A fix for forensic TV addicts

They’re blinding us with science.

It seems as if you can’t channel-surf anymore without encountering the forensic frenzy fueled by the success of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.”

Tonight at 9:30 comes the latest addition, the debut of Court TV’s “Body of Evidence: From the Case Files of Dayle Hinman,” a bland but harmless half-hour of nonfiction that may appeal to crime-show junkies. Naturally, it airs after the basic cable network’s “Forensic Files.”

Each episode recounts a case involving Hinman, a respected “forensic profiler” who worked in Florida law enforcement for 26 years. The premiere examines the case of a young couple found bound and slain in their home after the wife had been raped.

Local investigators, who knew the husband ran with a fast crowd, figured a drug deal had gone wrong, but the evidence was baffling so they brought in Hinman. She saw it differently: The wife, most carefully bound, was the target and the husband simply got in the rapist’s way. Hinman’s hunch was right and the killer eventually was caught.

After her initial reading of the crime scene photos, however, Hinman’s role in the subsequent investigation is murky. The show would benefit if future episodes were less mysterious.