HLN HD Lack of evidence compels investigators to look beyond the obvious when a woman is beaten to death at her in-laws house. 2026-10-17 A man is found dead of an apparent suicide. But soon after, information emerges which reveals a much more menacing scenario. 2026-10-17 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. 2026-10-17 A young bride-to-be is gunned down in her own home. The attack is personal and as investigators start digging, they uncover the man she loved was living a lie. 2026-10-17 Tara Munsey went missing after a work shift at a Virginia restaurant, and it is unknown if she ran away or if she was the victim of foul play. 2026-10-17 An Ohio woman and her two daughters go missing while vacationing in Florida; their corpses are found floating in Tampa Bay with a handwritten note by one of the victims; putting it on five billboards helps them find the killer. 2026-10-17 Four young adults are murdered in an affluent Texas neighborhood, with little evidence but two people walking by dressed in black. 2026-10-17 A young college student is found dead in her apartment and the autopsy rules the death a homicide by an unknown male suspect. 2026-10-17 The killer removed the computer that links him to the murder of a woman and her soon-to-be ex-husband that he had met online. 2026-10-17 A community is shocked when police discover a woman raped and murdered in broad daylight on a public trail. 2026-10-17 A real estate developer is shot, and his wife becomes the prime suspect, until the bullet is linked to a weapon reported missing 20 years ago. 2026-10-17 A body is found stuffed into a suitcase forcing the police to search though the landfill for another missing victim. 2026-10-17 A woman goes missing for a month with the only clues being a set of keys, a fingerprint and a code. 2026-10-17 Police discover a mask near the crime scene and hope that it leads to the killer of a funeral director. 2026-10-17 A killer assaults a young mother in her home, but despite meticulous washing of the crime scene, a single hair remains to lead authorities to the culprit. 2026-10-17 The investigation into the disappearance of flight attendant Helle Crafts leads to the murder conviction of her pilot husband. 2026-10-17 Scientists and detectives use DNA to solve a string of rapes and murders. 2026-10-17 Police use DNA profiles of seed pods from a truck to catch a killer. 2026-10-17 Police believe they have a serial rapist and murderer, but DNA testing and research leads to another arrest and conviction. 2026-10-17 In 1976, 182 war veterans in Philadelphia become hospitalized with pneumonia-like symptoms and 29 die; the disease resurfaces every few years. 2026-10-17 Stories from across the world and conversations with Audie Cornish. 2026-10-17 Stories from across the world and conversations with Audie Cornish. 2026-10-17 A trash collector finds a severed human leg in a trash bin, but police cannot use conventional methods of victim identification; investigators turn to toxicology and DNA tests to find the murder-mutilator. 2026-10-17 A coroner finds telltale clues on the badly burned body of a murder victim, sending police in pursuit of a couple of killers. 2026-10-17 A man is arrested and convicted for a series of sexual assaults in Indiana; years later, forensic developments reveal new facts about the case. 2026-10-17 The murder of a young Seattle couple puzzles investigators until the victims' dog, Chief, leads police to the killer. 2026-10-17 A handsome young doctor's fiancée experiences severe illness after revealing that she is pregnant, and launches her own investigation to determine if the doctor is somehow responsible. 2026-10-17 A seemingly model citizen turns out to be a serial killer. 2026-10-17 An abandoned, still-running car leads investigators to a body with unusual marks and a DNA trail that lead to the killer. 2026-10-17 Police find fragments of deleted computer files leading them to suspect a woman's suicide is really murder. 2026-10-17 A suspicious neighbor gives police a break in a cold case. 2026-10-17 A family suspects their teenage daughter's new friends were involved in her disappearance. 2026-10-17 When a 62-year-old man opens a car restoration business and becomes seriously ill, his doctors cannot find the cause, but forensics can; identification of a highly toxic metal in the victim's blood leads to his poisoner. 2026-10-17 When a 6-year-old disappears, her father becomes the prime suspect; he fails a polygraph test and even confesses, but 10 years later, the investigation gets turned on its head. 2026-10-17 Investigators build a makeshift tent around a woman's body and use superglue fumes to lift the killer's palm print from the victim's skin. 2026-10-17 The disappearance of a mail-order bride proves suspicious when detectives learn that two of the Texas husband's previous wives had died in mysterious circumstances. 2026-10-17 A jeweler's search through old sales records helps police find likely suspects in the murder of elderly couple Edward Kowalzck and Gertrude Thompson. 2026-10-17 A garbage bag leads police to a child's killer. 2026-10-17 After a wealthy Southern physician gets murdered with a baseball bat, his wife and a handyman become convicted of the crime. 2026-10-17 In 1971, John List disappears after murdering his mother, wife and three children; he eludes the law for years until an age-scaled sculpture of the suspect and a true-crime TV program helps lead to his arrest in 1989. 2026-10-17 An 11-year-old boy comes down with a fever and diarrhea after eating an undercooked burger; when his condition worsens, his mother drives him to a hospital and doctors discover E. coli destroying his body. 2026-10-17 Florida police search for a serial rapist and murderer who left small red fibers on each of his 10 victims. 2026-10-17 When an English couple go missing, police suspect their son killed them and must rely on mud and blood samples found in the couple's two cars to find their bodies. 