Forensic Files - Season 7

Run Time: 23 mins
Air Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.84 (75 votes)
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...