Catfish Killer "Kelly McCauley" and the Mother's Day CityWalk Murders | The New Detectives

A Porsche sale that turns into a manhunt. An online dream girl who never existed. A Mother's Day outing ending in a blood-soaked parking garage. Three cases, one chilling theme: killers hiding in plain sight. Step inside The New Detectives as forensic teams decode a jammed .22, match torn electrical tape to its roll, and use DrugFire ballistics to pull a gun’s “fingerprint” from spent 9mm casings. In Texas, a Texas A&M student follows “Kelly McCauley” into a trap, and investigators must resurrect deleted chat logs to unmask the catfish. In California, a near-decapitation at CityWalk leaves only blood to speak—until a single handprint on a T-shirt and a transfer stain on a victim’s shoe redraw the entire crime. How did a hoop earring, a high-mounted tail light, and a basilar suture narrow the field? Which tiny patterns proved who was inches from the killing? And whose digital trail betrayed the lie? Watch the full investigation to see the evidence tell the truth. #TheNewDetectives #truecrime #forensics #coldcase #ballistics #digitalforensics