Catching Killers

2012 • Smithsonian Channel
4.7
38 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 1 episodes (6)

1 DNA Profiling
6/17/12
DNA testing was originally used only to determine paternity, until a brutal murder in England changed everything.
2 Fingerprints
6/24/12
Fingerprints have helped authorities save the Mona Lisa, catch the infamous criminal John Dillinger, and in 1892 bring its first killer to justice.
3 Skeletal Secrets
7/1/12
From a sausage factory to the hidden lair of a serial killer, skeletal remains are solving grisly murders and forever changing forensic investigations.
4 Insect Evidence
7/8/12
See how maggots, flies, even grasshoppers have become star witnesses in some of the world's most famous murder cases.
5 Proving Poison
7/15/12
The #1 murder weapon of choice for centuries, poison comes in millions of killer compounds. Can modern science ever detect them all?
6 Smoking Guns
7/22/12
Grooves inside a gun barrel leave a distinctive mark on bullets, linking bullets to weapons and victims to killers.

About this show

It's harder and harder to get away with murder. Today, detectives are catching and convicting more criminals than ever before, thanks to enormous leaps in forensic science. Fingerprints, bones, hair and genetic markers are now forms of indisputable evidence, but that wasn't always the case. Revisit the most dramatic murder mysteries in history and see how forensic tools forever changed the way crimes are solved.

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4.7
38 reviews
Cat Landess-Pietryka
August 13, 2015
If not for so many old school detection methods, we'd never been able to see the way clear to the science!
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Patricia OQuin
May 25, 2020
Best foresic show ever
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A Google user
April 28, 2016
Fantastic!
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