the most unlikely of places.

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.

A Modesto, California teenager goes missing. With no signs of struggle in her home, police suspect she has simply run away — until her naked, bruised body is discovered in a ditch 20 miles away.

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.

Paul Gruber's daughter suspected something was wrong when she received birthday cards addressed from her father, but written in a stranger's handwriting.

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.

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