The New Detectives
Date de parution : 1 octobre 1996
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Soldier Stories Young men shipped off to war would never return. Forensic experts work to tell their stories. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Dead Men Do Talk It does not matter if it is minutes or years after the crime. These experts work to tell the stories of the victims. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Deadly Chemistry Poison is the killers choice. These experts work to solves the cases of the present and the past. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Mind Hunters Psychological Profiling: Take a trip into the minds of the worst society has to offer. Every detail tells FBI Profiler Robert Ressler what he needs... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Camera Clues Forensic Photography: The unforgiving eye of the camera is there at the scene to catch the clues when a crime first happens. Who takes what the... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Double Helix DNA Analysis: Your DNA can either convict you or set you free. These experts use anything from blood to chewing gum to find the answers they need. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Web of Clues Forensic Entomology: Bug have been around for millions of years. Their habits surrounding death can tell these experts when the victim died. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Faces of Tragedy Forensic Sculpting: These experts can take nothing more than their knowledge, clay, and a skull and bring the victim to life. Once nameless victims... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Without A Trace Missing Person: In America nearly 1.8 million people are reported missing each year, factor in the world and that number triples. Using computer... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Burning Evidence Identifying Burned Remains: Murder is hard to prove with no body, when the victim has been burned it is even more difficult. Fire does more than... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Short Fuse Explosives Investigations: A woman opens a box which explodes killing her. Soon to follow are five other bombs just as deadly as the first. This... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 9 | Death Grip Fingerprinting: The backbone to forensic science, the fingerprint is a very effective way to identify victims and criminals. Not only are... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Signed In Blood Handwriting Analysis: Every pass of the pencil leaves a little of ourselves behind. Taking the time to evaluate documents can tell the difference... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 11 | Witness To Terror Black Boxes: A plane plunges toward the ground and upon impact little remains. The only possible survivor is the flight data recorder. This little... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Trial of the Century Forensics in the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial: The verdict is in Not Guilty of murder. O.J. Simpson emerges a free man. What was the evidence and could... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 13 | Deadly Target Ballistics: A body with a gunshot wound to the head, the gun is next to the body. Was it suicide or murder? Every part of the gun can be analyzed... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Fatal Compulsion Forensic psychologists delve into the minds of serial killers, explaining why, most often, they can be a friendly neighbor or a tenacious co-worker... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Bodies of Evidence It is difficult to convict a murderer if the body can’t be found, but forensic science is finding ways to do it. A speck of blood, a piece of a... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Shreds of Evidence The tiniest filament can become a mark of distinction in the most singular and intimate of ways. Investigators have come to rely on forensic... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Seeds of Destruction Plants help provide oxygen and nutrients for existence. In criminal investigations, a simple seedpod can provide the missing link by placing a... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Lethal Dosage While drugs can cure disease and ease pain, they can also be agents of murder. Toxicologists can examine blood and tissue to uncover cases where... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Tools of Death A tool used to commit a crime can often be the same tool used to solve it. The pattern a machine leaves on an item, the unusual way a tool crimps a... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Out of the Grave Advancement in science and technology are encouraging people to revisit the past in hopes of answering questions that have remained unanswered.... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 8 | Infallible Witness Investigators are always on the cutting edge of new forensic techniques that can help them solve cases more accurately. Advanced techniques allow... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 9 | From the Ashes Insurance torchings, mob burnouts and arson murders: these crimes are designed to take all clues with them. But a case can be built from ashes.... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 10 | Living In Terror Because of new technologies, terrorism is a growing international threat. With the expertise of bomb squads, chemists and tool mark experts, bombs... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Lethal Obsessions In the mind of an obsessive killer, raw desire replaces all reason and murder becomes an opportune means to an end. While forensic investigators... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 2 | Traces of Guilt The smallest of clues can solve even the biggest cases. Often the scales of justice are balanced by just a few milligrams of evidence – a couple of... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 3 | Electronic Witness As technology becomes a bigger part of our lives, it’s becoming difficult to do anything without leaving behind an electronic trace. Cell phones and... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 4 | Dead Wrong Often, murderers will change or stage a crime scene, turning murder into suicide, pinning blame, or hiding the body completely. However, forensic... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 5 | Lasting Impressions No crime scene is absent of clues. No matter how chaotic or how clean it may appear to be, the culprit is bound to leave something telling behind.... