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Former homicide task force leader and author Colin McLaren explains to Eve Ash the subtle art of asking investigative questions. A workplace investigator or manager trying to ascertain the truth and resolve a problem needs to visualize their interview goal, then chart a series of questions with a suspect or employee. Questions must be subtle, short (to establish and confirm facts), open-ended, methodical, and numerous, monitoring the person's responses...
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Eighteen months after Chinese student Lin Jun was brutally killed and dismembered, a group of Internet users attempted to track down Luka Rocco Magnotta, whom they also linked to online videos showing kittens being slowly suffocated. In this program, we meet these trackers and witness a re-enactment of their Magnotta investigation. See how they carefully studied videos to determine that the first kittens had been killed in Toronto, and how Magnotta...
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Blood, hair, fiber-these tell-tale signs are often the key to catching the most careful of killers. This program looks at blood-spatter analysis and what it can reveal about the killer, the soil on a suspect's shoe that solved one of history's ugliest crimes, and the conviction of a killer based only on a small piece of cord and a single hair.
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In 1888, Jack the Ripper—the most infamous serial killer of all time—began his reign of terror in the East End of London. He committed five horrifically violent murders in Whitechapel between August and November of that year. There was a huge manhunt, but the Ripper was never caught. Since then, there has been endless speculation about who the Ripper was, what motivated his crimes, and how the killer escaped justice. Emilia Fox, the star of BBC...
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From the courtroom to the living room (thanks to the hit television series CSI), forensic science is king. Expertise on fingerprints, ballistics and bite mark analysis are routinely called on to solve the most difficult criminal cases—and to put the guilty behind bars. But how reliable is the science behind forensics? A FRONTLINE investigation finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science and wide inconsistencies in how...
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It was a landmark achievement with the implication to solve any crime. In March 2018, US police tracked down the Golden State serial killer, who had gone undetected for 40 years, by identifying members of his family on a commercial DNA database. It was the first time investigative genetic genealogy had been used to crack a case and helped spawn a new discipline. Since then, genetic genealogy has been used to catch nearly 300 killers. If the DNA profiles...
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How can a policeman know if a suspect is lying or not? What makes a good interrogation? In America, an estimated 25% of confessions are thought to be false. The old 'good cop, bad cop' trick' is one of the oldest and most famous interrogation methods in the book. Despite its Hollywood status, the overbearing demeanor of one investigator combined with the seemingly supportive nature of another is an real-life method used in getting confessions out...
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This pilot episode of Crime 360: Welcome to Homicide minutely details the investigation into a murder in Richmond, Virginia. The mystery begins as Detective Shane Waite is called to a local apartment complex where a bound murder victim is found inside the trunk of his car. There are no known witnesses or original crime scene; we watch as forensic evidence is gathered from the body and physical evidence is discovered in the car. A 911 tip from witness...
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Where there's a murder, there's a body, and it's often the most significant piece of evidence, preserving important clues. This episode features the first investigation in which DNA fingerprinting was used to convict a serial killer, unearths a historic case involving a college janitor turned detective, and explains how you go about putting a name to a body when it's been dissolved in acid.
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Proper questioning can be a key ingredient in solving crimes and providing evidence for conviction. This program delivers vital information for both the patrol officer interrogating a subject at the scene and the detective back at headquarters. Cases are made and broken through the interrogation process. Learn the proper techniques from experts.
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This documentary follows the juvenile squad of the police department of Oakland, California. Following Lieutenant Willey and his team of expert police officers, we learn about how they work to dismantle one of the most terrifying and common crimes in Oakland: sex slavery and trafficking of minor girls. With testimonies from the police squad, the criminals, and victims, this program shows the inner workings of one of the country's criminal justice...
15) Soaked in Bleach
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The events behind Kurt Cobain's death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator hired by Courtney Love to track down her missing husband only days before his deceased body was found. The film develops as a narrative mystery with cinematic re-creations, interviews with key experts and witnesses, and the examination of official artifacts from the 1994 case.
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One evening, a couple were watching tv when they heard a knock on their front door. On the doorstep was a shivering 10-year-old girl wearing only a t-shirt. She had been snatched from outside a community centre in town and raped. The following summer there were eight further rapes of girls and women around the M25, London's orbital motorway, that police believed were committed by the same man. This film, talking to the leading profiler on the case,...
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Most murderers use a weapon. One of the top-priority tasks for detectives is to find that weapon. It can lead to the killer but it can also reveal so much more. Using cutting-edge forensic techniques, the murder weapon can now give us an insight into the mind of the killer. This program examines the murder weapon that until 150 years ago left no trace, how 3D crime-scene modelling is revolutionising gun crime investigations, and why, until recently,...
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Does situational crime prevention actually work, or is crime simply displaced to a neighbouring area? This film tells the story of an experiment in situational crime prevention by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology conducted in Stoke-on-Trent, a medium sized British city. The streets of an experimental area were re-lit with more powerful lighting. The researchers then monitored changes in crime and fear of crime in the experimental area, a neighbouring...
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This program from Modern Marvels: Firefighting! looks at the crime of intentionally setting fires. We follow investigators as they find evidence in the ashes left behind suspicious fires. Former A.T.F. head Richard Garner delves into the psychology of arsonists. Finally, we visit the California Criminalists Institute to learn how arson dogs are trained.
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Insects found on or near a corpse can reveal not just the time of death, but also whether or not a body has been moved, what drugs the victim might have taken, and other details. This program looks at the role of insects in solving two murder cases, one from 1935 and the other from 1997. The first involves a pair of bodies discovered at the bottom of a Scottish ravine. Maggots found on the remains helped pinpoint when the deceased were dumped there...
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