F2: Forensic Factor

- Season 2

(2004)

A six-year old girl, Andrea Atkinson, is found dead in the boiler room of her Toronto tenement. Forensic investigators quickly determine she has been raped and smothered. There are no witnesses. Quick-thinking cops experiment with the sound in the boiler room by yelling with the door closed. Outside, total silence. Whoever killed Andrea knew no one would hear him.

The cry for help comes from Oklahoma City's most exclusive neighborhood. "My wife's bleeding all over the place," Dr. John Baxter Hamilton tells the 911 operator. "I don't know, she looks like somebody hurt her." It's Valentine's morning and socialite Susan Hamilton lies nude, smashed in a pool of blood. The science suggests a crime of both heated rage and cold calculation.

Caretaker Larry Mallory notices something unusual while on his way to work. Lying in the middle of the highway is a leg from a department store dummy. When he gets closer, Mallory sees two crows feeding on it. The leg is not plastic, it is flesh, and it has been severed from a female human body with surgical precision. The discovery of four more body parts in the area touch off a murder manhunt.

In three days of savagery the picturesque town Gainesville Florida is sent reeling with shock. Five university students are brutally attacked and killed. As ident officers meticulously investigate the death scenes, they realize this is no average murderer. This killer knows how to cover his tracks. Each scene has been literally scrubbed clean and the bodies washed to eliminate evidence.

A homicide in Decatur, Ill., in 1996 involves a young woman, her ex-husband and her in-laws.

Karyn Slover is a pretty small town dreamer who's finally got her big break: she's been offered work as a model by an agency in Los Angeles. Now she can move away with her three-year old son, Kolten, leaving her ex-husband, friends, and current boyfriend behind. She leaves her desk at the local newspaper at 5 PM, and is never heard from again.

Millionaire Frank Black boards a commercial flight and disappears into thin air. The workaholic, busing magnate is never seen or heard from again. Authorities believe Alan Mackerley, Blacks' former business associate is the man behind the murder. But Black's body and the murder weapon are never recovered. At trial the defense raises doubts that Black is even dead at all!!