Friday, December 12th TV listings for HLN
The anchors share the latest stories about significant events that take place across the world and interview prominent figures.
Forensic Files II The Obsession
The murder of teacher's aide leaves a hole in the heart of her small community; as rumors spread about suspects, the actual perpetrator slips further away.
Forensic Files II The Ink Beads
Father and teacher are found hanging naked from a tree with the letters F-E-D on his chest; with barely any evidence to work with, investigators turn to these letters for answers.
Forensic Files II The Rise
A single mom vanishes without a trace; foul play is confirmed after a truck toolbox opens with her body inside; homicide detectives investigate men she matched on dating sites, men from work, and a lover with a violent past.
Forensic Files II Ten of Hearts
A 20-year-old woman sets out on her bike and never returns; her body is found a few miles from her house with a gunshot wound to the head; years go by without any evidence or leads, until new investigators and technology breaks the case.
Forensic Files II Heavy Metal
A navy lieutenant is murdered while deployed out to sea; arsenic poisoning is the cause of death; investigators discover he had more than his fair share of enemies, but it takes years before investigators discover what really happened to him.
Forensic Files II Knots
A building manager finds the lifeless body of a young woman in the bathtub; when questioned, an ex-con living downstairs lies to police; the lies do not prove murder and the case goes cold, then a new forensic tool examines the evidence.
Forensic Files II The Reunion
A murder victim's final moments are caught on tape; the crime scene looks like a clear robbery-murder; text evidence at first points to a jilted lover, but police identify a second suspect with a motive.
Forensic Files II The Orange Shorts
A wounded woman calls 911; her husband, who wants a divorce, gets a hard look from police, but he has an airtight alibi during the murder; forensic science of ballistics draws a direct connection.
Forensic Files II Personal Penmanship
A religious woman is shot execution style in the suburbs of Michigan; surveillance video reveals it was a trio of killers; eventually, detectives get a break: a handwritten note.
Forensic Files II Full Circle
Three sex workers are murdered and left along a river; a serial killer was on the loose and for years the perp was never identified.
Forensic Files II Matching Palms
He is a sex offender and a murderer who attacks in a terrifying rage; this predator manages to evade capture for years, but he leaves evidence behind, his palm print; detectives are determined to put a face to the print.
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 Ticker Tape
A murder in Australia baffles police, until they find a device intended to save lives is the only witness to the man's death.
Forensic Files Step by Step
When a man dies after falling down the stairs, a witness says one thing and the evidence says another.
Forensic Files Blanket of Evidence
A wax bullet, white blanket and olive colored carpeting tell a lot about the murder of a young woman found in a ravine.
Forensic Files Fired-Up
When a house burns to the ground and a woman's charred remains are found, investigators must determine whether it was an accident or arson.
Forensic Files Two in a Million
An ammunition box and fluorescent fibers reveal the betrayal that led to the murder of a millionaire's family.
Forensic Files Bitter Brew
The 1960 kidnapping and murder of brewery heir Adolph Coors III leads to one of the most intense manhunts in U.S. history.
Forensic Files Message in a Bottle
A used tissue, 12 years after the murder of a young Missouri woman, may be what cracks the case with a suspect list a mile long.
Forensic Files Sharper Image
When murder strikes a young girl, police quickly make an arrest, but cutting-edge technology from NASA proves they have the wrong suspect behind bars.
Forensic Files Insulated Evidence
A man is found strangled and burned in his San Antonio apartment and the killer thinks he has destroyed all the evidence.
Forensic Files Cold Hearted
When two men appear to die of heart disease six years apart, police notice they have one thing in common, they were each married to the same woman.
Forensic Files Wheel of Misfortune
Casino security cameras offer the final images of a woman, just before she vanishes without a trace; can these grainy images lead police to her killer?
Forensic Files Quite a Spectacle
A squashed tomato and a pinpoint reflection of light in a photo help catch a killer.
Forensic Files Transaction Failed
An ATM transaction allows Texas detectives to pinpoint a suspect in the slaying of a teacher, but a shoelace stolen from the victim's home proves to be the tie that binds her killer to the crime.
Forensic Files The Day the Music Died
Ten years after the murder of a rock singer, forensic scientists use evidence collected to finally bring her killer to justice.
Forensic Files Transaction Failed
An ATM transaction allows Texas detectives to pinpoint a suspect in the slaying of a teacher, but a shoelace stolen from the victim's home proves to be the tie that binds her killer to the crime.
Forensic Files The Day the Music Died
Ten years after the murder of a rock singer, forensic scientists use evidence collected to finally bring her killer to justice.
Forensic Files Sole Survivor
After a Michigan State University grad student disappears and is presumed dead, a professor of geological sciences helps police get the dirt on her killer.
Forensic Files Insignificant Others
When a man's wife kills herself 14 years after his college sweetheart commits suicide, police start to get suspicious.
Forensic Files Catch 22
A woman gets shot in her driveway; she may have been the victim of a co-worker half her age that she had recently rejected.
Forensic Files A Cinderella Story
A pair of tennis shoes are found near a victim who had been stabbed on the beach, less than ten yards from her hotel.
Forensic Files Screen Pass
Three fingerprints on a window screen are enough for a print examiner to uncover the work of a serial killer.
Forensic Files Pressed for Crime
With a long list of suspects, forensic experts agree on one thing in this brutal murder: the killer knew his victim.
Forensic Files Finger Pane
The only lead to finding a serial killer on the loose is a bloody fingerprint on the body of a victim.
Forensic Files Good as Gold
Tests reveal the race, eye color and hair color of the person responsible for killing two young women on Halloween night.
Forensic Files Freedom Fighter
A convicted arsonist claims his innocence and with no lawyer, no money and only a fifth-grade education, sets out to prove it.
Forensic Files Dog Day Afternoon
A canine behaviorist uses the family dogs, who are the only witnesses, to find the murderer of their owner.
Forensic Files Shattered Innocence
Investigators see through a killer trying to cover his tracks by staging the crime scene to learn what really happened.
Forensic Files All Butt Certain
A young girl beaten after watching her grandmother killed, identifies the wrong person; years later she tries to change her statement.
Stories from across the world and refreshing conversations with Audie Cornish.
Stories from across the world and refreshing conversations with Audie Cornish.
Forensic Files Foundation of Lies
When a doctor's wife disappears, investigators use concrete from the doctor's yard and the recollections of a child to determine what happened.
Forensic Files Unholy Vows
Romanian archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, living in the U.S., is accused of being a Nazi war criminal, and forensic experts find evidence on an incriminating, 40-year-old postcard.