
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 a man's wife kills herself 14 years after his college sweetheart commits suicide, police start to get suspicious.

Eyewitness to real estate agent's murder is put under forensic hypnosis in an attempt to help him recall the killer's face.

After a Michigan State University grad student disappears and is presumed dead, a professor of geological sciences helps police get the dirt on her killer.

Police launch a search for a killer after a teenager returns home to find his father's body in a pool of blood.