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Forensic Files Season 1 episodes
S01 E01
The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
22 mins · Sun, 21 Apr 1996
The investigation into the disappearance of Helle Crafts leads to the arrest, and conviction for murder, of her husband.
S01 E02
The House That Roared
22 mins · Thu, 10 Oct 1996
Investigators use DNA typing on blood evidence in order to convict a man of his wife's murder.
S01 E03
The Magic Bullet
22 mins · Thu, 17 Oct 1996
Fifteen-year-old Trey Cooley is shot and killed in the lobby of his father's Dallas gun club. Investigators rely upon a combination of old-fashioned police work and computer animation in order to solve the shooting.
S01 E04
The Footpath Murders
23 mins · Wed, 23 Oct 1996
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.
S01 E05
Planted Evidence
22 mins · Thu, 24 Oct 1996
Arizona police rely upon the expertise of a molecular geneticist in solving a murder. DNA profiles link unidentified seed pods, found in a suspect's truck, to a tree growing in the same place where the body was found.
S01 E06
Southside Strangler
22 mins · Thu, 31 Oct 1996
After police believe themselves to have captured a serial rapist and murderer, DNA testing suggests that they have the wrong suspect and leads to another arrest.
S01 E07
Legionnaires' Disease
22 mins · Thu, 7 Nov 1996
Since 1976, when 180 war veterans were hospitalised in Philadelphia with pneumonia-like symptoms, the disease has been resurfacing every few years, leaving doctors baffled.
S01 E08
The Wilson Murder
22 mins · Thu, 14 Nov 1996
An Alabama woman finds her husband brutally murdered in their home, but differing interpretations of the physical evidence upset the legal case.
S01 E09
Deadly Neighborhoods
23 mins · Thu, 21 Nov 1996
Troubling clusters of deadly cancer cases strike concerned communities across the country. In a Phoenix suburb, too many children are fatally stricken with leukemia and, on a Connecticut street, there is a disproportionate amount of illness, including four cases of brain cancer. Modern environmental agents such as buried poisons and electrical substations are found... Could these be the culprits?
S01 E10
Insect Clues
22 mins · Thu, 28 Nov 1996
Investigators solve the murder of a drifter in southern California, a case dating back to 1988, through an examination of a species of fly found in the vicinity of the body.
S01 E11
Outbreak
22 mins · Thu, 5 Dec 1996
Following an outbreak of thyrotoxicosis in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, thought to have come from contaminated meat, the US Department of Agriculture conducts a review of the use of thyroid hormones in animal products.
S01 E12
The List Murders
22 mins · Thu, 12 Dec 1996
A man murders his family and eludes the law for years, until a forensic sculpture and a true-crime TV program help find him and bring him to justice.
S01 E13
Raw Terror
23 mins · Thu, 19 Dec 1996
Escherichia coli (E-coli) bacteria can be found in meats, milk and in water. When food is properly processed, prepared and stored, E-Coli are harmless. But in the absence of these simple precautions, E-Coli can have deadly consequences. Raw Terror tells the story of Damion Heersink, an eleven-year-old boy who almost died after eating an improperly cooked hamburger teeming with E-Coli, and the people who saved his life.