7 Seasons | 115 Episodes
Crimes of the KKK
Aired on Jan 07, 2003Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the unsolved case of an African-American truck driver who was forced to leap to his death from a bridge by Klan members.
Murder on the Menu
Aired on Jan 14, 2003A boy’s toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case against a serial killer who stalks and kills waitresses.
The Widow and the Wolf / Unicorns and Alligators
Aired on Feb 15, 2003After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide. And police solve a young girl’s rape and murder when the car where her body was discovered acts like a refrigerator, preserving her body.
Vintage Murder / Trouble In Paradise
Aired on Mar 04, 2003Police reopen a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime and find enough DNA evidence to bring him to justice. And a confession made to a Baywatch TV star helps police solve the three-year-old riddle of a wealthy Newport Beach woman’s murder.
The Perfect Murder / Death of the Innocents
Aired on Mar 29, 2003It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a medical examiner’s wife. Then, a determined Alabama sheriff reopens the case of the deaths of two babies, hoping to get their mother to confess.
The Unluckiest Man/The Deadly Triangle
Aired on Apr 12, 2003Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set fires to collect insurance money; and a prison inmate tells a detective that he can’t help him with his current investigation, but knows about a 15-year-old murder.
Cat and Mouse / Final Fare
Aired on Apr 15, 2003A police investigator discovers a letter written 16 years earlier that provides clues to a woman’s murder. And a firearms expert supplies the evidence that South Carolina authorities need to put a man on trial in 2002 for a murder committed in 1961.
The Cuff Link / Graveyard Shift
Aired on May 20, 2003Police solve an old murder case with an examination of the tool mark on the plastic flex cuff that bound the victim’s hands, a 15-year-old murder case is finally cracked when a disgruntled wife tells police that her husband committed the crime.
The Good Samaritan / Gun Shy
Aired on Jun 24, 2003New DNA technology and the national DNA databank help police hunt down a rapist-killer 11 years after he committed his crimes, and a detective’s painstaking recreation of a woman’s shooting death proves it wasn’t an accident.
Pilot
Aired on Jun 30, 2003Looks at how law enforcers stick with cases for many years, using fresh evidence to win convictions or to free prisoners who were wrongfully jailed. We examine the unsolved murder of Hogan’s Heroes star Bob Crane, meet a Dallas criminalist who uses state-of-the-art fingerprint matching to catch a rapist and murderer, see how Phoenix police solve the murder of a missing Navajo girl 20 years later, and talk to O.J. Simpson defense attorney Barry Scheck about DNA and an Illinois rape case.