Forensic Files
No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problem.
Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.
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Season 1
13 episodes
Premiered Apr 21, 1996
Season 2
13 episodes
Premiered Oct 2, 1997
Season 3
13 episodes
Premiered Oct 1, 1998
Season 4
13 episodes
Premiered Jun 10, 1999
Season 5
19 episodes
Premiered Sep 12, 2000
Season 6
30 episodes
Premiered May 21, 2001
Season 7
42 episodes
Premiered Jan 1, 2002
Season 8
42 episodes
Premiered Apr 2, 2003
Season 9
30 episodes
Premiered Jun 2, 2004
Season 10
42 episodes
Premiered Apr 27, 2005
Season 11
42 episodes
Premiered Jul 19, 2006
Season 12
30 episodes
Premiered Sep 26, 2007
Season 13
50 episodes
Premiered Sep 12, 2008
Season 14
21 episodes
Premiered Jul 16, 2010
Ep 1The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
The 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.
Ep 2The Magic Bullet
At 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".
Ep 3The House That Roared
Caren 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.
Ep 4The Footpath Murders
The first case to use DNA evidence is detailed. In 1983 Leicester, England, police were stymied by a rape/murder of a 15-year-old girl; three years later, faced with a similar crime, they turned to Dr. Alec Jeffreys, a molecular biologist with a revolutionary approach to solving the case.
Ep 5Planted Evidence
Single 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.
Ep 6Southside Strangler
The 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.
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