Bei Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft gelten Sexualverbrechen als besonders abscheulich. In New York City gehören die engagierten Detectives, die in diesen brutalen Fällen ermitteln, zur Sondereinheit für Sexualdelikte. Dies sind ihre Geschichten. Innerhalb der New Yorker Polizei gibt es eine Sondereinheit, die Special Victims Unit. Die Fälle, die das SVU untersucht, beschränken sich ausschließlich auf Sexualdelikte und Verbrechen an Kindern

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.

CSI: Miami follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their Las Vegas counterparts, to solve grisly murders. The series mixes deduction, gritty subject matter, and character-driven drama in the same vein as the original series in the CSI franchise, except that the Miami CSIs are cops first, scientists second.

All die gruseligen Gestalten aus den Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm? Sie existieren tatsächlich, ebenso wie die Grimms selbst, nur dass es sich dabei heute mehr um eine Art Berufsbezeichnung handelt. Nick Burkhardt ist nicht nur Polizist in Portland, er ist auch ein Grimm. Dadurch kann er hinter die menschliche Maske der diversen Monstren blicken und ihr wahres Gesicht erkennen. Doch wie so oft im Leben ist nicht alles so, wie es auf den ersten Blick scheint. Viele der Monster wollen heute einfach nur in Frieden leben und Nick ist der letzte, der ihnen das vermiesen wollte. So muss er auch bei seiner neuen Tätigkeit versuchen, die Guten von den Bösen zu unterscheiden. Unterstützung bekommt er dabei unter anderem von Eddie Monroe, eine Art Cello spielender Werwolf.

In the fictional town of Neptune, California, student Veronica Mars progresses from high school to college while moonlighting as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father.

Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved.

Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.

In Anlehnung an den gleichnamigen Hit der Coen-Brüder werden in dieser Serie mehrere skurrile Bewohner des US-Bundesstaates Minnesota in „reale“ Verbrechen verwickelt.

An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.

Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".

After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.

Der überdurchschnittlich intelligente Highschool-Schüler Light Yagami findet eines Tages ein Notizbuch (Death Note), mit dessen Hilfe er jeden beliebigen Menschen umbringen kann. Er braucht nur den Namen seines Opfers in das Buch schreiben. Anfangs benutzt er das Buch, um Kriminelle zur Strecke zu bringen, nach und nach aber immer mehr, um die Welt nach seinen Vorstellungen zu formen. Das ruft den jungen Meisterdetektiv „L“ auf den Plan. Da man, um jemanden zu töten, den realen Namen der Person benötigt, ist „L“ gezwungen, den Verursacher der mysteriösen Morde zu finden, bevor dieser seine Identität aufdeckt und ihn womöglich auslöscht. Ein spannendes Katz-und-Maus-Spiel beginnt.

In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain.

Sherlock ist eine britische Fernsehserie der BBC. Die Autoren Steven Moffat und Mark Gatiss versetzen dabei die von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle geschriebenen Detektivgeschichten in einen modernen Kontext und lassen Sherlock Holmes, gemeinsam mit seinem Assistenten Dr. Watson, im heutigen London ermitteln.

FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

Vowing to avenge the murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne devotes his life to wiping out crime in Gotham City as the masked vigilante "Batman".