Forensic Files

  • Premiered: Apr 1996
  • Episodes: 404
  • Followers: 58
  • Ended
  • TLC
  • Wednesday
  • Crime Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
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Air date
Apr 21, 1996
The case of missing stewardess Helle Craft is recounted. Although her body was never recovered, police used forensic evidence to charge her husband with murder. It became the first murder conviction without a body in Connecticut.
1x3
The House That Roared
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Air date
Oct 10, 1996
Caren Campano disappears and the explanation of her husband Chris doesn't hold up. Police find a large stain on the Campano's bedroom carpet. They perform an eerie chemical test that .. show full overview
1x2
The Magic Bullet
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Air date
Oct 17, 1996
At the Dallas 'Pistol & Revolver' club in 1991, Trey Cooley, a young spectator, was watching a shooting competition, seated behind an air gun range. He was struck and killed by a stray .. show full overview
1x4
The Footpath Murders
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Oct 23, 1996
The first case to use DNA evidence is detailed. In 1983 Leicester, England, police were stymied by a rape/murder of a 15-year-old girl; three years later, faced with a similar crime, .. show full overview
1x5
Planted Evidence
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Oct 24, 1996
Single mother Denise Johnson is found dead in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Local investigators ask a molecular geneticist to pick out a tree in a 'lineup' when .. show full overview
1x6
Southside Strangler
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Oct 31, 1996
Shortly after Thanksgiving in 1987, an intruder broke into the Tucker residence in Arlington Virginia. It might have been just another statistic, but the crime committed that night .. show full overview
1x7
Legionnaires' Disease
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Air date
Nov 07, 1996
Legionnaires' disease is one of the most famous medical detective stories, especially irritating for its missteps and frustrations. When 180 Legionnaires contract pneumonia-like symptoms .. show full overview
1x8
The Wilson Murder
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Air date
Nov 14, 1996
On the night of May 22, 1992, Betty Wilson returned home after a meeting. She walked up the stairs to the bedroom and discovered her husband, lying in a pool of blood. Jack Wilson had .. show full overview
1x9
Deadly Neighborhoods
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Air date
Nov 21, 1996
Eleven children in an elementary school in Phoenix contracted childhood leukemia; nine of them died. And in Guilford, Connecticut, five people were diagnosed with brain tumors on a .. show full overview
1x10
Insect Clues
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Nov 28, 1996
Between 1985 and 1988, 18 people were choked, molested and left for dead in the remote desert mountains of California. The only witnesses were the insects – and they also proved to play .. show full overview
1x11
Outbreak
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Dec 05, 1996
Alarmingly high levels of thyroid hormones pump through the systems of South Dakota residents. Investigators study one large family whose 12-year-old son did not get sick. The tip-off: .. show full overview
1x12
The List Murders
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Air date
Dec 12, 1996
For 18 years, a man who murdered his entire family successfully eluded the FBI. This episode describes how investigators used art and forensic science to catch a killer.
1x13 Season finale
Raw Terror
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Air date
Dec 19, 1996
The E-Coli bacteria live in our meat supply, in our milk and in water. When food is properly prepared and stored, E-Coli is harmless. But in the absence of these simple precautions, .. show full overview

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