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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 2 - The Magic Bullet
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    #1 - The Magic Bullet

    S1:E2

    At the Dallas 'Pistol & Revolver' club in 1991, Trey Cooley, a young spectator, was watching a shooting competition, seated behind an air gun range. He was struck and killed by a stray bullet. See how ballistics, lasers, and forensic animation solve the riddle of the "magic bullet".

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  2. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 3 - The House That Roared
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    #2 - The House That Roared

    S1:E3

    Caren Campano disappeared and her husband, Chris became the prime suspect -- especially after police found a huge bloodstain on the Campano's bedroom carpet. When they sprayed the bedroom with Luminol, they discovered it was awash with blood spatter. Complex DNA testing - 'reverse paternity' tests - proved it was Caren's blood. Now all they had to do was find her body.

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  3. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 5 - Planted Evidence
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    #3 - Planted Evidence

    S1:E5

    Single mother Denise Johnson is found dead in a deserted area outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Local investigators ask a molecular geneticist to pick out a tree in a 'lineup' when unidentified seed pods are found in suspect Mark Bogan's truck. The judge rules into evidence DNA profiles linking the pods to a tree near where the body was found. This is the first U.S. case where plant DNA was used to convict a criminal.

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  4. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 6 - Southside Strangler
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    #4 - Southside Strangler

    S1:E6

    The U.S. criminal justice system's first use of DNA profiling in a serial murder case frees an innocent man after he spent two years in prison, and convicts the real killer. FBI psychological profiling and DNA evidence identify the man who raped and strangled five young women in Virginia.

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  5. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 7 - Legionnaires' Disease
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    #5 - Legionnaires' Disease

    S1:E7

    Legionnaires' disease is one of the most famous medical detective stories, especially irritating for its missteps and frustrations. When 180 Legionnaires contract pneumonia-like symptoms after a Philadelphia Convention and 29 of them die, doctors and scientists are mystified. The determination of one scientist helps to determine the cause and likely vector of this deadly disease.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 8 - The Wilson Murder
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    #6 - The Wilson Murder

    S1:E8

    On the night of May 22, 1992, Betty Wilson returned home after a meeting. She walked up the stairs to the bedroom and discovered her husband, Eye doctor Jack Wilson, beaten and stabbed to death, lying in a pool of blood with a baseball bat nearby. Jack Wilson had obviously been murdered... but how? And by whom? Even the experts couldn’t agree.

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  7. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 9 - Deadly Neighborhoods
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    #7 - Deadly Neighborhoods

    S1:E9

    Troubling clusters of deadly cancer cases strike concerned communities across the country. In a Phoenix suburb, too many children are fatally stricken with leukemia and, on a Connecticut street, there is a disproportionate amount of illness, including four cases of brain cancer. Modern environmental agents such as buried poisons and electrical substations are found... Could these be the culprits?

    Director:Unknown
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  8. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 10 - Insect Clues
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    #8 - Insect Clues

    S1:E10

    Between 1985 and 1988, 18 people were choked, molested and left for dead in the remote desert mountains of California. The only witnesses were the insects – and they also proved to play an important role in solving the crimes.

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  9. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 11 - Outbreak
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    #9 - Outbreak

    S1:E11

    Alarmingly high levels of thyroid hormones pump through the systems of South Dakota residents. Investigators study one family who all got sick, except their 12-year-old son who is a vegetarian.

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  10. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 12 - The List Murders
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    #10 - The List Murders

    S1:E12

    In 1971, John List left a note with the bodies of his mother, wife, and three children in his mansion ballroom, funeral organ music blaring from a central sound system, and disappeared. Eighteen years later, all detectives had to work from is an outdated photograph of List. In 1989, the popular television series America's Most Wanted commissioned an age-scaled bust of List to aid viewers in identifying the confessed murderer. Dr. Frank Bender, nationally-recognized artist and sculptor, worked with forensic psychologist Richard Walter to develop a profile of the aging List.

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  11. Forensic Files Season 1 Episode 13 - Raw Terror
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    #11 - Raw Terror

    S1:E13

    Escherichia coli (E-coli) bacteria can be found in meats, milk and in water. When food is properly processed, prepared and stored, E-Coli are harmless. But in the absence of these simple precautions, E-Coli can have deadly consequences. Raw Terror tells the story of Damion Heersink, an eleven-year-old boy who almost died after eating an improperly cooked hamburger teeming with E-Coli, and the people who saved his life.

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  12. Forensic Files Season 2 Episode 1 - The Common Thread
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    #12 - The Common Thread

    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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  13. Forensic Files Season 2 Episode 2 - The Dirty Deed
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    #13 - The Dirty Deed

    S2:E2

    In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, Eileen and Derrick Severs disappeared from their home in the small village of Hambleton in Great Britain, and police found evidence which suggested foul play. Careful analysis of a soil sample would tell investigators not only what happened to the couple, but who was responsible for the dirty deed.

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  14. Forensic Files Season 2 Episode 3 - Killer Fog
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    #14 - Killer Fog

    S2:E3

    It was the single, most deadly automobile accident in American history. Almost a hundred vehicles were involved, twelve people died, and more than fifty people were injured. It happened along a three mile stretch of highway long known for dense, thick fog. Investigators set out to determine if the fog was a natural phenomenon, or the result of something else.

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  15. Forensic Files Season 2 Episode 4 - Sex, Lies & DNA
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    #15 - Sex, Lies & DNA

    S2:E4

    While Earl Morris was vacationing in California, he learned his wife had gone missing from their home in Arizona. The search for Ruby Morris involved dozens of investigators and scientists, even the coast guard. And the results of that investigation surprised everyone... especially Earl Morris.

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  16. Forensic Files Season 2 Episode 6 - The Blood Trail
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    #16 - The Blood Trail

    S2:E6

    In a quiet village in Great Britain, a farmer came upon a chilling sight. Impaled on his fence post was a severed lamb’s head along with a note which read, “You next.” The author of the note didn’t elaborate on why the farmer had been targeted, but between the lines, he’d said plenty.

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  17. Forensic Files Season 2 Episode 12 - Micro-Clues
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    #17 - Micro-Clues

    S2:E12

    After a day of fishing in a small, quiet village in Switzerland, a teenage boy did not return home as planned. The investigation revealed some important microscopic evidence in the water near where he was last seen. It was the only forensic evidence detectives had. But would it be enough for them to find him?

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  18. Forensic Files Season 2 Episode 13 - Deadly Parasites
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    #18 - Deadly Parasites

    S2:E13

    In the spring of 1993, an unexplained illness struck the residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Four hundred thousand people developed a serious gastrointestinal illness, 4,000 were hospitalized and, by the time the epidemic was under control, more than 100 people were dead. Health officials suspected it was influenza, but it proved to be more serious and more difficult to identify.

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  19. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 2 - Knot for Everyone
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    #19 - Knot for Everyone

    S3:E2

    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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  20. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 3 - The Talking Skull
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    #20 - The Talking Skull

    S3:E3

    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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  21. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 4 - Foreign Body
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    #21 - Foreign Body

    S3:E4

    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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  22. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 5 - Deadly Delivery
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    #22 - Deadly Delivery

    S3:E5

    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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  23. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 6 - 'Sim'ilar Circumstances
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    #23 - 'Sim'ilar Circumstances

    S3:E6

    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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  24. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 8 - Deadly Formula
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    #24 - Deadly Formula

    S3:E8

    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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  25. Forensic Files Season 3 Episode 10 - Crime Seen
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    #25 - Crime Seen

    S3:E10

    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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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Magic Bullet" is the worst rated episode of "Forensic Files". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/3/1996. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The House That Roared".