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- A series featuring detailed accounts on how notable crimes and diseases were solved through forensic science.
- Forensic Files II is a revival continuation of the long-running American documentary true crime series Forensic Files (1996-2011).
- Syndicated series aired in various cities throughout the United States providing local interviews with area health care specialists combined with taped elements used in all markets.
- 1996–201121mTV-148.2 (29)TV EpisodeIt would take forty-six years, handwriting analysis, and new fingerprint technology to solve the 1957 murders of two California police officers.
- The autopsy played an important role in a murder investigation fof the suspicious 1997 death of Georgia resident Virginia Ridley. Police charged her mentally-unstable husband Alan with murder, but a medical examiner discovered that she died of other causes. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 9.
- Haunted by the disappearance of her mother some twenty years earlier, a young woman undertook an investigation of her own. Her mother's diary was in the now "cold" case file; there, in her mother's own handwriting, she discovered a dark family secret, which might have been the reason her mother vanished. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 13.
- When a severed leg is found in a dumpster, investigators are faced with the challenge of identifying the victim. Using anthropology, toxicology and DNA testing, police are able to determine who the victim was and follow the trail of evidence to his killer. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 14.
- An Army wife's death appears to be a suicide, but detectives are suspicious when they learn that the woman almost died in a house fire a few years earlier.
- For more than a decade, women in a small Louisiana city lived in fear of a rapist who becomes so experienced, he leaves no clues to his identity. But computer technology and behavioral science combine to give police a new forensic tool: geographical profiling. Police narrow their search to one man, local policeman Randy Comeaux. Originally aired as Season 5, Episode 1.
- A woman is found dead in a ravine near a jogging path. Significant crime scene evidence had been washed away by a series of thunderstorms. Twice, the trail turned cold. Then, almost twenty years later, an old hat and a chip of stainless steel no longer than a fingernail would finally bring the killer to justice. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 22.
- Investigators look into what is making a family unwell.
- On Valentine's Day, an obstetrician finds his wife dead and calls 911. However, police discover inconsistencies between the blood spatter evidence and his version of events.
- An Alaskan police officer discovered a woman's body while patrolling a public park. A knife thought to be the murder weapon was found days later, two thousand miles away. Forensic scientists now had an opportunity, which seldom occurs: to compare the microscopic marks on the presumed murder weapon with the marks on the victim's bone. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 3.
- After a street fight claimed the life of a national wrestling champion, a jury decided it was murder, and sentenced the accused to twenty years in prison. Six years later, he was granted another trial; a forensic animator, who testified on his behalf, gave a different explanation for the most shocking piece of evidence. Originally aired as Season 9, Episode 15.
- William "Blaine" Hodges, a U.S. Postal Service employee, is convicted of embezzlement in Roanoke, Virginia. But before he can report to prison, the Hodges family home is found on fire and the entire family is found dead inside. Mom, Teresa Hodges, has been strangled, and Dad, Blaine Hodges, and his daughters Winter and Anah have all been shot in the head. Although the crime scene appears to be a murder-suicide, the coroner rules that out quickly: Blaine Hodges was not only dead before the fire was set, but his body had already started to decay. As the police interview friends and family, Blaine's best friend, Earl Bramblett, zooms to the top of the suspects list, and then the police find his storage unit filled with audiotapes...
- The investigation into a brutal attack on two boys near a pond relies on evidence fished out of the murky water. It was the first case where Diatom evidence was used to place a suspect at the scene of the crime. The evidence helped in the conviction Christopher Green and Brian Davis. Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 3.
- The violent death of an Air Force officer's wife outside a Philippines air base is examined, amid accusations of a love triangle involving the murdered woman's husband. Investigators use groundbreaking computer forensics to make their case.
- A mother of two disappears after a shopping trip. Her body is found a month later. Witnesses saw the victim being forced into a car by an unknown person. Police learn that the car had been rented, but the signature on the rental agreement does not match that of their number one suspect. A forensic handwriting expert points to the murderer. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 4.
