Invisible Clues, A&E, 2007

Not so long ago, forensic specialists were either fingerprint or ballistics experts. Today, police departments nationwide have a vast cadre of investigatory expertise available to them, as once-controversial techniques have become commonplace. Plunge into the heart of confounding mysteries to see how criminals are caught today.

Invisible Clues heads north to probe two telltale cases. First, a body is discovered in a park, wrapped in sheets. At the medical examiner's office, workers find a single carpet fiber on the dead woman's body. They bring in Skip Palenik, a microscopist who analyzed evidence in the McVeigh and Hillside Strangler cases, and he enables the police to connect the body to the killer.

Next, there's another body dumped in a park, and the investigation focuses on the woman who has taken over the victim's rooms in a sleazy motel. The investigation falters, however, until they get a call from a woman in Washington State who has received a strange package. Inside is the clue the police need to break the case...

  • Gripping and authoritative, Invisible Clues offers an inside look at forensic investigation.
  • Includes interviews with officers, investigators, and forensic experts
  • Trace two baffling crimes from initial call to conviction

    50 minutes, closed captioned, fully narrated, DVD ONLY, DI8450 / $24.95

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