Forensic Files (1996–2011) is an American documentary-style series which reveal how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes, mysterious accidents, and even outbreaks of illness. The original show is broadcast in syndication on multiple networks, is narrated by Peter Thomas, and is produced by Medstar Television. It has broadcast 406 episodes[1] since its debut on TLC in 1996 as Medical Detectives.
Series overview
edit| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 13 | April 23, 1996 | December 19, 1996 | |
| 2 | 13 | October 2, 1997 | December 25, 1997 | |
| 3 | 13 | October 1, 1998 | December 24, 1998 | |
| 4 | 13 | October 6, 1999 | December 29, 1999 | |
| 5 | 19 | September 12, 2000 | January 16, 2001 | |
| 6 | 30 | May 21, 2001 | December 10, 2001 | |
| 7 | 42 | October 12, 2002 | July 26, 2003 | |
| 8 | 42 | April 1, 2003 | December 21, 2003 | |
| 9 | 30 | June 24, 2004 | March 2, 2005 | |
| 10 | 42 | April 27, 2005 | March 15, 2006 | |
| 11 | 42 | July 19, 2006 | May 2, 2007 | |
| 12 | 30 | September 26, 2007 | March 9, 2008 | |
| 13 | 50 | September 12, 2008 | July 9, 2010 | |
| 14 | 21 | September 10, 2010 | June 17, 2011 | |
| Specials | 6 | May 31, 2001 | May 11, 2005 | |
Episodes
editSeason 1 (1996)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Disappearance of Helle Crafts" | April 23, 1996 |
| 2 | 2 | "The Magic Bullet" | October 17, 1996 |
| 3 | 3 | "The House that Roared" | October 10, 1996 |
| 4 | 4 | "The Footpath Murders" | October 23, 1996 |
| 5 | 5 | "Planted Evidence" | October 24, 1996 |
| 6 | 6 | "Southside Strangler" | October 31, 1996 |
| 7 | 7 | "Legionnaires' Disease" | November 7, 1996 |
| 8 | 8 | "The Wilson Murder" | November 14, 1996 |
| 9 | 9 | "Deadly Neighborhoods" | November 21, 1996 |
| 10 | 10 | "Insect Clues" | November 28, 1996 |
| 11 | 11 | "Outbreak" | December 5, 1996 |
| 12 | 12 | "The List Murders" | December 12, 1996 |
| 13 | 13 | "Raw Terror" | December 19, 1996 |
Season 2 (1997)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "The Common Thread" | October 2, 1997 |
| 15 | 2 | "The Dirty Deed" | October 9, 1997 |
| 16 | 3 | "Killer Fog" | October 16, 1997 |
| 17 | 4 | "Sex, Lies and DNA" | October 23, 1997 |
| 18 | 5 | "Bitter Potion" | October 30, 1997 |
| 19 | 6 | "The Blood Trail" | November 6, 1997 |
| 20 | 7 | "Fatal Fungus" | November 13, 1997 |
| 21 | 8 | "Charred Remains" | November 20, 1997 |
| 22 | 9 | "Something's Fishy" | November 27, 1997 |
| 23 | 10 | "Sealed with a Kiss" | December 4, 1997 |
| 24 | 11 | "Postal Mortem" | December 11, 1997 |
| 25 | 12 | "Micro-Clues" | December 18, 1997 |
| 26 | 13 | "Deadly Parasites" | December 25, 1997 |
Season 3 (1998)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | "Without a Trace" | October 1, 1998 |
| 28 | 2 | "Knot for Everyone" | October 8, 1998 |
| 29 | 3 | "The Talking Skull" | October 15, 1998 |
| 30 | 4 | "Foreign Body" | October 22, 1998 |
| 31 | 5 | "Deadly Delivery" | October 29, 1998 |
| 32 | 6 | "Similar Circumstances" | November 5, 1998 |
| 33 | 7 | "Grave Evidence" | November 12, 1998 |
| 34 | 8 | "Deadly Formula" | November 19, 1998 |
| 35 | 9 | "Beaten by a Hair" | November 26, 1998 |
| 36 | 10 | "Crime Seen" | December 3, 1998 |
| 37 | 11 | "Speck of Evidence" | December 10, 1998 |