- In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, we explore the case of 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, who was raped and murdered in her small town. When one of Crystal's male acquaintances' DNA matched semen at the crime scene, it raised the question, why would he volunteer for a DNA sample? Originally aired as Season 7, Episode 5.
- Walter Notheis Jr. was better known to the American public as entertainer Walter Scott, lead singer of the band, "Bob Kuban and the In-Men." Their most popular single was the 1966 hit, "The Cheater." Little did Walter know that the song would foreshadow the events that would lead to his demise. An autopsy on woman who died years earlier in a peculiar car wreck, a backyard hiding space, and years of investigation combine to finally solve the singer's disappearance.
- Entomology and computer forensics help solve the 1988 kidnapping and murder of a Pennsylvania banker's wife.
- In 1993, thieves were robbing and killing tourists in Florida, making worldwide headlines. One victim fought back, suffering a bite mark that became key evidence against a determined suspect - who ran into a even more determined detective.
- When the mail-order bride of a former army sergeant goes missing, investigators look into the deaths of the man's previous two wives.
- Neighbers do not hear the gunshots when a union official is killed in his home.
- Hair and fiber evidence help solve the 1988 murder of an Ohio woman whose body was discovered in a frozen river.
- A look at the forensic evidence in the case of the "River Park Rapist," who assaulted four women in South Bend, Indiana during 1996. Three victims identify one man as the perpetrator, however, forensic evidence points to another man.
- Karla Brown was found brutally murdered in the basement of her home. There was little evidence at the scene, and it began to look like the killer had committed the perfect crime. Then investigators noticed something in the crime scene photographs that had previously been overlooked: The killer had left behind an important clue after all.
- In 1986 a woman named Stephanie Brown was driving some friends home to a foreign part of town. She took a wrong turn on Interstate 5 to get home and was later found dead in a flooded irrigation ditch.
- Who was the sexual offender that murdered two adolescent boys in Nebraska? A criminal profiler from the FBI said he would definitely kill again. The key to stopping him would be the unique composition of the "junk rope" he used to tie his victims. Omaha police and the FBI use rope analysis, psychological profiling, forensic odontology, and even hypnosis to bring a 116-day manhunt to a close, and solve yet another murder in another state.
- A man fond of square-dancing disappears exactly one year after starting an affair with his friend's wife. Fifteen years later, a hobbyist with a metal detector helps police find evidence proving what happened, and who was responsible.
- In an affluent suburb of Philadelphia, police were called to the scene of what appeared to be an accidental drowning. The investigation gradually focused on one person, a suspect who had more than a million reasons to want the victim dead. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 27.
- The case of the Center City Rapist and the murder of Shannon Schieber. Philadelphia authorities use an anonymous letter and geographic profiling to hone in on a suspect who attacks victims who live on upper floors of apartment buildings.
- A van strikes down a bicyclist in the middle of the night. Pieces of orange plastic left at the scene become part of a jigsaw puzzle that helps solve the crime.
- On a September night in 1966, Dianne Keidel met a friend for a drink, and afterward, she disappeared. Investigators were unable to determine if Dianne was the victim of foul play, or if she couldn't face the responsibilities of being a single mother with four young children. That question was answered twenty-seven years later, when her daughter came forward with a fantastic tale of something she remembered seeing when she was only five-years-old. Could ground-penetrating radar and forensic anthropology help solve the mystery that haunted a young child all the way into adulthood?
- When a pipe bomb ripped through a rural home, killing a young man and seriously injuring his mother, police had no idea who was responsible. A lot number on a 9-volt battery and the remnants of a mailing label found on a computer's hard drive enabled investigators to determine who sent the bomb, and why. Originally aired as Season 8, Episode 32.
