Go on the case with NecroSearch, a Colorado based team of forensic anthropologists, botanists, geologists, thermographers, geophysicists, criminologists and bloodhound handlers. Pooling there resources and talents, they use an array of techniques to help police officers uncover hidden graves and the evidence they conceal.
Crime Scene Investigator Bob Loyd uses more then 200 pieces of ballistic, fingerprint, serology and physical evidence to convict violent murderer and rapist Robert Harlan. Fingerprints left on a shattered piece of glass discovered several blocks from the crime scene are use to convict Samuel Mandez of the murder of elderly Frida Winter.
Learn how developments in forensic science helped to solve on of Connecticut's most famous unsolved murders. In 1973, Penny Serra was stabbed to death in broad daylight in a parking garage. The development of a computerized fingerprint database in 1997 would eventually lead investigators to her killer.
Witness the development of the scientific crime scene analysis. Microscopist Skip Palenik uses a single carpet fiber to solve the murder of an Anchorage woman. In the second case a tool mark expert is able to match a knife with markings left on a human rib cage.
What happens when the prime suspect has an alibi? DEAD RECKINING looks at the case of Kathy Higdon whose body was found by her husband in the family home. Investigators focus on Julius McGriff, an ex-con who was was working for the Higdons, but McGriff claims that Kathy's husband was the perpetrator. His unconvincing testimony forces police to search for a definitive answer.
This episode focuses on an arson investigation and electronic microscopy. Watch how arson investigators determine that a fire is used to cover up a murder. Learn how tiny metal fillings, almost invisible to the naked eye were used to tie a double murder to metal worker Gary Ackley.