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 6 | Women Who Kill Men aren’t the only ones who kill. Though female killers usually choose less violent methods than their male counterparts, they’re equally as deadly... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 7 | Deadly Dealings Contract killings allow someone to establish the perfect alibi. By hiring someone else to do his or her dirty work, a person can deflect guilt or... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 8 | Body Count Some people do get away with murder, at least for a while. Flush with their success, they murder again and again. But with each kill, they get... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 9 | A Taste of Poison Poisoners are the most dangerous culprits in the crime world: smart assassins. They rely on their devious stealth and must put their victims at ease... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 10 | Grave Discoveries Some cases can’t be solved immediately. The passage of time can convince people to talk and new technologies can discover overlooked clues. Forensic... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 11 | Texas Rangers The Texas Rangers were established in the 1800s to protect settlers from Native Americans. That role has evolved greatly over time to keep up with a... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 12 | Bad Medicine Forensics is not only used to solve murders. Drug trafficking has created a deadly criminal underworld and many forensic investigators are devoted... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 13 | Unlikely Sources Some of the best clues come from the least likely places. Seemingly meaningless objects – beer bottles, insects, doormats – have been used by... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 14 | True Crime Some crime writers know just as much about crime as a police officer, investigator or any criminal. Using combined perspectives from law... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 15 | Coroner’s Casebook A good coroner can deliver what is necessary to solve a crime, while a bad one can destroy an otherwise solid case. Two of the country’s most... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 1 | Remnant of Blame Solutions to atrocious crimes can hinge on the smallest of clues. Even with advanced technology, vision remains an important tool. Forensic... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 2 | Partners in Crime There’s an old saying that a burden shared is a burden halved. But when people team up to commit murder, the weight of their guilt remains just as... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 3 | Scattered Clues There’s never a good reason for murder but some killers are especially cruel – choosing their victims at random or with no apparent motive and then... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 4 | Natural Witness The great outdoors may offer clues to solving heinous crimes. Seed germination and the presence of certain insects provide vital information about... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 5 | Tainted Trust Poison is the subtlest murder weapon and poisoners are sometimes the most brutal killers, harming their victims over time to disguise the murder.... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 6 | Presumed Dead What does it take to prove murder if the victim cannot be found? Forensic investigators must go to great lengths to catch the killer when the victim... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 7 | Broken Vow When lovers turn on each other or marriages fail, some coldblooded spouses find a gruesome way to gain an uncontested divorce: murder. Forensic... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 8 | Cold Cases There’s no statute of limitations on murder, so as a case turns cold and clues become scarce, investigators must rely on modern forensic technology... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 9 | Family Plots Every family has its secrets and sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed. When murder becomes a family affair, investigators must turn to... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 10 | Blood Money Some people murder for love, others murder out of hatred. But sometimes people kill for the money. When greed is the motive, investigators must make... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 11 | Murder By Numbers For some killers, once is never enough. Often, cold and calculated serial killings are more difficult to solve than violent crimes of passion. For... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 12 | A Federal Offense When there’s a difficult case to crack, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms can be called in to help. These investigators have the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 13 | Flames of Justice Sometimes arson fires are set to cover a different, more heinous crime – such as murder. But killers are wrong to think that fire destroys all vital... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 1 | False Witness Often, the witnesses of a crime are also the main suspects. They’re able to manipulate the truth to throw off the authorities. When a murder is... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Trails of Evidence A simple clue can provide the missing link by placing a suspect at the scene of the crime. Dirt left on shoes, tires or clothes can pinpoint where... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 3 | Missing Approximately 1.8 million Americans are reported missing each year. Some are runaways who eventually find their way home but others simply disappear... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 4 | In the Line of Fire Some people don’t care who they kill; they just want to hurt innocents. Bombers, snipers and spree killers: these murderers are the hardest to catch... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 5 | For Love or Money Sometimes blood relations lead to bloodshed. When money is the motive, murder can rip at the very foundation of family and marriage. When homicide... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Left at the Scene Even the most puzzling cases can be solved with the tiniest of residue left behind at the crime scene. Trace evidence and paint analysis can be used... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 7 | Invisible Death Poison is an almost invisible form of death and is often interpreted as a heart attack or underlying health issue. But when foul play is suspected,... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 8 | To Kill Again Some people do get away with murder, at least for a while. Thrilled by their success, they tend to kill again and again. But with each crime they... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 9 | Written in Bone At the scene of a murder, sometimes the only clues to the killer come from the victim. Forensic anthropologists use skeletal remains to decipher the... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 10 | Cold Blooded Time of death is an important consideration in an investigation but when a killer destroys the body, even the best medical examiner would be at a... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 11 | Fatal Error Accidental deaths, suicides, disappearances and fires: they’re an everyday part of an insurance investigator’s job. But these cases shouldn’t be... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 12 | Dead in the Water Drowning deaths often look like accidents and over time water can destroy the few clues the killer may have left behind. Investigators must turn to... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 13 | Scent of the Kill A dog can be a dead man’s best friend. Some dogs have been trained by law enforcement to sniff out corpses, drugs, explosives and missing persons.... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 1 | Bloodlust For homicide investigators, it’s a race against time when they track their deadliest foe: a serial killer who murders to feel alive. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 2 | Deadly Aim When a killer turns a gun on a victim, ballistic analysis is key to cracking the case. Each shot fired leaves behind its own clues, allowing... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 3 | Stolen Identity When theft is committed, something valuable is stolen. But when a criminal needs a new identity, theft becomes lethal. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 4 | Silent Witness Sometimes, seemingly small and insignificant clues – three hairs, microscopic fibers, a paint chip – become a victim’s silent witness and help solve... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 5 | Deadly Intentions When abduction turns to murder, forensic science is a vital key to finding justice for the victims of a kidnapper’s deadly intentions. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 6 | Patterns of Guilt The tread of a tire, a single shoe print or even the shape of a bruise can help investigators track down murderers. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 7 | A Deadly Smile Investigators rely on forensic odontology – the examination of dental evidence – to identify a body from a single tooth and to catch two ruthless... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 8 | Military Justice The law enforcement agency of the United States Navy and Marine Corps uses forensic science to solve perplexing murders and fulfill their motto: “To... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 9 | The Unforgotten Years after a murder has been committed, investigators use modern technology and advanced DNA analysis to shed new light on crimes that have gone... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 10 | Tainted Blood Forensic scientists find clues written in blood as they investigate the murders of three women who were killed by men who once loved them. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 11 | Buried Secrets The elements of nature can reduce a body to bones in a matter of weeks. Combining art and science, forensic anthropologists can give victims a face... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 12 | Proof Of Innocence Sometimes, the wrong people are punished for crimes they did not commit. Forensic scientists use DNA analysis to overturn convictions of these... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 13 | Drawing Conclusions A teenager is abducted on a shopping trip. Two hikers go missing on the Appalachian Trail. A grandmother never returns home from work. Forensic... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 14 | Stranger Than Fiction A millionaire is murdered for a stash of buried treasure. A young woman dates violent men, only to be killed by her best friend. When real crimes... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 15 | Predators and Parasites For the forensic entomologist, insects that nest in corpses are like witnesses to the crime. By studying their behavior, scientists learn everything... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 16 | In the Camera’s Eye Photography has long been a fundamental tool in homicide investigations. A single image can hold enough information to identify a suspect and... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 17 | Wasted Youth When teenagers are driven to kill, their victims are not the only ones to suffer from their violent crime. In three such cases, the families of the... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 18 | Collective Justice Philadelphia’s Vidocq Society, named after an 18th century French detective, is one of the world’s most unusual crime-solving organizations – a... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 1 | Murder for Hire For some killers, murder can be a lucrative business. When a victim has been targeted for death, investigators must dig deep and go beyond the... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 2 | Toxic Death Sometimes the cause of death does coincide with the scene of the crime. When an untraceable poison is used as a murder weapon, investigators rely on... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 3 | Material Witness Lies, deception and contradicting witnesses can often throw investigators off the trail of justice. But when indisputable evidence refutes a... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 4 | Betrayed Sometimes when a death seems to be accidental, forensics can reveal the deception just below the surface. Law enforcement uses a variety of... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 5 | Elements of Murder When everyday substances reveal hidden clues that break a homicide case, those substances become the elements of murder. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 6 | Random Targets Most victims are meticulously chosen by their murderer because of a connection or because they match a set of criteria. The most terrifying cases of... