Episode 1
Without a Trace
23m10.0 / 10
In Omaha, the deaths of a child and a truck driver in the same hospital on the same day are investigated to see if there is a link between them.
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Forensic Files
1996TV-MA14 seasons7.9 / 10
No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problem.
Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.
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Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.
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Episode 2
Knot for Everyone
23m
In the mid-1980s, bodies of nude woman were found in remote hill of California. The killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case.
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Episode 3
The Talking Skull
23m
In 1987, a human skull and some bones were discovered at a Boy Scout Camp near Farmington, Missouri. A facial reconstruction aided the investigators in this case. Once the victim was identified as Bun Chee Nyhuis, her husband Richard H. Nyhuis, was no longer just a person of interest.
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Episode 4
Foreign Body
23m
Between 1986 and 1989, a disease swept through British cattle herds, which came to be known as Mad Cow disease. Scientists began to suspect that this was somehow related to some human illness. A California neurologist said both humans and animals were suffering from a mutated prion. When defective prions are transmitted from an infected host to a new host, they convert any normal prions they come across into copies of themselves so it is possible for a mutated prion to be transmitted from a cow to a person by eating beef. Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel prize for his work with prion.
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Episode 5
Deadly Delivery
23m
A serial bomber was waging a vendetta against the legal profession: a judge, two attorneys, and even a courthouse had been targeted. Employing a range of forensic techniques, investigators used evidence from the bombs to lead them to the perpetrator.
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Episode 6
'Sim'ilar Circumstances
23m
Robert Sims returned home after working the night shift, and found his wife, Paula, unconscious on the kitchen floor. Their two-year-old son, Randy, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, but their six-week-old daughter, Heather, was missing. Paula Sims was the only witness to a crime that baffles investigators to this very day.
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Episode 7
Grave Evidence
23m1.0 / 10
The shooting of a man during a hunting trip is reopened years after the incident, and the victim's hunting partner becomes a suspect.
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Episode 8
Deadly Formula
23m
A possible case of Munchhausen syndrome is investigated after an infant dies of what appears to be toxic levels of antifreeze in his system.
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Episode 9
Beaten by a Hair
23m6.0 / 10
Early one fall morning, Laura Houghteling left her Bethesda home and walked to the station to take a train to work. She was never seen again. A peculiar strand of hair found in Laura’s hairbrush enabled investigators to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
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Episode 10
Crime Seen
23m
Edward Honaker was convicted of rape, sodomy and aggravated sexual battery; he was sentenced to three life terms in prison. Honaker steadfastly maintained his innocence. After years in prison and writing countless letters, he finally found someone who believed him, and was willing to pay for DNA testing which could prove he was telling the truth.
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Episode 11
Speck of Evidence
23m
On September 17, 1984, in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona, eight-year-old Vicki Hoskins left home on her pink bicycle to mail a letter for her mother. She never returned, but her slightly damaged bicycle was found nearby. Investigators turned to forensic science, in the hope it would tell them not only what happened to Vicki, but also who was responsible.
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Episode 12
Broken Bond
23m
When a two-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital suffering from brain seizures and breathing difficulties, doctors could not find the cause of his illness. Then the boy’s sister provided an important clue, and raised the possibility of a syndrome of which few had ever heard.
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Episode 13
Out of the Ashes
23mfinale
On a cold December night in 1993, Rose Larner stopped in a convenience store on her way to her boyfriend’s house. She was never seen or heard from again. Rose’s disappearance remained a mystery, until a tiny clue found years later revealed a tragic tale of drugs, romance and revenge.
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More about Forensic Files
Cast
Peter ThomasSelf - Narrator (voice)James E. AshDavid Copenhefer (uncredited)
Jennifer GranholmSelf - Michigan Attorney General (archive footage)
M. William PhelpsSelf - True Crime Author, 'Cruel Death'
John WalshSelfFrank BenderSelf
Trey GowdySelfRoy ShulerDetective (uncredited)
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Documentary
- Episodes
- 400
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
TLCUnited States
truTVUnited States
Court TVUnited States- Medstar TelevisionUnited States
Themes
coronercriminal investigationevidenceforensic scienceforensic technologyinterviewlaw enforcementmedical examiner
