The BEST episodes of Forensic Files season 13
Every episode of Forensic Files season 13, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Forensic Files season 13!
American reportage-style crime series that zooms in on startling true crimes and, in particular, how these crimes are solved.
#1 - Shoe-in for Murder
Season 13 - Episode 42 - Aired 3/19/2010
Terrified, the young girl hid in her bedroom while her mother was attacked and stabbed to death. Investigators had a wealth of evidence: shoe impressions, distinctive blood drops, and the killer’s DNA. What they didn’t have was a basis for comparison. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 41.
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#2 - Separation Anxiety
Season 13 - Episode 39 - Aired 1/8/2010
Attempting to dispose of the body by incinerating it proved to be one of many mistakes... culminating in the killer's grainy image in security video being brought into sharp focus by something ordinary and everywhere: a store discount card.
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#3 - Family Ties
Season 13 - Episode 25 - Aired 7/17/2009
An assailant breaks into a couple's home with an axe; he kills the husband and critically injures his wife. Nothing was taken, so this wasn't a robbery. Can a DNA profile from skin cells collected hundred of miles away reveal the killer's identity and his motive for murder?
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#4 - Family Interrupted
Season 13 - Episode 43 - Aired 4/2/2010
The gunman opened fire as the family of four entered their home, killing two and wounding the others. He’d pulled open a few drawers to make it look like a robbery, but the scene was clearly staged. When police pieced together the clues, they discovered an unlikely suspect and a carefully orchestrated plot. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 42.
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#5 - Needle in a Haystack
Season 13 - Episode 28 - Aired 8/28/2009
There was no apparent reason for a young, healthy college student to be dead. But when the medical examiner found a tiny clue during the autopsy, investigators were able to unravel a mystery of betrayal and revenge.
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#6 - Office Visit
Season 13 - Episode 40 - Aired 3/5/2010
A respected surgeon was stabbed to death in the parking lot next to his office. The most likely suspect is seen having dinner in a restaurant at the time of the murder. But a cryptic conversation leads police to believe that, while the suspect may not have wielded the knife, he could very well have hired the man who did. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 40.
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#7 - Sands of Crime
Season 13 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/2009
In this classic episode of Forensic Files, the longest running true crime series in television history, a college co-ed was abducted from the parking lot of her apartment. Her body was found later that day; she’d been sexually assaulted and then shot at point blank range. Eight long years passed… and then a pair of running shoes and a cell phone breathed new life into a very cold case. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 13.
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#8 - Runaway Love
Season 13 - Episode 44 - Aired 4/16/2010
It was classic “overkill.” The woman floating in the harbor of an upscale yacht club had been stabbed more than 50 times. Her ex-husband and daughter are missing, and investigators turn to forensic science to determine if they’re searching for victims... or perpetrators. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 15.Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 43.
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#9 - Covet Thy Neighbor
Season 13 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/20/2009
When a college co-ed vanishes without a trace, her fellow students grow concerned about her safety... and their own. Weeks later, the body of an unknown female is discovered 700 miles away in the ashes of a barn fire, and an alert police officer realizes the two crimes might be connected.
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#10 - Hundreds of Reasons
Season 13 - Episode 37 - Aired 12/11/2009
A restaurant manager is found stabbed to death. With $8,000 missing from the safe, police have their motive, but finding the killer doesn't prove so easy.
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#11 - Room with a View
Season 13 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/11/2009
A college student is found stabbed more than a hundred times; her bedroom blood-soaked. While her body was positioned in a suggestive way, she hadn't been sexually assaulted. Was this a sex crime, or the random act of a man with an intense hatred of women?
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#12 - Church Dis-service
Season 13 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/3/2009
A young woman attends evening church services... then disappears. When her abandoned car is found, the tank is empty and a gas can she kept in her trunk for emergencies is missing. Eyewitnesses place her at a nearby gas station, getting into a van, but their descriptions of the vehicle don’t match. Three days later when her body is discovered, the search for the driver of that van intensifies. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 18.
