Name: The New Detectives
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Description: The New Detectives profiles the work of world-renowned forensics experts and criminal investigators and the techniques they use to solve murders and other crimes.

The New Detectives profiles the work of world-renowned forensics experts and criminal investigators and the techniques they use to solve murders and other crimes.

Profiles the work of world-renowned forensic experts and the procedures used to solve murders.

Dead Med Do Talk

Forensic experts work to tell the stories of young men who want to war and never came back.

Soldier Stories

Forensic experts can solve mysterious deaths by examining cases of poison and deadly chemistry.

Deadly Chemistry

From motives to habits, investigative profiling discloses a killers hidden motives.

Mind Hunters

Forensic photographers are the first people at a crime scene, capturing vital clues on film.

Camera Clues

Just a few microscopic cells found at a crime scene can be used to put a murder behind bars.

Double Helix

The kinds of insects on bodies can pinpoint time of death and help identify victims.

Web of Clues

Using clay and a knowledge of anatomy, forensic arts can recreate the victims likeness.

Face Of Tragedy

Approximately 1.8 million Americans are reported missing each year. Many are never seen again.

Without A Trace

Burning up the victim is a time-honored method of destroying physical evidence.

Burning Evidence

The investigation into a serial bombing case was one of the biggest investigations in history.

Short Fuse

Fingerprints are a time-tested method to establish someones ID beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Death Grip

Handwriting can be scrutinized down to the last dot and help solve a crime.

Signed In Blood

A flight data recorder known as a black box could be the only witness to a doomed flight.

Witness To Terror

We'll examine what forensics could and couldnt tell us about the trial of O.J. Simpson.

Trial Of The Century

Ballistics experts look at gunshot residues and bullet pathways to solve questions of a case.

Deadly Target

Forensic psychologists delve into the minds of serial killers.

Fatal Compulsion

A speck of blood or a strand of hair can prove a murder and capture a killer.

Bodies of Evidence

The tiniest filament can become a mark of distinction in the most intimate of ways.

Shreds of Evidence

A simple seedpod can provide the missing link by placing a suspect at a crime scene.

Seeds of Destruction

Toxicologists can examine blood and tissue to solve cases where death is not as it may seem.

Lethal Dosage

A tool used to commit a crime can often be the same tool used to solve it.

Tools Of Death

Advancement in science and technology are helping solve crimes that seemed unsolvable.

Out Of The Grave

The cutting edge of new forensic techniques can help solve cases more accurately.

Infallible Witness

Arson crimes are designed to take all clues with them but a case can be built from the ashes.

From The Ashes

With the expertise of bomb squads, bombs are deactivated and criminals are caught.

Living In Terror

Forensic investigators follow the physical evidence, psychologists study the criminal mind.

Lethal Obsessions

Sometimes the biggest cases are often solved by the smallest clues.

Traces Of Guilt

Cell phones, surveillance cameras, and ATMs track every move and help solve murders.

Electronic Witness

The truth of a murder is told through subtle clues taken from the crime scene.

Dead Wrong

A crime scene may appear to be clean but the culprit usually leaves something behind.

Lasting Impressions

Men arent the only ones who kill, but its still surprising when women do.

Women Who Kill

Contract killers are hired to do the dirty work.

Deadly Dealings

Serial killers murder again and again. Each time leaving clues leading to their undoing.

Body Count

Poisoners are the most devious of killers, relying on stealth in order to steal lives.

A Taste of Poison

Forensic scientists reevaluate unsolved crimes and apply new methods to solving them.

Grave Discoveries

The Rangers are part of the Texas Highway Patrol. Their role includes forensics labs.

Texas Rangers

Drug trafficking is providing a challenge for forensic investigators.

Bad Medicine

Baffling crimes have been solved through evidence provided by seemingly meaningless objects.

Unlikely Sources

Crime writers provide us with as near a first-person account as possible.

True Crime

Two of the countrys most respected coroners share their cases and insights into crime solving.

Coroner's Casebook

The solution to the most heinous crimes often hinge on the smallest of clues.

Remnant of Blame

When partners team up to commit murder, the weight of their guilt remains just as heavy.

Partners In Crime

Some killers choose their prey at random with no apparent motive but leave telltale clues behind.

Scattered Clues

Forensic entomologist and botanist help decipher the clues nature provides.

Natural Witness

Poison is the subtlest form of death, and investigators must bring these murders to light.

Tainted Trust

Investigators must go to extreme lengths to catch the killer when the victim is presumed dead.

Presumed Dead

When murder tears lovers apart, forensic science must put together the mystery to catch the killer.