| 38 | 12 | "Broken Bond" | December 17, 1998 |
| 39 | 13 | "Out of the Ashes" | December 24, 1998 |
Season 4 (1999)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 1 | "Invisible Intruder" | October 6, 1999 |
| 41 | 2 | "The Killing Room" | October 13, 1999 |
| 42 | 3 | "Ultimate Betrayal" | October 20, 1999 |
| 43 | 4 | "Cement the Case" | October 27, 1999 |
| 44 | 5 | "Innocence Lost" | November 3, 1999 |
| 45 | 6 | "'Til Death Do Us Part" | November 10, 1999 |
| 46 | 7 | "Ties That Bind" | November 17, 1999 |
| 47 | 8 | "Body of Evidence" | November 24, 1999 |
| 48 | 9 | "Accident or Murder?" | December 1, 1999 |
| 49 | 10 | "Core Evidence" | December 8, 1999 |
| 50 | 11 | "Haunting Vision" | December 15, 1999 |
| 51 | 12 | "With Every Breath" | December 22, 1999 |
| 52 | 13 | "Slippery Motives" | December 29, 1999 |
Season 5 (2000–2001)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 1 | "Badge of Deceit" | September 12, 2000 |
| 54 | 2 | "Dew Process" | September 19, 2000 |
| 55 | 3 | "A Woman Scorned" | September 26, 2000 |
| 56 | 4 | "A Voice from Beyond" | October 3, 2000 |
| 57 | 5 | "Burning Ambition" | October 10, 2000 |
| 58 | 6 | "Memories" | October 17, 2000 |
| 59 | 7 | "Trail of Truth" | October 24, 2000 |
| 60 | 8 | "Material Evidence" | October 31, 2000 |
| 61 | 9 | "'Kill'igraphy" | November 7, 2000 |
| 62 | 10 | "Nursery Crimes" | November 14, 2000 |
| 63 | 11 | "Lasting Impression" | November 21, 2000 |
| 64 | 12 | "Foundation of Lies" | November 28, 2000 |
| 65 | 13 | "Unholy Vows" | December 5, 2000 |
| 66 | 14 | "Broken Promises" | December 12, 2000 |
| 67 | 15 | "Time Will Tell" | December 19, 2000 |
| 68 | 16 | "Second Shot at Love" | December 26, 2000 |
| 69 | 17 | "Journey to Justice" | January 2, 2001 |
| 70 | 18 | "Video Diary" | January 9, 2001 |
| 71 | 19 | "Deadly Knowledge" | January 16, 2001 |
Season 6 (2001)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | 1 | "Missing in Time" | May 21, 2001 |
| 73 | 2 | "Missing Pearl" | May 28, 2001 |
| 74 | 3 | "Man's Best Friend?" | June 4, 2001 |
| 75 | 4 | "Hand Delivered" | June 11, 2001 |
| 76 | 5 | "Death Play" | June 18, 2001 |
| 77 | 6 | "Fire Dot Com" | June 25, 2001 |
| 78 | 7 | "Mistaken for Dead" | July 2, 2001 |
| 79 | 8 | "Frozen Evidence" | July 9, 2001 |
| 80 | 9 | "Soft Touch" | July 16, 2001 |
| 81 | 10 | "Church Disappearance" | July 23, 2001 |
| 82 | 11 | "Photo Finish" | July 30, 2001 |
| 83 | 12 | "Whodunit" | August 6, 2001 |
| 84 | 13 | "Horse Play" | August 13, 2001 |
| 85 | 14 | "Treads and Threads" | August 20, 2001 |
| 86 | 15 | "Killer's "Cattle" Log" | August 27, 2001 |
| 87 | 16 | "Skin of Her Teeth" | September 3, 2001 |
| 88 | 17 | "Line of Fire" | September 10, 2001 |
| 89 | 18 | "Bad Blood" | September 17, 2001 |
| 90 | 19 | "Pure Evil" | September 24, 2001 |
| 91 | 20 | "Root of all Evil" | October 1, 2001 |
| 92 | 21 | "Where the Blood Drops" | October 8, 2001 |
| 93 | 22 | "Punch Line" | October 15, 2001 |
| 94 | 23 | "Sibling Rivalry" | October 22, 2001 |
| 95 | 24 | "Pastoral Care" | October 29, 2001 |
| 96 | 25 | "Bagging a Killer" | November 5, 2001 |
| 97 | 26 | "Double Trouble" | November 12, 2001 |
| 98 | 27 | "Cats, Flies & Snapshots" | November 19, 2001 |
| 99 | 28 | "Naked Justice" | November 26, 2001 |
