S1 E1: The Profilers
From Jack The Ripper to those who terrify us today, bizarre behavior has a specific signature.
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From Jack The Ripper to those who terrify us today, bizarre behavior has a specific signature.
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Experts reveal the gory secrets about cause of death that nature can leave behind on corpses, clues which range from insect infestations to weather conditions.
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Can computers isolate a guilty face in a crowd? No longer science fiction, these are the high-tech tools of the forensics trade.
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Criminals attempt to cover their trails using fire, water, or by chopping their victims to pieces, but they can't escape modern forensic science.
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A killer's ear against a wall, a hand on a door, the path that he walks. Even the slightest impressions left at the scene help crime fighters find their man.
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Fire, water, earth, killers call on all the elements in their attempt to cover up their crimes. But even a body burned to ashes, sunk deep into the sea, or reduced to fragments will still tell it's forensic tale.
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Karyn Slover's been offered to work as a model by an agency in Los Angeles. Leaving her ex-husband, friends, and current boyfriend behind, and is never heard from again.
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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, but when he gets closer, Mallory sees the leg is not plastic, it is flesh.
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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." The science suggests a crime of both heated rage and cold calculation.
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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 Blacks' former business associate is the man behind the murder.
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A girl is found dead in the boiler room of her tenement building. Forensic investigators quickly determine she has been raped and smothered. Given the sound of the boiler room, police determine that whoever killed her knew no one would hear him.
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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.
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After the owner of a private school for Asian students vanishes from his driveway, police scramble to find him as time begins to run out on the diabetic man. Investigators learn he has been kidnapped but can they save him before it is too late?
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The discovery of an abandoned suitcase containing a young Asian woman's body leads police to London. But the mystery only deepens when they discover that a second woman is missing.
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Four brutal murders in one bloody weekend devastate the small town of Barrie, Ontario.
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Police realize they are chasing a serial killer, but the investigation is hampered by the fact that they are unable to identify any of the victims.
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A search mission for three women missing in Yosemite Park turns to a murder investigation when two are discovered in the trunk of their burned out car.
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An elderly couple is found dead in the trunk of their car at their home in upscale Toronto. The investigation eventually leads authorities to the couple's vacation home.
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A sniper terrorizes Washington DC. The victims are ordinary people doing routine activities. Nothing links them; they are chosen at random, or so it seems.
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The Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia are rocked by a massive pipe bomb explosion. Police have no clue who is behind the bombings until they receive a letter signed by 'The Army of God', an anti-abortion, anti-gay group.
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A serial rapist who stalks and preys on elderly women. Who is this monster that continues to elude Colchester police? Only a revolution in forensic science can strike fear into the heart of this predator.
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A self-appointed angel of death disappears into the shadowy underground that supports and protects him. But when the sniper's mission moves to murder, a city is thrown into blind panic.
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When the police in a New Mexico desert discover a broken window at a local head shop called The Eclectic, they expect to find evidence of a robbery. Instead, they uncover a horrific crime scene, with two badly mutilated bodies.
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The world's top criminal investigators, forensic scientists and behavioral analysts go behind the scenes of some of their most challenging cases to reveal the cutting edge forensic science and technology involved in tracking down a serial killer.
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One by one, prostitutes in Spokane, Washington are being hunted down and discarded in remote wooded areas by a vicious serial killer. On each victim’s head, police find his macabre calling card.
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A double homicide in Hudson, Wisconsin leaves a small-town reeling and two young detectives with little to go on. Richard Walter, the famed criminal profiler, becomes intrigued by the cold case.
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Using state of the art forensics, police are able to identify the body as that of a suburban wife and mother of two. Determined to find the killer, police dig further into the victim’s life.
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A series of over sixty spectacular fires rips through California’s San Joaquin valley, killing four people and devastating the landscape.
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Glamorous Las Vegas, Nevada is famous for wealth, lady luck and second chances. But when homicide detectives discover the charred remains of a prominent businessman, Sin City reveals a darker side.
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A series of bombings and bank robberies have left the usually serene city of Spokane, Washington reeling. Claiming responsibility for the reign of terror, is a deadly, almost invisible sect called the Phineas Priests.
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In Florida, four bodies are found slaughtered in a factory. It's the largest mass murder in county history. Each victim is somehow connected to the factory and the family business .
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The body of a twenty-two year-old college student, is discovered off a bike path in a suburb of Buffalo, New York. DNA evidence recovered from her body allows police to link the crime to six other recent rapes in the Buffalo area.
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When Horseshoe Bay police discover a multi-millionaire playboy brutally slain in his posh Texas mansion, they are immediately puzzled as to why anyone would sadistically murder the popular local resident.
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Days after Christmas, the desert city of Phoenix, Arizona is shocked by a drive-by shooting rampage that injures multiple people and leaves two men dead. Forensics determines that this isn’t the first time the shooters have struck.
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A series of seemingly random shootings have terrorized the city of East Point, Georgia, just outside Atlanta. Police are baffled as to the killer's motive, how he is choosing his victims and when he will strike again.
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A Special Task Force hunts down a deadly stalker on the loose in small-town Abbotsford, where one teenaged girl is found brutally killed and another barely alive. Investigators try to decipher a series of taunting messages from the killer himself.
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A popular teenage girl is found brutally stabbed to death in her car in a small Pennsylvania city. She wasn't sexually assaulted, but as police look closer, they discover she was involved in a shocking love triangle that breaks all the rules.
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