Almost Unsolved
Upcoming episodes
May 20th
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The Taxi
The body of a motel employee working the night shift is discovered tied up and badly beaten. As police investigate, they find the employee’s granddaughter is also a victim. The investigation spans decades and crosses state lines as detectives follow false leads, dead ends, and even employ new criminal profiling techniques developed by the FBI, which leads them to investigate a notorious serial killer.
May 21st
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Time
The investigation into the double murder of teens in a lover’s lane reveals dozens of suspects, but not one can be linked to the scene. Over sixty years later, new technology and the one single piece of perfectly preserved evidence reveal a shocking secret that almost remained hidden forever.
May 22nd
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Relentless
When newlyweds are discovered murdered in their home police are at loss as to who did it. After hundreds of interviews, even reaching out to psychics turns up no clues. With nothing to go on, the case goes cold for over 40 years until technology can catch up with the killer. It will take next generation genetic genealogy to uncover the truth.
May 23rd
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Abandoned
When a newborn baby is found dead in a ditch, a community rallies to give him a proper funeral. The burial preserves DNA which, forty years later, will corner a woman who thought she’d discarded a secret no one could trace.
May 24th
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Trooper
On a stretch of highway near a small town in Minnesota, a woman’s body is found in a ditch. Police are unable to identify the victim & she is buried as a Jane Doe. Decades later, after DNA technology becomes common practice in police investigations, a local resident makes it her personal mission to discover the victim’s identity.
May 27th
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The Rat
An informant looking for a way out of jail tells police about a murder they never knew existed. Police enlist the help of a local newspaper to set up an elaborate sting operation not only hoping to catch the killers but to find out who the deceased really is.
May 28th
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Karma
A woman is discovered brutally murdered in her hotel room just as she is about to start a new chapter in her professional career. It will take several stages of technological advancement until forty years later the identity of her killer is finally revealed with the aid of genetic genealogy.
May 29th
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The Horseman
In Chicago in three boys go missing while on a trip downtown to see a movie. Two days later their lifeless bodies are found dumped in a ditch. The entire city is shocked and horrified – and demands justice for the three innocent children but it will be almost 40 years before answers start to come to light.
May 30th
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Reopened
A man is found dead in his apartment but the investigation quickly fizzles out. As more and more gay men are murdered around Toronto in the subsequent decades, his case is reopened. Finding the killer goes from not just being about one man to being about the safety of the entire gay community.
May 31st
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Wrong Man
A young girl vanishes from her rural Canadian home and the search makes national headlines, along with the discovery of her body a few months later. Police link evidence to the wrong man, who goes through a decade of trials and suspicion. It will take three decades of advances in forensic science to find the killer.