Forensic Files

Denise Johnson was found dead in an Arizona forest with little forensic evidence around her. Could history be made in a courtroom with the utilization of plant DNA as evidence?

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Early one morning, a woman went missing on her way to work. A strand of hair in her hairbrush led investigators to unravel the mystery.

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A woman is murdered on a jogging trail in the middle of the day. The leads from cell phone records and search dogs go nowhere. Nine days later, a witness tells police about a chance encounter, and cigarette butts which may contain the killer's DNA.

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Twenty-four hours after her face-to-face meeting with a man she met online, the woman and her soon-to-be-ex-husband were shot to death. Only the computer had been taken from her home, and with it, the means to identify the killer.

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Police discover a decomposed body had been stuffed in a barrel 30 years earlier. An address book was found with the body.

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The story of how a routine missing-person case became a murder inquiry involving a love triangle.

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Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder.

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A mother was convicted for the death of her four-month-old. An explanation for his death would come from his newborn brother.

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A wealthy man and his wife were attacked by three men outside their luxurious Louisiana home. He was shot dead and she was forced to open their hidden safe. The woman could not describe the men because they wore masks. To solve the case, police would have to find out who knew about the concealed safe, and who would benefit from the crime.

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The investigation of an exotic dancer's disappearance led police to an isolated 75-acre site where someone had been shot and cremated. The destruction of the remains was almost complete... almost, but not quite. Soft tissue attached to a piece of a foot provided enough DNA for a genetic profile, and positive identification of the victim.

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