72 Hours: True Crime

An East Indian Sikh is lured to his death, but diligent detective work and DNA nails the killer, who believed he had gotten away with murder.

In 2001 Toronto, there is a series of murders of homeless people. The latest killing is of a gentle man, well known in the area by residents who nicknamed him Santa Claus.

Behavioral profiling helps detectives zero in on an arsonist.

A sexual predator is caught thanks to the forensic sciences of behavioural and geographical profiling.

The number of deaths in a hospital increases dramatically, and one nurse believes there must be more to this than just natural causes.

A serial bomber terrorises a community and manages to elude capture for eight years, until forensic document analysis helps ink a conviction.