April 27, 2005 • 23m
A house erupted in flames on a cold January night, killing one person and injuring another. The survivor blamed a kerosene heater ...Read more
May 18, 2005 • 23m
In 1957, California police searched for a man who had committed several crimes in one night – including murder, but after followin...Read more
June 1, 2005 • 23m
A man riding a bicycle was fatally injured, the victim of a hit-and-run accident. Tiny clues found at the scene created a picture ...Read more
June 29, 2005 • 23m
When an elderly couple died in a suspicious house fire, their son became the prime suspect. The son insisted he was innocent; he s...Read more
July 6, 2005 • 23m
A mother of two young children went missing and, less than a day later, her body was found. The evidence was little better than ci...Read more
July 13, 2005 • 23m
When hunters reported finding a skull in a Texas canyon, police find bits of clothing, a woman's shoe, some small bones and a stra...Read more
July 20, 2005 • 23m
A married couple decided to escape the cold of winter with a mini-vacation in Key West. The wife went missing, and police searched...Read more
July 27, 2005 • 23m
A mother of two young children was found dead in her bedroom. It appeared she had killed herself: There were suicide notes near he...Read more
August 3, 2005 • 23m
In 1991, when the wife of a serviceman was brutally murdered in the Philippines, the Air Force Office of Special Investigators swu...Read more
August 10, 2005 • 23m
Bombings are difficult to solve, because the perpetrator isn't usually at the scene, and the evidence goes up in smoke. But there ...Read more
August 17, 2005 • 23m
The wife of an Air Force officer was found dead in her bed, with a plastic laundry bag near her face. At first glance, it appeared...Read more
August 24, 2005 • 23m
When a fire destroyed most of a home and a young boy went missing, police organized the largest search in the history of their sma...Read more
August 31, 2005 • 23m
A highway patrolman was dispatched to what he thought would be a routine traffic accident until he looked in the car. While he had...Read more
September 7, 2005 • 23m
The decomposed body of a young woman was discovered in a Bakersfield irrigation canal. If there was trace evidence, it had been wa...Read more
September 14, 2005 • 23m
A behavioral profile is helpful in a murder investigation, but it's not a road map to the killer. One such profile caused the Bato...Read more
September 21, 2005 • 23m
An obstetrician returned home from the hospital and found his wife on the floor of the bathroom. She was covered with blood and no...Read more
September 28, 2005 • 23m
A Modesto, CA, teenager went missing. There was no sign of a struggle in her home, and police suspected she'd simply run away unti...Read more
October 5, 2005 • 23m
When police recovered the submerged car of a man reported missing, they expected to find his body – but it wasn't there. His broke...Read more
October 12, 2005 • 23m
Emergency dispatch received a call from a man who said his girlfriend shot and killed herself. Police found the victim in the call...Read more
October 19, 2005 • 23m
A Native American woman was brutally killed in the desert of New Mexico, and the crime scene was rich in forensic evidence: tyre t...Read more
October 26, 2005 • 23m
A brilliant young architect became ill and died just before she was to testify in a criminal trial. The autopsy revealed she'd bee...Read more
November 2, 2005 • 23m
An employee of a dry cleaner was raped and murdered in the store, and investigators thought themselves fortunate to have two eyewi...Read more
November 9, 2005 • 23m
The murder of an eccentric millionaire was not entirely unexpected; he flaunted his wealth and cared little for personal security....Read more
November 16, 2005 • 23m
When a young woman disappeared, police feared she was the latest victim in a string of similar crimes but the MO wasn't quite righ...Read more
November 23, 2005 • 23m
Two men were convicted of intentionally shooting and killing a passenger in a moving car, their friend was granted immunity for te...Read more
December 14, 2005 • 23m
Police initially suspect that the death of a gay student is a hate crime, until just three strands of hair and some microscopic ce...Read more
December 21, 2005 • 23m
In an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, police were called to the scene of what appeared to be an accidental drowning. The investig...Read more
December 28, 2005 • 23m
Kansas City attorney Richard Armitage was brutally murdered in his office in broad daylight. The first prime suspect was Lou Campb...Read more
January 4, 2006 • 23m
When two women from the same town were murdered in the same way, police feared a serial killer was on the loose. At first they tho...Read more
January 11, 2006 • 23m
A young woman was found dead on a golf course in the Bahamas. The grass on that course was so distinctive, it had evidentiary valu...Read more
February 8, 2006 • 23m
A teenager went missing after an evening of horseback riding. Her body was found a month later, three miles from her home. The kil...Read more
February 22, 2006 • 23m
When a popular disc jockey was found murdered in a community garden, police swung into action. A sniffer dog and a blood spatter e...Read more
March 8, 2006 • 23m
When a woman's husband was gunned down in his own garage by intruders, investigators worked tirelessly to find the assassins. But ...Read more
March 22, 2006 • 23m
Three seemingly unrelated deaths proved to be serial murders. The killer had been careful – he used poison which had no taste or o...Read more
April 5, 2006 • 23m
The crime scene was awash with blood. The victim had been brutally murdered as he slept in his own bed. There were no foreign fing...Read more
April 12, 2006 • 23m
Now it's not only a fingerprint which can link a killer to a crime; a shoe print can be just as telling. Armed with little else, p...Read more
April 26, 2006 • 23m
When the head chef of a historic Philadelphia restaurant was found dead, investigators interviewed the usual suspects: family, fri...Read more
May 10, 2006 • 23m
A serial arsonist was on the loose in Washington, DC. Each of the fires was started with the same type of incendiary device. The p...Read more
May 31, 2006 • 23m
When Genell Plude was found dead in her bathroom, the scene pointed to suicide. But a coroner's inquest and a unique application o...Read more
June 14, 2006 • 23m
Three homicides on two continents looked like professional executions. Investigators on both sides of the Atlantic needed to find ...Read more
June 21, 2006 • 23m
A 29-year-old woman was killed instantly when a bomb exploded in her home. The device was so powerful that shrapnel was embedded i...Read more
July 12, 2006 • 23m
A killer tried to incinerate and destroy everything that could link him to his crime. But in doing so, he inadvertently created ne...Read more