Forensic Files Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Forensic Files: Season 10 (2009 - 2011)

Forensic Files: Season 9 (2004 - 2008)

Forensic Files: Season 8 (2004 - 2007)

  • Season 8 Episode 40: Water Hazard

    Police investigate the murder of a man who died through ingesting cyanide. They find a clue in a mailing envelope which leads them to a dangerous killer

  • Season 8 Episode 38: Foreign Body

    A Californian doctor claims to have proof that the human form of BSE can be contracted through eating infected beef

  • Season 8 Episode 37: Murder She Wrote

    A victim of depression is found dead in what appears to be a straightforward case of suicide - until the discovery of a note hidden in a china cabinet leads investigators to her killer

  • Season 8 Episode 36: Concrete Alibi

    A forensic geologist helps solve the murder of an aspiring model whose boyfriend was initially suspected of complicity in her death

  • Season 8 Episode 35: Invisible Intruder

    An unusual murder case in which a woman was injured and her two children were killed, though the assailant left little evidence of his presence

  • Season 8 Episode 34: Beaten by a Hair

    How a partial thumb print and single wig fibre led to detectives discovering what happened to a 23-year-old woman who disappeared without a trace, revealing a tale of murder, madness and mistaken identity

  • Season 8 Episode 33: Saving Face

    A look at how detectives used DNA samples to solve the mystery of three women who disappeared without a trace

  • Season 8 Episode 31: The Gambler

    A triple murder in the town of Verona, Wisconsin, leads detectives into the shady world of high-rollers and off-shore gambling

  • Season 8 Episode 24: A Case of the Flue

    The team are called to investigate a robbery which ended in homicide - but the detectives become suspicious when evidence shows the killer was breaking out of the house - not into it

  • Season 8 Episode 13: As The Tide Turns

    A murder investigation is complicated when a witness statement contradicts police evidence

  • Season 8 Episode 8: A Tight Leash

    A stalker who was able to steal his victim's alarm code and personal photos is caught out by his threatening letters

  • Season 8 Episode 7: Ring Him Up

    New scientific testing sheds light on a ten-year-old case involving a missing college student

  • Season 8 Episode 6: Shell Game

    Criminals attempt to cover their tracks using fire. However, through the investigators' tenacity they find a small clue which leads them to the killers

  • Season 8 Episode 4: Chief Suspect

    The case of a murdered policeman's wife is reopened when a newly formed cold case unit take another look at the evidence, and they find critical clues to the killers identity

  • Season 8 Episode 3: A Novel Idea

    A man calls the police to his house where his wife has fallen down the stairs, but the amount of bloodstains at the scene prompts investigators to treat the death as suspicious

  • Season 8 Episode 2: Vanished

    The police struggle to believe a girl who claims she was abducted and sexually assaulted from her unemotional recounting of the tale - until fibres from her clothes prove the story

  • Season 8 Episode 1: Live Wire

    When a man is killed with a bomb investigators search for every piece of evidence until they find a clue that identifies the murderer

Forensic Files: Season 7 (2002 - 2006)

Forensic Files: Season 6 (1998 - 2007)

  • Season 6 Episode 58: Enemy Within

    Police investigate the murder of a Kansas City lawyer in his own office, in the middle of the day. The killer left microscopic evidence which led directly to him

  • Season 6 Episode 57: Summer Obsession

    Police investigate a seemingly accidental drowning in an affluent suburb of Philadelphia. The case becomes focused on one person who had a motive for murder

  • Season 6 Episode 56: Cop Out

    Police investigate the murder of a college student who appeared to have known his killer. Hairs and microscopic cells help officers unravel a web of lies

  • Season 6 Episode 55: Accident or Murder?

