The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science - Season 9
Season 9
Network
Datesoct. 28, 2003 - oct. 31, 2004
Episodes
Season 9Episode 160 min
Hidden Obsessions
Sometimes those closest to a victim can be the most dangerous. Beneath a layer of trust can lurk a deadly obsession. In these cases, authorities employ an arsenal of forensic techniques to uncover the twisted path of lies that leads to murder.
oct. 28, 2003
Season 9Episode 260 min
Blind Trust
Often, a killer will build the victim’s trust before he or she attacks. In this episode, New Mexico police search for a missing teenager who disappeared from a local skating rink. Authorities suspect the two friends she was last seen with.
nov. 25, 2003
Season 9Episode 360 min
Shattered Vows
Marriage is one of the tightest bonds two people can have, until lies and deceit drive one of them to kill. In this episode, forensic experts are employed to link a woman’s husband to her violent murder and uncover a murder disguised as an accident.
janv. 10, 2004
Season 9Episode 460 min
Fatal Impressions
Sometimes the faintest fingerprint or tire track is all investigators need to solve even the most brutal of crimes. When a woman’s body is discovered in a field, detectives employ a rarely used technique to bring her killer to justice.
janv. 13, 2004
Season 9Episode 560 min
Misplaced Loyalty
A house fire in California turns into a murder investigation when authorities discover that the victim’s best friend and personal manager had recently cleaned out her bank account.
janv. 17, 2004
Season 9Episode 660 min
Killing Time
A killer will often try to disguise the victim’s body in an attempt to the hide the actual cause of death; however, forensics cannot be fooled. In this episode, authorities use reverse DNA testing to identify remains and solve an old crime.
janv. 29, 2004
Season 9Episode 760 min
Silent Killers
When money is the motive, there is no limit to what a killer will do to get away with their fortune. When officers find the dismembered remains of a young man, they also discover his girlfriend recently took out an insurance policy on the deceased.
mars 13, 2004
Season 9Episode 860 min
Out To Kill
Sometimes, cooperation from people who are not associated with a crime in any way is the only link between a criminal and the clues left behind for forensic experts. This episode examines cases in which good Samaritans help solve puzzling crimes.
mars 16, 2004
Season 9Episode 960 min
Raw Greed
Even ordinary objects, when used to kill, carry enough evidence for forensic scientists to piece together the most complicated murders. In this episode, criminals are brought to justice with evidence found on mundane, household objects.
mars 27, 2004
Season 9Episode 1060 min
Murderous Attractions
The most sacred of vows are sometimes not enough to stop a serious desire. In this episode, a nurse suspects a patient’s husband of attempted murder by poisoning and a man stages his depressed wife’s murder as a suicide.
avr. 10, 2004
Season 9Episode 1160 min
Broken Trust
Often, criminals misuse the trust they’ve built with their victims to commit heinous misdeeds. A family discovers the mummified remains of a pregnant woman; a nurse notices an unusually high number of deaths in an ICU unit and suspects foul play.
avr. 24, 2004
Season 9Episode 1260 min
Price of Murder
When the amount of money is substantial, a person can be motivated to do terrible things to someone they love. Police discover that a large life insurance policy was motive for a man’s murder. A woman hires help to cover up her husband’s death.
mai 8, 2004
Season 9Episode 1360 min
Stolen Youth
Murdering a child is perhaps the most heinous of crimes. But no matter how defenseless a killer believes a young child to be, there is no hiding from the clues left behind.
juin 12, 2004
Season 9Episode 1460 min
Loved to Death
Forensic science has advanced so much that even the oldest remains still share the clues necessary to convict a killer. Investigators use DNA to solve a murder case from 1980.
juil. 17, 2004
Season 9Episode 1560 min
Written in Blood
Blood can be the most telling evidence of a murder and often it is the only thing investigators have to link a killer to his or her victim. Forensic scientists and medical examiners look at blood spatter patterns to determine how someone was killed.
août 14, 2004
Season 9Episode 1660 min
Critical Evidence
Whether it is a fingerprint or a single bullet, sometimes it is the smallest piece of evidence that is needed to crack the biggest cases. In this episode, detectives use an ingenious technique to find the bullet that killed an elderly man.
août 28, 2004
Season 9Episode 1760 min
Fatal Twist
When an unexpected crime occurs with no eyewitnesses, very few clues and the killers on the run, authorities must rely on forensic science to discover the fatal twist in these cases.
sept. 18, 2004
Season 9Episode 1860 min
Vanished
Murderers will go to great lengths to keep their crimes concealed, but forensic evidence is impossible to cover up. In this episode, authorities rush to identify bodies found in drum barrels and locate several missing women linked to the killer.
oct. 31, 2004
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