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This true crime series shows how innocent people have been convicted with dubious forensic techniques and tools such as touch DNA and cadaver dogs.

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Episodes

1. Little Girl Lost

30m

A little girl is found murdered and the case could slip away were it not for the new application of forensic DNA to solve the crime.

2. Evil Lives Here

30m

The murder of a suburban teenager leads investigators into the dark world of punks and skinheads.

3. Russian Princess

30m

A young woman is found dead with a bite mark on her body. Can a forensic dentist help them track down her obsessed killer?

4. Bugs

30m

Maggots that have eaten away the face of an unknown victim could turn out to be the key to solving the brutal murder.

5. Six Little Letters

30m

A son battles his stepmother for a $2,000,000 will. Can science reveal the truth about a dead man's final wishes?

6. Video Guilt

30m

An execution style slaying in a convenience store is captured on surveillance video. Can science unlock the mysteries hidden within the images?

7. The Danforth Lady

30m

When the skull of a young woman is unearthed, it leads police and scientists to a 50 year old murder mystery.

8. The Gun Men

30m

Two men who kill a gun shop owner and steal a cache of handguns begin a crime spree that terrorizes a city. How will science turn the weapons back on the killers?

9. The Solar Temple

30m

Accident, murder or suicide? Forensics tell the gruesome tale of the Solar Temple cult and their belief that death by fire would lead to rebirth on the planet Sirius.

10. The Perfect Heist

30m

The crooks are their own worst enemies in this absolutely perfect crime gone wrong.