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S1 E16 Summer of Hate

Crime

TV-14

42 minutes

Dec 31, 2004

The murder of a gay couple in rural California has police stymied. Who would want to hurt such a well-liked pair? But as investigators and forensic scientists dig deeper, the trail leads them to a sinister world of hate crimes.

Season 1, 42 Episodes

Season 1 (42 Episodes)

Forensic Factor - Nature's Clues

Nature's Clues,

How do bugs, pigs, and even the weather help investigators solve crimes? From tropical Hawaii to the frigid waters of Lake Ontario, forensic experts reveal, in gory detail, the clues nature leaves behind on a human corpse.

Forensic Factor - Future Crime

Can the sound of a suspect’s voice reveal his lie? Can the crucial moment of a crime be revealed? Can computers isolate a guilty face in a crowd? No longer science fiction, these are the high-tech tools of the forensics trade.

Forensic Factor - The Cover-Up

Fire, water, and earth – killers call on all the elements in their attempt to cover up their crimes. But even a body burned to ashes, sunk deep into the sea, or reduced to fragments will still tell its forensic tale.

Forensic Factor - Lasting Impressions

Lasting Impressions,

Criminals are betrayed by the clues their own bodies leave behind. A killer’s ear against a wall, a hand on a door, the path that he walks – even the slightest impressions left at the scene helps crime fighters find their man.

Forensic Factor - Murder Weapons

Murder Weapons,

Weapons are the hallmark of violent crime, tools designed to harm or kill. Forensic science has developed a world of techniques for tracking and identifying these devices. Ballistics and trauma wounds tell crime scene investigators their deadly story.

Forensic Factor - Beauty Queen

Karyn Slover's been offered to work as a model by an agency in Los Angeles. Leaving her ex-husband, friends, and current boyfriend behind, she leaves her desk at the local newspaper at 5 PM and is never heard from again.

Forensic Factor - A Deadly Affair

A Deadly Affair,

Caretaker Larry Mallory notices something unusual while on his way to work. Lying in the middle of the highway is a leg from a department store dummy, but when he gets closer, Mallory sees that it is not plastic.

Forensic Factor - Bloody Valentine

Bloody Valentine,

"My wife's bleeding all over the place," Dr. John Baxter Hamilton tells the 911 operator. "I don't know, she looks like somebody hurt her," but the science suggests a crime of heated rage and cold calculation.

Forensic Factor - No Body, No Crime

No Body, No Crime,

Millionaire Frank Black boards a commercial flight and disappears into thin air, never seen or heard from again. Authorities believe Black's former business associate is the man behind the murder.

Forensic Factor - Forensics on Trial

Forensics on Trial,

A girl is found dead in the boiler room of her tenement building. Given the sound of the boiler room, police determined that whoever killed her knew no one would hear him.

Forensic Factor - Killing Spree

Five university students are brutally attacked and killed. As officers meticulously investigate the death scenes, they realize this is no average murderer. This killer knows how to cover his tracks.

Forensic Factor - Freemont Bomber

Freemont Bomber,

In one violent evening, a series of bombs rock the sleepy California city of Fremont. The targets include both the Chief and Ex-Chief of police. Can authorities and forensic scientists stop the Fremont Bomber before he strikes again?

Forensic Factor - Vanished

After the owner of a private school for Asian students vanishes from his driveway, police scramble to find him as time begins to run out on the diabetic man. Investigators learn he has been kidnapped, but can they save him before it is too late?

Forensic Factor - Betrayed

The discovery of an abandoned suitcase containing a young Asian woman's body leads police to London. The mystery deepens when detectives discover that a second woman is missing.

Forensic Factor - Summer of Hate

Summer of Hate,

The murder of a gay couple in rural California has police stymied. Who would want to hurt such a well-liked pair? But as investigators and forensic scientists dig deeper, the trail leads them to a sinister world of hate crimes.

Forensic Factor - Promised Land

When a Russian prostitute is found murdered, Los Angeles Homicide detectives quickly find the case to be anything but routine. Investigators are drawn into the murky world of high-end prostitution, illegal alien smuggling, and Russian Organized Crime.

Forensic Factor - Rampage

Four brutal murders in one bloody weekend devastate the small town of Barrie, Ontario. The prime suspects are on the loose. But while police conduct a massive manhunt, they begin to discover that the evidence isn't adding up.

Forensic Factor - Yosemite Park Muders

Yosemite Park Muders,

What begins as a search and rescue operation becomes a chilling case of murder when the bodies of two women are discovered in the trunk of their burned-out rental car. An anonymous letter to the FBI leads authorities to the body of the third victim.

Forensic Factor - The Hog Trail Murders

The Hog Trail Murders,

Police realize they are chasing a serial killer, but the investigation is hampered by the fact that they are unable to identify any of the victims. Finally, a fifth body yields a name and soon puts authorities on the trail of nurse Daniel Conahan.

Forensic Factor - House Hermit

An elderly couple is found dead in the trunk of their car at their home in upscale Toronto. The investigation eventually leads authorities to the couple’s vacation home one hour north of the city. Police soon learn of the House Hermit.

Forensic Factor - Washington Sniper

Washington Sniper,

A sniper terrorizes Washington D.C. The victims are ordinary people doing routine activities. Nothing links them; they are chosen at random. Police mount one of the largest investigations in American history to catch a ruthless and elusive killer.

