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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 1 - Without a Trace
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Without a Trace

    S3:E1

    In Omaha, the deaths of a child and a truck driver in the same hospital on the same day are investigated to see if there is a link between them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Forensic Files Season 13 Episode 47 - Dirty Little Secret
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Dirty Little Secret

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Forensic Files Season 14 Episode 12 - Social Circle
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Social Circle

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 1 - The Disappearance of Helle Crafts
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - The Disappearance of Helle Crafts

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 9 - Beaten by a Hair
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Beaten by a Hair

    S3:E9

    Early one fall morning, Laura Houghteling left her Bethesda home and walked to the station to take a train to work. She was never seen again. A peculiar strand of hair found in Laura’s hairbrush enabled investigators to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Forensic Files Season 11 Episode 15 - Nice Threads
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Nice Threads

    S11:E15

    A woman was found dead on the bedroom floor of her apartment. The crime scene yielded little of value, and investigators wondered if they would find enough evidence to make a case, much less catch a killer. But a bloodstained sheet and a breakthrough forensic technique enabled them to identify the murderer, and convince the jury of his guilt.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Forensic Files Season 13 Episode 25 - Family Ties
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Family Ties

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Forensic Files Season 12 Episode 20 - Jean Pool
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Jean Pool

    S12:E20

    In 1984, the body of college co-ed Laura Salmon was found on a Georgia farm, covered with her own denim jeans as well as the jeans of the killer. Investigators had plenty of suspects, including former boyfriend David Kyle Gilley, but no conclusive evidence linking any of them to the crime. More than a decade later, sophisticated technology would breathe new life into a case grown cold with the passage of time and implicate her killer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Forensic Files Season 12 Episode 23 - Disrobed
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - Disrobed

    S12:E23

    The crime scene was especially violent: A husband and wife had been shot to death in their bedroom. At first, investigators thought their 16-year-old daughter was lucky to have escaped unharmed... but after a while, they wondered if the reason she was alive had more to do with careful planning than good fortune.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Forensic Files Season 12 Episode 30 - Smoking Out a Killer
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Smoking Out a Killer

    S12:E30

    A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other. Five years earlier, a student was assaulted and killed in her off-campus apartment and, a year after that, another student was killed in almost the same way. Police feared a serial killer was on the loose and they needed to determine what – or who – these women had in common.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Forensic Files Season 13 Episode 15 - Sworded Scheme
    2.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Sworded Scheme

    S13:E15

    When a college student is reported missing, police believe their investigation will be like countless others, and she'd turn-up a few days later. But when they discover blood spatter in her boyfriend's bedroom, blood spatter someone had gone to great lengths to conceal, they know this case is going to be different.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Forensic Files Season 2 Episode 5 - Bitter Potion
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Bitter Potion

    S2:E5

    The flu-like symptoms of a mother and her children proved to be indicative something much more serious: thallium poisoning. Investigators had to find the source of the poison... and when the mother died, to determine if the exposure was accidental, or if they also needed to find a killer.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 7 - Grave Evidence
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Grave Evidence

    S3:E7

    The shooting of a man during a hunting trip is reopened years after the incident, and the victim's hunting partner becomes a suspect.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Forensic Files Season 6 Episode 14 - Treads and Threads
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Treads and Threads

    S6:E14

    For 15 months, a serial killer in Tampa, FL, taunts police by strangling prostitutes and leaving their bodies in plain sight, but tire marks and fibers lead to the culprit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Forensic Files Season 8 Episode 34 - Web of Seduction
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Web of Seduction

    S8:E34

    On November 8, 1999, Bruce Miller was found shot to death in the office of the Michigan auto-salvage shop he owned. There were no clues or forensic evidence found at the scene. But computer forensic experts found evidence of a crime that had everything - sex, lies and a video tape. [also marked as S8:E24]

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Forensic Files Season 10 Episode 9 - Shear Luck
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Shear Luck

    S10:E9

    In 1991, when the wife of a serviceman was brutally murdered in the Philippines, the Air Force Office of Special Investigators swung into action. Clues led to the victim's husband, but he insisted he was innocent. To find out if he was telling the truth, investigators would have to do something unprecedented: Reassemble a 5-1/4 inch computer disk which had been cut to pieces with pinking shears.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Forensic Files Season 10 Episode 14 - A Leg Up on Crime
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #17 - A Leg Up on Crime

    S10:E14

    The decomposed body of a young woman was discovered in a Bakersfield irrigation canal. If there was trace evidence, it had been washed away. Another victim was found in that same canal a year later; this time, the perpetrator had been careless. The shoe prints found at the scene would lead police to the most unlikely of killers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Forensic Files Season 11 Episode 17 - Internal Affair
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Internal Affair

    S11:E17

    When a woman went missing, friends and family were determined to find her. Their worst fears were confirmed weeks later when her body was discovered. Blood evidence and computer forensics helped investigators to catch the killer, and convince the jury of his guilt.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Forensic Files Season 12 Episode 14 - Finger Pane
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Finger Pane

    S12:E14

    A serial killer was on the loose and police had to find him before he struck again. Their most promising lead was an unusual one: a bloody fingerprint on the body of one of the victims.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Forensic Files Season 12 Episode 17 - Dog Day Afternoon
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Dog Day Afternoon

    S12:E17

    A woman was brutally murdered in her home, and the only witnesses to the crime were the family dogs. An expert in canine behavior was convinced the killer knew both the victim and the animals, and he was determined find out exactly what the dogs had seen.

    Director:Michael Jordan
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Forensic Files Season 12 Episode 21 - Traffic Violations
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Traffic Violations

    S12:E21

    The body of an attractive young woman was found a mile from her abandoned car. Police were especially concerned when they realised the victim had come to them for protection just two weeks earlier, after a road rage incident. Concern turned to dread when the evidence began to point not to an aggressive driver, but to one of their fellow police officers.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Forensic Files Season 12 Episode 25 - Printed Proof
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Printed Proof

    S12:E25

    When two women went missing and were later found brutally murdered, police wondered if they were victims of a hate crime; the women lived together and were politically active, outspoken advocates of gay rights. But the motive turned out to be something age old, something with which investigators were all too familiar: greed, fueled by obsession.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Forensic Files Season 12 Episode 29 - Guarded Secrets
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Guarded Secrets

    S12:E29

    A security guard disappeared from his post without a trace; his remains were found a year later in a remote camp site. More than a decade would pass before a phone call breathed life into the cold case, and a paint smear on the bottom of the victim's boot helped scientists determine what happened during the last hour of his life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Forensic Files Season 13 Episode 4 - Political Thriller
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Political Thriller

    S13:E4

    In 2006, Nevada politician Kathy Augustine died mysteriously during a hard-fought re-election campaign and the medical examiner could neither isolate the cause of death, nor explain the tiny puncture wounds discovered during the autopsy. Upon deeper analysis, investigators focus on her husband Chaz Higgs, a critical care nurse who had ready access to succinylcholine.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Forensic Files Season 13 Episode 6 - Dancing with the Devil
    1.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Dancing with the Devil

    S13:E6

    In 1999, Patrick McRae was found dead in his Des Moines home and the crime scene was awash with blood. Analysis showed it had come from two people, one of whom was female. The male DNA was McRae's, which meant the killer was a woman. Leads dried up and the case went cold until a suspect arrested for drug possession offered police a deal, and told a bizarre tale of an exotic dancer named Andrea Morris who listened to the voices in her head.

    Director:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"Without a Trace" is the best rated episode of "Forensic Files". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/1/1998. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Dirty Little Secret".