Tag: Murder

In 1994, 19-year-old Shannon Melendi disappeared while at Emory University. For ten years, her disappearance remained a mystery, until new scientific testing cast a different […]

The prime suspect had a criminal record, and his driver’s license was found at the scene of a brutal double-homicide.  Forensic Files is the longest-running […]

The victim had ingested a massive amount of cyanide. An unlikely clue – a flaw on a mailing envelope – exposed a murderer who was […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The murder of an eccentric millionaire was not entirely unexpected; he flaunted his wealth and cared little for personal security. The evidence at the crime […]

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 […]