    A housewife is found dead at the foot of a flight of stairs, but the police initially rule out foul play : until her husband claims the life insurance and takes up with a new woman

  • Season 6 Episode 54: Haunting Vision

    The disturbing tale of an American woman who experienced visions of her mother being killed by her father 30 years previously, although it was uncertain whether the events actually occurred

  • Season 6 Episode 53: Scratching the Surface

    Despite the serial number being scratched off a gun used in a shooting crime, forensic scientists demonstrate how they were able to make the digits reappear using the latest technology and help police trace the weapon's owner

  • Season 6 Episode 52: Unholy Alliance

    Police investigate the disappearance of a young woman, who they feared was the latest victim in a string of similar incidents until forensic analysis proved otherwise

  • Season 6 Episode 51: 'Prints' Among Thieves

    Investigating the murder of a millionaire, who flaunted his wealth and had little personal security. The evidence seemed to indicate robbery, but investigators were unsure

  • Season 6 Episode 50: Clean Getaway

    Investigating the rape and murder of a woman at the dry-cleaners she worked at. Police had eyewitnesses but when their descriptions were not clear, they turned to forensics

  • Season 6 Episode 49: Writers Block

    The case of an architect who died just before she was due to testify in a criminal trial. Investigators are seeking a motive

  • Season 6 Episode 48: Four on the Floor

    When forensics investigate the murder of an American woman, they suspect a serial killer might be on the loose

  • Season 6 Episode 47: Gold Rush

    The police investigate when they receive a call from a man, who claims his girlfriend shot and killed herself. The autopsy reveals that the wound could not have been self-inflicted

  • Season 6 Episode 46: Oily in the Morning

    When the police recover a submerged car belonging to a man reported missing, they are perturbed to discover a pair of broken glasses on the floor but no body

  • Season 6 Episode 45: Ties That Bind

    Using forensic techniques, investigators try to uncover the murder of two boys who were killed in a similar way three months apart

  • Season 6 Episode 44: Picture This

    The case of a missing Californian teenager, who was presumed to have run away. However, her body turned up in a ditch 20 miles away

  • Season 6 Episode 43: Deadly Valentine

    Investigators determine how blood splatter evidence could prove that an obstetrician murdered his wife, despite his claims from him that he found her dead when he returned home

  • Season 6 Episode 42: Tight-Fitting Genes

    How the reconstruction of DNA by molecular biologists aided the Baton Rouge Police Department in catching a suspect

  • Season 6 Episode 41: A Leg up on Crime

    Looking at how shoe prints aided the police in catching the killer of two people found in a canal

  • Season 6 Episode 40: Cereal Killer

    How the police used evidence to track down the killer of a young boy who disappeared during a house fire and whose body was found 50 miles away from home

  • Season 6 Episode 39: Strong Impressions

    The death of an Air Force Officer's wife appears to be a tragic accident, but closer inspection of the scene reveals more sinister circumstances

  • Season 6 Episode 38: Tagging a Suspect

    Tiny pieces of plastic - the size of grains of sand - provide police with clues after a bombing in which a man was killed

  • Season 6 Episode 37: Army of Evidence

    The case of a woman who appeared to have committed suicide, only for a re-opened investigation to deduce murder was a possibility

  • Season 6 Episode 36: Shear Luck

    Officers find themselves having to reassemble a computer disk cut up with pinking shears in order to solve a brutal murder case

  • Season 6 Episode 35: Headquarters

    The discovery and identification of a human skull found in a Texas canyon, which led police to launch a manhunt when it was reconstructed

  • Season 6 Episode 34: Picture Perfect
  • Season 6 Episode 33: Soiled Plan

    An insight into how the latest techniques helped to find the murderer of a woman whose body was found 20 years ago

  • Season 6 Episode 32: Up in Smoke

    Examining evidence to determine how a fire broke out in the home of an elderly couple and whether their son was to blame, despite his pleas of innocence

  • Season 6 Episode 31: Charred Remains

    The use of forensic evidence to solve crimes, focusing on the discovery of a woman's charred remains which led police to uncover a tale of drugs, greed and murder

  • Season 6 Episode 30: Micro-clues

    How police used scientific techniques to detect where a boy was murdered, enabling them to link the case to a man arrested for another vicious killing

  • Season 6 Episode 29: Cement the Cases

    A man confesses to his wife's bizarre murder, but the police are unconvinced. It needs the intervention of a dentist and a forensic geologist to find the real killer

  • Season 6 Episode 28: Grave Evidence

    Insight into an incident in 1976 where the key witness had claimed his skeet-shooting partner had been shot accidentally

  • Season 6 Episode 27: Plastic Puzzle

    How modern techniques helped the police identify a car that knocked down a cyclist and killed him, leading them to its driver

