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20 episodes

Bloodline Detectives - Season 4

First aired Sep 30, 2023Season 4

Bloodline Detectives focuses on familial DNA investigation, a search technique which uses genetic material from relatives to track down a suspect to solve violent crimes. Each episode shows detectives from all over the world solving cold cases by using the DNA of family members and how that additional DNA information is revolutionising genetic profiling to solve criminal cases.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Norcal Rapist

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Sep 30, 202345 min

A fugitive has at least 9 victims known to police over the course of 15 years. They had his DNA even, but still no suspect. That is until new advances in familial DNA is compared 27 years after the first known attack in 1991.

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Episode 2

Horror by the Roadside

NR
Oct 7, 202345 min

In the summer of 1976, the body of 16-year-old Carol Sue Klaber is found in a roadside ditch in Kentucky. Fast forward to 2022, cutting-edge DNA science is employed to finally name her killer.

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Episode 3

Murder on Elm Street

NR
Oct 14, 202345 min

In July 1987, Donna Hyatt's daughter finds her mother brutally murdered at home in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Donna Sue Hyatt's murder is unsolved for decades until modern forensic science catches up.

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Episode 4

The Mammoth Lakes Murder

NR
Oct 21, 202345 min

In 2003, the skeletal remains of a young woman are found.

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Episode 5

The Court Reporter Murder

NR
Oct 28, 202345 min

When the body of a young woman is discovered in 1970, her family never loses hope that one day her killer will be identified; after 52 years, genetic genealogy provides the truth.

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Episode 6

Murder by I-59

NR
Nov 4, 202345 min

Dade County police in Georgia work to uncover the identity of a Jane Doe and locate the perpetrator responsible for her murder.

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Episode 7

The Huntington Beach Body

NR
Nov 11, 202345 min

In 1968, the remains of an unidentified woman are discovered; detectives work for nearly half a century to identify the Jane Doe and the murderer who evaded law enforcement for 50 years.

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Episode 8

The Murder of Little Marise

NR
Nov 18, 202345 min

In 1964, the body of a young girl is discovered in Hazleton, Pa. The community lives in fear that a child predator is hiding in plain sight. Over 50 years later, the truth is finally revealed.

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Episode 9

The South Lake Tahoe Strangler

NR
Nov 25, 202345 min

Two unsolved murders from the late 1970s near Tahoe, Calif., stump investigators for decades.

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Episode 10

Stabbing in Sacramento

NR
Dec 16, 202345 min

40 years after the sexual assault and murder of 20-year-old Robin Brooks in Sacramento, California, determined cold case detectives collaborate with scientists using revolutionary forensic techniques to put her killer behind bars.

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Episode 11

The Phoenix Canal Killer

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

Cutting-edge DNA science finally names the Phoenix Canal Killer who terrorized the city in the early 90s.

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Episode 12

Mommy Has Been Murdered

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

Investigative genetic genealogy is used to resolve the 1988 murder of a mother killed in front of her toddler

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Episode 13

The Three Rivers Killer

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

Investigative genetic genealogy reveals the killer of a young mother murdered in her own home 34 years prior.

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Episode 14

Double Homicide in the OC

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

A young woman is found beaten, raped and strangled in Garden Grove, California in 1987. Two years pass until a woman in a neighboring jurisdiction meets the same fate. It will take years before forensics identify this serial killer.

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Episode 15

The Mississippi Rapist

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

In 1990 Mississippi, a woman is kidnapped at knife-point. Police are unable to identify the perpetrator. It'll take forward-thinking investigators, state-of-the-art science and brave survivors to put this man behind bars.

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Episode 16

Justice Delayed

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

DNA science unveils a predator who sexually assaulted a 20-year-old before shooting her in Washington in 1972.

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Episode 17

Murder in Apartment 101

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

In Willoughby, Ohio, Mark Madger comes home to find his wife Nadine lying in a pool of her own blood, stabbed to death. Four decades later, cutting-edge DNA science provides answers the Madger family have been waiting a lifetime for.

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Episode 18

Carrie's Courage

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

A woman who was sexually assaulted at gunpoint in the 1980s contacts a genetic genealogist to solve her case.

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Episode 19

The Sadistic Killer

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

Investigative genetic genealogy unmasks the sexual deviant who raped and killed Christina Castiglione in 1983

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Episode 20

Murder in Marietta

NR
Apr 1, 202445 min

The 1972 rape and murder of 9-year-old Debbie Lynn Randall is solved thanks to new science 50 years later.