Forensic Files

Forensic Files

HLN
True Crime Society & Culture
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Forensic Files is a pioneer in the field of fact-based, high-tech, dramatic storytelling. This series of television programs delves into the world of forensic science, profiling intriguing crimes, accidents, and outbreaks of disease from around the world.

Episodes (51)

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The Blood Trail

September 04, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired April 1, 2019. Police uncover a trail that reveals a husband's plot to kill his wife for insurance money.
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Expert Witness

August 28, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired March 28, 2019. The killer was meticulous, washing everything at the scene, including the victim's body. The only definitive evidence was a single foreign hair. Three...
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Sands of Crime

August 21, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired March 25, 2019. A college co-ed was abducted from a parking lot. Her body was found later that day. She'd been sexually assaulted and shot at point blank range. Eight...
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Sunday School Ambush

August 14, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired March 21, 2019. When a woman's husband was gunned down in his own garage by intruders, investigators worked tirelessly to find the assassins. But when they discovered...
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Hand Delivered

August 07, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired March 18, 2019. In 1995, police in San Diego, California are baffled by a pair of hands found in a dumpster. The case goes cold but about a year later, investigators...
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Dew Process

July 31, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired March 14, 2019. When the wife of a dentist is found dead, police are unsure who killed her. As the investigation progresses, a woman confesses. Two years pass before...
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Within A Hair

July 24, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired March 11, 2019. In 1996 in Indiana, four women had been sexually assaulted and a suspect was soon convicted. But the story doesn't end there.
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Message In A Bottle

July 17, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired March 7, 2019. For twelve years, the murder of a young woman went unsolved, but with the passage of time came the development of technology. Would a used tissue found at...
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Body of Evidence

July 10, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired March 4, 2019. Police exhume the body of a murdered woman to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
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All The World's A Stage

July 03, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired February 28, 2019. Police arrive at a shooting, and discover the victim's husband is a homicide detective who says his wife shot herself. Investigators turn to a forensic...
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Hundreds Of Reasons

June 26, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired February 25, 2019. The assistant manager of the restaurant had been stabbed to death. Police knew why he'd been killed: $8,000 was missing from the safe. As to who was...
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As The Tide Turns

June 19, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired February 21, 2019. The woman was dead. The man had been shot four times but he survived. When the man's version of events was at variance with the evidence,...
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About Face

June 12, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired February 18, 2019. A human skeleton was discovered in the North Carolina marshlands and, when investigators learned she'd been dead for 18 months, they knew it would be...
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The Dirty Deed

June 05, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired February 14, 2019. Eileen and Derrick Severs disappeared from their home in the small village of Hambleton in Great Britain, and police found evidence which suggested...
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Dessert Served Cold

May 29, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired February 11, 2019. When a Massachusetts man dropped dead of an apparent heart attack, no one thought foul play was a possibility until police looked into his girlfriend's...
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A Vow Of Silence

May 22, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired February 7, 2019. Emelita Villa came to Arlington, Texas from the Philippines as a shy, impoverished, 18-year-old mail order bride for Jack Reeves, a man almost 30 years...
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Bound For Jail

May 15, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired February 4, 2019. A woman is found dead in a ravine near a jogging path. Crucial crime scene evidence had been washed away by severe thunderstorms. Then, almost 20 years...
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Within Arms Reach

May 08, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired January 31, 2019. A man accused of killing his estranged wife insisted she committed suicide. Investigators said it was murder. The evidence was interpreted differently...
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Visibility Zero

May 01, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired January 28, 2019. In 1993, the Amtrak Railroad experienced the deadliest train crash in United States history when the Sunset Limited derailed while crossing Alabama's...
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Private Thoughts

April 24, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired January 24, 2019. Firefighters find an entire family dead inside their burned-out home, and at first glance, it appears to be a case of murder-suicide. But clues found at...
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Crash Course

April 17, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired January 21, 2019. A highway patrolman was dispatched to what he thought would be a routine traffic accident... until he looked in the car. While he had no formal training...
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The Disappearance of Helle Craft

April 10, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired January 17, 2019. The investigation into the disappearance of Helle Craft led to the murder conviction of her husband.
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Sip Of Sins

April 03, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired January 14, 2019. After eluding police for years, a model citizen in Olney, Texas is fund to be a serial killer.
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Speck Of Evidence

March 27, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired January 10, 2019. A speck of bicycle paint and a speck nickel tie a suspect to the murder of a 9-year-old.
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Palm Saturday

March 20, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired April 16, 2018. A couple is found dead in their Washington home and all signs point to a professional hit. A palm print and two distinct shoe impressions help police...
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Pet Rock

March 13, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired April 12, 2018. The woman hadn't shown up for work in two days, and her boss reported her missing. When her body was found, the evidence pointed to suspects who claimed...
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Northern Exposure

March 06, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired April 9, 2018. Hikers near Anchorage, Alaska discovered a body wrapped in sheets which were edged in orange stitching. Authorities hydrated the fingers and obtained a...
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The List Murders