  • Season 6 Episode 26: Similar Circumstances

    The police investigation into the kidnap of Robert and Paula Sims' baby daughter, which uncovered a similar incident that had taken place three years previously

  • Season 6 Episode 25: The Talking Skull

    Insight into how forensic work revealed that human remains found on a campsite belonged to a pregnant woman who had been missing for five years, ultimately leading to the arrest and conviction of the victim's husband : a Scout leader

  • Season 6 Episode 24: Marked for Life

    Police use handwriting analysis to track down a man who went on a crime spree in California nearly 50 years ago

  • Season 6 Episode 23: Trial by Fire

    The story of a woman who was charged with arson and murder until a renowned fire inspector checked the evidence and discovered the real culprit

  • Season 6 Episode 22: Deadly Delivery

    A bomber who appeared to be targeting members of the legal profession was tracked down after the police asked the FBI to draw up a psychological profile of the offender

  • Season 6 Episode 21: Road Rage

    In another suspected murder case, a mark on a victim's body leads the forensic investigating team to the killer

  • Season 6 Episode 20: Without a Trace

    The puzzling deaths of two dinner guests in Nebraska in 1978 which confounded police until they realised both victims had consumed lemonade laced with poison - the discovery of which led them to an embittered killer

  • Season 6 Episode 19: Slippery Motives

    The police grow suspicious of a man when his wife drowns in the bath and an autopsy reveals a series of bruises on her body

  • Season 6 Episode 18: Innocence Lost

    The case of a young girl's abduction, solved by police when fibres left at the scene were matched with those recovered from the car of their prime suspect

  • Season 6 Episode 17: Over and Out

    Police are mystified as to why a young man and his mother should be the targets of a pipe bomb - until the remnants of a postage label point them in the right direction

  • Season 6 Episode 16: With Every Breath

    How the FBI worked with Navajo medicine men to identify what had caused the deaths of children from their reservation

  • Season 6 Episode 15: Crime Seen

    How DNA evidence finally exonerated a prisoner after he had been wrongly sentenced to three life sentences for rape and sodomy by a Virginia court in 1984

  • Season 6 Episode 14: Fishing for the Truth

    A deckhand's heroic story of how he tried to save his captain's life after their small boat sank in a storm comes under suspicion when the man's body is found

  • Season 6 Episode 13: Speck of Evidence

    How police solved the case of a missing nine-year-old when they recovered a fragment of paint from a convicted child molester's car

  • Season 6 Episode 12: Walking Terror

    Police are puzzled when a man who brutally stabbed his wife and tried to drown her in their swimming pool appears to have no recollection of the attack

  • Season 6 Episode 11: Bitter Potion

    A woman's mysterious flu-like symptoms are diagnosed as something far more sinister, leading investigators to take an interest in one of her neighbours' passion for chemistry

  • Season 6 Episode 10: The Blood Trail

    A farmer fears someone is conducting a vendetta against him and his wife, but investigations reveal all is not as it seems

  • Season 6 Episode 9: Sealed With a Kiss

    A primary school teacher claims a colleague has resorted to a smear campaign to oust her from her position. The facts seem to bear out her allegations : but will DNA tests back up her story or tell an entirely different tale?

  • Season 6 Episode 8: Killer Fog

    How experts investigated a thick fog's regular appearance over an American interstate - which led to a spate of fatal car crashes over a 15-year period - and found the trail seemed to end at the doors of a local paper plant

  • Season 6 Episode 7: Something's Fishy

    How a link was established between two poisoning cases, when traces of a chemical used to kill algae in fish tanks were discovered by investigators in both of the victims

  • Season 6 Episode 6: Fatal Fungus

    How investigators traced a series of outbreaks of bleeding lungs in infants to a deadly black fungus which was growing in water-damaged houses in a Cleveland neighbourhood

  • Season 6 Episode 5: Out of the Ashes

    How police forensic teams used blood found at a murder scene to capture the killer of an 18-year-old woman, who was killed by her boyfriend when she refused his sexual demands

  • Season 6 Episode 4: Covert Operation
  • Season 6 Episode 3: Sex, Lies and DNA

    How a man who killed his wife and set fire to her body on his boat was convicted of her murder, when incriminating blood samples were taken from the family home

  • Season 6 Episode 2: Deadly Formula

    Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction.