| 100 | 29 | "Treading Not So Lightly" | December 3, 2001 |
| 101 | 30 | "Shopping Spree" | December 10, 2001 |
Season 7 (2002–2003)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 102 | 1 | "The Cheater" | October 12, 2002 |
| 103 | 2 | "Forever Hold Your Peace" | January 8, 2002 |
| 104 | 3 | "Reel Danger" | January 15, 2002 |
| 105 | 4 | "Who's Your Daddy" | November 2, 2002 |
| 106 | 5 | "The Alibi" | January 29, 2002 |
| 107 | 6 | "A Bite Out of Crime" | February 5, 2002 |
| 108 | 7 | "Purr-fect Match" | February 12, 2002 |
| 109 | 8 | "Bio-Attack" | November 30, 2002 |
| 110 | 9 | "A Shot in the Dark" | December 7, 2002 |
| 111 | 10 | "Without a Prayer" | December 14, 2002 |
| 112 | 11 | "A Clutch of Witnesses" | December 21, 2002 |
| 113 | 12 | "Scout's Honor" | March 19, 2003 |
| 114 | 13 | "A Touching Recollection" | March 26, 2003 |
| 115 | 14 | "A Leg to Stand On" | January 11, 2003 |
| 116 | 15 | "Partners in Crime" | January 18, 2003 |
| 117 | 16 | "Within a Hair" | August 31, 2002 |
| 118 | 17 | "Chief Evidence" | July 24, 2002 |
| 119 | 18 | "A Bitter Pill to Swallow" | September 12, 2002 |
| 120 | 19 | "Sip of Sins" | February 15, 2003 |
| 121 | 20 | "Telltale Tracks" | August 27, 2002 |
| 122 | 21 | "Ghost in the Machine" | March 1, 2003 |
| 123 | 22 | "Frozen in Time" | March 8, 2003 |
| 124 | 23 | "Cold Storage" | March 15, 2003 |
| 125 | 24 | "The Metal Business" | September 26, 2002 |
| 126 | 25 | "Dressed to Kill" | March 29, 2003 |
| 127 | 26 | "Palm Print Conviction" | June 25, 2002 |
| 128 | 27 | "A Vow of Silence" | October 10, 2002 |
| 129 | 28 | "Elephant Tracks" | October 17, 2002 |
| 130 | 29 | "A Bag of Evidence" | April 26, 2003 |
| 131 | 30 | "Tooth or Consequences" | May 3, 2003 |
| 132 | 31 | "The Sniffing Revenge" | May 10, 2003 |
| 133 | 32 | "Sleight of Hand" | May 17, 2003 |
| 134 | 33 | "Scratching the Surface" | May 24, 2003 |
| 135 | 34 | "Fire Proof" | May 31, 2003 |
| 136 | 35 | "X Marks the Spot" | June 7, 2003 |
| 137 | 36 | "All Charged Up" | December 10, 2002 |
| 138 | 37 | "Breaking the Mold" | December 11, 2002 |
| 139 | 38 | "House Call" | June 28, 2003 |
| 140 | 39 | "Marathon Man" | July 5, 2003 |
| 141 | 40 | "The Sniper's Trail" | July 12, 2003 |
| 142 | 41 | "Plastic Fire" | July 19, 2003 |
| 143 | 42 | "Last Will" | July 26, 2003 |
Season 8 (2003)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 144 | 1 | "Dessert Served Cold" | April 1, 2003 |
| 145 | 2 | "The Music Case" | February 10, 2004 |
| 146 | 3 | "Paintball" | April 30, 2004 |
| 147 | 4 | "Sign Here" | April 23, 2003 |
| 148 | 5 | "Shadow of a Doubt" | April 29, 2003 |
| 149 | 6 | "Tourist Trap" | June 4, 2003 |
| 150 | 7 | "Once Bitten" | July 10, 2003 |
| 151 | 8 | "All Wet" | August 15, 2003 |
| 152 | 9 | "Shot of Vengeance" | September 20, 2003 |
| 153 | 10 | "Dinner and a Movie" | October 26, 2003 |
| 154 | 11 | "A Wrong Foot" | December 1, 2003 |
| 155 | 12 | "Order Up" | January 6, 2004 |
| 156 | 13 | "When the Dust Settled" | March 23, 2004 |
| 157 | 14 | "A Welcome Intrusion" | March 18, 2004 |
| 158 | 15 | "Within Arm's Reach" | April 23, 2004 |
| 159 | 16 | "Private Thoughts" | August 26, 2004 |
| 160 | 17 | "Brotherhoods" | November 29, 2004 |
| 161 | 18 | "Hair of the Dog" | August 29, 2003 |
| 162 | 19 | "Breaking News" | August 31, 2003 |
