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The Boy And The Monster/Secret In The Cellar

Aired on Aug 02, 199944m

In Portland, Maine a housewife disappears. One year later her body is unearthed in the cellar. I.R. unravels this cold case investigation from the inside out. With the help of science, police are able to uncover a blueprint of the crime.

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Texas Drifter/Fingerprints/Rose Among Thorns

Aired on Aug 03, 199945m

From England to Texas to Georgia, I.R. will go inside cold case units and watch as police use ballistics testing, old fashioned fingerprints and a new DNA data bank for criminals, to crack open the mysteries of unsolved crimes.

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Reconstructing Murder/Fire Flicks

Aired on Jan 09, 200143m

In Wisconsin, advances in forensic clay modeling help investigators identify a murder victim whose skin was stripped from her head, neck, and legs. And in California, police track down two boys who enjoy satanic rituals and setting fires.

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The Missing Informant/Man's Best Friend

Aired on Feb 20, 200145m

Police solve a murder when divers find a skeleton in a car at the bottom of a river, and a dead dog's DNA helps crack open a 6-year-old case.

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Through The Eyes Of A Child/Killer Next Door

Aired on Apr 25, 200045m

In Missouri, a part-time missionary is convicted, 38 years later, of killing her 5-year-old stepdaughter, and the skeleton of a Michigan boy, dead for 10 years, leads police to a serial killer.

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The Baiting Game

Aired on Jul 16, 200242m

Investigators seek the help of a forensic anthropologist Dr. William Bass, who became an expert on the human body's rate of decay by watching bodies rot at his plot at the University of Tennessee and keeping tables of weather data.

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Ticket To Nowhere/The Paper Route

Aired on Aug 06, 200242m

A 13-year-old girl's mother is murdered and 20 years later she helps bring the killer to justice; and a dogged policeman gets to the bottom of the brutal murder of a 63-year-old newspaper delivery woman.

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Traces Of Murder/The Bathtub Killer

Aired on Sep 10, 200240m

A killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates. Investigators probing the murder of a pregnant woman found raped, strangled and dumped into her bathtub, get a new lead when they discover a similar case in Florida.

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Diary of a Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue

Aired on Sep 19, 200046m

A highly-regarded California arson investigator is suspected of setting a series of fires; in Texas, a man is convicted of raping and murdering his 68-year-old neighbor and stealing her Coke bottle and rare coin collections.

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Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder

Aired on Oct 03, 200045m

Five years after the murder of prostitute Lucy Pate, a determined cop connects the case to one previously overlooked. Susan Doll was beaten, raped & strangled in 1989. Investigators extract DNA from a semen stain, but had no suspect to match--until 1995.

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The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed

Aired on Dec 26, 200045m

A detective keeps a murder investigation going for 16 years and finally proves a woman killed her husband in a satanic rite; THE BURNING SECRET: and a rape victim fails to get a conviction on her attacker.

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Lady In The Box

Aired on Dec 03, 200241m

The murder of an Ohio woman in 1974 is solved more than 20 years later after police get a crucial clue--the woman's husband was seen building a coffin-shaped box about the time the woman disappeared.