  • Season 6 Episode 1: The Dirty Deed

    The work of forensic teams in proving a missing couple's son was responsible for their disappearance, leading to the recovery of the body and the killer's conviction

Forensic Files: Season 5 (2002 - 2007)

Forensic Files: Season 4 (2002 - 2006)

  • Season 4 Episode 35: Letter Perfect

    An apparently healthy man dies mysteriously in his sleep, and toxicology tests reveal signs of foul play, causing police to suspect a 'suicide note' holds the key to the case

  • Season 4 Episode 34: Sign of the Zodiac

    A serial killer announces his intention to kill one person from each sign of the zodiac, until handwriting analysis gives investigators the clues they need

  • Season 4 Episode 33: Bioattack

    A mass food poisoning in Oregon in 1984, where investigators tracked the outbreak to a cult who intended to use germ warfare to overthrow the American government

  • Season 4 Episode 32: Nailed

    A witness in a sexual assault case is murdered just before her appearance in court, leaving forensics to decide whether it was the defendant who killed her

  • Season 4 Episode 31: Sphere of Influence

    A woman's disappearance in Alaska doesn't arouse suspicions of foul play, until she is discovered shot dead. An eyewitness's evidence reveals more

  • Season 4 Episode 30: Bound for Jail

    Two decades after a woman's murder, investigators glean incriminating evidence including an old hat and a tiny shard of steel

  • Season 4 Episode 29: Honor Thy Father

    A murdered teenager's parents accept responsibility for the killing, and claim they were acting in self-defence - but an FBI electronic surveillance device proves otherwise

  • Season 4 Episode 28: Breaking News

    America's first DNA databank case succeeds in identifying the rapist and murderer of a TV news producer

  • Season 4 Episode 27: Brotherhoods

    A gay couple are murdered, leading investigators to a white supremacist organisation connected with hate crimes

  • Season 4 Episode 26: Web of Seduction

    Part one of two. Police investigating a fatal shooting discover no forensic evidence at the dusty and unkempt scene of the crime, but a trawl of computers belonging to the victim's wife and her lover soon yields the information they need

  • Season 4 Episode 25: Private Thoughts

    Forensic investigators challenge the conclusion of firefighters that a family burned to death in a suicide pact

  • Season 4 Episode 24: Within Arm's Reach

    A man accused of shooting his estranged wife maintains she committed suicide, and the investigators must establish which of the two versions best fits the evidence

  • Season 4 Episode 23: When the Dust Settled

    Forensic examiners use a sound test, an electron microscope and a nightgown to explain how a union official was murdered in his bedroom without his wife in the next room hearing a thing

  • Season 4 Episode 22: Order Up

    A man is found shot dead in his home, and investigators suspect his wife, who claims she was away on a camping trip with her lover at the time of her husband's death

  • Season 4 Episode 21: Past Lives

    Investigators call in the experts when the wife of a wealthy car-crash victim makes a $7million insurance claim - and a chilling trail of fraud and deceit is soon uncovered

  • Season 4 Episode 20: Smoke in Your Eyes

    The bodies of two women are found in the aftermath of an apartment fire, and a small sample of blood helps police investigate their suspicions about the case

  • Season 4 Episode 19: Once Bitten

    The story of a postman convicted of murder because of a bite mark on the victim. Ten years into his sentence, fresh evidence leads to another trial

  • Season 4 Episode 18: Tourist Trap

    A bite mark leads police to convict a postman during an investigation into a spate of robberies which resulted in a number of tourists being killed and injured

  • Season 4 Episode 17: Marathon Man

    When a man's body is found on a road near his family ranch, his wife tells police he went jogging, but the trail of evidence leads them back to his home

  • Season 4 Episode 16: The Big Chill

    A woman is prescribed lithium to treat a mental disorder. When she dies, investigators must decide whether the side effects drove her to suicide

  • Season 4 Episode 15: All the World's a Stage

    A homicide detective claims his wife accidentally shot herself in the head, but the evidence indicates otherwise.

