Cold Case Files

The Accidental Killer

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After his first wife dies in an apparent accident in Wolfe Creek Montana, Dennis Larson collects the insurance and moves to Maine in search of another...

I SURVIVED: I'm In A Taliban Prison and Nobody Can Find Me

13 Jul 2024

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In 2008 Jere, a journalist specializing in the area, is traveling in Afghanistan to meet with a member of the Taliban he had known years before. While...

REOPENED: The Family

11 Jul 2024

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When a 19-year-old girl goes missing, her family suspects the mafia is involved...but it will take another 16 years for her body to surface and nearly...

Murder On The Menu

09 Jul 2024

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A young boy is the sole survivor when his family is massacred in their Minnesota home. Two decades later - he helps cold case detectives catch the ser...

I SURVIVED: I Was Hearing Bullets Fly Over My Head

06 Jul 2024

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A. J, Carolyn and Stacy are all in separate groups shopping at a Salt Lake City Mall a couple days before Valentine’s day. A lone gunman shoots A.J ...

REOPENED: The Deadly Stroll

04 Jul 2024

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When three women go missing in Woonsocket, Rhode Island - investigators follow a trail that leads them to the state landfill in search of human remain...

Lady In The Box

02 Jul 2024

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After the disappearance of Fran Gladden-Smith, her family looks into her husband John’s past only to find he had a previous wife who also disappeare...

I SURVIVED: I Could Feel The Barrel On The Back Of My Head

29 Jun 2024

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Kim is an aspiring model at 20 years old when she is attacked by her friend and neighbor. After sexually assaulting her, the attacker stabs her and po...

REOPENED: Murder On The Menu

27 Jun 2024

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A young boy is the sole survivor when his family is massacred in their Minnesota home. Two decades later - he helps cold case detectives catch the ser...

The Bathtub Killer

25 Jun 2024

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After a pregnant woman is found sexually assaulted, strangled and dumped in her bathtub in New Hampshire attempts at a DNA match are unsuccessful. 10 ...

I SURVIVED: I Thought That Was The Last Day Of My Life

22 Jun 2024

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Paul is woken when two assailants enter his home in the middle of the night. After the intruders stab him multiple times, they set his house on fire a...

REOPENED: Modus Operandi

20 Jun 2024

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On the south side of St. Louis, a series of sexual assaults appears to follow the exact same pattern - leading police to dub the perpetrator, "The Sou...

Traces Of Murder

18 Jun 2024

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In 1985, Enrique Elizarbe, a recent immigrant from Peru trying to find a better life, was robbed and beaten by a co-worker in the warehouse where he w...

I SURVIVED: I Could Smell The Fuel Was Coming Into The Train

15 Jun 2024

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Arkesha is on her way home from a school dance when she is robbed and sexually assaulted by two young men. While looking for help she explains what ha...

REOPENED: In The Care Of A Killer

13 Jun 2024

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When a toddler dies under the care of a babysitter, everyone assumes it was the result of a tragic accident. That is until eight years later, when a s...

The Nail File

11 Jun 2024

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After a grisly murder in a Roy Rogers restaurant ,the initial conclusion was a robbery gone wrong. !4 years later, those conclusions don’t sit right...

I SURVIVED: If I've Hit An Artery I Only Have Minutes Left Of Consciousness

08 Jun 2024

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Albert is a 17 year old enlisted as a paratrooper at Fort Bragg, when his best friend, fellow soldier, takes him out to a dump for target practice but...

Pride and The Fall

04 Jun 2024

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After his second wife’s tragic fall from a cliff in the Grand Canyon, investigators look closer into the grisly murders of Robert Spangler’s previ...

I Survived: I Felt Like A Hockey Puck Sliding On Ice

01 Jun 2024

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Jessica endures years of abuse from her neighbor from the age of 9. After her abuser escalates to abducting the child it takes another 104 days to fin...

The Baiting Game

28 May 2024

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Investigators in Virginia have a the body of a murdered sailor, prime suspects and a timeline that fits their narrative, but they will still need pati...

I SURVIVED: I Just Kept Screaming and Kicking

25 May 2024

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Frankin and his wife are aboard an aircraft that gets hijacked and rerouted towards Australia. After running out of fuel the plane attempts an emergen...

Man's Best Friend

21 May 2024

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A 911 call for a house on fire leads to the discovery of a dead body in the home and the remains of the occupants dog in a shed outback. 6 years after...

I SURVIVED: I Just Can't Get Over The Look In His Eyes

18 May 2024

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Rudrani is with a meditation group in Mumbai India when terrorists attack the hotel she is staying at. Shot in the arm and leg, Rudrani is left for de...

The Missing Informant

14 May 2024

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After confidential informant Christine Elkins disappears before she can testify against her former boss, the trail goes cold. Six years later, when th...

I SURVIVED: I Could Just Feel My Skin Almost Blistering

11 May 2024

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Mary is a 15-year-old hitchhiking in Florida when the man who gives her a ride sexually assaults her, cuts her arms off and throws her off a cliff lea...

