Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science
Season 4
TV-PG
A compelling, innovative true crime series focused on the role of forensic science in solving some of the most perplexing crimes of our time. Looking at how examination of DNA, teeth, and insects, among other things, can be used to solve crimes.
14 Episodes
- Time Bomb
E1Time BombA bomb goes off in a postal truck in downtown Toronto. A security camera records the reaction of the burning postal driver. His trauma is so severe, he is put in an induced coma. Who set the bomb? Who was the target? Investigators and bomb experts put all the pieces together to solve a devilish case. - North Bay
E2North BayAn exhaustive 18-month investigation follows the murder of a young woman in North Bay. The prime suspect's DNA matches that on the woman's clothes. In a startling development, further DNA tests prove the wrong man has been charged. Out of the blue, a phone call from a prison administrator in Calgary sends the investigation in a completely new direction. - Accident
E3AccidentA car carrying six friends crashes. As bodies fly in all directions, four teenagers die and two are critically injured. Sara LeBeau, who owns the car, survives but has total amnesia. Who was driving? Using toxicology, chemistry, accident reconstruction and DNA, charges are eventually laid against LeBeau. (This Ontario case is currently under appeal.) - Beauty Shop Bandit
E4Beauty Shop BanditIn 1990, John Willis of Chicago is sentenced to 105 years in prison for a series of bizarre robberies and sexual assaults. They all take place in women's beauty shops. Willis proclaims his innocence. It is not until 1998 that a committed young US attorney and sophisticated forensics by a Toronto lab uncover a serious miscarriage of justice. - If the Shoe Fits
E6If the Shoe FitsThe beaten and frozen dead body of a missing man is found in his abandoned car in Ottawa. The suspects are his wife and/or two male tenants. Detectives unearth stories of jealousy, abuse and a bloody boot. Whoever wore the boot killed the man. Police call on a forensic footprint specialist to solve the mystery. - High Park Rapist
E7High Park RapistMichael Giroux confesses to a rape and is sent to jail. While Giroux is incarcerated, the new owner of his house finds a number of IDs. One of them matches the rapist in a case eight years earlier. Investigators must determine whether Giroux is the High Park Rapist. - Root Cause
E8Root CauseThe body of a cocktail waitress is found in a dumpster in Vancouver shot and burned beyond recognition. Detectives follow a maze of clues to the likely killer. Unfortunately, the body is so charred, it is impossible to see if the blood in the suspect's car matches the victims. A forensic dentist steps into the picture. Only he can get to the root of the dilemma to close the case. - Murder in a Small Town
E9Murder in a Small TownA young female taxi-driver is fatally stabbed and left to die in Banff. The investigators find a knife and blood in the abandoned cab. Hundreds of men are questioned and give blood samples in a cross continent manhunt. It is two years before police identify two suspects who refuse to co-operate. It will take undercover operations to get the DNA samples and put a killer behind bars. - Nine Lives
E10Nine LivesA woman goes missing in Summerside, PEI. The blood inside her abandoned car tells a terrible story. DNA confirms the blood on a splattered man's jacket matches that of the missing woman. The jacket is also covered with white cat hairs. When the woman's body is found, her estranged common-law husband is charged. - Point Blank
E11Point BlankDisguised bandits fell a Brinks guard in Oshawa. The police find a fake bomb in the abandoned getaway car. It is a major forensic clue in tracking the gang. The bandits are charged - but the prosecution needs to find the murder weapon. Just days before the trial, investigators get a break, putting them knee-deep in swampy water searching for the murder weapon. - The Two Mr. Smiths
E12The Two Mr. SmithsFirefighters find two dead bodies on a burning boat in Sydney Harbour, Vancouver Island. Another boat has been broken into. The assailants may have drunk beer from the discarded cans on the boat. A forensics ID unit matches the cans through a serial code on the lid. Whoever broke into the second boat also killed the couple on the burning boat. - Bare Bones
E13Bare BonesA hunter makes a gruesome discovery near Saskatoon - a human skull. Detectives find the remains of two more bodies close by. A forensic anthropologist determines the three victims are female and aboriginal, all killed in the same time frame. The victims are identified through a police artist's reconstruction drawings. Behavioural profiler Ron MacKay helps nail a brutal serial killer. - Dead Drunk
E14Dead DrunkA middle aged Vancouver barber is having remarkably bad luck with his girlfriends - they kept dying. Coincidentally they were all native and alcoholics, so it is some time before an astute pathologist questions the staggeringly high blood alcohol levels. Forensic science pins Gilbert Paul Jordan as the serial killer in the world's first trial of homicide by alcohol poisoning.
