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Identifying A Victim

Most are familiar with methods like DNA testing. But trained CSI professional have lots of other less obvious methods of uncovering someone's identity.

Playlists

(1 - 3 of 3)
  • Play Forensic Factor: A Deadly Affair
    3 Clips Playlist A Deadly Affair

    (05:57)

    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. When he gets closer, Mallory sees two crows feeding on it. The leg is not plastic, it is flesh...
  • Play Forensic Factor: Fremont Bomber
    3 Clips Playlist The Fremont Bomber

    (05:27)

    Can police and forensic scientists stop the Fremont Bomber before he strikes again? How does the CSI team track down a suspect from the blast evidence?
  • Play Forensic Factor: Killing Spree
    3 Clips Playlist The Gainesville Ripper

    (04:45)

    In three days of savagery the picturesque town Gainesville Florida is sent reeling with shock. Five university students are brutally attacked and killed. This killer knows how to cover his tracks.

The Science Channel Clips

  • Play Forensic Factor: Identifying A Victim
    Identifying A Victim

    Forensic Factor (01:48)

    Most are familiar with methods like DNA testing. But trained CSI professional have lots of other less obvious methods of uncovering someone's identity.
  • Play Forensic Factor: Profiling A Killer
    Profiling A Killer

    Forensic Factor (01:35)

    Contrary to popular belief, not all serial killers leave a calling card. How do you profile a killer when each crime is so different?
  • Play Forensic Factor: Total Blood Drainage
    Total Blood Drainage

    Forensic Factor (02:18)

    Why would a killer take the time to completely drain the blood from a body? Because it makes it nearly impossible to identify the victim.
  • Play Forensic Factor: A Vicious Crime
    A Vicious Crime

    Forensic Factor (01:35)

    What was it about Sonja Larson, a 18 year old future nursery school teacher, that drove her attacker to commit such a violent and heinous murder?
  • Play Forensic Factor: Skills Of A Surgeon
    Skills Of A Surgeon

    Forensic Factor (01:51)

    Surgeons train and study for years to help heal others on the operating table. But what if those talents fall into the wrong hands?
  • Play Forensic Factor: The Gainesville Ripper
    The Gainesville Ripper

    Forensic Factor (01:35)

    How did the Gainesville Ripper manage to wreak havoc on an entire community in under 72 hours? News cameras could have played a bigger role than anything else.
  • Play Forensic Factor: Call from a Killer
    Call from a Killer

    Forensic Factor (01:48)

    After a bomb planted by an unknown suspect ripped clean through a family home, with residents still inside, local police get an eerie phone call from the bomber himself! Did he really mean to give himself up?
  • Play Forensic Factor: Targeting the Top
    Targeting the Top

    Forensic Factor (02:01)

    After an unknown suspect detonated a bomb that nearly destroyed a small town family and their home, authorities were confident the bomber was on the run. But actually, he was placing a paper grocery bag on the local police chief's front lawn.
  • Play Forensic Factor: Mystery Bomber
    Mystery Bomber

    Forensic Factor (01:38)

    A devastating bomb was planted outside a family home and exploded into flames. How do investigators work backwards from the wreckage to find who's responsible?
 

Follow the twists and turns of crimes murders and mysteries as they are solved and proven by detectives and attorneys using the latest in forensic science techniques. Each episode focuses on a different case and the forensics used to prove them.

 
 

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