The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science - Season 9

The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science - Season 9

Season 9

Network
DatesOct 28, 2003 - Oct 31, 2004
Previous Season

Episodes

Hidden Obsessions
Season 9Episode 160 min

Hidden Obsessions

Sometimes those closest to a victim can be the most dangerous. Beneath a layer of trust can lurk a deadly obsession. In these cases, authorities employ an arsenal of forensic techniques to uncover the twisted path of lies that leads to murder.
Oct 28, 2003
Blind Trust
Season 9Episode 260 min

Blind Trust

Often, a killer will build the victim’s trust before he or she attacks. In this episode, New Mexico police search for a missing teenager who disappeared from a local skating rink. Authorities suspect the two friends she was last seen with.
Nov 25, 2003
Shattered Vows
Season 9Episode 360 min

Shattered Vows

Marriage is one of the tightest bonds two people can have, until lies and deceit drive one of them to kill. In this episode, forensic experts are employed to link a woman’s husband to her violent murder and uncover a murder disguised as an accident.
Jan 10, 2004
Fatal Impressions
Season 9Episode 460 min

Fatal Impressions

Sometimes the faintest fingerprint or tire track is all investigators need to solve even the most brutal of crimes. When a woman’s body is discovered in a field, detectives employ a rarely used technique to bring her killer to justice.
Jan 13, 2004
Misplaced Loyalty
Season 9Episode 560 min

Misplaced Loyalty

A house fire in California turns into a murder investigation when authorities discover that the victim’s best friend and personal manager had recently cleaned out her bank account.
Jan 17, 2004
Killing Time
Season 9Episode 660 min

Killing Time

A killer will often try to disguise the victim’s body in an attempt to the hide the actual cause of death; however, forensics cannot be fooled. In this episode, authorities use reverse DNA testing to identify remains and solve an old crime.
Jan 29, 2004
Silent Killers
Season 9Episode 760 min

Silent Killers

When money is the motive, there is no limit to what a killer will do to get away with their fortune. When officers find the dismembered remains of a young man, they also discover his girlfriend recently took out an insurance policy on the deceased.
Mar 13, 2004
Out To Kill
Season 9Episode 860 min

Out To Kill

Sometimes, cooperation from people who are not associated with a crime in any way is the only link between a criminal and the clues left behind for forensic experts. This episode examines cases in which good Samaritans help solve puzzling crimes.
Mar 16, 2004
Raw Greed
Season 9Episode 960 min

Raw Greed

Even ordinary objects, when used to kill, carry enough evidence for forensic scientists to piece together the most complicated murders. In this episode, criminals are brought to justice with evidence found on mundane, household objects.
Mar 27, 2004
Murderous Attractions
Season 9Episode 1060 min

Murderous Attractions

The most sacred of vows are sometimes not enough to stop a serious desire. In this episode, a nurse suspects a patient’s husband of attempted murder by poisoning and a man stages his depressed wife’s murder as a suicide.
Apr 10, 2004
Broken Trust
Season 9Episode 1160 min

Broken Trust

Often, criminals misuse the trust they’ve built with their victims to commit heinous misdeeds. A family discovers the mummified remains of a pregnant woman; a nurse notices an unusually high number of deaths in an ICU unit and suspects foul play.
Apr 24, 2004
Price of Murder
Season 9Episode 1260 min

Price of Murder

When the amount of money is substantial, a person can be motivated to do terrible things to someone they love. Police discover that a large life insurance policy was motive for a man’s murder. A woman hires help to cover up her husband’s death.
May 8, 2004
Stolen Youth
Season 9Episode 1360 min

Stolen Youth

Murdering a child is perhaps the most heinous of crimes. But no matter how defenseless a killer believes a young child to be, there is no hiding from the clues left behind.
Jun 12, 2004
Loved to Death
Season 9Episode 1460 min

Loved to Death

Forensic science has advanced so much that even the oldest remains still share the clues necessary to convict a killer. Investigators use DNA to solve a murder case from 1980.
Jul 17, 2004
Written in Blood
Season 9Episode 1560 min

Written in Blood

Blood can be the most telling evidence of a murder and often it is the only thing investigators have to link a killer to his or her victim. Forensic scientists and medical examiners look at blood spatter patterns to determine how someone was killed.
Aug 14, 2004
Critical Evidence
Season 9Episode 1660 min

Critical Evidence

Whether it is a fingerprint or a single bullet, sometimes it is the smallest piece of evidence that is needed to crack the biggest cases. In this episode, detectives use an ingenious technique to find the bullet that killed an elderly man.
Aug 28, 2004
Fatal Twist
Season 9Episode 1760 min

Fatal Twist

When an unexpected crime occurs with no eyewitnesses, very few clues and the killers on the run, authorities must rely on forensic science to discover the fatal twist in these cases.
Sep 18, 2004
Vanished
Season 9Episode 1860 min

Vanished

Murderers will go to great lengths to keep their crimes concealed, but forensic evidence is impossible to cover up. In this episode, authorities rush to identify bodies found in drum barrels and locate several missing women linked to the killer.
Oct 31, 2004

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