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NOVA: The Science of Murder

Nova (1981)

Documentary | United States

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SEASON: 8

EPISODE: 5 - The Science of Murder

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NOVA investigates what science can do in helping to solve murder—in understanding why it occurs, and how the rate might be reduced—and explores the work of people who have the stark job of dealing with death: the police, pathologist, scientists and psychiatrists.

RUNTIME: 55 min

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