  • Season 4 Episode 14: Hair of the Dog

    When witnesses are unable to agree on the circumstances surrounding a murder, investigators have to rely on clues from a gun and the victim's dog

  • Season 4 Episode 13: Shadow of a Doubt

    When the prime suspect in a woman's murder produces a solid alibi, a time-stamped video tape showing his activities on the day of the killing is analysed for authenticity

  • Season 4 Episode 12: Paintball

    Investigation into the murder of a Californian girl in 1962, which lasted 24 years before incriminating evidence was uncovered

  • Season 4 Episode 11: A Welcome Intrusion

    A man's heroic defence of his wife turns out to have an ulterior motive when his case is reinvestigated four years later

  • Season 4 Episode 10: The Music Case

    A girl's death is linked to a spate of burglaries when CDs similar to those owned by the victim are found among a cache of stolen goods

  • Season 4 Episode 9: Dessert Served Cold

    A team of toxicologists investigate the death of a man whose girlfriend's suspicious behaviour led police to believe he was murdered

  • Season 4 Episode 8: A Wrong Foot

    A single footprint puts forensic investigators on the trail of a killer after two injured victims fail to identify their attacker

  • Season 4 Episode 7: Dinner and a Movie

    The forensics team are called in to investigate the murder of a pregnant woman, the circumstances of which bear a suspicious resemblance to scenes in a film recently shown on TV

  • Season 4 Episode 6: Shot of Vengeance

    When a nurse exhibits signs of flu, doctors are baffled : until it turns out she has been deliberately infected with HIV

  • Season 4 Episode 5: All Wet

    A woman's 'accidental' drowning bears suspicious similarities to another death, casting doubt on the prime suspect's alibi

  • Season 4 Episode 4: Sign Here

    How a forensic handwriting expert found clues pointing to the murderer of a woman seen being bundled into a car

  • Season 4 Episode 3: Plastic Fire

    The story of a woman who was sentenced to life for killing her mother. Her chances of winning a retrial appeared slim, until an expert witness proposed a different theory

  • Season 4 Episode 1: X Marks the Spot

    Police in St Louis reveal how a computer helped to capture a serial killer

Forensic Files: Season 3 (2002 - 2004)

Forensic Files: Season 2 (2001 - 2004)

  • Season 2 Episode 21: Pastoral Care

    How the death of a female prison guard led to an investigation which revealed clues to a murder from 10 years earlier

  • Season 2 Episode 20: Sibling Rivalry

    A look at the case of a leading pornographer who shot his brother. Investigators study the recording of the emergency call to find out why

  • Season 2 Episode 19: Punch Line

    How a doctor discovered suspicious injuries when a villain sought advice for a cut hand

  • Season 2 Episode 18: Where the Blood Drops

    A murder suspect's son who enrolled at law school and studied until he discovered the evidence needed to clear his mother's name

  • Season 2 Episode 17: Double Trouble

    The similarities between an attack on a Maine State Trooper and the murder of a woman in New Jersey speed up the investigation into the killer's identity.

  • Season 2 Episode 16: Pure Evil

    How a combination of behavioural science and intuition helped catch the killer of two teenagers in Texas

  • Season 2 Episode 15: Killigraphy

    Detectives think the marks on a victim's body implicate a man in his wife's murder, but medical detectives have an alternative theory about how the scars were caused

  • Season 2 Episode 14: Bad Blood

    Documentary about a 35-year-long experiment conducted in Alabama, in which 420 healthy black men were infected with syphilis and denied treatment so medical staff could monitor the effects of the disfiguring disease

  • Season 2 Episode 13: Line of Fire

    The defence lawyer for a gang of bank robbers proves to be well organised in court, forcing police to rely heavily on forensic evidence

  • Season 2 Episode 12: Photo Finish

    A professional photographer is linked to a missing model after vital evidence is uncovered by a park ranger

  • Season 2 Episode 11: Church Disappearance

    The disappearance of a six-year-old girl from a church service leads investigators to a taxi driver who was in the area at the time

  • Season 2 Episode 10: Soft Touch

    How technology enables fingerprint evidence to be taken from fabrics such as curtains : a scientific advance which proved vital in identifying a woman's killer

  • Season 2 Episode 9: Frozen Evidence

    Investigators race against time to preserve evidence of a criminal's footprints found in the snow

