Crime 360 pairs real-life criminal investigations with cutting-edge forensic technology for the first time on television in the groundbreaking original real-life series CRIME 360, premiering Thursday, March 6 at 10 PM ET/PT.

CRIME 360 takes viewers inside actual investigations as they unfold, using state-of-the-art 360-degree digital photography and incredible CGI (computer-generated imagery) visualizations to bring the evidence, and the evolving theories about what happened, to life. Each one-hour episode begins the moment detectives are called to the scene and follows the case until it is solved. From the start, viewers are part of the investigation – experiencing the crime scene from every angle, and the evidence at the microscopic level. As the case develops, and the theories change, the graphics evolve, culminating in a full-blown visualization of what really happened.

“CRIME 360 is the perfect blend of technology and the real-time edge-of-your seat suspense our audience has enjoyed with THE FIRST 48,” said Robert Sharenow, Senior Vice President of Non-Fiction and Alternative Programming, A&E Network. “Through the use of CGI, viewers will see forensics and evidence in a way they’ve never before been able to experience on television.”

Shot in Richmond, VA and Cleveland, OH, the forensic specialists in the police departments filmed for CRIME 360 have a new tool in their forensic arsenal: state-of-the-art 3D laser scanners, which enable investigators to remotely measure, model and diagram crime scenes with significant detail, preserving the precise original crime scene forever. Long after the crime scene is gone, investigators can virtually return to the scene of the crime to test out theories and compare evidence results.

(follow the jump to find out about the first four episodes)

(March 6, 2008) Crime 360. Welcome to Homicide. On a hot summer day in Richmond, VA, Detective Shane Wait is called to a local apartment complex where a murder victim has been bound and stuffed in the trunk of the car. With no witnesses and no original crime scene, the detective has to heavily rely on the forensic evidence gathered from the victim’s body and the car. Waite has forensic tech Detective Faith Flippo test the vehicle for blood, DNA, and anything else that might help identify the killer. A break in the case occurs when Waite gets a 911 tip from a witness who said he that heard two gunshots the night of the murder at his apartment complex and saw two men entering the building. CC HD [TV14]

(March 13, 2008) Crime 360. Fatal Feud. Two men who live next to each other in a housing project get into a deadly argument. One is shot and killed. Detectives Crewell and Williams take the two men’s girlfriends back to headquarters to find out what happened. One story tells of murder, the other self-defense. Detectives try to unravel the different accounts given by the girlfriends. The key may lie with a gun that was recovered from a trash can behind the house. A Federal lab tests a bullet found at the scene and the gun to determine if it is the murder weapon. Meanwhile, Crewell and Williams try to find holes in the girlfriend’s stories. As the girlfriend’s stories start to fall apart, the suspect on the run is feeling the heat. CC HD [TV14]

(March 20, 2008) Crime 360. Deadly Secrets. In Cleveland, Ohio, lead Homicide Detective Wally Everett and his partner Detective Mike Smith, are called out to a crime scene where a body lays hidden between some hedges and the porch of the victim’s grandmother’s house. The victim, a male, is face down. Strewn around the front lawn are seven bullet casings, evidence suggesting that the victim was shot multiple times. As detectives investigate the immediate area, they discover clues of the victim’s alternate lifestyle–and they wonder if there may be a connection between that and his murder. Each piece of evidence takes them closer to their suspect and his motive. CC HD [TV14]

(March 27, 2008) Crime 360. Blood on the Tracks. In Cleveland, Detectives Tim Entenok and Joselito Sandoval are called to a crime scene where a missing person is found dead in a 4-foot-diameter sewage drain, in a remote section of a park. The body is found 300 feet deep in the pipe, which has been draining a constant flow of rainwater. When Entenok takes a closer look at the body, he notices that it is maggot-infested: an indication that the body has been in the pipe for over a week. The victim’s head seems to have bullet holes, but the detectives can’t be certain. Only an autopsy will determine the cause of death. Meanwhile Sandoval scours the nearby train tracks for additional evidence. A few rocks, stained with a blood-like substance, are collected. The investigation seems to go cold with no leads until a female witness gives them a much-needed break in the case. CC HD [TV14]

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Now in his sixth season as police department crime scene investigator Eric Delko on CSI: Miami, Adam Rodriguez is living the good life in Los Angeles, but the days when he struggled to make a buck are still very vivid in his memory. “I was a bellman at a hotel, I did construction, I delivered pizza and fried chicken,” he recalls. “The worst by far was cleaning toilets at Penn Station. The money was like $16 an hour, great at the time, but I did it one day and I quit.”

Rodriguez was on an uncertain career path, having ruled out several careers by choice or force. A high school athlete, he suffered a back injury that nixed his notion of baseball stardom. A career in the air force was crossed off the list by bad eyesight. Interested in business, he became a stockbroker trainee for a while, but realized it wasn’t what he wanted to do with his life.

He had taken some acting classes in high school, just for something to do, and rediscovered theater in community college. He kept working odd jobs to pay for acting classes until a lucky break in 1996—a one-line role as a cop on NYPD Blue, thanks to his father’s old military buddy who became a producer on the show. That led to a regular role—a cop again—on the series Brooklyn South, followed by Felicity, Resurrection Blvd., and Roswell. Rodriguez also had a featured part in Jennifer Lopez’s video for “If You Had My Love.” He was tapped to co-star after the two met at a party.

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Toyin Awesu, Publisher/Editor-In-Chief of the magazine said:

“Having Hill Harper grace our cover this issue was a complete honor for the Avenue Report family,” “Hill is a man that exemplifies talent, charisma, character and above all a successful Black Man,”

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Here’s a clip from an old CSI:Vegas episode, “Assume Nothing“ that had Josh Holloway from LOST appearing as a supporting bit part at a hotel crime scene.

If you’re a LOST fan, be sure and check-out the Approaching Lost blog that’s also a part of the b5media network.

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Attention CSI fans in the UK. We’ve already mentioned the upcoming launch of the new CSI magazine. That magazine will also be available in the UK for fans as well. Here’s the new information though. The local UK network channel that broadcasts the CSI shows is having a contest for especially for you.

Also we are very excited to bring fans of the show a very exclusive prize. The Official CSI Magazine has teamed up with Living TV, home of CSI to bring you this very exclusive competition. You could be in with a chance of winning an all expenses paid set visit to CSI Miami! Check out www.livingtv.co.uk/csi from the 15th November 2007.

If you’re a CSI fan and in the UK, go check out the details of the contest and see if you can win yourself some CSI loot!

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Do you agree? Disagree? Leave a comment to share your thoughts!

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Are any of our readers already in Second Life? Are you participating in this promotion? What do you think?

I think this is a genius cross-promotion and expansion of a brand across media outlets. I’m wondering who thought up this promotion at CBS? Or, was it Jerry Bruckheimer himself? Anyone know?

A.J. Buckley and Melina Kanakaredes were into the game in the “Down the Rabbit Hole” episode, do you think they’re real gamers? Anyone know for sure? I can’t imagine them letting out their avatar to the real world. Second Life is probably one of the few places they can actually escape the glamour and spotlight of the Hollywood life and paparazzi.

If you’re a player in Second Life, what’s your avatar? Should I join Second Life? How much of my “real world” time will I lose becoming engrossed in my Second Life?

Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for this.

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