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Forensic Files
HLN
300 episodes
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.
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Foundation of Lies
When the wife of a noted doctor goes missing, authorities believe it may have to do with an allegedly shady adoption ring. But then her husband goes house-shopping with another woman claiming to be his wife, and a…
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A Leg To Stand On
When a severed leg is found in a dumpster, investigators are faced with the challenge of identifying the victim. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad…
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Photo Finish
A beautiful model goes missing. No one can clue to her whereabouts until a park employee discovers photographs in a trash dumpster. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn…
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Accident or Murder
A woman's body was found at the bottom of the stairs. When an investigator recreates the fall, the results are surprising. Was this just a freak accident, or murder by an angry spouse. To learn more about how HLN…
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Quite A Spectacle
It was one of the most unusual cases in forensic history. Investigators had to find a way to solve a murder case with evidence which consisted of a squashed tomato found at the crime scene, and tiny, pinpoint…
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Silk Stalkings
The news of a flight attendant's brutal murder prompted the son of a victim who had been killed five years earlier to contact police. The MO of both murders was remarkably similar, and analysis of the biological…
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A Shadow Of A Doubt
A woman is shot to death but the case's prime suspect has a solid alibi: a video of his activities the day of the murder. Police asked a local professor to help them verify the tape, and he enabled them to see the…
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Journey To Justice
Six-year-old Nicole Rae Walker was killed in a hit-and-run in her Ft. Lauderdale neighborhood. This was the first case in the United States where video animation was considered admissible to show to a jury. To learn…
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House Call
The murder of a surgeon in an apartment community left police in St. Petersburg, Florida baffled. Cell phone mapping, wiretapping and a host of other forensic evidence would uncover a conspiracy, and bring the doctor's…
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All Wet
A woman's death in Pennsylvania triggers a investigation into another woman's death in North Carolina. The similarities in the cases were striking, and medical examiners must determine if the suspect's story about…
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Smoking Out A Killer
A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other. Five years earlier, a student was assaulted and killed in her off-campus apartment,…
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Sworded Scheme
When a student is reported missing, police believe she'd turn-up a few days later. But when they discover blood in her boyfriend's bedroom - which someone had gone great lengths to hide - they know this case is going…
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In Harm's Way
A woman's dead body is found in a public park. When a knife through to be the murder weapon turned up, investigators had an opportunity which seldom occurs: to compare the microscopic marks on the weapon with the marks…
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Dancing With The Devil
The crime scene was awash with blood. Analysis showed it had come from two people, one of whom was female. The male DNA was the victim's, which meant the killer was a woman. Leads dried up and the case went cold...…
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Smoke In Your Eyes
The bodies of two women are found in the ashes of a fire, which appeared to have been set deliberately. Evidence found leads investigators to a suspect, but it would take a blood stain no bigger than the head of a pin…
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Flower Power
Two different men telephoned 911 to report a woman had been murdered; neither knew the other had called. Examination of bloodstains, a discarded candy wrapper, and a few tiny seeds enabled forensic scientists to…
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Concrete Alibi
An aspiring model turned up dead, and the prime suspect was her boyfriend. When he was eventually cleared, investigators had to dig deeper to find the perpetrator. With the help of a forensic geologist, they identified…
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Cloak Of Deceit
For seven years, a trio of men robbed one bank after another. They always got away before the police arrived, and they left no evidence behind. But the way they stood and the clothes they wore told a story... a story…
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A Bag Of Evidence
Painstaking forensic analysis of a murder victim leads police to a suspect, who turned out to be the same person who made what he thought was an anonymous 911-call. To learn more about how HLN protects listener…
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Good As Gold
Two young women were brutally murdered in Napa, California on Halloween night. The killer left his DNA behind, and a groundbreaking test revealed his race and even the color of his eyes and hair. Technology was able to…
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True Lies
A woman's body was found on a deserted road outside of San Antonio. After years, the victim's family hired a private investigator who finds her personal diary and uses its entries to find the perpetrator. To learn…
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Second Shot At Love
A heart surgeon is found dead in his home. Police assume suicide, but further investigation reveals his new wife was out for money. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn…
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Hell's Kitchen
It appeared the victim had accidentally fallen and hit her head at the bottom of the stairs. But the odd position of her shows and the absence of blood splatter led police to suspect the scene had been stage... and…
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Haunting Vision
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging her father killed her mother 30 years ago. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about…
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Fire Dot Com
A federal agency ruled a fire that killed a child intentionally set, charging the mother with murder. Were government officials wrong? To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy…
