Speck of Evidence

A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.

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A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel tie a suspect to the murder of a 9-year-old.

Forensic Files

Broken Bond

A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.

A mother with Munchausen syndrome by proxy kills one child and physically abuses another.

Out of the Ashes

Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.

A drop of blood and burned bones provide evidence of murder two years after the investigation began.

Invisible Intruder

A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.

The apparently motiveless murders of two children baffle police.

The Killing Room

A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.

A routine missing persons report leads to a deadly love triangle and a murder charge.

Ultimate Betrayal

A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.

A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children.

First Impressions?

A young single mother is abducted from a gas station and is later found stabbed to death near an oil field; the detectives use shoe and tire impressions to weed out numerous suspects.

A young mother is abducted from a gas station and is later found stabbed to death near an oil field.

Forensic Files II

Toxic Environment

When a 23-year-old Marine dies in his bedroom, doctors initially believe a heart attack is to blame; when arsenic is found in his organs, his wife is charged with murder; a sharp attorney and toxicological testing uncover the truth.

When a 23-year-old Marine dies in his bedroom, doctors initially believe a heart attack is to blame.

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The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world.

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Deadly Deception

A girl is strangled with the cord from her laptop.

Nightmare Next Door

Jack Be Deadly

Random shootings bring life to a halt in East Point, Ga., as police work around the clock to stop the mysterious gunman.

Random shootings bring life to a halt in East Point, Ga., as police hunt for the killer.

Stealing Beauty

Police suspect foul play after high school sophomore Kiplyn Davis fails to return home from school.

Murder at Sunrise

Police receive various tips after Kathryn Hauser is murdered in her home; a pair of shoe prints help them track down the criminal.

Police receive various tips after Kathryn Hauser is murdered; a pair of shoe prints help.

Gone

In Stockton, Calif., detectives struggle to catch Jessyca Arro's killer.

Mile High Murder Mystery

When a man is found murdered in his apartment and the fiance is missing, police become desperate.

Lone Star Mystery

The murder of Dennis and Norma Woodruff in their rural Texas home sends shock waves through the town.

The murder of Dennis and Norma Woodruff in their rural Texas home sends shock waves through town.

Thanksgiving Tragedy

Chris Mader is shot to death on Thanksgiving eve; years later investigators are lead to an unlikely informant.

Chris Mader is shot to death on Thanksgiving eve; investigators are lead to an unlikely informant.

Cement the Case

A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.

Forensics contradicts a husband's confession to his wife's murder.

Innocence Lost

In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.

Virginia police use hair from a rabbit-fur jacket to determine a 5-year-old girl's abductor.

Til Death Do Us Part

When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.

Doctors discover a man's illness is from poison being inflicted by his wife.

Body of Evidence

Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.

Police exhume the corpse of Karla Brown to study wounds that may lead them to the killer.

Accident or Murder?

A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.

Police reopen a case involving a woman who appeared to die from an accidental fall.

Core Evidence

A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.

A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli.

Haunting Vision

A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.

A woman is haunted by the memory of her father murdering her mother.

With Every Breath

After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.

A flu-like epidemic spreads throughout a Navajo reservation in 1983.

Slippery Motives

While at a real estate conference in St. Louis, a man finds his wife drowned in the bathtub in their hotel room.

Investigators come to suspect a wife's bathtub drowning may not have been an accident.

Badge of Deceit

A cunning serial rapist who leaves no decisive evidence forces investigators to rely on geographical profiling in their search for an identity; DNA from a cigarette butt may provide the final piece of evidence needed to catch the suspect.

A cigarette butt may provide the evidence needed to catch a serial rapist.

Dew Process

New evidence including fibers and weather patterns point to a different killer in the 1986 case of a Pennsylvania dentist's murdered wife.

New evidence points to a different killer in the case of a dentist's murdered wife.

A Woman Scorned

Insects and a single strand of hair uncover an additional suspect in the killing of a young mother and her baby in Lehigh Valley, Pa.

Insects and a strand of hair unravel the truth behind the murder of a woman and her infant son.

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