Verklighetens CSI

Motives & Murders: Cracking the Case

Investigators reveal untold stories of how they caught notorious murderers, beginning with the struggle to trace the killer of a 42-year-old woman.

Investigators reveal how they unravelled a business manager's endless string of lies in order to discover who had the means and motive to shoot him dead.

Detectives reopen the 30-year-old cold case of mother Barbara Lloyd, who was fatally stabbed in her home. Can they finally bring her killer to justice?

Four years after Nancy Manni's body is found in Chesapeake Bay, her case appears on a crime TV show. Was there anyone out there who knew the truth?

Using a novel technique involving a deck of cards, detectives crack a 32-year-old cold case, finally bringing an assassin to justice.

A lack of progress in the murder of Carla Larson means police act decisively when a report is made by a woman who suspects her estranged husband after the case is aired on America's Most Wanted.

Sharon Bloom vanishes after leaving work to go out for lunch; her body is discovered 10 days later in a cornfield.

September 4, 1980-Thornton, Colorado. Fifteen-year-old Nanine Grimes is found murdered in her home. Despite many promising leads over they years, the case goes ice cold...until 26 years later when a national database of criminal DNA is created.

Investigators reflect on their difficult search for the culprit behind the chilling murder of a 29-year-old woman on Halloween.

Detectives discuss their hunt for a murderer, rapist and master of disguises, who dressed up in ladies' clothes in order to get into women's homes.