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The Best Episodes of Forensic Files

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The Best Episodes of Forensic Files

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  1. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The Disappearance of Helle Crafts

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    S1:E1

    The case of missing stewardess Helle Craft is recounted. Although her body was never recovered, police used forensic evidence to charge her husband with murder. It became the first murder conviction without a body in Connecticut.

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  2. 8.0/10(144 votes)

    #2 - Bad Blood

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    S6:E18

    In 1992, in a rural Canadian community, Dr. John Schneeberger is accused of sedating and sexually assaulting two of his female patients. DNA tests show him to be innocent, but the women persist with their claims; 7 years later, a private investigation leads to a surprising discovery.

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  3. 8.0/10(106 votes)

    #3 - Family Ties

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    S13:E25

    When court clerk Peter Porco doesn't report to his work in November 2004, a courts officer is ordered to the Porcos' family home in Bethlehem, NY. Inside the home, he finds murdered Peter Porco and his barely alive wife Joan who had both been savagely attacked with a fireman's axe. Eventually, a DNA sample may lead to the killer.

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  4. 8.0/10(125 votes)

    #4 - Dirty Little Secret

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    S13:E47

    Joshua Ford and Martha Crutchley spent Memorial Day weekend at the beach, and then they simply vanished. A week later, police would get an unexpected lead from a robbery in progress, and the evidence they found helped solve a crime of unparalleled violence and brutality.

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  5. 8.0/10(144 votes)

    #5 - Water Logged

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    S14:E11

    In 1989, the bodies of Joan Rogers and her two teenage daughters were found floating in Tampa Bay. The water washed away any evidence, but police hoped a handwritten note found in the victims' car would lead to the killer, so they posted huge copies of the note on five highway billboards.

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  6. 7.9/10(152 votes)

    #6 - Haunting Vision

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    S4:E11

    Lori Keidel, her two sisters and her brother were left home alone while their father went to a nearby laundromat. Suddenly, a large fire engulfed their brick ranch home. Only a few months earlier, the children's mother had disappeared and made no effort to contact them. Lori found the courage to tell police that she had witnessed her own mother's death.

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  8. 7.9/10(124 votes)

    #7 - A Daughter's Journey

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    S9:E13

    Haunted by the disappearance of her mother some twenty years earlier, a young woman undertook an investigation of her own. Her mother's diary was in the now cold case file; there, in her mother's own handwriting, she discovered a dark family secret, which might have been the reason her mother vanished.

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  9. 7.9/10(102 votes)

    #8 - Grave Danger

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    S11:E16

    A young man was killed in a mysterious car crash, but the evidence at the scene led investigators to believe it was not an accident. Forensic science revealed what really happened, and the truth devastated three families.

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  10. 7.9/10(90 votes)

    #9 - All That Glitters is Gold

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    S13:E32

    A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses. Was this an ambush or a random attack? Had the victim been abducted or was she dead? The answers lay in a unique clue so tiny it was measured in millionths of a meter.

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  11. 7.9/10(101 votes)

    #10 - Family Interrupted

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    S13:E43

    On December 10, 2003, a gunman opened fire as a family of four entered their home, killing two and wounding the others. He’d pulled open a few drawers to make it look like a robbery, but the scene was clearly staged. When police pieced together the clues, they discovered an unlikely suspect and a carefully orchestrated plot.

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  12. 7.9/10(111 votes)

    #11 - Social Circle

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    S14:E12

    In 2003, Tiffany Rowell and three of her friends were brutally murdered in their affluent Clear Lake, TX, neighborhood and the crime scene yielded little evidence. The next-door neighbors had seen two young people dressed in black walking nearby and their descriptions were used to create composite drawings, which become a key element in solving the crime.

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  13. 7.8/10(124 votes)

    #12 - Something's Fishy

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    S2:E9

    Two people in Seattle, Washington died after taking an over-the-counter pain reliever; lab analysis of the pills showed they were tainted with a lethal concentration of cyanide. The investigation which followed led police to a suspect with a motive for murder and a callous disregard for others.

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  14. 7.8/10(110 votes)

    #13 - Ties That Bind

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    S4:E7

    When a sexual predator murders two young boys in Nebraska within three months of each other, an obscure style of rope and forensic analysis lead to his arrest and conviction.