Forensic Factor - Dead Man's Hollow

Dead Man's Hollow,

Investigators at the scene find an unrecognizable body. State-of-the-art forensics, dogged police work, and some extraordinary turns of events lead police to the murder scene.

Forensic Factor - Olympic Bomber

Olympic Bomber,

The Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia are rocked by a massive pipe bomb explosion. Police have no clue who is behind the bombings until they receive a letter signed by "The Army of God," an anti-abortion, anti-gay, white supremacist group.

Forensic Factor - Colcester Rapist

Colcester Rapist,

A serial rapist stalks and preys on elderly women. Only a revolution in forensic science can strike fear into the heart of this predator.

Forensic Factor - Atomic Dog

A self-appointed angel of death on a mission beyond the law disappears into the shadowy underground that supports and protects him. But when the sniper’s mission moves to murder, a city is thrown into a blind panic that spreads across the country.

Forensic Factor - The Eclectic Murders

The Eclectic Murders,

When New Mexico police discover a broken window at a local head shop called The Eclectic, they expect to find evidence of a robbery. Instead, they uncover a horrific crime scene with two badly mutilated bodies.

Forensic Factor - To Catch a Serial Killer

To Catch a Serial Killer,

The world’s top criminal investigators, forensic scientists, and behavioral analysts go behind the scenes of some of their most challenging cases to reveal the cutting-edge forensic science and technology involved in tracking down a serial killer.

Forensic Factor - Forsaken

Using state-of-the-art forensics, police identify the body as that of a suburban wife and mother of two. Determined to find the killer, police dig further into the victim’s life, doggedly tracking down a former lover in New York City.

Forensic Factor - The Smiley Face Killer

The Smiley Face Killer,

One by one, prostitutes in Spokane, Washington, are being hunted down and discarded in remote wooded areas by a vicious serial killer. On each victim’s head, police find his macabre calling card – a plastic bag emblazoned with an ironic Smiley Face.

Forensic Factor - Knock, Knock, You're Dead

Knock, Knock, You're Dead,

Southern Louisiana is held in the terrifying grip of a serial killer whose initial "hot zone" is the Louisiana State University area of Baton Rouge. The number of victims is growing, and all are attractive, successful young women.

Forensic Factor - Pyromaniac

A series of over sixty spectacular fires rip through California’s San Joaquin Valley, killing four people and devastating the landscape. An extensive investigation by the ATF, police and forensic scientists reveals a common pattern among all the blazes.

Forensic Factor - The Fifth Commandment

The Fifth Commandment,

A double homicide in Hudson, Wisconsin, leaves a small-town reeling and two young detectives with little to go on. Richard Walter, the famed criminal profiler, becomes intrigued by the cold case and narrows the suspect list down to one man.

Forensic Factor - Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas,

Glamorous Las Vegas, Nevada, is famous for wealth, lady luck, and second chances. But when homicide detectives discover the charred remains of a prominent businessman, Sin City reveals a darker side.

Forensic Factor - Greetings from Yahweh

Greetings from Yahweh,

A series of bombings and bank robberies have left the usually serene city of Spokane, Washington reeling. The almost invisible sect called the Phineas Priests claims responsibility for the reign of terror.

Forensic Factor - Picture Perfect

Picture Perfect,

In Florida, four bodies are found slaughtered in a factory. It is the largest mass murder in county history. Each victim is somehow connected to the factory and the family business.

Forensic Factor - Bike Path Rapist

Bike Path Rapist,

The body of a twenty-two-year-old college student is found off a bike path in a suburb of Buffalo, New York. DNA evidence recovered from her body allows police to link the crime to six other recent rapes in the Buffalo area.

Forensic Factor - Million Dollar Murder

Million Dollar Murder,

When Horseshoe Bay police discover a multi-millionaire playboy brutally slain in his posh Texas mansion, they are immediately puzzled as to why anyone would sadistically murder the popular local resident.

Forensic Factor - Shopping Spree Killer

Shopping Spree Killer,

An 86-year-old woman is stabbed and strangled in her home within the secure walls of the upscale gated community of Canyon Lake, California. Before the body is cold, another elderly woman is brutally slain.

Forensic Factor - Thrill Kill

Days after Christmas, the desert city of Phoenix, Arizona, is shocked by a drive-by shooting rampage that injures multiple people and leaves two men dead. Forensics determines that this isn’t the first time the shooters have struck.

Forensic Factor - The Abbottsford Killer

The Abbottsford Killer,

A Special Task Force hunts down a deadly stalker on the loose in small-town Abbotsford, where one teenaged girl is found brutally killed and another barely alive. Investigators try to decipher a series of taunting messages from the killer himself.

Forensic Factor - Jack

A series of seemingly random shootings have terrorized the city of East Point, Georgia, just outside Atlanta. Police are baffled by the killer's motive and how he is choosing his victims.

Forensic Factor - Love Bites

A popular teenage girl is found brutally stabbed to death in her car in a small Pennsylvania city. She wasn’t sexually assaulted, but as police look closer, they discover she was involved in a shocking love triangle that breaks all the rules.

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Forensic Factor

Crime

TV-14

1 Season

43 minutes

Forensic Factor details the trade secrets used by the world’s best detectives to catch the most elusive criminals, with richly produced re-enactments of crucial incidents and first-hand accounts from the experts providing depth and insight.

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