7.5/10109 votes#1 - Without a Trace
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1998
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.
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7.4/10108 votes#2 - Knot for Everyone
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1998
In the mid-1980s, bodies of nude woman were found in remote hill of California. The killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case.
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7.6/10121 votes#3 - The Talking Skull
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1998
In 1987, a human skull and some bones were discovered at a Boy Scout Camp near Farmington, Missouri. A facial reconstruction aided the investigators in this case. Once the victim was identified as Bun Chee Nyhuis, her husband Richard H. Nyhuis, was no longer just a person of interest.
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7.5/1059 votes#4 - Foreign Body
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1998
Between 1986 and 1989, a disease swept through British cattle herds, which came to be known as Mad Cow disease. Scientists began to suspect that this was somehow related to some human illness. A California neurologist said both humans and animals were suffering from a mutated prion. When defective prions are transmitted from an infected host to a new host, they convert any normal prions they come across into copies of themselves so it is possible for a mutated prion to be transmitted from a cow to a person by eating beef. Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel prize for his work with prion.
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7.2/10112 votes#5 - Deadly Delivery
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1998
A serial bomber was waging a vendetta against the legal profession: a judge, two attorneys, and even a courthouse had been targeted. Employing a range of forensic techniques, investigators used evidence from the bombs to lead them to the perpetrator.
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7.4/10111 votes#6 - 'Sim'ilar Circumstances
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1998
Robert Sims returned home after working the night shift, and found his wife, Paula, unconscious on the kitchen floor. Their two-year-old son, Randy, was asleep in an upstairs bedroom, but their six-week-old daughter, Heather, was missing. Paula Sims was the only witness to a crime that baffles investigators to this very day.
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7.0/10104 votes#7 - Grave Evidence
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1998
The shooting of a man during a hunting trip is reopened years after the incident, and the victim's hunting partner becomes a suspect.
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7.3/10105 votes#8 - Deadly Formula
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1998
A possible case of Munchhausen syndrome is investigated after an infant dies of what appears to be toxic levels of antifreeze in his system.
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7.5/10123 votes#9 - Beaten by a Hair
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1998
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.
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7.5/10106 votes#10 - Crime Seen
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1998
Edward Honaker was convicted of rape, sodomy and aggravated sexual battery; he was sentenced to three life terms in prison. Honaker steadfastly maintained his innocence. After years in prison and writing countless letters, he finally found someone who believed him, and was willing to pay for DNA testing which could prove he was telling the truth.
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7.5/10112 votes#11 - Speck of Evidence
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 1/7/1999
On September 17, 1984, in a suburb of Tucson, Arizona, eight-year-old Vicki Hoskins left home on her pink bicycle to mail a letter for her mother. She never returned, but her slightly damaged bicycle was found nearby. Investigators turned to forensic science, in the hope it would tell them not only what happened to Vicki, but also who was responsible.
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7.4/1093 votes#12 - Broken Bond
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/1999
When a two-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital suffering from brain seizures and breathing difficulties, doctors could not find the cause of his illness. Then the boy’s sister provided an important clue, and raised the possibility of a syndrome of which few had ever heard.
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7.5/10111 votes#13 - Out of the Ashes
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/1999
On a cold December night in 1993, Rose Larner stopped in a convenience store on her way to her boyfriend’s house. She was never seen or heard from again. Rose’s disappearance remained a mystery, until a tiny clue found years later revealed a tragic tale of drugs, romance and revenge.
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The Best Episodes of Forensic Files Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Without a Trace" is the best rated episode of "Forensic Files" season 3. It scored 7.5/10 based on 109 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/1/1998. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Knot for Everyone".