Tag: Detective

A Native American woman was brutally killed in the desert of New Mexico, and the crime scene was rich in forensic evidence: tire tracks, shoe […]

When a man is gunned down in his own garage, police discover that a wound sustained by the grieving widow may have been self-inflicted. They […]

Armed with little else, police hoped the shoe impressions found at a Lansing, Michigan crime scene would put their investigation of Audrey Nichols’ murder back […]

Three seemingly unrelated deaths proved to be serial murders. The killer had been careful – he used poison which had no taste or odor. Fortunately […]

Bombings are difficult to solve, because the perpetrator isn’t usually at the scene, and the evidence goes up in smoke. In this case pieces of […]

A behavioral profile caused the Baton Rouge Police Department to search for the wrong man. The real perpetrator may have eluded arrest, had it not […]

In 1991, when the wife of a serviceman was brutally murdered in the Philippines, investigators had to reassemble a 5-1/4 inch computer disk which had […]

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 […]

A killer tried to incinerate and destroy everything that could link him to his crime. But in doing so, he inadvertently created new forensic evidence, […]

An obstetrician returned home from the hospital and found his wife on the bathroom floor. She was covered with blood and not breathing. He tried […]