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Police increasingly utilize scientific laboratory analysis to solve crimes. This program reviews and re-enacts dramatic cases from around the world in which forensic scientists find and examine previously undetectable evidence. Through their hard work, criminals are brought to justice and the innocent are set free.

13 episoder

The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
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The Disappearance of Helle CraftsThe case of missing stewardess Helle Craft is recounted. Although her body was never recovered, police used forensic evidence to charge her husband with murder. It became the first murder conviction without a body in Connecticut.
The Magic Bullet
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The Magic BulletAt the Dallas 'Pistol & Revolver' club in 1991, Trey Cooley, a young spectator, was watching a shooting competition, seated behind an air gun range. He was struck and killed by a stray bullet. See how ballistics, lasers, and forensic animation solve the riddle of the "magic bullet".
The House That Roared
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The House That RoaredCaren Campano disappeared and her husband, Chris became the prime suspect -- especially after police found a huge bloodstain on the Campano's bedroom carpet. When they sprayed the bedroom with Luminol, they discovered it was awash with blood spatter. Complex DNA testing - 'reverse paternity' tests - proved it was Caren's blood. Now all they had to do was find her body.
I morderens fodspor
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I morderens fodsporI en lille engelsk landsby bliver to teenage-piger med tre års mellemrum brutalt voldtaget og myrdet. For første gang skal en DNA-test stå sin prøve i en mordsag.
Planted Evidence
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Planted EvidenceSingle mother Denise Johnson is found dead in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Local investigators ask a molecular geneticist to pick out a tree in a 'lineup' when unidentified seed pods are found in suspect Mark Bogan's truck. The judge rules into evidence DNA profiles linking the pods to a tree near where the body was found. This is the first U.S. case where plant DNA was used to convict a criminal.
Southside Strangler
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Southside StranglerThe U.S. criminal justice system's first use of DNA profiling in a serial murder case frees an innocent man after he spent two years in prison, and convicts the real killer. FBI psychological profiling and DNA evidence identify the man who raped and strangled five young women in Virginia.
Legionær-sygen
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Legionær-sygenDe amerikanske legionærers kongres i 1976 skulle have været et festligt gensyn med gamle venner, men 34 mystiske dødsfald førte til den mest omfattende retsmedicinske indsats i historien.
The Wilson Murder
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The Wilson MurderOn the night of May 22, 1992, Betty Wilson returned home after a meeting. She walked up the stairs to the bedroom and discovered her husband, Eye doctor Jack Wilson, beaten and stabbed to death, lying in a pool of blood with a baseball bat nearby. Jack Wilson had obviously been murdered... but how? And by whom? Even the experts couldn’t agree.
Livsfarlig adresse
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Livsfarlig adressePå en katolsk skole i Arizona fik elleve børn børneleukæmi; ni af dem døde, og i Connecticut var der fem tilfælde af hjernesvulster på en gade med kun ni huse. Tilfældighed eller farligt miljø?
Insect Clues
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Insect CluesBetween 1985 and 1988, 18 people were choked, molested and left for dead in the remote desert mountains of California. The only witnesses were the insects – and they also proved to play an important role in solving the crimes.
Outbreak
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OutbreakAlarmingly high levels of thyroid hormones pump through the systems of South Dakota residents. Investigators study one family who all got sick, except their 12-year-old son who is a vegetarian.
Menneskejagt
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MenneskejagtI 18 år formåede en massemorder at skjule sig for FBI. Han var eftersøgt for at have myrdet hele sin familie, men kunst kombineret med retsmedicinsk efterforskning afslørede ham til sidst.
Raw Terror
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Raw TerrorEscherichia coli (E-coli) bacteria can be found in meats, milk and in water. When food is properly processed, prepared and stored, E-Coli are harmless. But in the absence of these simple precautions, E-Coli can have deadly consequences. Raw Terror tells the story of Damion Heersink, an eleven-year-old boy who almost died after eating an improperly cooked hamburger teeming with E-Coli, and the people who saved his life.