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 […]

Police instituted an intense search when the mother of two young children went missing. Twenty years after finding her body, advances in technology enable investigators […]

A mother of two young children was found dead in her bedroom. Her death was ruled a suicide – but when investigators learned she had […]

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 […]