| 163 | 20 | "All the World's a Stage" | September 3, 2003 |
| 164 | 21 | "The Big Chill" | September 10, 2003 |
| 165 | 22 | "Bound for Jail" | September 17, 2003 |
| 166 | 23 | "Sphere of Influence" | September 20, 2003 |
| 167 | 24 | "Nailed" | September 22, 2003 |
| 168 | 25 | "Sign of the Zodiac" | April 18, 2005 |
| 169 | 26 | "Letter Perfect" | February 14, 2005 |
| 170 | 27 | "True Lies" | June 29, 2005 |
| 171 | 28 | "Bed of Deceit" | August 4, 2005 |
| 172 | 29 | "Smoke in your Eyes" | September 9, 2005 |
| 173 | 30 | "Flower Power" | October 15, 2005 |
| 174 | 31 | "Past Lives" | November 20, 2005 |
| 175 | 32 | "Over and Out" | December 26, 2005 |
| 176 | 33 | "Death by a Salesman" | January 31, 2005 |
| 177 | 34 | "Web of Seduction" | March 8, 2005 |
| 178 | 35 | "Grounds for Indictment" | December 2, 2004 |
| 179 | 36 | "Duelling Confessions" | May 31, 2005 |
| 180 | 37 | "Traces of Truth" | June 24, 2004 |
| 181 | 38 | "Honor thy Father" | July 30, 2005 |
| 182 | 39 | "Hack Attack" | September 4, 2005 |
| 183 | 40 | "Deadly Curve" | October 10, 2004 |
| 184 | 41 | "Visibility Zero" | November 15, 2004 |
| 185 | 42 | "Flashover" | December 21, 2004 |
Season 9 (2004–2005)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 186 | 1 | "Road Rage" | August 14, 2004 |
| 187 | 2 | "Hunter or Hunted" | June 9, 2004 |
| 188 | 3 | "In Harm's Way" | June 15, 2004 |
| 189 | 4 | "No Corpus Delicti" | June 21, 2004 |
| 190 | 5 | "News at 11" | June 27, 2004 |
| 191 | 6 | "Burning Desire" | July 28, 2004 |
| 192 | 7 | "Cloak of Deceit" | July 9, 2004 |
| 193 | 8 | "Bad Medicine" | July 8, 2004 |
| 194 | 9 | "Stick 'em Up" | June 21, 2007 |
| 195 | 10 | "Head Games" | July 22, 2004 |
| 196 | 11 | "Making the Collar" | June 28, 2007 |
| 197 | 12 | "The Financial Downfall" | August 11, 2004 |
| 198 | 13 | "A Daughter's Journey" | August 23, 2004 |
| 199 | 14 | "Over a Barrel" | August 24, 2004 |
| 200 | 15 | "Pinned by the Evidence" | August 24, 2004 |
| 201 | 16 | "Cries Unheard" | August 25, 2004 |
| 202 | 17 | "Buried Treasure" | August 26, 2004 |
| 203 | 18 | "Badge of Betrayal" | September 22, 2004 |
| 204 | 19 | "Deadly Matrimony" | September 29, 2004 |
| 205 | 20 | "Muddy Waters" | October 13, 2004 |
| 206 | 21 | "Point of Origin" | October 27, 2004 |
| 207 | 22 | "Seeds for Doubt" | October 7, 2004 |
| 208 | 23 | "Saving Face" | October 13, 2004 |
| 209 | 24 | "Northern Exposure" | December 8, 2004 |
| 210 | 25 | "Silk Stalkings" | December 29, 2004 |
| 211 | 26 | "Fishing for the Truth" | October 31, 2004 |
| 212 | 27 | "For Love or Money" | June 20, 2004 |
| 213 | 28 | "South of the Border" | November 12, 2004 |
| 214 | 29 | "The Stake-Out" | July 4, 2004 |
| 215 | 30 | "Walking Terror" | March 2, 2005 |
Season 10 (2005–2006)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 216 | 1 | "Trial By Fire" | April 27, 2005 |
| 217 | 2 | "Marked For Life" | May 18, 2005 |
| 218 | 3 | "Plastic Puzzle" | June 1, 2005 |
| 219 | 4 | "Up In Smoke" | June 29, 2005 |
| 220 | 5 | "Soiled Plan" | July 6, 2005 |
| 221 | 6 | "Headquarters" | July 13, 2005 |
| 222 | 7 | "One For The Road" | July 20, 2005 |
| 223 | 8 | "Army Of Evidence" | July 27, 2005 |
| 224 | 9 | "Shear Luck" | August 3, 2005 |
| 225 | 10 | "Tagging A Suspect" | August 10, 2005 |
