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The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1998 - 1999
Episode 1
Lethal Obsession
Wed, Sep 16, 199856 mins
Blind ambition, rage, and desire can lead to murder.
Episode 2
Traces of Guilt
Wed, Sep 9, 199854 mins
The smallest clues can solve a case.
Episode 3
Electronic Witness
Mon, Nov 9, 199853 mins
As technology becomes more advanced, people can't help but leave electronic traces wherever they go.
Episode 4
Dead Wrong
Wed, Oct 14, 199854 mins
Criminals often attempt to change crime scenes to hide a crime. Forensics can detect how.
Episode 5
Lasting Impressions
Wed, Sep 23, 199854 mins
The New Detectives examines the case of the Night Stalker who terrorized residents of Los Angeles and San Francisco in the 1980s and looks at how forensic examination of shoe prints led to a major breakthrough in the case. It also examines the murder of Susan Helm in Des Moines and how a new fingerprinting process using vaporized super-glue was used to determine that she was killed by her husband.
Episode 6
Women Who Kill
Mon, Nov 16, 199853 mins
Though women kill in less violent ways, they're equally as deadly as men.
Episode 7
Deadly Dealings
Mon, Dec 21, 199854 mins
Why some killers hire others to kill for them.
Episode 8
Body Count
Wed, Oct 28, 199853 mins
The New Detectives examines several disturbing cases of serial killers including the Hillside Stranger (Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono) in Los Angeles, the Trailside Killer (David Carpenter) near San Francisco, and the Interstate Killer (Larry Eyler) who dumped bodies along Interstate 294 in Illinois and Indiana.
Episode 9
A Taste of Poison
Mon, Nov 23, 199853 mins
Those who poison must first put their victims at ease and earn their trust.
Episode 10
Grave Discoveries
Mon, Nov 30, 199853 mins
The passage of time can convince people to talk and coupled with new technologies can help to solve old cases.
Episode 11
Texas Rangers
Wed, Dec 9, 199853 mins
The New Detectives looks at several crimes investigated by the Texas Rangers including the murder of Billy Staton who tape recorded his own death, the rape and murder of seventy-two year old Lydia Schumacher by Charles Supak Jr., and a body discovered in Cooke County that eventually leads to Terry Brown a truck driver and multiple murderer.
Episode 12
Bad Medicine
Tue, Dec 8, 199853 mins
How forensics can be used to crack drug rings.
Episode 13
Unlikely Sources
Thu, Jan 7, 199954 mins
The New Detectives looks at cases where evidence provided by unlikely sources helped to solve crimes. First is examines how empty beer bottles were able to link Roy Beck Jr. to the murder of Virginia Russell. It then looks at a Michigan case where an insect cocoon helps connect David Smith to the murder of his wife Hye-Yon Smith. Finally, in Dana Point, California, old recovered computer files link Richard K. Overton to the poisoning of wife Janet L. Overton.
Episode 14
True Crime
Wed, Jan 13, 199953 mins
Telling the stories of the 1996 shooting of Dr. Darryl Sutorius; the 1978 murder of Karla Brown and the 1993 murder of Jerry Boggs.
Episode 15
Coroner's Casebook
Tue, Jan 19, 199953 mins
Two noteworthy coroners describe their job and its importance in solving cases.