In 1989, 4-year-old April Renee Tucker was found dead in the backyard of her Emory, Texas home. The body had absorbed the rust and was found there. Then, they use ground penetrating radar to scan the basement for radiation they found three feet down, excavated rusted sand everywhere except in a certain area. The investigators first use luminal over the cleaned carpet to reveal the blood spatter on the floor and a path down to the basement.
Initially, they find nothing and the case stalls, until new forensic technology helps investigators find the body. But when an investigation turns up a blood trail that leads to the couple's basement, police are sure that they'll find the victim's body.
Despite pleas from her children, police insist on treating it as a routine missing person's case. Bruns is missing after an argument with her husband William “Bill” Bruns. In August 1991, South Portland, Maine resident Pearl A. But a tiny clue inside the suspect's watchband and a popular television show helped solve the case and catch the killer. Traditional DNA testing was difficult, because there was no body for DNA comparison and the man who raised Carolyn was revealed to not be her biological father. Two tiny drops of blood were found in the burned interior. Police were suspicious of a secondary suspect, Dennis Keith Smith, when they found evidence of a suspicious fire in his car. She was presumed to be dead, and her husband was the prime suspect. In 1995 in Orchards, Washington, Carolyn Ruth Killaby was reported missing after a fight with her husband. It has broadcast 406 episodes since its debut on TLC in 1996 as Medical Detectives. The show is broadcast on truTV, narrated by Peter Thomas, and produced by Medstar Television, in association with truTV Original Productions.
Forensic Files is an American documentary-style series which reveals how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes, mysterious accidents, and even outbreaks of illness.