| 226 | 11 | "Strong Impressions" | August 17, 2005 |
| 227 | 12 | "Cereal Killer" | August 24, 2005 |
| 228 | 13 | "Crash Course" | August 31, 2005 |
| 229 | 14 | "A Leg Up On Crime" | September 7, 2005 |
| 230 | 15 | "Tight-fitting Genes" | September 14, 2005 |
| 231 | 16 | "Deadly Valentine" | September 21, 2005 |
| 232 | 17 | "Picture This" | September 28, 2005 |
| 233 | 18 | "Oily In The Morning" | October 5, 2005 |
| 234 | 19 | "Gold Rush" | October 12, 2005 |
| 235 | 20 | "Four On The Floor" | October 19, 2005 |
| 236 | 21 | "Writer's Block" | October 26, 2005 |
| 237 | 22 | "A Clean Getaway" | November 2, 2005 |
| 238 | 23 | "Prints Among Thieves" | November 9, 2005 |
| 239 | 24 | "Unholy Alliance" | November 16, 2005 |
| 240 | 25 | "Signed, Sealed & Delivered" | November 23, 2005 |
| 241 | 26 | "Cop Out" | November 30, 2005 |
| 242 | 27 | "Summer Obsession" | December 7, 2005 |
| 243 | 28 | "Elemental Clue" | December 14, 2005 |
| 244 | 29 | "Moss, Not Grass" | December 21, 2005 |
| 245 | 30 | "Material Witness" | December 28, 2005 |
| 246 | 31 | "Garden of Evil" | January 4, 2006 |
| 247 | 32 | "Sunday School Ambush" | January 11, 2006 |
| 248 | 33 | "Penchant for Poison" | January 18, 2006 |
| 249 | 34 | "Bump in the Night" | January 25, 2006 |
| 250 | 35 | "Sole Searching" | February 1, 2006 |
| 251 | 36 | "Murder on the Menu" | February 8, 2006 |
| 252 | 37 | "Hot on the Trail" | February 15, 2006 |
| 253 | 38 | "High 'n Dry" | February 22, 2006 |
| 254 | 39 | "To the Viktor" | March 1, 2006 |
| 255 | 40 | "Wired for Disaster" | March 8, 2006 |
| 256 | 41 | "Wood-be Killer" | March 15, 2006 |
| 257 | 42 | "Enemy Within" | December 7, 2005 |
Season 11 (2006–2007)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 258 | 1 | "Naughty or Nyce" | July 19, 2006 |
| 259 | 2 | "Going for Broke" | July 26, 2006 |
| 260 | 3 | "Just Desserts" | August 2, 2006 |
| 261 | 4 | "Sunday's Wake" | August 9, 2006 |
| 262 | 5 | "Shattered Dreams" | August 16, 2006 |
| 263 | 6 | "Dockter Visit" | August 23, 2006 |
| 264 | 7 | "Murder, She Wrote" | August 30, 2006 |
| 265 | 8 | "Concrete Alibi" | September 6, 2006 |
| 266 | 9 | "Key Evidence" | September 13, 2006 |
| 267 | 10 | "The Gambler" | September 20, 2006 |
| 268 | 11 | "Weakest Link" | September 27, 2006 |
| 269 | 12 | "Capitol Crimes" | October 4, 2006 |
| 270 | 13 | "Undertaken" | October 11, 2006 |
| 271 | 14 | "Dark Waters" | October 18, 2006 |
| 272 | 15 | "Nice Threads" | October 25, 2006 |
| 273 | 16 | "Grave Danger" | November 1, 2006 |
| 274 | 17 | "Internal Affair" | November 8, 2006 |
| 275 | 18 | "A Case of the Flue" | November 15, 2006 |
| 276 | 19 | "No Safe Place" | November 22, 2006 |
| 277 | 20 | "Live Wire" | November 29, 2006 |
| 278 | 21 | "Van-ished" | December 6, 2006 |
| 279 | 22 | "A Novel Idea" | December 13, 2006 |
| 280 | 23 | "Chief Suspect" | December 20, 2006 |
| 281 | 24 | "Water Hazard" | December 27, 2006 |
| 282 | 25 | "Shell Game" | January 3, 2007 |
| 283 | 26 | "Ring Him Up" | January 10, 2007 |
| 284 | 27 | "Killer Impression" | January 17, 2007 |
| 285 | 28 | "If I Were You" | January 24, 2007 |
| 286 | 29 | "As the Tide Turns" | January 31, 2007 |
| 287 | 30 | "A Tight Leash" | February 7, 2007 |
| 288 | 31 | "Muffled Cries" | February 14, 2007 |
