Forensic science may be on the verge of a straighter path to exposing lies: Through functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a brain scan that maps cerebral activity by measuring blood flow. Early results of fMRI for lie detection are promising, with accuracy rates higher than 75 percent.
Rebecca Morris, a New York Times bestselling author and high-school classmate of murder victim Dick Kitchel, returns to her hometown of Corvallis, Oregon to explore how the cold case murder changed the town and the lives of Kitchel's friends.
There were three homicides or suspicious deaths on cruise lines operating in U.S. ports in 2017. And authorities have also reported over a hundred other crimes, including sexual assaults and kidnappings. But some advocates say even more crimes are taking place aboard.
The Richland County Sheriff's Department officer spoke with A&E True Crime about how being in the military and in law enforcement are similar, how social media has impacted policing and the importance of police transparency.
Bryanna Fox, Ph.D, former FBI agent and researcher at the bureau's Behavioral Science Unit, talks to A&E True Crime about whether convicted serial killers are the key to catching active serial killers.
In 1937, three young girls were sexually assaulted and strangled after playing at an Inglewood, California park. A suspect was caught, convicted and sentenced to death. Pamela Everett, a journalist, lawyer and niece of two of the girls, explores the tragedy and investigates whether the wrong man was convicted of the murders.
David Finkelhor, director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center and author of the book 'Nursery Crimes,' on why some babysitters kill and how parents can prevent their children from falling victim.
On January 13, 1982, there were two major accidents in Washington D.C.: a commercial plane crashed and plunged into the Potomac River, and a Metro train derailed. Police officer Steven O'Dell was deployed to the plane crash site and tells his story of working through the chaos.
Tom Stankiewicz, commander of the Erie bomb squad who responded to the 2003 'Pizza Bomber' case, tells us how bomb squads operate and what new tools his team started carrying after the Brian Wells case.
Even though there have been 51 strangulation murders of women in Chicago that have gone unsolved between 2001 and 2017, Chicago police have been reserved about acknowledging they may have a serial killer on their hands.
