Tuesday, December 16th 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 The Alibi
In a small South Carolina town in 1991, 17-year-old Crystal Faye Todd, a popular high school student, is raped, murdered and dumped in a deserted field; with few leads, authorities test the DNA of several friends, and one match shocks everyone.
Forensic Files Purr-fect Match
In a groundbreaking case using animal DNA, investigators use forensic testing on a cat to help them solve the case of a woman who vanished from her home on Prince Edward Island.
Forensic Files Bio-Attack
A look into the 1984 Oregon food poisonings, where detectives track down the outbreak to a cult which aims to use germ warfare to take down the government.
Forensic Files A Shot in the Dark
A woman is found dead from a gunshot wound and police suspect her husband, however, forensic teams prove what really happened and the truth is stranger than fiction.
Forensic Files Without a Prayer
After American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair disappears, the discovery of a mutilated body helps police catch the culprit.
Forensic Files A Clutch of Witnesses
Two people witness a truck driving over an unconscious man and flee into a nearby bar, but when the police turn up, the truck, the man and the witnesses are gone.
Forensic Files Scout's Honor
Insect evidence helps to solve the mystery of a woman found dead near a river bank.
Forensic Files A Touching Recollection
A girl who is abducted and then released soon afterwards uses her knowledge of forensics to lead police to the kidnapper.
Forensic Files A Leg to Stand On
A trash collector finds a severed human leg in a trash bin but police cannot use conventional methods of victim identification; investigators turn to toxicology and DNA tests to find the murder-mutilator.
Forensic Files Partners in Crime
A coroner finds telltale clues on the badly burned body of a murder victim, sending police in pursuit of a couple of killers.
Forensic Files Within a Hair
A man is arrested and convicted for a series of sexual assaults in Indiana; years later, forensic developments reveal new facts about the case.
Forensic Files Chief Evidence
The murder of a young Seattle couple puzzles investigators until the victims' dog, Chief, leads police to the killer.
Forensic Files DNA Dragnet
Forensic investigators try to stop a killer who is apparently responsible for two slayings in a community in South Carolina.
Forensic Files Smiley Face
When DNA proves that a man who practically admits to a brutal attack is innocent, police wonder why he is willing to take the blame.
Forensic Files Dirty Laundry
When a businessman is murdered, motives and suspects are plentiful. Was it simply a disgruntled employee or client? Or do some racy photos hold the clue to the crime?
Forensic Files Drowning Sorrows
A family break turns into a nightmare when the wife is found face-down in a lake; with no idea whether it was murder, an accident or suicide, police turn to a new forensic technique.
Forensic Files As Fault
When friends see a woman in the back of a car flailing her arms and screaming, they assume she is having fun, but when they later come upon a jacket and a pool of blood, they realize they witnessed an abduction in progress.
Forensic Files Family Ties
An attack on a couple's home leaves the husband dead, the wife gravely injured and their son as a prime suspect; hundreds of miles away, a DNA sample may lead to the killer.
Forensic Files Trouble Brewing
Detectives think they've solved a murder when they find the weapon and victim's blood in a man's flat, but the evidence may have been planted.
Forensic Files Holy Terror
Detectives search for the bombers of two churches in Illinois, hoping that the materials used in the remnants of the handmade bombs will offer the clues to catch the culprits.
Forensic Files Needle in a Haystack
There was no apparent reason for the young, healthy college student to be dead; but when the medical examiner found the tiniest of clues during the autopsy, investigators were able to unravel the mystery of betrayal and revenge.
Forensic Files Room With a View
A woman is stabbed a hundred times and her body positioned in a suggestive manner. This could be a hate crime against women.
Forensic Files Dollars and Sense
Police are able to create a composite sketch of a man burnt beyond recognition. But tracking the killer is more challenging.
Forensic Files Hair Line
By cutting a strand of a murdered man's hair into sections, forensics reveal a record of his last six months alive, and find he was frequently ingesting huge amounts of arsenic.
Forensic Files All That Glitters Is Gold
A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses, an ambush or a random attack; the clue was something so tiny, it was measured in millionths of a meter.
Forensic Files Deadly Rebellion
Teenager is found half-naked with her throat slit; a single foreign hair found on her thumb may finger the killer.
Forensic Files All That Glitters Is Gold
A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses, an ambush or a random attack; the clue was something so tiny, it was measured in millionths of a meter.
Forensic Files Deadly Rebellion
Teenager is found half-naked with her throat slit; a single foreign hair found on her thumb may finger the killer.
Forensic Files Sign of the Crime
Two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered; the similarities of the crime scenes led police to believe they were dealing with a serial killer who hated women, and they had to find him before he struck again.
Forensic Files Covet Thy Neighbor
Weeks after a student vanishes, the body of an unknown female is found in the ashes of a fire 700 miles away; an alert policeman realizes the crimes could be connected.
Forensic Files Writing on the Wall
Investigators face a growing list of suspects after a beautiful flight attendant is brutally murdered in her own home.
Forensic Files Hundreds of Reasons
The assistant manager of the restaurant had been stabbed to death; police knew why he'd been killed: $8,000 was missing from the safe. As to who was responsible, his family and friends couldn't even imagine who'd want to hurt him.
Forensic Files Cold Feet
Florida authorities rely on DNA evidence to try to nail the killer of a woman who was abducted from her late-night job at a convenience store, raped and strangled.
Forensic Files Separation Anxiety
A wild fire in a secluded parking lot leads police to discover a dreadful homicide, with the suspect's image caught by security cameras.
Forensic Files Office Visit
After a prominent Arizona surgeon is found stabbed to death outside his office, investigators uncover an unlikely suspect with deep pockets and an even deeper hatred for the doctor.
Forensic Files Shoe-in for Murder
Police don't have a basis for comparison to match shoe impressions, blood drops and DNA evidence from a murder scene.
Forensic Files Family Interrupted
A masked gunman kills two members of a family and wounds two others after they interrupt his burglary at their upscale suburban home.
Forensic Files Palm Saturday
A killer leaves equally incriminating evidence at the scene when he meticulously wipes away his fingerprint and shoe impressions.
Forensic Files Runaway Love
After a woman is found dead at a yacht club in California in an apparent case of love gone wrong, investigators discover her home life was as dramatic as films made in nearby Hollywood.
Forensic Files Watchful Eye
The brutal murder of a state park employee over $2,000 rattles her co-workers and tourists while leaving police to sift through hundreds of leads.
Forensic Files All Charged Up
Using an anonymous letter and geographical profiling, investigators close in on a serial rapist, and a cleverly obtained DNA sample confirms their suspicions.
Forensic Files Breaking the Mold
When a young boy has serious respiratory problems and his father shows signs of early Alzheimer's disease, a chance encounter with a stranger kicks off an investigation into the cause.