
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.
When murder strikes a young girl, police quickly make an arrest, but cutting-edge technology from NASA proves they have the wrong suspect behind bars.
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.
A man is found strangled and burned in his San Antonio apartment and the killer thinks he has destroyed all the evidence.