Forensic Files

Season 5, Episode 1

Episode Title: Badge of Deceit

Air Date: 2000-09-12

Overview:

For more than a decade, women in a small Louisiana city lived in fear of a serial rapist. Fortunately, computer technology and behavioral science combined to give police a new forensic tool: geographical profiling. Police narrow their search to one man, but to prove he’s the perpetrator they turn to an unlikely piece of evidence--- a discarded cigarette butt.