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Forensic Files

  • TV-14
  • 1996–2011
  • 14 seasons
  • Crime, Documentary
  • 7.9

No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problem.

Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find previously undetectable evidence. Brilliant scientific work helps convict the guilty and free the innocent.

Episodes

7 episodes
  1. 1Payback

    40 minMay 31, 2001

    This episode covers the 1993 disappearance and murder of twenty-year-old Bobby Kent in Weston, Florida, whose death was the work of seven people. The case, which became well known, is also the subject of a book and a movie.

  2. 2Eight Men Out

    43 minJun 7, 2001

    A young sailor named Billy Bosko married his high school sweetheart, Michelle Moore Bosko. When he returns to his home port of Norfolk, Virginia on July 8, 1997, he finds his 19-year-old bride lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She had been raped and murdered. The police investigation focuses on a neighbor, who confesses. But his DNA does not match the killer's. That begins a series of police interrogations and "confessions," all of which are in conflict with the forensic evidence. Four men are eventually sent to prison. Three others are accused. Finally, an eighth man confesses in a letter, and his is the only DNA that matches. Defense investigators and others wonder why were the other men accused and sent to prison.

  3. 3See No Evil

    37 minJun 14, 2001

    Beginning in December 1990, police uncover a string of murdered prostitutes. Each victim has had her eyes carved out. Charles Albright was eventually convicted of murder in 1991.

  4. 4The Buddhist Monk Murders

    39 minOct 22, 2001

    Several monks are massacred at a Buddhist temple in Arizona in 1991. Four men from Tucson, referred to as the "Tucson Four", were initially charged with the crime and gave confessions under controversial conditions, including the actual murder weapon – connected to unassociated individuals who were ignored by authorities – being left untested by the sheriff's department. However, the "Tucson Four" later recanted the confessions and were released when investigators finally confirmed that they had nothing to do with the murders. Local teenagers Johnathan Doody and Allessandro Garcia were arrested and imprisoned.

  5. 5The J.F.K. Assassination: Investigation Reopened

    44 minNov 19, 2003

    Over 40 years after the 1963 assassination of president John F. Kennedy, a majority of Americans still believe that there was a cover-up. Was Lee Harvey Oswald the sole gunman? Could one bullet pass through both the president and governor John Connally? Does a police radio recording hold the truth?

  6. 6The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: Investigation Reopened

    21 minMay 11, 2005

    The 1932 kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. is reviewed.

  7. 7Forensic Files: 25th Anniversary Special

    45 minOct 1, 2021

    A look back on 25 years of Forensic Files/Medical Detectives, featuring interviews with key figures behind the scenes as well as highlights of favored episodes and scenes.

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Series cast

Peter ThomasSelf - Narrator (voice)400 episodes
Roy ShulerBearded Man at Andre Edwards House (uncredited)4 episodes
James E. AshDavid Copenhefer (uncredited)3 episodes
M. William PhelpsSelf - True Crime Author, 'Cruel Death'2 episodes
Jennifer GranholmSelf - Michigan Attorney General (archive footage)1 episode
John WalshSelf1 episode
Frank BenderSelf1 episode
Trey GowdySelf1 episode
Danni LangChristina Sanoubane1 episode
William J. WhiteCarlos Robinson1 episode
Ruben FischmanDetective Duncan1 episode
Dave WeidlerJeffrey Flynn1 episode
Lisa KobakKen's Collegue1 episode
Edgar FelixDetective Spinelli1 episode
JaQuinley KerrAshley Wallace1 episode
Gene HansenTom Mulcahy1 episode
Natalie StavolaSurviving Victim1 episode
Craig ChamberlinLineup Guy1 episode

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