
Eagle-eyed technical experts prove there is no such thing as a perfect crime as they assemble the pieces every criminal leaves behind. Dramatic crime re-creations and, sometimes, part of the investigations are a staple of the series. Some of the re-creations include alternate versions of the crimes, which are disproved by science. The show's episodes follow each case from the initial investigation until it reaches its legal resolution.
When hunters find a skull in a Texas canyon, police find bits of clothing, a woman's shoe, some small bones and a strand of hair; once they discover her identity, it was time to find the killer.
A wife is missing in Key West; investigators wonder if they should be searching for a missing person or a killer.
Suicide notes and a pistol in hand lead police to suspect that a mother of two young children appeared to have killed herself, but when investigators learned of a house fire she was in three years earlier, they reinvestigated.
The violent death of an Air Force officer's wife outside a Philippines air base is examined, amid accusations of a love triangle involving the murdered woman's husband; investigators use groundbreaking computer forensics to make their case.