Exhibit A
Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science is a compelling, innovative true crime series focused on the role of forensic science in solving some of the most perplexing crimes of our time.
Time Bomb
A bomb goes off in a postal truck in downtown Toronto. A security camera records the reaction of the burning postal driver. His trauma is so severe, he is put in an induced coma. Who set the bomb? Who was the target?
North Bay
An exhaustive 18-month investigation follows the murder of a young woman in North Bay. The prime suspect’s DNA matches that on the woman’s clothes. In a startling development, further DNA tests prove the wrong man has been charged.
Accident
A car carrying six friends crashes. As bodies fly in all directions, four teenagers die and two are critically injured. Sara LeBeau, who owns the car, survives but has total amnesia. Who was driving?
Beauty Shop Bandit
In 1990, John Willis of Chicago is sentenced to 105 years in prison for a series of bizarre robberies and sexual assaults. They all take place in women’s beauty shops. Willis proclaims his innocence.
Turnbull
She was a typical teenager. In 15 minutes she went from living an ordinary life to becoming a quadriplegic. Her name is Barbara Turnbull and she was shot in a Mississauga convenience store in a senseless robbery.
If the Shoe Fits
The beaten and frozen dead body of a missing man is found in his abandoned car in Ottawa. The suspects are his wife and/or two male tenants. Detectives unearth stories of jealousy, abuse and a bloody boot. Whoever wore the boot killed the man.
High Park Rapist
Michael Giroux confesses to a sexual assault. A psychological assessment supports his claim that this was a one time offence. While in prison, his house is sold and the new owner finds numerous photo IDs.
Root Cause
The body of a cocktail waitress is found shot and burned beyond recognition. Detectives follow a maze of clues to find the killer. However, the body is so charred, it is impossible to see if the blood in the suspect’s car matches the victims.
Murder in a Small Town
A young female taxi-driver is fatally stabbed and left to die in Banff. The investigators find a knife and blood in the abandoned cab. Hundreds of men are questioned and give blood samples in a cross continent manhunt.
Nine Lives
A woman goes missing in Summerside, PEI. The blood inside her abandoned car tells a terrible story. DNA confirms the blood on a splattered man’s jacket matches that of the missing woman. The jacket is also covered with white cat hairs.
Point Blank
Disguised bandits fell a Brinks guard in Oshawa. The police find a fake bomb in the abandoned getaway car. It is a major forensic clue in tracking the gang. The bandits are charged – but the prosecution needs to find the murder weapon.
The Two Mr. Smiths
Firefighters find two dead bodies on a burning boat in. Another boat has been broken into. The assailants may have drunk beer from the discarded cans on the boat. Whoever broke into the second boat also killed the couple on the burning boat.
Bare Bones
A hunter makes a gruesome discovery near Saskatoon – a human skull. Detectives find the remains of two more bodies close by. A forensic anthropologist determines the three victims are female and aboriginal, all killed in the same time frame.
Dead Drunk
A middle aged Vancouver barber is having remarkably bad luck with his girlfriends – they kept dying. Coincidentally they were all native and alcoholics, so it is some time before an astute pathologist questions the staggeringly high blood alcohol levels.