  • Season 2 Episode 8: Whodunnit

    How scientists uncovered a trail of deceit and medical trickery in their bid to learn the truth about a badly burned body

  • Season 2 Episode 7: Mistaken for Dead

    The investigation of a man's death in a doctor's office reveals an insurance fraud involving stolen bodies and false identities

  • Season 2 Episode 6: Death Play

    A Shakespearean play forces a girl to reveal the truth about the death of her father, who was thought to have died from a heart attack

  • Season 2 Episode 5: Man's Best Friend

    How a girl's parents were jailed for her murder despite their claim that she was killed by the family dogs. Five years later, forensic scientists spot vital evidence

  • Season 2 Episode 4: Missing Pearl

    How forensic techniques helped find the body of a missing woman after a trail of blood petered out

  • Season 2 Episode 3: Missing in Time

    A man becomes the prime suspect when his wife is missing presumed dead after a domestic dispute - but new evidence comes to light suggesting he may have been framed

  • Season 2 Episode 2: Video Diary

    The killer in a petrol station shooting is identified when cutting edge technology and forensic experts are brought together in the analysis of poor quality CCTV footage

  • Season 2 Episode 1: Journey to Justice

    A prosecutor uses a ground-breaking video reconstruction in court to demonstrate how a drink-driving accident occurred

Forensic Files: Season 1 (2001 - 2005)

  • Season 1 Episode 34: Deadly Knowledge

    An investigation reveals the double life of a murder victim who was both a student and call girl

  • Season 1 Episode 33: Deadly Neighbourhoods

    Investigations into whether buried poisons, electrical substations and other modern environmental agents could be responsible for outbreaks of cancer and leukaemia across America

  • Season 1 Episode 32: Dew Process

    Forensic evidence from fibres provide clues to the murder of a dentist's wife committed two years previously - and disproves a confession to the killing

  • Season 1 Episode 30: The Magic Bullet

    A 15-year-old boy is shot in the head in the lobby of a gun club, and ballistics, laser technology and forensic animation are used to solve the case

  • Season 1 Episode 29: Root of All Evil

    A farmer's wife disappears without trace, and the former lover of the missing woman's husband reveals a story of murder and cremation

  • Season 1 Episode 28: Crash Course

    A highway patrolman is dispatched to a seemingly routine traffic accident, but his suspicions are aroused when he sees the amount of blood in the car

  • Season 1 Episode 27: Signed, Sealed and Delivered

    Officers suspect an act of revenge when a bomb explodes in the family home of a witness who testified against two men convicted of shooting and killing a passenger in a moving car

  • Season 1 Episode 26: Core Evidence

    A baby's death prompts a police investigation when she is discovered to have died from E-coli poisoning and the trail of bacteria is traced to contaminated apple juice

  • Season 1 Episode 25: Treads and Threads

    How a tyre impression and a few threads led Florida police officers to identify a serial killer

  • Season 1 Episode 24: One for the Road

    An investigation into the disappearance of a woman yields nothing but a pair of sandals which may have belonged to her, until police stumble upon video evidence

  • Season 1 Episode 23: Forever Hold Your Peace

    The story of a woman who was raped and murdered in a pizza restaurant. A man was jailed after confessing to the crime, but, eight years later, a new confession reopened the case

  • Season 1 Episode 22: Bagging a Killer

    A hidden fingerprint leads police to suspect the victim's mother after a nine-year-old girl goes missing

  • Season 1 Episode 21: Fire Dot Com: Hinson

    How a woman charged with murdering her child in a house fire conducted her own investigations, bringing into doubt the government's conclusions

  • Season 1 Episode 20: Hand Delivered

    How laser technology was used to trace the sender of an anonymous letter containing information about a murder and to discover the city, street and office number from where it was posted

  • Season 1 Episode 19: Naked Justice

    An attorney's wife is found dead in what initially appears to be a suicide attempt - but further investigation uncovers the truth

  • Season 1 Episode 18: Killing Room

    How faint blood splatters found on a wall during the search for a missing man alerted police to a love triangle gone tragically wrong

  • Season 1 Episode 17: A Woman Scorned

    A husband accused of killing his wife and her infant son is proven innocent when forensics discover a blonde hair at the crime scene