- When a two-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital suffering from brain seizures and breathing difficulties, doctors could not find the cause of his illness. Then the boy's sister provided an important clue, and raised the possibility of a syndrome of which few had ever heard, a syndrome that would need both medical investigators, and legal authorities.
- The owner of a historic restaurant killed. Investigators uncover tales of debt and deceit. But the case remains open, until one detective gets inspired by an earlier episode of "Forensic Files", and looks for clues in an empty holster.
- A 29-year-old woman was killed instantly when a bomb exploded in her home. The device was so powerful that shrapnel was imbedded in houses across the street. The bomber had not only knowledge and skill, but also a motive for murder. Originally aired as Season 10, Episode 40.
- A young sailor named Billy Bosko married his high school sweetheart, Michelle Moore Bosko. When he returns to his home port of Norfolk, Virginia on July 8, 1997, he finds his 19 year old bride lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Some one had raped and murdered her. The police investigation focuses on a neighbor, who confesses. But his DNA does not match the killer's. That begins a series of police interrogations and 'confessions', all of which are in conflict with the forensic evidence. Four men are eventually sent to prison. Three others are accused. Finally, an eighth man confesses in a letter, and his is the only DNA that matches. Now defense investigators and others wonder - why were these other men accused... and even sent to prison?
- A car carrying three young men pulls alongside another on an Alaskan highway and a shot is fired, leaving a passenger in another vehicle dead. One of the passengers in the killer's car agrees to testify against his friends. The resulting trials don't end the carnage.
- Hunters make a grisly find in a Texas canyon: a human skull. Crime scene analysis reveals bits of clothing, a woman's shoe, some small bones and one strand of hair. An anthropologist determines the victim was a Caucasian woman who had been stabbed repeatedly. A forensic artist reconstructs her face and police eventually learn who she was. Now all they have to do is find her killer.
- After moving with her family from Sudan to the United States, a little girl becomes ill and dies; authorities must determine how and why it happened.
- In 1963, Australian teenager John Button is accused of running down his girlfriend on the roadway after a fight. After a brutal police interrogation he confesses, than recants. He is tried and convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to a primitive Victorian-era prison. He regains his physical freedom, but is branded a guilty man. Almost forty years later, a writer uncovers evidence that another man, a known serial killer, might really be responsible. In fact, he had confessed. An accident reconstruction expert tracks down antique cars to re-create the accident, and clear a man's name decades after a cruel injustice.
- A 33-year old woman meets, falls in love with, and marries a successful young doctor, but an unusual amount of discomfort during her pregnancy arouses her suspicions, prompting a personal investigation that culminates in a startling revelation.
- From 1990 to 1993 a killer terrorized New York murdering 8 random people. Investigators begin finding with each new victim a strange pattern began to immerge. Each victim found at different locations and appeared to be unrelated victims were being killed each month representing the astrological sign of the new victims. With little evidence and no apparent connection between the victims the investigators were stumped as the city began to fear the unknown self proclaimed zodiac killer. Investigators needed a break and confident this suspect was not the same one who terrorized San Francisco the case needed another victim if they were to get a new clue. And the next victim of the zodiac proved to be the break needed. Growing sloppy or unlucky, the zodiac failed to kill the next victim, giving investigators their first account of the suspect. Next in his letters to authorities the second clue was uncovered: a licked envelope by the suspect provided the DNA of the zodiac to authorities. They now possibly had the forensic evidence needed to bring down this maniac and end his murdering spree haunting the City
- A World War II veteran was found dead in his home, and the investigation ground to a halt when the prime suspect had a solid alibi. But a lucky break led to a shady character who wore distinctive boots and had a sweet tooth. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 6.
- The driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian on a Harrisburg street. The Jeep Grand Cherokee he was leasing around that time had been sold months ago to a buyer in another state. Police were able to find the vehicle. They impounded it, took it apart, and discovered evidence which would tell them what really happened that night. Originally aired as Season 11, Episode 12.