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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. Time Bomb

30m

A bomb goes off in a postal truck in downtown Toronto. A security camera records the reaction of the burning postal driver. His trauma is so severe, he is put in an induced coma. Who set the bomb? Who was the target? Investigators and bomb experts put all the pieces together to solve a devilish case.

2. North Bay

30m

An exhaustive 18-month investigation follows the murder of a young woman in North Bay. The prime suspect's DNA matches that on the woman's clothes. In a startling development, further DNA tests prove the wrong man has been charged. Out of the blue, a phon

3. Accident

30m

A car carrying six friends crashes. As bodies fly in all directions, four teenagers die and two are critically injured. Sara LeBeau, who owns the car, survives but has total amnesia. Who was driving? Using toxicology, chemistry, accident reconstruction an

4. Beauty Shop Bandit

30m

In 1990, John Willis of Chicago is sentenced to 105 years in prison for a series of bizarre robberies and sexual assaults. They all take place in women's beauty shops. Willis proclaims his innocence. It is not until 1998 that a committed young US attorney

5. Turnbull

30m

She was a typical teenager, everyone's potential sister, daughter, neighbour. In 15 minutes she went from living an ordinary life to becoming a quadriplegic. Her name is Barbara Turnbull and she was shot in a Mississauga convenience store in a senseless r

6. If the Shoe Fits

30m

The beaten and frozen dead body of a missing man is found in his abandoned car in Ottawa. The suspects are his wife and/or two male tenants. Detectives unearth stories of jealousy, abuse and a bloody boot. Whoever wore the boot killed the man. Police call

7. High Park Rapist

30m

Michael Giroux confesses to a sexual assault. A psychological assessment supports his claim that this was a one time offence. While in prison, his house is sold and the new owner finds numerous photo IDs. The police link one name with a woman who was sexu

8. Root Cause

30m

The body of a cocktail waitress is found in a dumpster in Vancouver shot and burned beyond recognition. Detectives follow a maze of clues to the likely killer. Unfortunately, the body is so charred, it is impossible to see if the blood in the suspect's ca

9. Murder in a Small Town

30m

A young female taxi-driver is fatally stabbed and left to die in Banff. The investigators find a knife and blood in the abandoned cab. Hundreds of men are questioned and give blood samples in a cross continent manhunt. It is two years before police identi

10. Nine Lives

30m

A woman goes missing in Summerside, PEI. The blood inside her abandoned car tells a terrible story. DNA confirms the blood on a splattered man's jacket matches that of the missing woman. The jacket is also covered with white cat hairs. When the woman's bo