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On Remembrance Day, a murdered woman is found. She has been beaten to cover a gunshot wound. A firearms expert, a forensic biologist, and a forensic accountant work together to find the woman's killer - a man who has used a homemade gun.
A man finds his ex-girlfriend dead. The message 'Jeff You're Next' is written on the mirror in lipstick. Did she commit suicide, did Jeff murder her, or was it someone else who now wants to kill Jeff as well? It will take handwriting analysis to solve the mystery.
A woman moves into a new apartment. She notices signs that someone may be entering when she is not home, although the doors remain locked. One day, she finds a dead girl in her bathtub, and her superintendent is a suspect. Investigation of the trace evidence could lead to stopping a killer.
During a robbery at a community centre, two men are killed in the boiler room when they confront the thieves. During the collection of evidence, an investigator finds a piece of wood which is later identified as part of a rifle butt. The rifle is traced to the two thieves, but it will take a forensic biologist to determine which of the two was the gunman.
A few days after a doctor named Cheryl Wagner treats her very first female AIDS patient, she receives another. Both women have been infected by the same man. When he infects another woman after a restraining order has been issued against him, it becomes a criminal matter. A biologist must prove that each of the women was infected by the suspect.
On a reserve in Southern Ontario, two masked men break into a house during the night. They shoot the man and woman who live in the house, grab the money and leave. Investigators have difficulty finding clues because the crime scene has been trampled. One shoe print is found in the snow, and this leads to the suspects.
Women are being drugged and sexually assaulted by a man and woman posing as a film producer and a casting agent.
While sleepwalking, a man drives down a highway and then murders his mother-in-law. Investigators must determine how this is possible.
Part of a human leg washes up on shore near Niagara Falls. A forensic pathologist will help determine who it belongs to and how this person ended up in the water.
Two fraud cases are profiled: one with an altered lottery ticket and the other with a cheque. Document experts at the Centre for Forensic Sciences determine how these items were forged.
A cheerleader is killed on her way home from practice. It takes 13 years until DNA analysis can help convict the man who assaulted her.
A woman dies in what appears to be a car accident. Can an autopsy and blood spatter analysis show she was actually murdered?
A criminal profiler helps to solve the murder of a Montreal co-ed.
A little girl is found murdered and the case could slip away were it not for the new application of forensic DNA to solve the crime.
The murder of a suburban teenager leads investigators into the dark world of punks and skinheads.
A young woman is found dead with a bite mark on her body. Can a forensic dentist help them track down her obsessed killer?
Maggots that have eaten away the face of an unknown victim could turn out to be the key to solving the brutal murder.
A son battles his stepmother for a $2,000,000 will. Can science reveal the truth about a dead man's final wishes?
An execution style slaying in a convenience store is captured on surveillance video. Can science unlock the mysteries hidden within the images?
When the skull of a young woman is unearthed, it leads police and scientists to a 50 year old murder mystery.
Two men who kill a gun shop owner and steal a cache of handguns begin a crime spree that terrorizes a city. How will science turn the weapons back on the killers?
Accident, murder or suicide? Forensics tell the gruesome tale of the Solar Temple cult and their belief that death by fire would lead to rebirth on the planet Sirius.
The crooks are their own worst enemies in this absolutely perfect crime gone wrong.
A headless corpse baffles police and shocks a community. It is up to an astute pathologist to lead investigators to the brutal murderer.
For twenty five years a woman receives the sympathy of family and friends for the tragic sudden deaths of each of her five small children. Can good forensic science expose bad medical science to solve an unthinkable crime?
A consummate con artist is finally trapped in an elaborate sting. Can a skilled forensic psychologist prevent her from succeeding in a final, clever deception?
A man who breaks into homes and lives in them while the owners are away has escalated his crimes to murder.
The murder of young track star Alison Parrott in 1986 is finally solved in 1999 when new DNA analysis techniques are available.
A house blows up, and a neighbourhood is destroyed. Racist messages are discovered in the remains of the house. Is this a hate crime or something else?
After a journalist campaigns for parole for a convicted murderer, she moves in with him. When she disappears, he is put under suspicion because of his criminal past.
A three-year-old girl named Emily goes missing from her Toronto apartment building. She is later found floating in a harbour and is covered in fibres. By analyzing the fibre evidence, investigators will solve the puzzle of who killed Emily.
A convenience store is robbed and the owner killed. Blood stain experts are called to interpret the blood spatter patterns on a ceiling tile.
When a man breaks into a house, he is confronted by the owner and stabs him to death. He leaves behind glove prints, but will these be enough to catch him?
Off the coast of England, a fisherman finds a body in his net. By tracing the dead man's Rolex, investigators can solve a case of stolen identity and murder.
When a woman is reported missing, it takes a couple weeks for police to realise that she is not just missing but possibly murdered. Can the killer be charged when the body cannot be found?
In 1974, this band of gentlemanly bank robbers from stole $700,000 in gold bricks from a storage warehouse at Ottawa International Airport . It was and still is Canada's biggest-ever gold robbery. The gang was eventually caught, but escaped before the end of the 70's. After escaping, all three moved to the and regrouped, beginning an incredible string of more than 50 bank robberies. Their MO gave the group their unique name - one member carried a stopwatch and would time their hold-ups based on the interesting supposition that if they weren't out of a bank in 90 seconds their chances of getting apprehended were mathematically higher. The "Stopwatch" story is a fascinating part of Canadian criminal history.
Two sisters are murdered in their home shortly before one was going to go off to college. It looks like the crime scene has been staged to cover a premeditated murder by making it look like a break-and-enter. Could the girls have been stalked?