  • Season 1 Episode 16: The List Murders

    How a man who murdered his family was traced after 18 years on the run, using the latest technology to create an artificially-aged sculptured model of his likeness

  • Season 1 Episode 15: The House That Roared

    Police investigate when a woman goes missing and bloodstains are discovered at her home

  • Season 1 Episode 14: Insect Clues

    How the work of entomologist David Faulkner helped track down the killer of Sandra Cwik, whose body was found in 1988, decomposing and riddled with maggots

  • Season 1 Episode 13: Purr-Fect Match

    How cat hair helped police identify a killer, after forensic investigators traced the feline fur discovered in a car along with the body of a woman

  • Season 1 Episode 12: Internal Affair

    Friend's of a missing woman receive a shock when her body is discovered, propelling investigators to use blood evidence to find the killer

  • Season 1 Episode 11: Southside Strangler

    Advances in DNA profiling lead to the conviction of a serial rapist in Virginia, and pave the way for the man originally convicted of the crimes to be released

  • Season 1 Episode 10: Legionnaire's Disease

    Doctors are baffled after 180 legionnaires are struck down by a mysterious pneumonia-like illness, leaving 29 of them dead

  • Season 1 Episode 9: Outbreak

    Scientists in South Dakota discover many residents have high levels of animal thyroid hormones in their systems - apart from one boy who doesn't eat meat

  • Season 1 Episode 8: Nursery Crimes

    An investigation into the high child mortality rate at a Texas hospital, which revealed that a particular nurse was on duty in almost all cases. The discovery of an unlikely murder weapon provided sufficient proof to build a case against her

  • Season 1 Episode 7: The Wilson Murder

    A doctor is found dead in a pool of his own blood and the prime suspect is a local handyman who is caught with the victim's credit cards, but his claims incriminate the victim's wife

  • Season 1 Episode 6: Horse Play

    A woman dies in a horseback-riding accident, but investigators find facts that make her husband a murder suspect.

  • Season 1 Episode 5: Unholy Vows

    How forensic techniques used on a postcard helped track down a World War Two criminal who fled to America

  • Season 1 Episode 4: Broken Promises

    A man who died from what appeared to be an accidental gunshot wound, a case that turned into a murder investigation - with his widow as prime suspect - when police learned her previous husband suffered a similar fate

  • Season 1 Episode 3: Badge of Deceit

    How computer studies and behavioural science combine to create the forensic technique of geographical profiling, which helped police catch a rapist

  • Season 1 Episode 2: The Disappearance of Helle Crafts

    The mysterious disappearance of a woman who discovered her husband had been having an affair. Did she return to her native Denmark, or is there a more gruesome explanation?

  • Season 1 Episode 1: Lasting Impression

    Officers investigate possible links between two cases when a piece of chewing gum is found at the scene of a murder

  • Season 1 Episode 1: Frozen Assets

    How scientific and forensic techniques can help solve puzzling crimes. Detectives have to decide whether a businessman has been killed with malice aforethought or accidentally in the course of a bungled robbery

Forensic Files: Double Bill (2002)

  • Bad Blood; Badge of Deceit

    An accused rapist has blood taken from his arm on several occasions, but the results are misleading; after more than a decade, geographical profiling enables police to catch a rapist.

  • The Cheater/Naked Justice

    A song called 'The Cheater' foreshadows a singer's demise; investigators analyze blood to determine if a gunshot wound was self-inflicted.

Forensic Files: Season 00

  • Season 00 Episode 3: Shoot to Thrill

    A man discovers his father has been shot dead in their Minnesota home. Freshly fallen snow reveals an unidentified set of shoe prints, which seem to belong to the killer, but police investigators soon uncover a web of deception, greed and murder-for-hire

Forensic Files: Other Episodes

  • Stand In
  • Sunday School Ambush

    Investigators unravel a twisted tale of lust, greed and deception after a woman claims her husband was gunned down by intruders.

  • House Hunting

    Documentary examining an investigation into the murder of a successful estate agent, revealing how police used forensic hypnosis to help a witness recall every detail of a suspect's appearance, before making a composite sketch of the man they believed to be the killer

  • Shoot to Kill

    How the latest scientific and forensic techniques can help solve puzzling crimes

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