14 Season
400 Episode
Forensic Files - Season 9 Episode 26 Fishing for the Truth
No Witnesses. No Leads. No Problem.
A two-man shrimp boat sank when a fast-moving, violent storm struck the Louisiana coast. The captain drowned, and the deckhand was rescued fourteen hours later. He told the Coast Guard that the captain's foot had become entangled in the fishing nets; they tried frantically to free him, but they failed. The deckhand was considered a hero until the captain's body was found. Eventually, the public discovers that he was coerced into confessing to the captain's murder.
- Year: 2011
- Country: United States of America, Germany
- Genre: Crime, Documentary
- Studio: TLC, truTV, Court TV
- Keyword: suspicion of murder, interview, medical examiner, whodunit, true crime, reenactment, coroner, criminal investigation, forensic science, law enforcement, evidence, forensic technology
- Director:
- Cast: Peter Thomas