Grade levels: Adult

A retired fireman on a morning bike ride notices a burning bundle in a farmer’s field…and recognizes the smell of burning human flesh. Investigators at the scene find an unrecognizable body, a distinctive lighter, 2 pairs of latex gloves and the box they came in, paper towels and torn scraps of an office memo. State of the art forensics, dogged police work, and some extraordinary turns of events lead police to the murder scene – the medical room of a ball bearings factory, and the arrest of a former Armenian mafia thug turned English family man for the brutal murder of his cruel ex-boss.

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, and it has been severed from a female human body with surgical precision. The discovery of four more body parts in the area touch off a murder manhunt that involves seven police forces in four countries.

The cry for help comes from Oklahoma City’s most exclusive neighborhood. 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. It’s Valentine’s morning and socialite Susan Hamilton lies nude, smashed in a pool of blood. The science suggests a crime of heated rage and cold calculation, a killer with the intelligence to cover his trail and the composure to mask his guilt.

Millionaire Frank Black boards a commercial flight and disappears into thin air. The workaholic, busing magnate is never seen or heard from again. Authorities believe Alan Mackerley, Blacks’ former business associate is the man behind the murder. But Black’s body and the murder weapon are never recovered. At trial the defense raises doubts that Black is even dead at all!! With no body and no murder weapon they argue the case is highly circumstantial.

A six-year old girl, Andrea Atkinson, is found dead in the boiler room of her Toronto tenement. Forensic investigators quickly determine she has been raped and smothered. There are no witnesses. Quick-thinking cops experiment with the sound in the boiler room by yelling with the door closed. Outside, total silence. Whoever killed Andrea knew no one would hear him.

In three days of savagery the picturesque town Gainesville Florida is sent reeling with shock. Five university students are brutally attacked and killed. As ident officers meticulously investigate the death scenes, they realize this is no average murderer. This killer knows how to cover his tracks. Each scene has been literally scrubbed clean and the bodies washed to eliminate hairs or body fluids. There are no fingerprints anywhere. The murder weapon is nowhere to be found.

In one violent evening, a series of bombs rocks the sleepy California city of Fremont. The targets include both the Chief and Ex-Chief of police. But as America’s leading explosive experts sift through the evidence, they discover a plan far more insidious than anyone could have imagined. Can police and forensic scientists stop the Fremont Bomber before he strikes again?

After the owner of a private school for Asian students vanishes from his driveway, police scramble to find him. The search grows desperate as time begins to run out on the diabetic man who is desperately in need of his medication. Investigators soon have their answer he has been kidnapped. Now, can they save him before it is too late?

Winner at the 21st Annual Gemini Awards: Best Photography in an Information Program or Series – J.P. Locherer C.S.C., Damir Chytil csc.
The discovery of an abandoned suitcase containing a young Asian woman’s body leads North Yorkshire police to London. But instead of answers, the mystery only deepens when they discover that a second woman is missing. The killer’s trail leads investigators and forensic scientists halfway around the world – only to discover that the key to unlocking the mystery has been under their noses all along.”

The murder of a gay couple in rural California has police stymied – who would want to hurt the well-liked pair? As investigators and forensic scientists dig deeper, they suspect that the killings are linked to a series of arsons that have destroyed several synagogues and an abortion clinic. The trail leads them to the sinister world of hate crimes — and a chilling plan that must be stopped.