Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science

In this special one-hour episode, a labour dispute at the Giant gold mine in Yellowknife has the town divided. After months on strike, tensions reach a boiling point when replacement workers are brought in and union members begin crossing the line. When nine miners are killed down in the mine, forensic experts establish the explosion is deliberate - this is murder! The investigation to discover who walked the killer's path will be among the longest and most complex in Canadian history.

A young Asian student is raped and murdered in the apartment she shares with her sister. The killer has left a minute trace of himself in the apartment. His identity is a complete mystery. Who could have killed this innnocent girl and why? Forensic fingerprinting points to a suspect but it will be tears that close the case.

Two teenage girls are ambushed by a man wielding a baseball bat. He wants to party. The girls resist but in the struggle, one girl is beaten and left in a coma and the other is raped and murdered, her body dumped in the nearby river. As police mobilise their investigation, the killer taunts them by telephone. For months, the killer eludes the police and terrorises the town. It takes forensic dentistry, behavioural and geographical profiling, fingerprinting and an unexpected tip to put a face to the voice of a devious killer.

After the dead body of a beautiful young woman is found in a stream, suspicion falls on a three hundred and fifty pound wannabe biker who was seen drinking with the victim the night before. But before police can make an arrest, they discover their prime suspect is destroying evidence. He is attempting to clean up the blood that will connect him to the murder, from the weapon, even from the inside of his car - by going through a car wash with the windows open! Can he really wash away all the traces of evidence or will the power of DNA analysis outwit him?

A young gas station attendant in rural Nova Scotia is found dead. He has been shot twice and the gas station robbed. With no eye-witnesses, the police have a monumental task before them. After weeks, the case appears to have reached a dead end, until another shooting reveals a forensic connection. The police must sort through a maze of half-truths and finally search across the U.S. border to nail a deadly gang. Can firearms and bloodstain analysis help police determine what really happened?

On Victoria Day as fireworks are going off, someone is on a killing spree. The next morning, three prostitutes are found shot dead. One is a transvestite, one is a transsexual and the third is a woman. The bullets from each killing prove to come from the same gun. The investigation to find the gun and the shooter takes the police from the suburbs of Toronto to the harbour of Halifax in pursuit of a serial killer.

When a young man goes missing and his wallet is found near Algonquin Park, his sister and mother call it murder, but without evidence, the police must deem him a "missing person". From interviews with relatives, it looks like the young man wanted to get away - he was on parole, his marriage had broken up, and his father's suicide still haunted him. For three years, his sister searches for her brother in vain. Finally she gives up. But on the eve of his memorial service, police get a tip about his murder. It takes forensic anthropology, bloodstain analysis, tool mark analysis and tenacious police work to unearth the story about the murder and nail the killer.

When a respected gallery owner suspects he is being scammed, he calls in the police. He has been sold a painting by a well-known artist that he fears is a fake. The detective on the case undertakes a crash course in the colourful world of art; a world with its dark side of master thieves and fraud artists. The trail to convict the master con-artist is a winding one and crosses international borders. In the end, it will be the artistry of forensics that will put a thief out of business.

On a cool November evening, a young woman walks home from the bus stop through a local park. Suddenly, she is approached by a man. He politely asks her if she dropped any money. But before she can respond, he grabs her and drags her off the path, where he sexually assaults her. This begins a week of terror for three more unsuspecting women. There is a rapist on the loose. The only clue to his identity is his DNA. The police enlist the help of a Behavioural Profiler and Forensic Artist to trap the elusive predator before he strikes again.

Ronald Dalton has an idyllic life - a loving marriage, three beautiful children and a solid career in banking. But in one night, all that is ripped away from him. His wife dies under unusual circumstances and the forensic pathologist says it is murder by strangulation. Although he insists he is innocent, Dalton is convicted. For eight years, Ronald Dalton tries to get a new trial, but with no luck, until his case lands on the desk of lawyer Jerome Kennedy. Kennedy believes Ronald Dalton is innocent and wins back his client's freedom on the strength of testimony from nine forensic pathologists, an expert in emergency medicine, and a forensic psychologist.