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Forensic Files

All The World's A Stage

Forensic Files

HLN

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired February 28, 2019. Police arrive at a shooting, and discover the victim's husband is a homicide detective who says his wife shot herself. Investigators turn to a forensic scientist and ballistics expert to learn what really happened and who was responsible.

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0:00.0

He's in fire? Do you have an emergency?

0:01.5

I need rescue. 2145, northeast, 124 Street.

0:05.7

When investigators arrived at the scene of a shooting, they found a most knowledgeable witness.

0:12.5

The victim's husband is a homicide detective, and he said the shooting was an accident.

0:19.3

It took a photograph, a forensic scientist's own blood,

0:24.6

and the flexibility of a tendon to solve the mystery.

0:32.6

Pilar Sonia's Nikolaou enjoyed an international upbringing.

0:44.3

She was born in Valencia, Spain, educated in Paris, then moved to the United States,

0:50.0

where she took a job as a nanny in Boston.

0:52.9

She was very culturally knowledgeable.

0:55.9

She could speak the three languages,

0:58.6

our native language, Valencian, Spanish and French, fluently.

1:02.8

And she loved everything that involved the Spanish or the French culture.

1:07.4

She really did.

1:08.4

But then she adopted the American wave also very well.

1:12.8

Not long after moving to the United States, she met Ted MacArthur, a Boston area policeman.

1:19.7

He was good to her. She fell in love with him. You know, why, why do you love somebody?

1:27.8

They were very attractive.

1:30.3

The couple married had two children and moved to Miami,

1:33.5

where Ted got a job with the local police

1:35.6

and quickly rose through the ranks to become a homicide investigator.

1:41.4

Pilar got a job in the county's criminal justice system as a corrections officer.

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