Broken Vows

These cases took a decade or more to solve. Theres no statute of limitations on murder.

Cold Cases

When murder becomes a family affair, investigators must turn to forensics to uncover family plots.

Family Plots

Some people murder for love. But these killers did it for the money.

Blood Money

For serial killers, once is never enough. The challenge is steep when the killers murder by numbers.

Murder By Numbers

When a crime is centered around drugs, arson, or weapons investigators have the means to crack it.

A Federal Offense

Arson investigators can find clues from scorched rubble and ignite the flames of justice.

Flames Of Justice

When a murder is committed investigators turn to science and technology to uncover the truth.

False Witness

It takes the eye of the forensic investigator to follow the trail of evidence and find the killer.

Trails of Evidence

Approximately 1.8 million Americans are reported missing each year.

Missing

Some people dont care who they kill. These killers are the hardest to catch.

In The Line of Fire

Every family has its secrets, and sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed.

For Love Or Money

The tiniest residue left at the scene can become a mark of distinction in the most intimate of ways.

Left At The Scene

Poison is an almost invisible form of death, and toxicologists must find clues in blood and tissue.

Invisible Death

Each time serial killers kill, they leave behind a few clues, which ultimately lead to capture.

To Kill Again

Forensic anthropologists use skeletal remains to decipher the clues written in the bones.

Written In Bone

Time of death is an important consideration in a murder investigation.

Cold Blooded

Accidental deaths, disappearances, and fires are an everyday part of an investigators life.

Fatal Error

Drowning deaths look like accidents and water can destroy the clues the killer may have left behind.

Dead In The Water

Dogs have been trained to sniff out corpses, drugs, explosives, and missing persons.

Scent Of The Kill

For homicide investigators, its a race against time as they track their deadliest foe.

Bloodlust

Ballistic analysis is the key to finding killers who turn guns on their victims.

Deadly Aim

When a criminal needs a new identity, theft becomes a matter of life and death.

Stolen Identity

Seemingly small and insignificant clues become a victims silent witness.

Silent Witness

When abduction turns to murder, forensic science is the only key to finding justice.

Deadly intentions

The tread of a tire, a single shoe print and even the shape of a bruise help track down killers.

Patterns Of Guilt

Investigators rely on forensic odontology to identify a body from a single tooth.

A Deadly Smile

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service uses forensic science to solve three perplexing murders.

Military Justice

Investigators use advanced DNA analysis to shed new light on crimes that happened long ago.

The Unforgotten

Forensic scientists find clues written in blood as they investigate the deaths of three women.

Buried Secrets

Using a combination of art and science, forensic anthropologists give long forgotten victims a face.

Tainted Blood

DNA analysis overturns the convictions of three men who are paying for crimes they did not commit.

Proof Of Innocence

Forensic artists turn witness statements into pictures as they recreate the face of their killers.

Drawing Conclusions

When real crimes are stranger than fiction, forensic science can sort fact from fantasy.

Stranger Than Fiction

For the forensic entomologist, the insects that nest in dead bodies are like witnesses to a crime.

Predators And Parasites

Photography has long been a vital tool in homicide investigations.

In The Camera's Eye

When teenagers are driven to kill, their victims are but the first to fall.

Wasted Youth

A story of sleuths who solve a murder case from a missing shoe, and prove homicide without a body.

Collective Justice

For some killers, murder can be a profitable business.

Murder For Hire

When poison is used to commit murder, detectives turn to toxicologists to expose a toxic death.

Toxic Death

When evidence contradicts a killers story, police must use the clues to piece together the truth.

Material Witness

Sometimes a death seems to be accidental, it is up to forensic scientists to reveal deception.

Betrayed

When everyday substances reveal hidden clues, those substances become the elements of murder.

Elements Of Murder

The most frightening cases of murder occur when the killer appears to choose victims at random.

Random Targets

Killers often deflect attention away from their crimes by hiding the remains of their victims.

Grave Secrets

When a victim is gunned down at close range, police often assume that a friend is to blame.

At Close Range

In most homicides, police rely on motive to pursue a murderer.

Lethal Encounter

When killers are driven by jealousy and desire, their desperation is evident in their crime.

Crimes Of Passion

Often killers destroy the remains of their victims and end up with an absent witness.

Absent Witness

Sometimes killers tools (or weapons) leave an innocent victim marked for death.

Marked For Death

Anytime, anywhere, people disappear, kidnapped from their daily routines.

Fatal Abduction

Some killers choose to hide their victims and examiners must uncover proof of murder.

Medical Examiners's Casebook

At a crime scene, anything is considered a clue. But a fire can extinguish everything in its path.

The New Detectives

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