Witness to Murder: Digital Evidence
Reveals how technology has become the new frontier in solving homicides, illustrating the surprising ways that cell phone data, smart watches, fitness trackers, GPS devices, geolocation coordinates, doorbell and traffic cameras, gaming devices, surveillance video, internet searches, apps, and social media messages can be the critical clues in murder investigations.
- 2023-2023
- 1 season
- A&E Network
- Documentary, Suspense
- TV-14
Reveals how technology has become the new frontier in solving homicides, illustrating the surprising ways that cell phone data, smart watches, fitness trackers, GPS devices, geolocation coordinates, doorbell and traffic cameras, gaming devices, surveillance video, internet searches, apps, and social media messages can be the critical clues in murder investigations.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2023
Episode 1
Web of Lies
Fri, Aug 4, 2023 41 mins
Aug 2020, Arkansas: Police use digital evidence to arrest Quake Lewellyn, who murdered Sydney Sutherland, 24, while she was jogging. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Interviews with the victim's family.
Episode 2
Dark Mode
Fri, Aug 11, 2023 42 mins
When two teenage classmates in Northern California go missing within weeks of each other, their mothers struggle to get police to investigate. Then, unusual cell phone activity by a group of potential suspects gets scrutinized.
Episode 3
Digital Obsession
Fri, Aug 18, 2023 41 mins
Investigators trying to determine who shot and killed a young mother in Ohio are tipped off by a surprising piece of digital evidence. From there, they unravel a twisted story of stalking and social media catfishing.
Episode 4
Caught in the App
Fri, Aug 25, 2023 43 mins
Detectives in Aurora, Colorado gather crucial information about a double homicide from neighborhood surveillance footage, but they are not able to identify and track the killer until some key digital data is uncovered.
Episode 5
Tracking a Killer
Fri, Sep 1, 2023
Vancouver, Washington, June 6, 2019: Transgender TikTok influencer Nikki Kuhnhausen (born Nikolas Kuhnhausen) age 17, vanished. Her remains were found six months later in a remote wooded area outside Vancouver. Her friends, family and transgender allies across Vancouver demanded justice. Nikki's family describes the brave and beautiful girl and how police used Nikki's Snapchat account to find her.
Episode 6
Game Over
Fri, Sep 8, 2023 43 mins
Law enforcement detectives in Mobile, Alabama, quickly identify a suspect in the murder of a local college professor, but a bombshell piece of technology stolen from the crime scene then points them in a completely different direction.
Episode 7
Off the Grid
Sun, Sep 27, 2026 43 mins
The family of a missing Texas mother becomes concerned when they start receiving suspicious messages from her phone.
Episode 8
Accidental Confession
Sun, Sep 27, 2026 43 mins
A love triangle at the University of Florida results in the murder of a popular student.
Episode 9
Mapping a Murder
Sun, Sep 27, 2026 40 mins
After the murder of an aspiring actor in Georgia, police run out of leads until a new digital forensic tool is used.
Episode 10
Deadly Last Steps
Sun, Sep 27, 2026
A young woman in South Carolina is found dead in her bathtub. A digital clue has one of two people of interest confessing to her murder.