Broken Trust: A motel clerk is found dead, lying on the lobby floor. Police arrive to find the body partially burned, as well as a bloody palm print and most of a fingerprint. Surveillance tapes from surrounding businesses are collected, as well as fingerprints of over a hundred people for elimination purposes. Police are finally led to an ex-motel employee. Human remains, including teeth and bones, are found in a garbage bag. Authorities recall a missing person’s case from several years earlier. Reverse DNA testing of the remains proves the body was in fact that of a man’s missing wife. A toxicologist is brought in to prove the cause of the woman’s death was not drugs, as the man suggested, and her husband is charged with her grizzly murder. In both cases, the killer tried to disguise the victim’s body in an attempt to hide the actual cause of death; however, forensic science cannot be fooled.

Loved To Death: A Russian woman is found nude and dead in the bathtub in her Toronto apartment. Homicide detectives process the apartment, and transport the woman to the Medical Examiner’s office. An autopsy is performed, and a forensic odontologist is brought in, as teeth marks were discovered on the woman’s body. The teeth marks were analyzed, and samples were taken. The woman appeared to have several boyfriends, all of whom were questioned, and had teeth molds made to attempt to match to the bite marks on the woman’s body. A perfect match was found, the only evidence linking the man to the murder. In 1980, a group of Indiana highway workers discovered the skeletonized remains of a woman in a box, whose legs were missing from the knees down. For years, the woman’s identity remained a mystery. Twenty years later, the Sheriff’s Department in Ohio contacted the highway patrol, requesting their help in locating a Jane Doe. The Indiana Sheriff remembered the “woman in the box,” and made sure the cold case investigators were made aware of the woman’s remains. DNA samples were extracted, and compared to those of the woman reported missing in Ohio. A perfect match. All investigators had to do now, was find her killer… Forensic science has advanced so much, that even the oldest remains still share the clues necessary to convict a killer.

Vanished: An 18-year-old girl is found raped and strangled in a Harlem stairwell. DNA is collected from the victim’s body and is compared to that of other rape suspects being held in jail; it doesn’t match. Another girl with a similar description is found dead, and police feel they have a serial killer on their hands. A man’s name is found from the phone records of one of the victims, and authorities would have to attempt to obtain DNA sample from the man to prove his guilt. Several missing women all linked to a man offering them jobs or money, sparked a search of the man’s hotel room. Authorities found remains of several women in large drum barrels. The medical examiner and authorities would have to determine the identity of each of the victims, as well as attempt to locate other missing women linked the killer. Murderers will often go to great lengths to keep their crimes concealed, but forensic evidence is often impossible to cover up.

The New Detectives is an American docudrama where world-renowned forensics experts and criminal investigators solve a wide range of cases.

Some scenes in this program have been reenacted, due to the sensitive nature of the show, viewer discretion is advised.

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