Breaking News

Breaking News refers to episode 19 of the Season 8 of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on August 31, 2003.

Plot summary
A young TV news producer is raped and murdered in her apartment. Police identify two suspects, but both are cleared of any wrongdoing.

The case stalls for more than a year, and then investigators turn to the Commonwealth of Virginia's DNA Databank which houses profiles of more than 8,000 convicted felons, and is the first of its kind in the nation. A comparison of the crime scene evidence with the Databank profiles results in Virginia's first cold hit in a homicide investigation, and reveals the identity of the killer.