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Identifying and
Locating Criminals via Criminal Profiling is often the Subject of TV Shows
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Cold Case Files On A&E TV. "Murders go
unsolved. Killers slip through the cracks. With
the passage of time, families lose hope and
another unsolved homicide file settles into
obscurity. The pattern is familiar, but changing
-- thanks to the efforts of a special breed of
detectives. COLD CASE FILES tells the story of
their work.
"These detectives are experts in the science of
crime detection. They blow the dust off old
homicide files, walk down the corridors of time
and set out on the hunt for a killer . . . a
killer who thinks the search is off. Using new
technology and old-fashioned police work, their
methods offer a study in patience and
perseverance. COLD CASE FILES takes you on a
journey, step-by-step, through the methods used to
catch the culprit. The series examines each piece
of forensic evidence, each witness, each building
block and turn-in-the-road that ultimately leads
detectives to their killer.
"COLD CASE FILES is a pioneer in the non-fiction
forensics genre. Episodes have been universally
hailed by law enforcement agencies across the
country and are regularly used as models for
investigative technique in training seminars."
The Worlds
Most Wanted Fugitives and Unsolved Crimes
Unsolved Mysteries hosted by Robert Stack on
Lifetime TV
Criminal Profiling Helps
Investigators Identify Suspects
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JonBenet
Ramsey is a Criminal Case that Remains
Unsolved... and continues to fascinate.
Crime
Library's Interview with Stephen Singular,
NY Times best-selling author of
Presumed Guilty, who hypothesizes that
Jon-Benet was killed by someone involved
in child pornography: "....The
images that drew everyone into the case
are, in my view, the same images that drew
JonBenet's killer to her. She was a
marketable commodity so she was going to
be exploited for someone's gain. It is
very interesting that we are all drawn to
look at those images, over and over again,
yet there has been great resistance to the
notion that someone outside the family
would also have been drawn to the child
and participated in her death. We don't
like to admit, as a society, how troubling
the sexualization and exploitation of
children is, so we've tried to lay this
entire case off on JonBenet's mother. It
is an example of extreme denial.
Who Killed
JonBenet Ramsey?
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The Killer's
Trail
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"The death
of Marilyn Sheppard in 1954 is one of the
most famous unsolved murders in America.
The indictment of her husband, Dr. Sam
Sheppard, quickly became the "Trial of the
Century," then the "Re-Trial of the
Century," making a celebrity out of lawyer
F. Lee Bailey. Although most of the
forensic evidence gathered in 1954 was
ignored during Sheppard's trial, it is
being re-examined with today's advanced
technology. Like an intricate puzzle, the
clues come together to overturn previous
assumptions about the killer and point to
an entirely new suspect. NOVA assembles a
notable team of experts -- including Barry
Scheck, a well-known lawyer from the O.J.
Simpson trial -- and builds a precise
replica of the Sheppard house, complete
with the original furniture. With this
unique revisiting of a vanished crime
scene, NOVA investigates a horrifying and
sensational milestone in forensic
science." |
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