Monday, August 18th TV listings for HLN - West
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
Very Scary People The Amityville Horror: Murdered One by One Pt. 1
In November 1974, the DeFeo family were found murdered inside their beautiful seaside home; the mother, father and four of their children were shot in the back as they lay sleeping in their beds.
Very Scary People The Amityville Horror: Evil in the House Pt. 2
Para psychologists and psychics descend on the house to investigate who murdered the DeFeo family and why.
Very Scary People The Dating Game Killer: Smooth Talker Pt. 1
Revisiting an investigation into the case of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted, raped, and left for dead in 1968.
Very Scary People The Dating Game Killer: The Bite Mark Pt. 2
With a string of murders already behind him, Rodney Alcala appears on the TV show The Dating Game where he wins the prize: a date; ultimately Rodney is rejected by the girl, which many believe triggered yet another rampage of serial killings.
Forensic Files Grave Evidence
Forensic scientists provide authorities with evidence that a death deemed accidental 20 years ago was actually murder.
Forensic Files Deadly Formula
Detectives learn that a genetic disorder caused the deaths of a woman's children, resulting in an overturned conviction.
Forensic Files Beaten by a Hair
When a young woman goes missing on the way to the train station, investigators use a strand of hair and a bloody pillowcase to find a suspect.
Forensic Files Crime Seen
Investigators reopen a case from 1984 involving the rape of a young Virginia woman when DNA testing refutes her identification of the rapist and calls everything into question, leading to the accused person's exoneration.
Forensic Files Speck of Evidence
A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.
Forensic Files Broken Bond
A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.
Forensic Files Out of the Ashes
Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.
Forensic Files Invisible Intruder
A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.
Forensic Files The Killing Room
A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.
Forensic Files Ultimate Betrayal
A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.
Forensic Files Cement the Case
A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.
Forensic Files Innocence Lost
In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.
Forensic Files Til Death Do Us Part
When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.
Forensic Files Body of Evidence
Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
Forensic Files Accident or Murder?
A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.
Forensic Files Core Evidence
A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
Forensic Files Haunting Vision
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
Forensic Files With Every Breath
After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.
Forensic Files Speck of Evidence
A speck of bicycle paint and a speck of nickel left over from a collision with a twice-convicted child molester's car provide critical clues in the murder of a 9-year-old.
Forensic Files Broken Bond
A 2-year-old boy's brain seizures and breathing problems baffle doctors until they learn the mother exhibits signs of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare condition that led her to physically abuse her son and contributed to her daughter's death.
Forensic Files Out of the Ashes
Two years after an 18-year-old's murder in Albion, Mich., a tiny drop of blood and burned bones lead police to her killers.
Forensic Files Invisible Intruder
A mother claims that an intruder murdered her two sons, but lacking a motive, police use blood-spatter analysis and behavioral profiling to reconstruct a different scenario.
Forensic Files The Killing Room
A routine missing persons report leads Texas police to discover a deadly love triangle; evidence found in a suspect's home matches the murder scene and leads to the indictment of the victim's girlfriend and her lover.
Forensic Files Ultimate Betrayal
A 1995 fire razes the mansion of a Kansas doctor, killing two of her three children; disturbing accounts from an ex-husband lead investigators to believe the doctor set the blaze herself.
Forensic Files Cement the Case
A husband confesses to his wife's murder, only to be found not guilty a year later when a phone tip and forensic evidence point to another.
Forensic Files Innocence Lost
In Lorton, Va., police attempt to determine who abducted 5-year-old Melissa Brannen after she disappears from a Christmas party, but cannot be certain until they match hair from a rabbit-fur jacket Brannen wore that day.
Forensic Files Til Death Do Us Part
When a Pennsylvania man checks into a hospital for leg pain and later dies of thallium poisoning, police investigate his wife and find her in the process of collecting an insurance payment for her previous husband's death.
Forensic Files Body of Evidence
Police exhume the body of Karla Brown, murdered in her home in 1978, to study bite wounds, which eventually lead to the killer.
Forensic Files Accident or Murder?
A new life-insurance policy sparks suspicions of murder when a Nova Scotia schoolteacher's body is found at the bottom of her basement stairs.
Forensic Files Core Evidence
A beverage company pleads guilty to violating federal safety laws when a baby dies from E. coli after drinking apple juice.
Forensic Files Haunting Vision
A woman who survived a deadly childhood fire sends police a letter charging that her father killed her mother 30 years ago.
Forensic Files With Every Breath
After more than 20 people on a Native American reservation die suddenly from a flu-like disease, Navajo medicine men provide a clue that leads to a most unlikely killer.
Forensic Files II Incendiary
When a house fire kills the only doctor in a small town, an arson investigation leads to the son of the doctor's nurse; the prosecutor worries this might have been a miscarriage of justice.
Forensic Files II Grave Justice
A young woman is found murdered on the side of a rural driveway; the victim had been out with friends; the investigation would remain unsolved; until three decades later, when forensics from an unrelated crime helps break the case.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.