Season 2

1 - Mind Hunters 53 min

Renowned FBI profiler Robert Ressler can reveal unseen clues about a killer simply by learning details about the crime. From motives to habits, social traits to taste in cards, investigative profiling discloses a killer’s hidden motives.

2 - Camera Clues 53 min

Forensic Photography: Forensic photographers are among the first people at a crime scene, capturing vital clues on film. What do the cameras capture that can’t be seen first-hand, and who are the men and women who analyze the camera’s clues?

3 - Double Helix 53 min

With the advent of DNA analysis, just a few microscopic cells found at a crime scene can be used to put a murder behind bars. Forensic scientists can analyze droplets of blood, hair fiber, or a piece of chewed gum to solve a crime.

4 - Web of Clues 53 min

Bugs have roamed the earth for 250 million years, but their intimate association with death is just now coming to life. The kinds of insects on bodies, along with their stage of development, can pinpoint time of death and help identify victims.

5 - Face Of Tragedy 54 min

Forensic Sculpting: Forensic sculptors retrieve people from oblivion. Using clay and an intricate knowledge of anatomy, forensic arts place a face on an unidentified skull, recreating the victim’s likeness, which often leads to his name.

6 - Without A Trace 51 min

Approximately 1.8 million Americans are reported missing each year. In addition to pictures on milk cartons or store windows, authorities use nationwide computer databases to locate missing persons. Many of the missing are never seen again.

7 - Burning Evidence 53 min

It’s difficult to have a murder investigation without a body and burning up the victim is a time-honored method of destroying physical evidence. But what happens when the charred remains are found, unrecognizable, seemingly impossible to identify?

8 - Short Fuse 53 min

In New York State, Eleanor Fowler opened a package that exploded and killed her instantly. Five other bombs exploded and were just as fatal. The investigation into this serial bombing case became one of the most massive investigations in history.

9 - Death Grip 53 min

The identification division of the FBI relies on fingerprints as one of the most effective ways to identify criminals. Fingerprints are an indisputable, time-tested method to establish someone’s ID beyond a shadow of a doubt.

10 - Signed In Blood 53 min

While our handwriting may not reveal our personalities, the dotting of the “i’s and crossing of the “t”s is an important business in criminal investigation. Letters from suspected offenders and signatures are scrutinized down to the last dot.

11 - Witness To Terror 54 min

Little evidence is left after an airplane takes a deadly plunge. Investigators’ best hope for an answer comes from the flight data recorder known as a “black box.” The black box could be the only witness to the final moments of a doomed flight.

12 - Trial Of The Century 54 min

Millions watched on television as O.J. Simpson was found not guilty of murder. Forensic scientists reconstructed the events that took place the night Nicole Simpson was killed. We’ll examine what forensics could and couldn’t tell us about the trial.

13 - Deadly Target 54 min

A corpse is found with a gunshot wound to the head. It looks like suicide, but could it be murder? It’s a question for ballistics experts. Gunshot residues, the pathway of the bullet into the body are all important clues.