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Low Maintenance
A young college student is found dead in her apartment. There are no obvious signs of foul play, but skin cells under her fingernails yield DNA of an unknown male suspect, and petechial hemorrhages in her eyes prove…
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The Music Case
A 12-year-old's death shakes a suburban Minnesota town. Police have no leads until a string of burglaries months after the murder leads them to the victim's possessions, and to the killer. To learn more about how HLN…
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Micro Clues
After a day of fishing in a small village in Switzerland, a teenage boy did not return home as planned. His body was found in a cornfield, but investigators found microscopic one-cell organisms on him, which could only…
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Tourist Trap
In 1993, worldwide attention focused on robberies which targeted tourists in Florida. Some vacationers were killed in thee attacks; some fought and survived, despite severe injuries. A bite mark is the key used to…
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Memories
A pregnant woman is brutally attacked in her own home and her unborn child is killed. Was her husband wrongly convicted? To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about…
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A Squires Riches
The truck fell off the hydraulic jack, crushed the man working beneath it, and sparked a fire... or so it seemed. Investigators turned to forensic science to determine if they were dealing with a tragic accident or a…
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Funeral Services
A funeral director is murdered and his son, the sole beneficiary of his estate, is considered a likely suspect... until witnesses provide him with an ironclad alibi. When police find a mask near the crime scene, they…
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Material Evidence
Orange fibers may link a van and a murdered girl's body. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on…
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To The Viktor
Three homicides on two continents look like professional executions. Investigators on both sides of the Atlantic needed to find out if they were related and, if they were, who or what they had in common. To learn more…
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Skeleton Key
The woman was missing for a month. Police find her car but no evidence of foul play... only a fingerprint and a set of keys. There's a code on one of the keys, which they hope will unlock not only a door, but also the…
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Sign Of The Zodiac
For six years, a serial killer prowled the streets of New York City. He wrote letters to police and "The New York Post," indicating he would kill twelve people, one for each astrological sign. Forensic astronomy,…
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Naughty or Nyce
The woman could have lost control of her SUV on the icy road, and plunged down an embankment into a shallow creed, But there were footprints in the snow leading away from the vehicle and bloodstains on both the inside…
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A Shot In The Dark
When a woman is found dead of a gunshot wound, forensic scientists proved once again that truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn…
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Picture This
A Modesto, California teenager went missing. There was no sign of a struggle in her home, and police suspected she'd simply run away... until her naked, bruised body was discovered in a ditch 20 miles away. To learn…
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Broken Promises
When a gym teacher is found dead of what appears to be an accidental gunshot wound, his family is suspicious. When police find that the wife's previous husband died in questionable circumstances, they re-examine the…
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Death Play
While in high school, Marie Robards suffered the devastating loss of her father to cardiac arrest but Marie had a secret. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about…
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Unholy Vows
War criminals who moved to the United States are captured many years later thanks to forensic technology. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices.…
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Introducing "Hell And Gone"
Now in its second season, Hell And Gone is a podcast from iHeartRadio and School of Humans that follows writer and private investigator Catherine Townsend as she investigates unsolved deaths in small-town Arkansas This…
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Time Will Tell
A Canadian scam-artist, Albert J. Walker, assumes the identity of co-worker Ronald Platt as part of a money-laundering scheme. Platt later turns up dead and the only clues to his real identity are a Rolex watch and a…
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Writers Block
A brilliant young architect became ill and died just before she was to testify in a criminal trial. The autopsy revealed she'd been poisoned with arsenic; it was a slow and painful death, so suicide was unlikely.…
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Whodunit
A murder mystery theater performance turns into a real life whodunit when a badly burned body is discovered after the performance. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn…
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The Common Thread
The year was 1984, and a serial killer was on the loose in Florida. Eight women had been found dead. At each crime scene, investigators found tiny red fibers, fibers they hoped would lead them to the killer. To learn…
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No Corpus Delicti
A woman disappears without a trace; even though foul play is suspected, the leads don't pan out and the trail turns cold. Twenty years would pass before police are able to link a clump of hair discovered in an isolated…
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Telltale Tracks
Police find an abandoned car on a busy Philadelphia highway; later, strange marks on the driver's body lead police to her killer. To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn…
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Soft Touch
A young woman was killed in a senseless act of revenge. Could police identify the killer through a fingerprint on cloth? To learn more about how HLN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about…
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