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*Forensic Files*
Forensic Files
Season 1
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Original network	TLC
Original release	April 23 –; December 19, 1996
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Forensic Files is an American documentary-style series which reveals how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes, mysterious accidents, and even outbreaks of illness. The show was broadcast originally on truTV, in reruns on HLN, was narrated by Peter Thomas, and produced by Medstar Television, in association with truTV Original Productions. It has broadcast 406 episodes since its debut on TLC in 1996 as Medical Detectives.

Episodes

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Original air date
1	1	"The Disappearance of Helle Crafts"	April 23, 1996 (1996-04-23)
2	2	"The Magic Bullet"	October 17, 1996 (1996-10-17)
3	3	"The House that Roared"	October 10, 1996 (1996-10-10)
4	4	"The Footpath Murders"	October 23, 1996 (1996-10-23)
5	5	"Planted Evidence"	October 24, 1996 (1996-10-24)
6	6	"Southside Strangler"	October 31, 1996 (1996-10-31)
7	7	"Legionnaires' Disease"	November 7, 1996 (1996-11-07)
8	8	"The Wilson Murder"	November 14, 1996 (1996-11-14)
9	9	"Deadly Neighborhoods"	November 21, 1996 (1996-11-21)
10	10	"Insect Clues"	November 28, 1996 (1996-11-28)
11	11	"Outbreak"	December 5, 1996 (1996-12-05)
12	12	"The List Murders"	December 12, 1996 (1996-12-12)
13	13	"Raw Terror"	December 19, 1996 (1996-12-19)

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Forensic Files episodes on TV Guide

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 | Title=The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
-| ShortSummary=Documents the [[murder of Helle Crafts]], a flight attendant, who is reported missing and police suspect her pilot husband Richard of foul play. Why? A snowplow driver thinks he saw the suspect chopping wood near the river at 4:20 AM in the middle of a snowstorm, shortly before he reported his wife gone. In a small eddy downstream, police find fragments of what will be identified as human bone, a fingernail, a tooth and a few strands of hair. This was Connecticut's first murder conviction without a body.
+| ShortSummary=Documents the Novermber 19, 1986 [[murder of Helle Crafts]], a flight attendant, who is reported missing and police suspect her pilot husband Richard of foul play. Why? A snowplow driver thinks he saw the suspect chopping wood near the river at 4:20 AM in the middle of a snowstorm, shortly before he reported his wife gone. In a small eddy downstream, police find fragments of what will be identified as human bone, a fingernail, a tooth and a few strands of hair. This was Connecticut's first murder conviction without a body.
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 | Title=The House that Roared
-| ShortSummary=Caren Campano disappears and the explanation of her husband Chris doesn't hold up. Police find a large stain on the Campano's bedroom carpet. They perform an eerie chemical test that reveals a room spattered with blood which, when cleaned off, could not be seen by the naked eye. Complex 'reverse paternity' tests of Caren's relatives match her blood type to the blood on the carpet. The evidence convicts Chris Campano of murder, even though the body wasn't found until a year later.
+| ShortSummary=In 1992, Caren Campano disappears and the explanation of her husband Chris doesn't hold up. Police find a large stain on the Campano's bedroom carpet. They perform an eerie chemical test that reveals a room spattered with blood which, when cleaned off, could not be seen by the naked eye. Complex 'reverse paternity' tests of Caren's relatives match her blood type to the blood on the carpet. The evidence convicts Chris Campano of murder, even though the body wasn't found until a year later.
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 | Title=Planted Evidence
-| ShortSummary=Single mother Denise Johnson is found dead in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Local investigators ask a molecular geneticist to pick out a tree in a 'lineup' when unidentified seed pods are found in suspect Mark Bogan's truck. The judge rules into evidence DNA profiles linking the pods to a tree near where the body was found. This is the first U.S. case where plant DNA was used to convict a criminal.
+| ShortSummary=In 1992, single mother Denise Johnson is found dead in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Local investigators ask a molecular geneticist to pick out a tree in a 'lineup' when unidentified seed pods are found in suspect Mark Bogan's truck. The judge rules into evidence DNA profiles linking the pods to a tree near where the body was found. This is the first U.S. case where plant DNA was used to convict a criminal.
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 | Title=Southside Strangler
-| ShortSummary=FBI psychological profiling and DNA evidence identify [[Timothy Wilson Spencer]] who raped and strangled five young women in Virginia. The U.S. criminal justice system's first use of DNA profiling in a serial murder case frees an innocent man after he spent two years in prison, and convicts a real killer.
+| ShortSummary=FBI psychological profiling and DNA evidence identify [[Timothy Wilson Spencer]] who raped and strangled five young women in Virginia from 1984 through 1988. The U.S. criminal justice system's first use of DNA profiling in a serial murder case frees an innocent man after he spent two years in prison and convicts the real killer.
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 | Title=Legionnaires' Disease
-| ShortSummary=[[Legionnaires' disease]] is one of the most famous medical detective stories, especially irritating for its missteps and frustrations. When 180 Legionnaires contract pneumonia-like symptoms after a Philadelphia Convention and 29 of them die, doctors and scientists are mystified. The determination of one scientist helps to determine the cause and likely vector of this deadly disease.
+| ShortSummary=[[Legionnaires' disease]] is one of the most famous medical detective stories, especially irritating for its missteps and frustrations. When 180 Legionnaires contract pneumonia-like symptoms after a 1976 Philadelphia Convention and 29 of them die, doctors and scientists are mystified. The determination of one scientist helps to determine the cause and likely vector of this deadly disease.
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 | Title=The Wilson Murder
-| ShortSummary=Eye doctor Jack Wilson is found dead by his wife Betty, having been beaten, stabbed and lying in a pool of blood with a baseball bat nearby. Police arrest an itinerant painter/handyman who is found with the doctor's credit cards. He accuses the doctor's unfaithful wife and her twin sister of hiring him to commit the murder. The wife is sent to prison, but at her sister's trial, attorneys finally bring in a forensic expert who testifies that the crime could not have been committed the way the painter said. The sister is acquitted. But the wife remains in prison, and the mystery goes unsolved.
+| ShortSummary=In 1992, eye doctor Jack Wilson is found dead by his wife Betty, having been beaten, stabbed and lying in a pool of blood with a baseball bat nearby. Police arrest an itinerant painter/handyman who is found with the doctor's credit cards. He accuses the doctor's unfaithful wife and her twin sister of hiring him to commit the murder. The wife is sent to prison, but at her sister's trial, attorneys finally bring in a forensic expert who testifies that the crime could not have been committed the way the painter said. The sister is acquitted. But the wife remains in prison, and the mystery goes unsolved.
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 | Title=Deadly Neighborhoods
-| ShortSummary=Troubling clusters of deadly cancer cases strike concerned communities across the country. In a Phoenix suburb, too many children are fatally stricken with leukemia and, on a Connecticut street, there is a disproportionate amount of illness, including four cases of brain cancer. Modern environmental agents such as buried poisons and electrical substations are found... Could these be the culprits?
+| ShortSummary=Troubling clusters of deadly cancer cases strike concerned communities across the country. In 1987, residents of a Phoenix suburb realize that too many children are fatally stricken with leukemia and, on a Guilford, Connecticut street, there is a disproportionate amount of illness, including four cases of brain cancer which garners national attention in 1990. Modern environmental agents such as buried poisons and electrical substations are found... Could these be the culprits?
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