| 289 | 32 | "Critical Maneuver" | February 21, 2007 |
| 290 | 33 | "Skirting the Evidence" | February 28, 2007 |
| 291 | 34 | "Small Town Terror" | March 7, 2007 |
| 292 | 35 | "Fresh Heir" | March 14, 2007 |
| 293 | 36 | "Ticker Tape" | March 21, 2007 |
| 294 | 37 | "Step by Step" | March 28, 2007 |
| 295 | 38 | "Blanket of Evidence" | April 4, 2007 |
| 296 | 39 | "Fired-Up" | April 11, 2007 |
| 297 | 40 | "Two in a Million" | April 18, 2007 |
| 298 | 41 | "Bitter Brew" | April 25, 2007 |
| 299 | 42 | "Message in a Bottle" | May 2, 2007 |
Season 12 (2007–2008)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 300 | 1 | "Sharper Image" | September 26, 2007 |
| 301 | 2 | "Insulated Evidence" | October 3, 2007 |
| 302 | 3 | "Cold Hearted" | October 10, 2007 |
| 303 | 4 | "Wheel of Misfortune" | October 24, 2007 |
| 304 | 5 | "Quite a Spectacle" | October 31, 2007 |
| 305 | 6 | "Transaction Failed" | November 7, 2007 |
| 306 | 7 | "The Day the Music Died" | November 14, 2007 |
| 307 | 8 | "Sole Survivor" | November 19, 2007 |
| 308 | 9 | "Insignificant Others" | December 10, 2007 |
| 309 | 10 | "Catch 22" | December 17, 2007 |
| 310 | 11 | "A Cinderella Story" | December 24, 2007 |
| 311 | 12 | "Screen Pass" | January 7, 2008 |
| 312 | 13 | "Pressed for Crime" | January 14, 2008 |
| 313 | 14 | "Finger Pane" | January 21, 2008 |
| 314 | 15 | "Good as Gold" | January 28, 2008 |
| 315 | 16 | "Freedom Fighter" | June 13, 2008 |
| 316 | 17 | "Dog Day Afternoon" | February 25, 2008 |
| 317 | 18 | "Shattered Innocence" | March 9, 2008 |
| 318 | 19 | "All Butt Certain" | March 14, 2008 |
| 319 | 20 | "Jean Pool" | April 18, 2008 |
| 320 | 21 | "Traffic Violations" | May 9, 2008 |
| 321 | 22 | "Brotherly Love" | May 23, 2008 |
| 322 | 23 | "Disrobed" | June 6, 2008 |
| 323 | 24 | "Driven to Silence" | June 20, 2008 |
| 324 | 25 | "Printed Proof" | June 28, 2008 |
| 325 | 26 | "About Face" | July 18, 2008 |
| 326 | 27 | "In the Bag" | July 25, 2008 |
| 327 | 28 | "Yes, In Deed" | February 9, 2008 |
| 328 | 29 | "Guarded Secrets" | August 22, 2008 |
| 329 | 30 | "Smoking Out a Killer" | February 17, 2008 |
Season 13 (2008–2010)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 330 | 1 | "Frozen Assets" | September 12, 2008 |
| 331 | 2 | "House Hunting" | September 19, 2008 |
| 332 | 3 | "Shoot to Thrill" | October 3, 2008 |
| 333 | 4 | "Political Thriller" | October 10, 2008 |
| 334 | 5 | "Double Cross" | October 24, 2008 |
| 335 | 6 | "Dancing with the Devil" | October 31, 2008 |
| 336 | 7 | "Last Dance" | November 14, 2008 |
| 337 | 8 | "Constructive Criticism" | November 21, 2008 |
| 338 | 9 | "Home Evasion" | December 5, 2008 |
| 339 | 10 | "Window Watcher" | December 12, 2008 |
| 340 | 11 | "Stranger in the Night" | December 19, 2008 |
| 341 | 12 | "Kidnapping" | January 9, 2009 |
| 342 | 13 | "Sands of Crime" | February 20, 2009 |
| 343 | 14 | "Calculated Coincidence" | February 6, 2009 |
| 344 | 15 | "Sworded Scheme" | January 30, 2009 |
| 345 | 16 | "Unmasked" | February 20, 2009 |
| 346 | 17 | "Fashion Police" | March 13, 2009 |
| 347 | 18 | "Church Dis-service" | April 3, 2009 |
| 348 | 19 | "Seedy Intentions" | April 17, 2009 |
| 349 | 20 | "DNA Dragnet" | May 15, 2009 |
| 350 | 21 | "Smiley Face" | May 22, 2009 |
