There are Forensic Files episodes on Netflix. I think they are from the 90s. The voice over is spectacular and the interviews are highly entertaining. Here's a script I am working on for them:
Voiceover with photos as each item is said: But what could a bag of onions, a handleless broom, and 6 locks without keys have to do with Shayna's disappearance that cold December night? Janice would soon find out.
Police: We reached the scene and observed no sign of forced entry at the front door of Crafter's Market. That's a store. That sells crafts.
Voiceover: The police investigated the scene and found a mysterious set of fingerprints on the wall next to Shayna, the victim.
Police: We saw the victim and a mysterious set of fingerprints. Immediately we radio'd the dispatcher and Captain to cordon off the vicinity and search for a suspect.
Voiceover: Even more mysterious, the victim had a sign taped to her shirt with the same Shakespearean quote as the other victim found last year. There was also more paper and tape pieces littering the ground near her.
Police: There was a Shakespeare Festival in town that year and there was a Shakespeare Festival in the other town last year. The towns trade off due to a disagreement in the 1800s about tourism.
Victim's Great Aunt Janice (crying): I can't believe she is gone. She loved crafts.
Voiceover: Just then, a call came in on the radio. A person who attended the Shakespeare Festival last year and the next year had been stopped. He had hands. With fingerprints. In the trunk, they found tape - the same brand of tape used on the victims' chest signs. (Photo of Scotch Tape is on screen, then a montage of the victim in happier days making crafts)
Police: We couldn't believe it. The suspect was found in the bookstore, next door, in the Shakespeare aisle.
Voiceover: But that wasn't enough evidence to arrest the suspect.
Police: We completed a search of the man and his belongings and found precut photocopies of the Shakespearan quote in his bag. We were sure we had our man, but then he said, "Hey, that's not my copies!"
Voiceover: So they weren't able to arrest the suspect. A warrant to search Harris P. Seechaw's house revealed more items. A bag of onions, a handleless broom and 6 locks without keys.
Forensics Expert: We were able to lift a fingerprint from the bag of onions, but in 1978 we had bad microscopes.
Voiceover: Over time, technology improved. Advanced imaging technology enabled a comparison between the onion bag fingerprints and the mysterious fingerprints. It was an exact match. (Stock photo of woman in lab coat looking in a microscope is on screen. Then the onion bag, then the mysterious fingerprints, then a side by side comparison of fingerprints that zooms in).
Forensics Expert: Yeah, the department bought a better microscope in the mid-90s.
Police: Definitely, forensics helped us in this situation.
Voiceover: He was taken into custody in 1998 - 20 years after Shayna was murdered. A court found Seechaw guilty of kidnapping, murder, and littering. He was sentenced to 6 consecutive life sentences in a maximum security prison with no access to tape.
Voiceover with photos as each item is said: But what could a bag of onions, a handleless broom, and 6 locks without keys have to do with Shayna's disappearance that cold December night? Janice would soon find out.
Police: We reached the scene and observed no sign of forced entry at the front door of Crafter's Market. That's a store. That sells crafts.
Voiceover: The police investigated the scene and found a mysterious set of fingerprints on the wall next to Shayna, the victim.
Police: We saw the victim and a mysterious set of fingerprints. Immediately we radio'd the dispatcher and Captain to cordon off the vicinity and search for a suspect.
Voiceover: Even more mysterious, the victim had a sign taped to her shirt with the same Shakespearean quote as the other victim found last year. There was also more paper and tape pieces littering the ground near her.
Police: There was a Shakespeare Festival in town that year and there was a Shakespeare Festival in the other town last year. The towns trade off due to a disagreement in the 1800s about tourism.
Victim's Great Aunt Janice (crying): I can't believe she is gone. She loved crafts.
Voiceover: Just then, a call came in on the radio. A person who attended the Shakespeare Festival last year and the next year had been stopped. He had hands. With fingerprints. In the trunk, they found tape - the same brand of tape used on the victims' chest signs. (Photo of Scotch Tape is on screen, then a montage of the victim in happier days making crafts)
Police: We couldn't believe it. The suspect was found in the bookstore, next door, in the Shakespeare aisle.
Voiceover: But that wasn't enough evidence to arrest the suspect.
Police: We completed a search of the man and his belongings and found precut photocopies of the Shakespearan quote in his bag. We were sure we had our man, but then he said, "Hey, that's not my copies!"
Voiceover: So they weren't able to arrest the suspect. A warrant to search Harris P. Seechaw's house revealed more items. A bag of onions, a handleless broom and 6 locks without keys.
Forensics Expert: We were able to lift a fingerprint from the bag of onions, but in 1978 we had bad microscopes.
Voiceover: Over time, technology improved. Advanced imaging technology enabled a comparison between the onion bag fingerprints and the mysterious fingerprints. It was an exact match. (Stock photo of woman in lab coat looking in a microscope is on screen. Then the onion bag, then the mysterious fingerprints, then a side by side comparison of fingerprints that zooms in).
Forensics Expert: Yeah, the department bought a better microscope in the mid-90s.
Police: Definitely, forensics helped us in this situation.
Voiceover: He was taken into custody in 1998 - 20 years after Shayna was murdered. A court found Seechaw guilty of kidnapping, murder, and littering. He was sentenced to 6 consecutive life sentences in a maximum security prison with no access to tape.
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