2026-10-17 Experts attempt to discover the source of heavy fog on Highway I-75 in Tennessee, which caused a 99-car accident and 12 deaths. 2026-10-17 When a woman goes missing from her home, police focus on her husband when an airline luggage tag and luminol point to an affair and murder; footage from a TV crew and Coast Guard photographs lead investigators to the suspect's missing boat. 2026-10-17 When a woman exhibits strange flu-like symptoms before dying, investigators discover someone added thallium to her soda; detectives initially suspect her husband, but the case takes a sinister turn. 2026-10-17 Handwriting and simple doodles complicate a car-bomb case and an alleged self-defense shooting in a peaceful British farming village as police uncover a husband's plot to kill his wife for insurance money. 2026-10-18 When dozens of infants develop serious breathing problems in the Cleveland area, doctors and investigators search high and low for the cause. 2026-10-18 A well-liked bank vice president collapses and dies after taking pain pills laced with cyanide; the search for a motive reveals a callous suspect who had murdered once before. 2026-10-18 Evidence reveals a teacher who complained of being stalked and harassed by another teacher was scamming police. 2026-10-18 A man kills two people with bombs in an effort to get investors off his back, but authorities catch onto him, and he becomes sentenced to life with no chance of parole. 2026-10-18 A man arrested for the sexual assault and attempted murder of a boy in a European country becomes linked to a murder in Zurich, Switzerland, through analysis of microorganisms. 2026-10-18 Heavy rains and snow run-off carry manure into Milwaukee's water supply in 1993, leading to an epidemic of gastrointestinal illness affecting 400,000 people. 2026-10-18 Autopsies reveal that a string of unexplained deaths in Omaha resulted from poison-induced liver disintegration. 2026-10-18 In a series of murders near Sacramento, Calif., a killer gags and molests prostitutes, cuts their clothes in random patterns and cuts off their hair; microscopic evidence helps solve the case. 2026-10-18 After the discovery of a skull in the forest near a boy scout camp, police use facial reconstruction to identify the body. 2026-10-18 Investigators use obscure evidence to find the person responsible for killing justice officials with mail bombs in the South. 2026-10-18 Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder. 2026-10-18 Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction. 2026-10-18 When a young woman goes missing on the way to the train station, investigators use a strand of hair and a bloody pillowcase to find a suspect. 2026-10-18 Investigators reopen a case from 1984 involving the rape of a young Virginia woman when DNA testing refutes her identification of the rapist and calls everything into question, leading to the accused person's exoneration. 2026-10-18 A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old. 2026-10-18 A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death. 2026-10-18 Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers. 2026-10-18 A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario. 2026-10-18 A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover. 2026-10-18 Stories from across the world and conversations with Audie Cornish. 2026-10-18 Stories from across the world and conversations with Audie Cornish. 2026-10-18 Melanie Zanona; Catherine Lucey; Isaac Arnsdorf. 2026-10-18 An investigation into the disappearance of a young woman uncovers a tooth that helps police solve a crime without a body. 2026-10-18 The sensitive nose of a forensic examiner sniffs out murder. 2026-10-18 Discovering that an assault suspect is left-handed is crucial to a police investigation dating back 16 years. 2026-10-18 Forensic scientists try to find a way to "lift" the serial number from a shotgun that's their only clue in a case. 2026-10-18 Investigating the worst arson spree in U.S. history -- a rash of more than 75 fires near Seattle. 2026-10-18 Computers aid the police and FBI in solving a string of crimes. 2026-10-18 Using an anonymous letter and geographical profiling, investigators close in on a serial rapist, and a cleverly obtained DNA sample confirms their suspicions. 2026-10-18 When a young boy has serious respiratory problems and his father shows signs of early Alzheimer's disease, a chance encounter with a stranger kicks off an investigation into the cause. 2026-10-18 Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., use cell phone mapping, wiretapping and a host of forensic evidence to find a surgeon's killer. 2026-10-18 A woman wins her release after being imprisoned for allegedly killing her mother in a car fire. 2026-10-18 Authorities are able to apprehend a kidnapper because he allowed his victim to write a will on a telltale pad of paper. 2026-10-18 Experts debate whether an apparent heart attack victim died from natural causes or alleged poisoning by his girlfriend. 2026-10-18 When a 12-year-old was found dead in her home, police were left clueless until a string of burglaries months later. A trail of stolen goods may help solve a murder. 2026-10-18 When 15-year-old Marlene Miller was murdered, it would take 24 years and several retrials before forensic scientists discovered the evidence to bring her killer to justice. 2026-10-18 A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself. 2026-10-18 A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another. 2026-10-18 In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappeared from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day. 2026-10-18 When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death. 2026-10-18 Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer. 2026-10-18 A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs. 2026-10-18 A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice. 2026-10-18 A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago. 2026-10-18 After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer. 2026-10-19