Investigators misinterpret the evidence in a shooting, as it appears that the man has committed suicide. When the case is reopened, the murderer cannot be retried because of double jeopardy.
A man is denied entrance into the United States and sent back to Canada. Because the Canadian border guards are not armed, they let him go through unchallenged. A woman goes missing and another woman is killed in her home. A fingerprint is found on a piece of broken glass in the house. Can investigators catch the murderer before he strikes again?
A serial rapist in Louisiana is caught through geographic profiling.
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.
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 phone call from a prison administrator in Calgary sends the investigation in a completely new direction.
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 and DNA, charges are eventually laid against LeBeau. (This Ontario case is currently under appeal.)
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 and sophisticated forensics by a Toronto lab uncover a serious miscarriage of justice.
A teenage girl named Barbara Turnbull becomes a quadriplegic after a shooting in a convenience store. Ballistics evidence is analysed to determine the identity of the shooter.
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 on a forensic footprint specialist to solve the mystery.
Michael Giroux confesses to a rape and is sent to jail. While Giroux is incarcerated, the new owner of his house finds a number of IDs. One of them matches the rapist in a case eight years earlier. Investigators must determine whether Giroux is the High Park Rapist.
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 car matches the victims. A forensic dentist steps into the picture. Only he can get to the root of the dilemma to close the case.
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 identify two suspects who refuse to co-operate. It will take undercover operations to get the DNA samples and put a killer behind bars.
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 body is found, her estranged common-law husband is charged.
Disguised bandits fell a Brinks guard in Oshawa. The police find a fake bomb in the abandoned getaway car. It is a major forensic clue in tracking the gang. The bandits are charged - but the prosecution needs to find the murder weapon. Just days before the trial, investigators get a break, putting them knee-deep in swampy water searching for the murder weapon.
Firefighters find two dead bodies on a burning boat in Sydney Harbour, Vancouver Island. Another boat has been broken into. The assailants may have drunk beer from the discarded cans on the boat. A forensics ID unit matches the cans through a serial code on the lid. Whoever broke into the second boat also killed the couple on the burning boat.
A hunter makes a gruesome discovery near Saskatoon - a human skull. Detectives find the remains of two more bodies close by. A forensic anthropologist determines the three victims are female and aboriginal, all killed in the same time frame. The victims are identified through a police artist's reconstruction drawings. Behavioural profiler Ron MacKay helps nail a brutal serial killer.
A middle aged Vancouver barber is having remarkably bad luck with his girlfriends - they kept dying. Coincidentally they were all native and alcoholics, so it is some time before an astute pathologist questions the staggeringly high blood alcohol levels. Forensic science pins Gilbert Paul Jordan as the serial killer in the world's first trial of homicide by alcohol poisoning.
In this special one-hour episode, a labour dispute at the Giant gold mine in Yellowknife has the town divided. After months on strike, tensions reach a boiling point when replacement workers are brought in and union members begin crossing the line. When nine miners are killed down in the mine, forensic experts establish the explosion is deliberate - this is murder!
A family is found murdered in their home. They have been sealed up in their suburban house for over a week. The police come upon a ghastly scene. There is no sign of forced entry. Is this a burglary gone terribly awry or something more sinister? Forensic entomology, bloodstain analysis and computer analysis will draw a net around the killer.
A young Asian student is raped and murdered in the apartment she shares with her sister. The killer has left a minute trace of himself in the apartment. His identity is a complete mystery. Who could have killed this innocent girl and why? Forensic fingerprinting points to a suspect but it will be tears that close the case.
Two teenage girls are ambushed by a man wielding a baseball bat. He wants to party. The girls resist but in the struggle, one girl is beaten and left in a coma and the other is raped and murdered, her body dumped in the nearby river. As police mobilise their investigation, the killer taunts them by telephone. For months, the killer eludes the police and terrorises the town.
After the dead body of a beautiful young woman is found in a stream, suspicion falls on a three hundred and fifty pound wannabe biker who was seen drinking with the victim the night before. But before police can make an arrest, they discover their prime suspect is destroying evidence. He is attempting to clean up the blood that will connect him to the murder.
A young gas station attendant in rural Nova Scotia is found dead. He has been shot twice and the gas station robbed. With no eye-witnesses, the police have a monumental task before them. After weeks, the case appears to have reached a dead end, until another shooting reveals a forensic connection.
On Victoria Day as fireworks are going off, someone is on a killing spree. The next morning, three prostitutes are found shot dead. One is a transvestite, one is a transsexual and the third is a woman. The bullets from each killing prove to come from the same gun.
When a young man goes missing and his wallet is found near Algonquin Park, his sister and mother call it murder, but without evidence, the police must deem him a "missing person." From interviews with relatives, it looks like the young man wanted to get away - he was on parole, his marriage had broken up, and his father's suicide still haunted him.
When a respected gallery owner suspects he is being scammed, he calls in the police. He has been sold a painting by a well-known artist that he fears is a fake. The detective on the case undertakes a crash course in the colourful world of art; a world with its dark side of master thieves and fraud artists.
On a cool November evening, a young woman walks home from the bus stop through a local park. Suddenly, she is approached by a man. He politely asks her if she dropped any money. But before she can respond, he grabs her and drags her off the path, where he sexually assaults her. This begins a week of terror for three more unsuspecting women.
Ronald Dalton has an idyllic life - a loving marriage, three beautiful children and a solid career in banking. But in one night, all that is ripped away from him. His wife dies under unusual circumstances and the forensic pathologist says it is murder by strangulation.