The Flashlight Rapist

07 May 2024

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A Serial rapist is terrorizing Louisville, Kentucky as he blinds his victims by holding a mini-flashlight in his mouth. When he drops the tool after a...

I SURVIVED: The Blood Was Just Pouring Out Of My Neck

04 May 2024

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Scott and Sean are enjoying a fishing trip on the Appalachian Trail when they meet a stranger and share dinner. After dinner, however, the man in thei...

The Missing Hunters

30 Apr 2024

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Two Michigan hunters get in an altercation with local ne’er-do-wells the Duvalls. It ends with the long time friends beaten to death and fed to pigs...

I SURVIVED: I'm Either Going To Take A Round Or That Bomb Is Gonna Go Off

27 Apr 2024

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Gwen is a librarian and Lloyd is a Sheriff’s deputy, both are among the 18 hostages held captive by an armed assailant with a dead man’s switch in...

Secret Twin

23 Apr 2024

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A young man grapples with memories of an unaccounted for twin sister sparking a conversation with his other sister and eventually an investigation. S...

I Thought He Was Killing My Son

20 Apr 2024

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After their California home was invaded over a case of mistaken identity Darren and Chastity’s ordeal only worsens as their 11 year old son arrives ...

Officer Down

16 Apr 2024

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23 years after Atlanta policeman Sam Guy is slain moonlighting as security, investigators finally get the tip they need to charge the two men Sam’s ...

I SURVIVED: If I Play Dead He Wouldn't Shoot Me Again

13 Apr 2024

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Lonnie rekindles an old relationship only for her beau to take credit cards out in her name and when she confronts him about it he shoots her in the h...

Fire Flicks

09 Apr 2024

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A home video found wrapped inside a coat along the side of a California freeway documents a teenager’s disturbing crimes and breathes life into the ...

I SURVIVED: I Chose to Fight That Day

06 Apr 2024

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Dorothy is leaving the grocery store with her daughters when they are attacked by a pair of young men who rape Dorothy and shoot her in the head. Jim ...

Reconstructing Murder

02 Apr 2024

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Advances in forensic modeling helps investigators identify a murder victim whose skin was stripped from her head, neck and legs. However, it’s a spe...

I SURVIVED: I Felt The Worst Pain You Couldn't Fathom

30 Mar 2024

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14 year old Reagan's trip to the beach with her friend Lynn takes an unimaginable turn when they are picked up by a pair of cousins on a spree of rap...

Deadly Divorce

26 Mar 2024

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After his mother goes to meet up with his ex-step father and doesn’t make it home, a Colorado teen fears the worst. Despite his suspicions from the ...

A Sealed Fate

19 Mar 2024

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37 years after his first killing, a career criminal is finally brought to justice. DNA collected from saliva on sealed envelopes connects the unsuspec...

The Deadly Triangle

12 Mar 2024

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A prison inmate looking to make a deal doesn’t have the information investigators are looking for. What he does have, information that will help sol...

The Unluckiest Man

05 Mar 2024

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After four house fires, the death of his first wife and the near death of his second wife and child, John Veysey's "unluck" is up. Federal prosecutor...

I SURVIVED: This is Terror Part II

02 Mar 2024

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Tali Shapiro describes her chilling abduction and assault when she was 8 years old. Rodney Alcala, the man who attacked her, would come to be known as...

New Cold Case Files podcast episodes coming soon!

29 Feb 2024

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Don't miss all new episodes of A&E's Cold Case Files: The Podcast - returning Tuesday, March 5thSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy an...

REOPENED: A Wife's Mission

27 Feb 2024

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A woman's life is shattered when her house is broken into, she's assaulted, her husband is murdered, and her home is set aflame. To make matters worse...

I SURVIVED: This Is Terror - Part I

24 Feb 2024

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Morgan Rowan describes how she was brutally attacked in 1968 by Rodney Alcala during a party at his Hollywood home. She never told her parents what ha...

REOPENED: A Son Remembers

20 Feb 2024

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Leslie Powers opened a box of family photographs to discover a Great Aunt she never knew existed. A Great Aunt who was murdered, and whose case was ne...

I SURVIVED: I Tried to Scratch His Face

17 Feb 2024

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In November of 2016, Tiffany Taylor is held captive and brutally assaulted in Essex County, New Jersey after agreeing to give a ride to a man in excha...

REOPENED: A Map To Murder

13 Feb 2024

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In November of 2016, Tiffany Taylor is held captive and brutally assaulted in Essex County, New Jersey after agreeing to give a ride to a man in excha...

I SURVIVED: I Had a Dark Secret

10 Feb 2024

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In September 1975, 14-year-old David McVicker is abducted while hitchhiking home from a friend's house in Garden Grove, California. His assailant, Wil...

REOPENED: A Detective's Promise

06 Feb 2024

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When an 18-year-old hitchhiker is found in a ravine, the autopsy reveals her killing is perhaps the most brutal the examiner has ever seen. Detective ...

I SURVIVED: If I Go to Sleep, I Might Not Wake Up

03 Feb 2024

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Paul Dennis Reid Jr., a country-star wannabe, spends nights robbing fast food joints and killing innocent workers. One of those workers, Jose Ramirez ...

