Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.