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#13 - Seedy Intentions
Season 13 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/17/2009
When a nine-year-old girl goes missing, police and volunteers spend weeks searching for her. A psychic’s vision leads to a field where her body is discovered, along with what investigators hope is enough evidence to help them to also find her killer. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 19.
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#14 - Palm Saturday
Season 13 - Episode 41 - Aired 3/12/2010
A young couple is found murdered in their Graham, Washington home; detectives discover shoe impressions, a partial palm print, and a neighbor's criminal past.
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#15 - All That Glitters is Gold
Season 13 - Episode 32 - Aired 10/16/2009
A bullet-riddled car, a missing driver, and no witnesses. Was this an ambush or a random attack? Was the victim abducted or dead? The answers lay in a unique clue, so tiny it was measured in millionths of a meter.
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#16 - Lights Out
Season 13 - Episode 48 - Aired 6/11/2010
Whoever stabbed the young mother to death had also savagely beaten her four-year-old daughter. Police had a suspect, but not enough evidence to tie him to the crimes. It would take 15 years and advances in DNA technology to bring the killer to justice. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 47.
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#17 - Holy Terror
Season 13 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/14/2009
Two churches are bombed and one person is killed. Can a thin copper wire help find the perp before he strikes again?
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#18 - Trouble Brewing
Season 13 - Episode 26 - Aired 7/24/2009
Two suspects living in the same apartment are linked to a murder by a gun and a pair of bloodstained boots - items that belong to the one who claims he's never met the victim. Investigators hope the manufacturing code stamped on six beer bottles will be distinctive enough to prove who is telling the truth, and who is a cold-blooded killer.
#19 - Writing on the Wall
Season 13 - Episode 36 - Aired 12/4/2009
In the final moments of her life, a woman writes a name on the wall - presumably that of the killer - in her own blood. But this isn't an open and shut case and, in order to solve it, investigators must read between the lines.
#20 - Fashion Police
Season 13 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/2009
The victim has been stabbed more than thirty times, and the crime scene is awash with her blood. Near her head, police discover a distinctive button with strands of thread still attached. If they can find the owner of the shirt the button came from, they’ll also find the killer. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 17.
#21 - Smiley Face
Season 13 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/22/2009
The Brenda Robinson case. Forensic evidence leads police to a sadistic serial rapist after years of investigation in Delaware and Maryland.
#22 - Cold Feet
Season 13 - Episode 38 - Aired 12/18/2009
A convenience store safe is found empty and the clerk, missing. Hours later, her bound, half-naked body is discovered in nearby woods. Can advances in forensic science help police catch the killer two decades later?
#23 - Waste Mis-Management
Season 13 - Episode 46 - Aired 5/14/2010
The evidence suggested the woman had been bound, sexually assaulted and murdered. Afterwards, the killer spent hours at the crime scene, wiping away his fingerprints and disposing of everything which might incriminate him, including the woman’s body. Police now face a daunting task: They not only have to find the killer, they also have to find the body of the victim. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 45.
#24 - Stranger in the Night
Season 13 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/2008
The Dorothy Donovan Case. Police are skeptical when a man claims his mother was murdered by the hitchhiker he picked up. Their suspicions are heightened when he refuses to take a polygraph test, and they turn to forensic science. Would the blood and fingerprint evidence at the crime scene support the man's story, or prove his guilt?
#25 - Dirty Little Seacret
Season 13 - Episode 47 - Aired 5/28/2010
A couple spent Memorial Day weekend at the beach, and then they simply vanished. Their clothes and personal items were still in the rented condo, their car was parked outside, and there were no signs of forced entry or foul play. A week later, police would get an unexpected lead from a robbery in progress, and the evidence they found helped solve a crime of unparalleled violence and brutality. Originally aired as Season 13, Episode 46.