| 351 | 22 | "Dirty Laundry" | June 5, 2009 |
| 352 | 23 | "Drowning Sorrows" | June 12, 2009 |
| 353 | 24 | "As Fault" | June 19, 2009 |
| 354 | 25 | "Family Ties" | July 17, 2009 |
| 355 | 26 | "Trouble Brewing" | July 24, 2009 |
| 356 | 27 | "Holy Terror" | August 14, 2009 |
| 357 | 28 | "Needle in a Haystack" | August 28, 2009 |
| 358 | 29 | "Room With A View" | September 11, 2009 |
| 359 | 30 | "Dollars and Sense" | September 25, 2009 |
| 360 | 31 | "Hair Line" | October 2, 2009 |
| 361 | 32 | "All That Glitters is Gold" | October 16, 2009 |
| 362 | 33 | "Deadly Rebellion" | October 30, 2009 |
| 363 | 34 | "Sign of the Crime" | November 13, 2009 |
| 364 | 35 | "Covet Thy Neighbour" | November 20, 2009 |
| 365 | 36 | "Writing on the Wall" | December 4, 2009 |
| 366 | 37 | "Hundreds of Reasons" | December 11, 2009 |
| 367 | 38 | "Cold Feet" | December 18, 2009 |
| 368 | 39 | "Separation Anxiety" | January 8, 2010 |
| 369 | 40 | "Office Visit" | March 5, 2010 |
| 370 | 41 | "Palm Saturday" | March 12, 2010 |
| 371 | 42 | "Shoe-In for Murder" | March 19, 2010 |
| 372 | 43 | "Family Interrupted" | April 2, 2010 |
| 373 | 44 | "Runaway Love" | April 16, 2010 |
| 374 | 45 | "Watchful Eye" | April 30, 2010 |
| 375 | 46 | "Waste Mis-Management" | May 14, 2010 |
| 376 | 47 | "Dirty Little Secret" | May 28, 2010 |
| 377 | 48 | "Lights Out" | June 11, 2010 |
| 378 | 49 | "Pet Rock" | June 25, 2010 |
| 379 | 50 | "Best Foot Forward" | July 9, 2010 |
Season 14 (2010–2011)
edit| No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 380 | 1 | "Purebread Murder" | September 10, 2010 |
| 381 | 2 | "Hear No Evil" | September 24, 2010 |
| 382 | 3 | "Hell's Kitchen" | October 8, 2010 |
| 383 | 4 | "Three's a Crowd" | October 22, 2010 |
| 384 | 5 | "A Squire's Riches" | November 5, 2010 |
| 385 | 6 | "Home of the Brave" | November 19, 2010 |
| 386 | 7 | "Freeze Framed" | December 3, 2010 |
| 387 | 8 | "Touch of Evil" | December 17, 2010 |
| 388 | 9 | "Textbook Murder" | December 31, 2010 |
| 389 | 10 | "Filtered Out" | January 14, 2011 |
| 390 | 11 | "Water Logged" | January 28, 2011 |
| 391 | 12 | "Social Circle" | February 11, 2011 |
| 392 | 13 | "Low Maintenance" | February 25, 2011 |
| 393 | 14 | "Fate Date" | March 11, 2011 |
| 394 | 15 | "Trail of a Killer" | March 25, 2011 |
| 395 | 16 | "Gone Ballistic" | April 8, 2011 |
| 396 | 17 | "Seeing Red" | April 22, 2011 |
| 397 | 18 | "Auto-Motive" | May 6, 2011 |
| 398 | 19 | "Skeleton Key" | May 20, 2011 |
| 399 | 20 | "Funeral Services" | June 3, 2011 |
| 400 | 21 | "Expert Witness" | June 17, 2011 |
Specials
editFollowing the move of the show from TLC to CourtTV in 2000, TLC managed to produce four hour-long specials, "Payback", "The Buddhist Monk Murders", "Eight Men Out", and "See No Evil", but under the original Medical Detectives title. The first four specials do not feature narration by Peter Thomas due to a contract negotiation that wouldn't allow him to record episodes for TLC anymore. Instead, they were narrated by Peter Dean. Following their original broadcasts, three of these episodes did not air again until 2016, when they were broadcast on the HLN Network under the Forensic Files title. The last two specials, "JFK Assassination" and "The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping" aired on CourtTV with Peter Thomas narrating under the title: Forensic Files Special.
