7.7/10105 votes#1 - Purebread Murder
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2010
A young mother is murdered after years of domestic abuse. There are clues at the scene: bloody footprints and DNA from the victim’s rape kit.
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7.4/1093 votes#2 - Hear No Evil
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 7/30/2010
Threatening emails, a missing person and an abandoned truck lead police to a home where they believe a murder was committed. The evidence is overwhelming and investigators are sure they have the killer. What they don’t have is the body of the victim.
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7.1/1074 votes#3 - Hell's Kitchen
Season 14 Episode 3 - Aired 8/13/2010
In 2000, Kristine Fitzhugh failed to show up for her music class and her husband Ken found her dead at the bottom of the stairs of their Palo Alto home. Upon further investigation, luminol reveals evidence of murder in the kitchen. As detectives investigate the crime further, they uncover a long-held family secret that provides motive.
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7.6/1094 votes#4 - Three's a Crowd
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 8/27/2010
As she left choir practice, a woman was gunned down in the church parking lot. Her husband became the prime suspect – particularly when police learned he found out just a month earlier that his wife had been cheating on him for three years.
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7.5/1095 votes#5 - A Squire's Riches
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 9/10/2010
In 2008, Illinois emergency response came upon a garage fire and a man was found crushed beneath a truck. Upon first glance, the victim was the homeowner Ari Squire. Investigators turned to forensic science to determine if they were dealing with a tragic accident or a carefully orchestrated murder.
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7.4/1086 votes#6 - Home of the Brave
Season 14 Episode 6 - Aired 9/24/2010
In 2007, the Florida mobile home of Effie and Michael Ratley catches fire and Michael heroically rescues his wife and infant son. A month later, his wife is found beaten to death in a bedroom of his parents' home. The cut window screen points to an intruder, but the lack of supporting evidence compels investigators to look within.
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7.8/1080 votes#7 - Freeze Framed
Season 14 Episode 7 - Aired 10/8/2010
In 2005, David Castor suffered a slow, agonizing death over a period of days. His wife Stacey maintained it was suicide, even though it was done with antifreeze. Police were skeptical, especially when they learned Stacey's first husband Michael Wallace died when he was only 38 years old and she refused to consent to an autopsy.
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7.2/1076 votes#8 - Touch of Evil
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 12/17/2010
In the 1990s, a dismembered body is dumped on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike and before police realize it, bodies are turning up between two states. The killer's methods involved dismembering the bodies and wrapping the parts in plastic bags, which were carefully washed to remove all incriminating evidence. The killer eluded capture for almost ten years and then new technology revealed fingerprints no one knew were there.
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7.3/1093 votes#9 - Textbook Murder
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 12/31/2010
In 2006, Jackson, MS, resident Avis Banks and her unborn child were brutally murdered in her garage and discovered by her fiancé Keyon Pittman. Police learn Pittman was having affairs with other women and he became the prime suspect... that is until a man comes forward who not only believes he owns the murder weapon, he also knows who used it.
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7.3/1091 votes#10 - Filtered Out
Season 14 Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/2011
In 2000, when teenager Tara Munsey goes missing after a work shift at a Virginia restaurant, it is unknown if she ran away or if she was the victim of foul play. Everyone's worst fears are confirmed when a body is found at the bottom of an isolated ravine. Investigators scoured the crime scene, hoping to find enough evidence to identify the killer.
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8.0/10140 votes#11 - Water Logged
Season 14 Episode 11 - Aired 1/28/2011
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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7.9/10108 votes#12 - Social Circle
Season 14 Episode 12 - Aired 2/11/2011
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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7.3/1074 votes#13 - Low Maintenance
Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 2/25/2011
In 2008, college co-ed Jenna Verhaalen was found dead in her Bryan, Texas apartment and petechial hemorrhages in her eyes indicated that she was strangled. The victim's boyfriend, a neighbor and the apartment maintenance man are all suspected, but it takes DNA evidence to identify the killer.
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7.7/1080 votes#14 - Fate Date
Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 3/11/2011
In 2003, Rebecca Barney and her soon-to-be ex-husband Fred were found shot to death in their Tulsa, OK, home, which had been set on fire. After the fire was extinguished, Kenneth Maxwell, who was the man who had called 911 to report the fire, was also found shot dead in his car. Only the computer had been taken from the Barney home and with it, seemingly the means to identify the killer.
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7.7/1076 votes#15 - Trail of a Killer
Season 14 Episode 15 - Aired 3/25/2011
In 2003, Kathy Lorick was raped and murdered on a Concord, California jogging trail in the middle of the day while talking to her husband on her mobile phone. The leads from Kathy's cell phone records and search dogs go nowhere. Nine days later, a witness tells police about a chance encounter.
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7.3/1074 votes#16 - Gone Ballistic
Season 14 Episode 16 - Aired 4/8/2011
In 2008, Colorado real estate developer Alan Helmick was found shot to death at home. His wife Miriam became the prime suspect. Police had a wealth of evidence against her, but it is circumstantial. The case will turn on a .25 caliber bullet fired 20 years ago from the now-missing murder weapon.
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7.5/1080 votes#17 - Seeing Red
Season 14 Episode 17 - Aired 4/22/2011
In 2005, the body of young mother Summer Baldwin was found in a suitcase in a Texas landfill. The suitcase leads investigators to a suspect, Rosendo Rodriguez, and the forensic evidence against him was formidable. Further evidence leads them to teenager Joanna Rogers, who had gone missing in 2004. Upon extensive search of the same landfill, Rogers' decomposing body was also found in a suitcase.
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7.2/1035 votes#18 - Auto-Motive
Season 14 Episode 18 - Aired 5/6/2011
In 2001, Michelle Harris went missing from her Owego, NY home. Since they were going through a contentious divorce, her husband Cal was a suspect, as well as several other men that Michele had been in contact with before her disappearance. But, no arrests were made until one of the men made an incriminating remark.
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7.0/1076 votes#19 - Skeleton Key
Season 14 Episode 19 - Aired 5/20/2011
In 2004, nursing student Tamika Huston went missing from her Spartanburg, SC home. A tip led detectives to her car and they find an unknown house key that could help solve the case. Further investigation leads to the only other clues: a fingerprint and a code.
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7.0/1074 votes#20 - Funeral Services
Season 14 Episode 20 - Aired 6/3/2011
In 2002, funeral director Lonnie Turner, Sr. was found shot to death in his Navasota, TX home. His son Lonnie Jr. became the prime suspect, particularly after it was discovered that the murder was committed with his gun. However, he had an alibi for the time of the murder. Later, detectives found a mask near the crime scene and DNA evidence may lead to the killer.
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7.2/1063 votes#21 - Expert Witness
Season 14 Episode 21 - Aired 6/17/2011
In 1993, young mother Tammy Tatum was found sexually assaulted and murdered in her Longmont, CO apartment. Police initially suspect her estranged husband, but did not have enough evidence to charge him and the case went cold. Three years later, another young woman was raped and police suspect the cases may be related. Despite meticulous washing of the crime scene, a single hair remains to lead authorities to the culprit.
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The Best Episodes of Forensic Files Season 14
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Season 14 Ratings Summary
"Purebread Murder" is the best rated episode of "Forensic Files" season 14. It scored 7.7/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/16/2010. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Hear No Evil".