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  15. 7.8/10(118 votes)

    #14 - Skin of Her Teeth

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    S6:E16

    In 1994, a human skull found in an Ohio pond uncovers a ghastly crime. Markings on the skull indicate that the victim had been stabbed many times and that the teeth had been removed with needle-nose pliers in an attempt to keep the victim's identity a secret. Forensic scientists use DNA matches to indentify the skull.

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  16. 7.8/10(119 votes)

    #15 - Badge of Betrayal

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    S9:E18

    The body of a young California co-ed was found under an isolated ramp of the Interstate, and San Diego police had no idea who would want this girl dead. But their questions would be answered when they discovered a tiny, unique fiber on the victim's clothing, which led them straight to the most unlikely of killers.

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  17. 7.8/10(73 votes)

    #16 - Signed, Sealed & Delivered

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    S10:E25

    Two men were convicted of intentionally shooting and killing a passenger in a moving car, their friend was granted immunity for testifying against them, and the case was closed. Then a bomb exploded in the family home of the state's witness, instantly killing his father. Investigators turned to forensic science, hoping to determine if this was an act of revenge and if there was a way to link the two deadly crimes.

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  18. 7.8/10(91 votes)

    #17 - Hot on the Trail

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    S10:E37

    A serial arsonist was on the loose in Washington, DC. Each of the fires was started with the same type of incendiary device. The perpetrator was very careful and seemed to leave no evidence behind but there were clues in the ashes and it was up to forensic scientists to find them.

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  19. 7.7/10(138 votes)

    #18 - The Common Thread

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    S2:E1

    The year was 1984, and a serial killer was on the loose in Florida. Eight women had been found dead. At each crime scene, investigators found tiny red fibers, fibers they hoped would lead them to the killer.

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  20. 7.7/10(137 votes)

    #19 - Invisible Intruder

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    S4:E1

    In 1996, police received a call from Darlie Routier telling them of her two sons' murders. However, investigators were not certain about the validity of Darlie's story and began an intensive search of the crime scene. The police found out who the killer was by analyzing blood spatter, doing behavioral profiling and analyzing Darlie's 911 call.

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  21. 7.7/10(117 votes)

    #20 - Pure Evil

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    S6:E19

    Creating a “profile” of a serial killer is part science and part intuition. The science involves studying criminals who have committed similar crimes, to see what characteristics they have in common. In a search for the killer of two teenagers in Texas, a behavioral profile led to a possible suspect - and hard science proved the profile was correct; it shows a behavioral study on how most serial killers also have a history of abusing animals.

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  22. 7.7/10(100 votes)

    #21 - Sign of the Zodiac

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    S8:E25

    For six years, a serial killer prowled the streets of New York City. He wrote letters to police and The New York Post, indicating he would kill twelve people, one for each astrological sign.

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  23. 7.7/10(108 votes)

    #22 - Point of Origin

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    S9:E21

    In 1984, California firefighters had battled ten arson fires in three weeks. When cigarettes and a scrap of paper connected the southern California fires to several fires further north, the hunt was on for a dangerous pyromaniac. Investigators finally found a fingerprint, and it pointed to a most unlikely suspect.

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  24. 7.7/10(102 votes)

    #23 - Fishing for the Truth

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    S9:E26

    A two-man shrimp boat sank when a fast-moving, violent storm struck the Louisiana coast. The captain drowned, and the deckhand was rescued fourteen hours later. He told the Coast Guard that the captain's foot had become entangled in the fishing nets; they tried frantically to free him, but they failed. The deckhand was considered a hero until the captain's body was found. Eventually, the public discovers that he was coerced into confessing to the captain's murder.

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  25. 7.7/10(97 votes)

    #24 - Marked for Life

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    S10:E2

    In 1957, California police searched for a man who had committed several crimes in one night – including murder, but after following thousands of leads, eventually, the case turns cold. Almost 50 years later, with advances in computer technology and handwriting analysis, investigators determine the killer.

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  26. 7.7/10(100 votes)

    #25 - Tagging a Suspect

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    S10:E10

    Bombings are difficult to solve, because the perpetrator isn't usually at the scene, and the evidence goes up in smoke. But there are clues if investigators know where to look. In this case pieces of plastic the size of grains of sand, held the key to a man's murder.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Disappearance of Helle Crafts" is the best rated episode of "Forensic Files". It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/21/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bad Blood".