homicide investigation

Amanda Knox relates her trial and time spent in jail for the accused murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, and her subsequent acquittal.

Explores how recent advances in forensic science can solve the crucial questions in a criminal case with startling accuracy.

After a dead body is found in the cargo hold of a ship arriving from Belgium, Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called in to investigate, and she soon finds herself trying to outwit a brutal killer who calls himself The Werewolf.

Dr. Kay Scarpetta becomes both investigator and victim when she is contacted over the Internet by a murderer who is threatening to loose a deadly virus on the world.

An illustrated look at the laboratory techniques used to investigate violent crime, which explores fingerprint analysis, firearms, trace evidence, and DNA and discusses real cases.

Describes the techniques used to examine victims' bodies for clues in investigations of violent crime, exploring autopsies, wounds, decomposition, and bones and discussing real cases.

Features six invented crime scenarios that are pictured in detail in miniature dioramas. Using modern forensic techniques and investigative genius, officers, detectives, technicians, and medical examiners peel away the crime scenes to solve the cases. Each of the six stories is led by the first detective on the scene, who sets the investigation in motion by examining the key evidence at crimes in a living room, garage, store, kitchen, dorm room, and hotel room.

Details the murder of twenty-one-year-old Meredith Kercher and the subsequent investigation and trial of American Amanda Knox for the crime.

Stories of cops, killers, and cold cases from the 1980s and early '90s, ranging from local crimes to national sensations.

FBI profiler John Douglas presents a look at the development and evolution of the criminal mind, attempting to discover what motivates arsonists, hijackers, bombers, poisoners, serial and spree killers, and mass murderers to commit their violent acts.