February 27, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired April 5, 2018. For 18 years, a man who murdered his entire family eluded the FBI. Investigators used art and forensic science to find the killer.
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Filtered Out

February 20, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired April 2, 2018. When a teenaged girl goes missing, no one knows if she ran away or if she was the victim of foul play. Everyone's worst fears are confirmed when a body is...
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Catch 22

February 13, 2025 22m
This episode originally aired Mar 29, 2018. A woman was ambushed in her driveway and shot to death. During their investigation, police learned that a co-worker half her age was in love with her, and...
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Dressed To Kill

February 06, 2025 23m
This episode originally aired Mar 26, 2018. A possible false confession forces investigators to reopen the case of a missing six year old. A decade later, a fresh look at new evidence leads them to...
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Water Logged

January 30, 2025 23m
This episode originally aired Mar 22, 2018. The bodies of three women were found floating in Tampa Bay. The water washed away any evidence, but police hoped a handwritten note found in the victims'...
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A Cinderella Story

January 23, 2025 23m
This episode originally aired Mar 14, 2018. The victim had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the beach, just ten yards from the hotel where she was staying. A pair of men's tennis shoes...
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Hack Attack

January 16, 2025 23m
This episode originally aired Mar 13, 2018. A mysterious computer crash pushes a thriving manufacturing company to the brink of collapse, jeopardizing the jobs of hundreds of employees. There is no...
Sex Lies & DNA

Sex Lies & DNA

December 31, 2020 23m
While Earl Morris was vacationing in California, he learned that his wife had gone missing from their home in Arizona. The search for Ruby Morris involved dozens of investigators, scientists, and even...
Missing In Time

Missing In Time

December 28, 2020 23m
A woman was reported missing, presumed dead. A clue inside the suspect’s watchband and a popular television show helped solve the case.
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The Footpath Murders

The Footpath Murders

December 24, 2020 23m
A 1986 case of sexual assault and serial murder marked the first time DNA was used as evidence in a court of law.
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Penchant For Poison

Penchant For Poison

December 21, 2020 23m
Three seemingly unrelated deaths proved to be serial murders. The killer had been careful; he used poison which has no taste or odor. Fortunately for investigators, it also had a unique chemical...
Van-ished

Van-ished

December 17, 2020 23m
A twelve-year-old girl claimed she had been abducted and sexually assaulted. She recounted what happened in such a flat, unemotional voice that police found it difficult to believe her. Fibers on her...
Trouble Brewing

Trouble Brewing

December 14, 2020 23m
Two suspects living in the same apartment were linked to a murder by a gun and a pair of bloodstained boots – items that belonged to the one who claimed he'd never even met the victim. Investigators...
Insulated Evidence

Insulated Evidence

December 10, 2020 23m
It's usually easy to determine how a criminal entered the crime scene. But in this case, it was far from clear. It looked like the killer vanished into thin air...and perhaps he had.
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Beaten By A Hair

Beaten By A Hair

December 07, 2020 23m
Early one morning, a woman went missing on her way to work. A strand of hair in her hairbrush led investigators to unravel the mystery.
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Paintball

Paintball

December 03, 2020 23m
Twenty-four years after the death of a 15-year-old in California, forensic scientists discover enough microscopic evidence to finally bring the killer to justice.
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Touch Of Evil

Touch Of Evil

November 30, 2020 23m
The media dubbed him the “Last Call Killer” because he targeted men in gay bars who were obviously intoxicated. His MO involved dismembering the bodies and wrapping the parts in plastic bags, which he...
Web Of Seduction

Web Of Seduction

November 26, 2020 23m
Bruce Miller was shot to death in the office of the business he owned. When a computer expert examined the computers owned by the victim’s wife and by her lover, he found the evidence needed to...
Southside Strangler

Southside Strangler

November 23, 2020 23m
A serial killer in Arlington, Va., leaves the same clues behind at each crime scene.
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Purebread Murder

Purebread Murder

November 19, 2020 23m
A young mother is murdered after years of domestic abuse. There are clues at the scene: bloody footprints and DNA from the victim’s rape kit. But the evidence which will conclusively tie the killer to...
The Gambler

The Gambler

November 16, 2020 23m
One warm summer afternoon, the town of Verona, Wisconsin, faced its first triple homicide. To solve the case, investigators had to delve into the world of high rollers and offshore betting. With the...
Innocence Lost

Innocence Lost

November 12, 2020 23m
A little girl disappears from a Christmas party.
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Badge Of Deceit

Badge Of Deceit

November 09, 2020 23m
Women in a small Louisiana city live in fear of a rapist who leaves no clues to his identity. But computer technology and behavioral science combine to give police a new forensic tool: geographical...
Once Bitten

Once Bitten

November 05, 2020 23m
When a woman is found murdered in a bar. Investigators believe the best evidence is the bite mark found on the victim. A postman is convicted of murder, but he maintains his innocence. Ten years...

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