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Forensic Files - Season 7

Forensic Files

Run Time: 23 mins

Air Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002

Average Rating: ⭐ 7.84 (75 votes)

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42 Episodes

The Cheater

The Cheater

Season 7 - Episode 1

Exploring how an American hit single from 1966 -- the cheater by Bob Kuban And The In-man -- foreshadowed the demise of the group's lead sin...

Forever Hold Your Peace

Forever Hold Your Peace

Season 7 - Episode 2

In Texas 1988, Nancy DePriest was raped and murdered while working at Pizza Hut. After a suspect confessed and implicated another, they wer...

Reel Danger

Reel Danger

Season 7 - Episode 3

Although a group of teenage thugs are suspected of attacking two boys on a fishing trip, there is no solid evidence until a murky fishing ho...

Who's Your Daddy

Who's Your Daddy

Season 7 - Episode 4

In 1988, when a young prostitute's body turns up in an Ohio waterway under ice, authorities have one tiny clue which could point to her kill...

The Alibi

The Alibi

Season 7 - Episode 5

In a small South Carolina town in 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, a popular high school student, is raped, murdered and dumped in a des...

A Bite Out of Crime

A Bite Out of Crime

Season 7 - Episode 6

In 1997, two years after a series of unsolved kidnappings and sexual assaults in California. One of the victims suddenly recalled an importa...

Purr-fect Match

Purr-fect Match

Season 7 - Episode 7

In 1994, on Canada's Prince Edward Island, the body of Douglas Beamish's estranged wife, Shirley Duguay, was discovered. In a groundbreaking...

Bio-Attack

Bio-Attack

Season 7 - Episode 8

A look into the 1984 Oregon food poisonings, we're detectives track down the outbreak to a cult which aims to use germ warfare to take down ...

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

Season 7 - Episode 9

A woman is found dead from a gunshot wound and police suspect her husband; however, forensic teams prove what really happened and the truth ...

Without a Prayer

Without a Prayer

Season 7 - Episode 10

In 1995, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the founder of American Atheists, disappears along with one of her sons, her granddaughter, and $500,000 in ...

A Clutch of Witnesses

A Clutch of Witnesses

Season 7 - Episode 11

In January 2001, in Duluth, MN, two people witness a truck driving over an unconscious man twice, and they flee into a nearby bar. When the ...

Scout's Honor

Scout's Honor

Season 7 - Episode 12

In Pennsylvania 1984, a passer-by finds the torso of a woman in a cardboard box. Investigators rely on insect activity analysis by a forensi...

A Touching Recollection

A Touching Recollection

Season 7 - Episode 13

An 18-year-old Ohio woman, who is abducted and then released soon afterwards, uses her knowledge of forensics to lead police to the kidnappe...

A Leg to Stand On

A Leg to Stand On

Season 7 - Episode 14

The police investigate when a severed leg is discovered in the garbage. Conventional means of identifying the victim are impossible, leading...

Partners in Crime

Partners in Crime

Season 7 - Episode 15

How Illinois scientists solved a 1992 murder case involving cremation. It takes a long time and a very hot fire to cremate a human body, and...

Within a Hair

Within a Hair

Season 7 - Episode 16

A look back at the case of the River Park Rapist, who sexually assaulted four women in South Bend, IN, during 1996. Law enforcement officers...

Chief Evidence

Chief Evidence

Season 7 - Episode 17

The 1996 Seattle murder of suburban couple Raquel Rivera and Jay Johnson is detailed. Investigators first believe the slayings were the resu...

A Bitter Pill to Swallow

A Bitter Pill to Swallow

Season 7 - Episode 18

Firefighter Michelle Baker became pregnant by her lover, Dr. Maynard Muntzing. After this news, she was ill whenever they were together. The...

Sip of Sins

Sip of Sins

Season 7 - Episode 19

A look back at a trio of unsolved murders that occurred in Wichita Falls, Texas during the 1980s, details how a fourth murder from the same ...

Telltale Tracks

Telltale Tracks

Season 7 - Episode 20

The disappearance of Philadelphia college athlete Aimee Willard is investigated after her car was found, still running on the roadside. When...

Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine

Season 7 - Episode 21

The investigation into the apparent overdose suicide of Reverend Bill Guthrie's wife Sharon. Detectives suspect foul play after they recover...

Frozen in Time

Frozen in Time

Season 7 - Episode 22

The 1991 disappearance of Newport Beach, CA, resident Denise Huber stumps investigators. Three years later, Arizona residents call police to...

Cold Storage

Cold Storage

Season 7 - Episode 23

The 1987 disappearance of Houston resident Tracy Jo Shine is recalled. The investigation went cold until 2000, when a "cold case squad" lear...

The Metal Business

The Metal Business

Season 7 - Episode 24

When a 62-year-old man opens a car restoration business and becomes seriously ill, his doctors cannot find the cause, but forensics can; ide...

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill

Season 7 - Episode 25

The disappearance of 6-year-old Michelle Lee Dorr is detailed. Although her father confessed to murdering her, the police soon poked holes i...

Palm Print Conviction

Palm Print Conviction

Season 7 - Episode 26

The 1996 investigation into 48-year-old Martha Hansen's murder in Anchorage is helped by a legal requirement that bars have video cameras in...

A Vow of Silence

A Vow of Silence

Season 7 - Episode 27

n 1994, friends reported that Jack Reeves' mail-order bride Emelita Villa had disappeared. The police centered their suspicions on Reeves an...

Elephant Tracks

Elephant Tracks

Season 7 - Episode 28

The murders of an elderly couple, Edward Kowalzck and Gertrude Thompson, leave detectives stumped until, two years later, they receive a maj...

A Bag of Evidence

A Bag of Evidence

Season 7 - Episode 29

The tragic murder of 9-year-old Jessica Knott is investigated; a garbage bag leads investigators to her killer. [also marked as S7:E34]

Tooth or Consequences

Tooth or Consequences

Season 7 - Episode 30

An investigation into the disappearance of Katie Poirier is stymied, but they find a few charred remains including a tooth. The unique prope...

The Sniffing Revenge

The Sniffing Revenge

Season 7 - Episode 31

The investigation into a suspicious death hits a dead end when the autopsy indicates that no foul play was involved. But a telephone tip and...

Sleight of Hand

Sleight of Hand

Season 7 - Episode 32

On March 13, 1981, 86-year-old Enid Whittlesey is found murdered in her Los Angeles home. The suspect eludes arrest for 16 years but that ch...

Scratching the Surface

Scratching the Surface

Season 7 - Episode 33

Forensic scientists work with the only clue recovered from a multiple-victim shooting: a 12-gauge shotgun. Scientists use unique methods to ...

Fire Proof

Fire Proof

Season 7 - Episode 34

A serial arsonist is responsible for numerous fires that caused millions of dollars worth of property damage and the deaths of three people ...

X Marks the Spot

X Marks the Spot

Season 7 - Episode 35

The use of the computers by law enforcement is detailed in this look at a series of crimes in St. Louis that stumped the local police and th...

All Charged Up

All Charged Up

Season 7 - Episode 36

Using an anonymous letter and geographic profiling, investigators in Philadelphia close in on a serial rapist who attacks victims who live o...

Breaking the Mold

Breaking the Mold

Season 7 - Episode 37

In Dripping Springs, TX, March 1999, a 3-year-old boy develops serious respiratory problems and then his father later shows signs of early A...

House Call

House Call

Season 7 - Episode 38

A murder investigation in St. Petersburg, Florida, crosses jurisdictions from New York to Jamaica. The police use cell phone mapping, wireta...

Marathon Man

Marathon Man

Season 7 - Episode 39

After a man's body is discovered a few miles from his home, authorities trace the crime back to his house and question his wife. (also shown...

The Sniper's Trail

The Sniper's Trail

Season 7 - Episode 40

Details the case of the Beltway sniper attacks, a 3-week shooting spree which left 10 people dead in the Washington, D.C. area.

Plastic Fire

Plastic Fire

Season 7 - Episode 41

Georgia resident Sheila Bryan, who was convicted of killing her mother in a car fire, is granted a new trial. An expert fire witness shares ...

Last Will

Last Will

Season 7 - Episode 42

Authorities are able to apprehend a kidnapper because he allowed his victim, 17-year-old Shari Smith, to write a will on a telltale pad of p...

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