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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 is broadcast on truTV, narrated by Peter Thomas, and produced by Medstar Television, in association with truTV Original Productions. It has broadcast over 400 episodes so far since its debut on TLC in 1996 as Medical Detectives.[1]
| Season (Szn) | Episodes (Ep) | Premiere date | Finale date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | April 21, 1996 | December 19, 1996 |
| 2 | 13 | October 2, 1997 | December 25, 1997 |
| 3 | 13 | October 1, 1998 | December 24, 1998 |
| 4 | 14 | September 29, 1999 | December 29, 1999 |
| 5 | 18 | September 12, 2000 | January 9, 2001 |
| 6 | 30 | May 21, 2001 | December 10, 2001 |
| 7 | 42 | October 12, 2002 | July 26, 2003 |
| 8 | 42 | April 1, 2003 | December 21, 2006 |
| 9 | 30 | June 3, 2004 | March 2, 2005 |
| 10 | 42 | April 27, 2005 | March 15, 2006 |
| 11 | 42 | July 19, 2006 | May 2, 2007 |
| 12 | 30 | September 26, 2007 | February 17, 2008 |
| 13 | 49 | September 12, 2008 | July 9, 2010 |
| 14 | 21 | September 10, 2010 | June 17, 2011 |
| # | Szn: | Ep: | Title: | Description: | Air Date: |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | "The Disappearance Of Helle Crafts" | 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 4:00 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. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | April 21, 1996 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | "The Magic Bullet" | At the Dallas ‘Pistol & Revolver‘ club in 1991, Trey Cooley, a young spectator, was watching a shooting competition, seated behind an air gun range. He was struck and killed by a stray bullet. This is how ballistics, lasers, and forensic animation solve the riddle of the magic bullet. | October 17, 1996 |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | "The House that Roared" | 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. The body isn't found until a year later. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | October 10, 1996 |
| 4 | 1 | 4 | "The Footpath Murders" | English detectives team up with a pioneering scientist to crack a case of sexual assault and serial murder. In 1983, a quiet country village is gripped with fear as authorities search for the killer of 15-year-old Lynda Mann. Clueless, they start again when Dawn Ashworth is killed three years later. They enlist the help of Dr. Alec Jeffreys, a molecular biologist who uses his breakthrough technique of genetic fingerprinting to rule out one suspect by comparing his DNA with that of semen found on the victims' bodies. Police set up a DNA dragnet to trap and convict the real killer. This 1986 murder case is the first to use DNA as evidence in a criminal case. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | October 23, 1996 |
| 5 | 1 | 5 | "Planted Evidence" | Police in Arizona ask a molecular geneticist to pick out a tree in a 'lineup' when unidentified seed pods are found in a suspect'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. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | October 24, 1996 |
| 6 | 1 | 6 | "Southside Strangler" | 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. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | October 31, 1996 |
| 7 | 1 | 7 | "Legionnaires' Disease" | 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. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | November 7, 1996 |
| 8 | 1 | 8 | "The Wilson Murder" | 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. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | November 14, 1996 |
| 9 | 1 | 9 | "Deadly Neighborhoods" | 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? (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | November 21, 1996 |
| 10 | 1 | 10 | "Insect Clues"[2] | Drifter Sandra Cwik was murdered in southern California in July 1988. Abandoned in a remote area, her body was discovered several days later decomposing with the aid of maggots. By analyzing the species of fly discovered at the recovery site, forensic entomologist David Faulkner provides the compelling time-of-death evidence that convicted serial rapist Ronald Porter. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | November 28, 1996 |
| 11 | 1 | 11 | "Outbreak" | Alarmingly high levels of thyroid hormones pump through the systems of South Dakota residents. Investigators study one large family whose 12-year-old son did not get sick. The tip-off: he's a vegetarian. It seems that when drug companies started manufacturing synthetic thyroid hormones, they stopped buying thyroid tissue from butchers who did not trim these parts, but rather sold them as 'extra lean beef.' The outcome: the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture bans meat plants from using meat in or near the gullet for beef and pork products. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | December 5, 1996 |
| 12 | 1 | 12 | "The List Murders" | In 1971, John List left a note with the bodies of his mother, wife, and three children in his mansion ballroom, funeral organ music blaring from a central sound system, and disappeared. Eighteen years later, all detectives had to work from is an outdated photograph of List. In 1989, the popular television series America's Most Wanted commissioned an age-scaled bust of List to aid viewers in identifying the confessed murderer. Dr. Frank Bender, nationally-recognized artist and sculptor, worked with forensic psychologist Richard Walter to develop a profile of the aging List. The final bust was so keenly accurate that 350 viewers called with tips, one of which led to List's arrest. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | December 12, 1996 |
| 13 | 1 | 13 | "Raw Terror" | E-Coli bacteria can be found in meats, milk and in water. When food is properly processed, prepared and stored, E-Coli are harmless. But in the absence of these simple precautions, E-Coli can have deadly consequences. Raw Terror tells the story of Damion Heersink, an eleven-year-old boy who almost died after eating an improperly cooked hamburger teeming with E-Coli, and the people who saved his life. (Originally aired under the TV Show Title Medical Detectives) | December 19, 1996 |
References
- ^ "Forensic Files" (2000)
- ^ Stevenson, C. “Rush to Judgement”, CreateSpace, June 22, 2011, pages 443-445.
