Name: Forensic Files Season 1
Genre: Crime, Documentary
Released: 1996

S01 Episode 1

The Disappearance of Helle Crafts

The investigation into the disappearance of Helle Crafts leads to the arrest, and conviction for murder, of her husband.

22 mins · Sun, 21 Apr 1996

S01 Episode 2

The House That Roared

Investigators use DNA typing on blood evidence in order to convict a man of his wife's murder.

22 mins · Thu, 10 Oct 1996

S01 Episode 3

The Magic Bullet

Fifteen-year-old Trey Cooley is shot and killed in the lobby of his father's Dallas gun club. Investigators rely upon a combination of old-fashioned police work and computer animation in order to solve the shooting.

22 mins · Thu, 17 Oct 1996

S01 Episode 4

The Footpath Murders

The first case to use DNA evidence is detailed. In 1983 Leicester, England, police were stymied by a rape/murder of a 15-year-old girl; three years later, faced with a similar crime, they turned to Dr. Alec Jeffreys, a molecular biologist with a revolutionary approach to solving the case.

23 mins · Wed, 23 Oct 1996

S01 Episode 5

Planted Evidence

Arizona police rely upon the expertise of a molecular geneticist in solving a murder. DNA profiles link unidentified seed pods, found in a suspect's truck, to a tree growing in the same place where the body was found.

22 mins · Thu, 24 Oct 1996

S01 Episode 6

Southside Strangler

After police believe themselves to have captured a serial rapist and murderer, DNA testing suggests that they have the wrong suspect and leads to another arrest.

22 mins · Thu, 31 Oct 1996

S01 Episode 7

Legionnaires' Disease

Since 1976, when 180 war veterans were hospitalised in Philadelphia with pneumonia-like symptoms, the disease has been resurfacing every few years, leaving doctors baffled.

22 mins · Thu, 7 Nov 1996

S01 Episode 8

The Wilson Murder

An Alabama woman finds her husband brutally murdered in their home, but differing interpretations of the physical evidence upset the legal case.

22 mins · Thu, 14 Nov 1996

S01 Episode 9

Deadly Neighborhoods

Troubling clusters of deadly cancer cases strike concerned communities across the country. In a Phoenix suburb, too many children are fatally stricken with leukemia and, on a Connecticut street, there is a disproportionate amount of illness, including four cases of brain cancer. Modern environmental agents such as buried poisons and electrical substations are found... Could these be the culprits?

23 mins · Thu, 21 Nov 1996

S01 Episode 10

Insect Clues

Investigators solve the murder of a drifter in southern California, a case dating back to 1988, through an examination of a species of fly found in the vicinity of the body.

22 mins · Thu, 28 Nov 1996

S01 Episode 11

Outbreak

Following an outbreak of thyrotoxicosis in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, thought to have come from contaminated meat, the US Department of Agriculture conducts a review of the use of thyroid hormones in animal products.

22 mins · Thu, 5 Dec 1996

S01 Episode 12

The List Murders

A man murders his family and eludes the law for years, until a forensic sculpture and a true-crime TV program help find him and bring him to justice.

22 mins · Thu, 12 Dec 1996

S01 Episode 13

Raw Terror

Escherichia coli (E-coli) bacteria can be found in meats, milk and in water. When food is properly processed, prepared and stored, E-Coli are harmless. But in the absence of these simple precautions, E-Coli can have deadly consequences. Raw Terror tells the story of Damion Heersink, an eleven-year-old boy who almost died after eating an improperly cooked hamburger teeming with E-Coli, and the people who saved his life.

23 mins · Thu, 19 Dec 1996

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