| Special | Title | Original air date | |
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| 1 | "Payback" | May 31, 2001 (TLC)[2] February 27, 2016 (HLN) | |
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This episode covers the 1993 disappearance and murder of twenty-year-old Bobby Kent in Weston, Florida, whose death was the work of seven people. The case, which became well known, is also the subject of a book and a movie. | |||
| 2 | "Eight Men Out" | June 7, 2001 (TLC) | |
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A young sailor named Billy Bosko married his high school sweetheart, Michelle Moore Bosko. When he returns to his home port of Norfolk, Virginia on July 8, 1997, he finds his 19-year-old bride lying on the floor in a pool of blood. She had been raped and murdered. The police investigation focuses on a neighbor, who confesses. But his DNA does not match the killer's. That begins a series of police interrogations and 'confessions', all of which are in conflict with the forensic evidence. Four men are eventually sent to prison. Three others are accused. Finally, an eighth man confesses in a letter, and his is the only DNA that matches. Defense investigators and others wonder why were the other men accused and sent to prison. | |||
| 3 | "See No Evil" | June 14, 2001 (TLC) May 21, 2016 (HLN) | |
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Beginning in December 1990, police uncover a string of murdered prostitutes. Each victim has had her eyes carved out. Charles Albright was eventually convicted of murder in 1991. | |||
| 4 | "The Buddhist Monk Murders" | October 22, 2001 (TLC) September 17, 2016 (HLN) | |
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Several monks are massacred at a Buddhist temple in Arizona in 1991. Four men from Tucson, referred to as the "Tucson Four", were initially charged with the crime and gave confessions under controversial conditions, including the actual murder weapon – connected to unassociated individuals who were ignored by authorities – being left untested by the sheriff's department. However, the "Tucson Four" later recanted the confessions and were released when investigators finally confirmed that they had nothing to do with the murders. Local teenagers Johnathan Doody and Allessandro Garcia were arrested and imprisoned. | |||
| 5 | "The JFK Assassination: Investigation Reopened" | November 19, 2003[3] | |
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Over 40 years after the 1963 assassination of president John F. Kennedy, a majority of Americans still believe that there was a cover-up. Was Lee Harvey Oswald the sole gunman? Could one bullet pass through both the president and governor John Connally? Does a police radio recording hold the truth? | |||
| 6 | "The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: Investigation Reopened" | May 11, 2005 | |
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The 1932 kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh, Jr. is reviewed. | |||
References
edit- ^ "Forensic Files - Episode List". TV Maze. Retrieved May 12, 2020.
- ^ "Forensic Files - Aired Order - All Seasons". TheTVDB.com. Retrieved 2022-08-31.
- ^ "News".