homicide

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Homicide

Explains how a homicide is investigated, covering the crime scene, the forensic team, bloodstains, fingerprints, DNA, and more.

Cold cases

Explains that old unsolved crimes called cold cases are kept on file, but when new evidence or new crime-science techniques become available these cold cases are reopened, and describes techniques that can be used including bloodstain analysis, ballistics, forensic document analysis, DNA analysis, and more.

Dead until dark

Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, cursed with the ability to read minds, thinks she has finally gotten lucky when tall, dark, handsome Bill, whose mind is totally blocked from her, comes into her life, but she soon learns that her dream man is a vampire with a bad reputation, and when a murder goes down, she begins to fear for her life.

Needful things

Leland Gaunt opens a shop called Needful Things where there is something for everyone, but of course there is always a very high price to pay.

Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne finally tells the police why she murdered her husband Joe and her longtime employer Vera Donovan.

All in

Cassie and the other members of the Naturals program of the FBI are drawn into a murder investigation in Vegas.

Chicago

In 1920s Chicago, night club sensation Velma Kelly and fame-hungry Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together--Velma for murdering her husband and sister after catching them in bed together, Roxie for murdering the man who tricked her into thinking he could make her famous--and compete for the same fame that will keep them from hanging.

Best girl

Amanda Moss always knew she was adopted, but it wasn't until a friend of her birth mother called her and told Amanda her mother just died from cancer, Amanda sets out to learn the truth about her biological parents.

Pushed

Frank and Joe Hardy investigate the murder of Evan Davis, a runaway teen who was pushed off a subway platform in New York City, and find a host of suspects including the boy's father, a politician who would rather keep his son's identity a secret.

Closed for the season

When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.

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