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 7 | Grave Secrets Killers often will try to cover up their crime by hiding the remains of their victims. Sometimes bodies may lay hidden for years before they are... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 8 | At Close Range When a victim is killed at point-blank range, police often suspect that a friend or acquaintance is to blame, because for a stranger it would... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 9 | Lethal Encounter In most murder cases, police rely on motive to pursue a killer. But when the murderer is a stranger, the crime may go unsolved for years.... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 10 | Crimes of Passion When killers are driven by jealousy, rage and desire, their desperation is evident in both the crime and their efforts to cover their tracks. But... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 11 | Absent Witness When murderers hide or destroy the remains of their victims, forensic scientists must reconstruct the scenes and prove murder for an absent witness. | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 12 | Marked for Death Often killers are careful to not leave any fingerprints behind. But the methods of the murder itself can leave a lasting impression on authorities,... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 13 | Fatal Abductions Anytime, anywhere, people disappear – and sometimes these disappearances end in tragic murder. Kidnappers always leave clues behind, but chasing... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 14 | Medical Examiners Casebook Some killers choose to hide their victims and investigators must then rely on forensics to uncover proof of murder. From identifying remains to... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 15 | Trial by Fire At a crime scene, anything left behind or moved out of place is considered a clue. But a fire can extinguish everything in its path, challenging... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 16 | Undaunted Solving crimes may begin with intuition but advanced science provides investigators with irrefutable proof to uncover staged accidents. When... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 17 | Forsaken Trust When victims of murder knew their killers, they can be caught off guard. The killers rely on their intimate knowledge to pull off the perfect crime.... | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 18 | Coronor Investigator Coroners play a vital role in piecing together the final moments of someone’s life. Los Angeles County coroner Julie Wilson provides an in-depth... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 1 | Hidden Obsessions Sometimes those closest to a victim can be the most dangerous. Beneath a layer of trust can lurk a deadly obsession. In these cases, authorities... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 2 | Blind Trust Often, a killer will build the victim’s trust before he or she attacks. In this episode, New Mexico police search for a missing teenager who... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 3 | Shattered Vows Marriage is one of the tightest bonds two people can have, until lies and deceit drive one of them to kill. In this episode, forensic experts are... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 4 | Fatal Impressions Sometimes the faintest fingerprint or tire track is all investigators need to solve even the most brutal of crimes. When a woman’s body is... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 5 | Misplaced Loyalty A house fire in California turns into a murder investigation when authorities discover that the victim’s best friend and personal manager had... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 6 | Killing Time A killer will often try to disguise the victim’s body in an attempt to the hide the actual cause of death; however, forensics cannot be fooled. In... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 7 | Silent Killers When money is the motive, there is no limit to what a killer will do to get away with their fortune. When officers find the dismembered remains of a... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 8 | Out To Kill Sometimes, cooperation from people who are not associated with a crime in any way is the only link between a criminal and the clues left behind for... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 9 | Raw Greed Even ordinary objects, when used to kill, carry enough evidence for forensic scientists to piece together the most complicated murders. In this... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 10 | Murderous Attractions The most sacred of vows are sometimes not enough to stop a serious desire. In this episode, a nurse suspects a patient’s husband of attempted murder... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 11 | Broken Trust Often, criminals misuse the trust they’ve built with their victims to commit heinous misdeeds. A family discovers the mummified remains of a... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 12 | Price of Murder When the amount of money is substantial, a person can be motivated to do terrible things to someone they love. Police discover that a large life... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 13 | Stolen Youth Murdering a child is perhaps the most heinous of crimes. But no matter how defenseless a killer believes a young child to be, there is no hiding... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 14 | Loved to Death Forensic science has advanced so much that even the oldest remains still share the clues necessary to convict a killer. Investigators use DNA to... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 15 | Written in Blood Blood can be the most telling evidence of a murder and often it is the only thing investigators have to link a killer to his or her victim. Forensic... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 16 | Critical Evidence Whether it is a fingerprint or a single bullet, sometimes it is the smallest piece of evidence that is needed to crack the biggest cases. In this... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 17 | Fatal Twist When an unexpected crime occurs with no eyewitnesses, very few clues and the killers on the run, authorities must rely on forensic science to... | |
| Saison 9 - épisode 18 | Vanished Murderers will go to great lengths to keep their crimes concealed, but forensic evidence is impossible to cover up. In this episode, authorities... |