REOPENED: Lil Mis

30 Jan 2024

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'Lil Miss' Lisa Marie Kimmel was 18 years old in 1988. She was working at a restaurant and driving around in her new, shiny black Honda CRX. One weeke...

I SURVIVED: I Was Scared to See The Blood

27 Jan 2024

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In November 1988, 27-year-old Enietra Margette is walking to a party in South Los Angeles, when a neatly dressed man offers her a ride. After she gets...

REOPENED: Death of a Deacon

23 Jan 2024

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Deacon Phil Perry was having an affair with a member of his congregation. Shortly after he told his own wife, his body was found in the trunk of a car...

I SURVIVED: Somebody's Trying to Kill my Brother

20 Jan 2024

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In August of 1978, 14-year-old Lisa Gilbert and her 13-year-old brother, Randy, were attacked by a stranger in their newly built home in Lansing, Mich...

REOPENED: Left for Dead

16 Jan 2024

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In 1995, a prostitute named Pamela Shelley was shot in the back eight times and left in a field. With minimal evidence, the case goes cold. But seven ...

I SURVIVED: I Knew I Wasn't The Only Victim

13 Jan 2024

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In 1999, Cynthia Vigil was abducted, held captive and tortured for three days. Her escape from the brink of death would stop The Toybox Killer, David ...

REOPENED: The Flaming Gorge Falls

09 Jan 2024

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In the summer of 1996, Bob Duke calls 911 after his wife and young son fall from a high cliff in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Green River, Wyoming. ...

I SURVIVED: I Felt Less than Human

06 Jan 2024

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Vanessa Gay recounts her escape from Anthony Sowell in Cleveland, Ohio. Her mistrust of the police makes her reluctant to report her attack for many y...

REOPENED: Snatched

02 Jan 2024

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A six-year-old girl goes missing from her backyard. The only witness is a five-year-old, who says a strange man took the missing girl. Who was this ma...

I SURVIVED: I Can't Believe I'm Still Alive

30 Dec 2023

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In 1992, 19-year-old Fabienne Witherspoon tries to help a man who was down on his luck when he attacked her in her own home. In an effort to stay aliv...

REOPENED: Crimes of the Klan

26 Dec 2023

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Vernon Dahmer was a shop owner in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and President of the local chapter of the NAACP. At midnight on January 10th, 1966, two tr...

I SURVIVED: I Ran For Everything I Had

23 Dec 2023

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In November 2011, 48-year-old Scott Davis thinks he is on his way to a gig as a farm caretaker, a job he has secured on Craigslist. Unbeknownst to him...

REOPENED: Déjà Vu

19 Dec 2023

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In the fall of 1996, a 25-year-old school teacher was found murdered in the bathtub of her Arlington, Texas apartment. Three months later, a 22-year-o...

I SURVIVED: I Could See Beneath The Blindfold

16 Dec 2023

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In November of 1984, 17-year-old Lisa McVey Noland was biking home from her job working the night shift at a local Tampa doughnut shop, when she was s...

REOPENED: The Golden State Killer: Part 2

12 Dec 2023

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On April 24, 2018, 72-year-old Joseph DeAngelo was arrested and charged with eight counts of first-degree murder. But who is Joseph DeAngleo? And why ...

I SURVIVED: I Didn't Even Realize I Was Shot

09 Dec 2023

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In January of 1981, 18-year-old Cheryl Bartlett Fann was walking home late at night with her fiancé Bud, when they were suddenly abducted and taken t...

REOPENED: The Golden State Killer

05 Dec 2023

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It began with a string of burglaries in the 1970s. Then, a series of sexual assaults. And finally, a dozen murders or more. At least three different c...

I SURVIVED: I Don't Want to Die Like That

02 Dec 2023

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In September of 1992, 17-year-old Jennifer Asbenson is kidnapped and driven into the most desolate part of Palm Desert, CA. Her attacker, 32-year-old ...

REOPENED: The Barrel

28 Nov 2023

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A Long Island man is preparing to sell his house when he discovers a 55-gallon barrel hidden in his crawlspace. It has seemingly been there for decade...

I SURVIVED: The Box Became My Safe Haven

25 Nov 2023

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21-year-old Anita is at home alone, when a man she barely knows bursts in, ties her up, and abducts her. The attacker imprisons her in his home, keepi...

REOPENED: A Sister Lost

21 Nov 2023

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A thirteen-year-old girl vanishes, seemingly out of thin air, while her brother is standing just feet away. She was never seen again, and her disappea...

I SURVIVED: His Eyes Were Black

18 Nov 2023

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Lynda is still healing from a difficult divorce when she meets a new man online. Their romance fizzles fast, but when the man calls Lynda in desperate...

REOPENED: The Bedroom Basher

14 Nov 2023

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After pregnant Diana is attacked in her home, she nearly dies. Despite a severe head injury, she believes she can identify her attacker - her husband,...

I SURVIVED: He Knew How To Control Us

11 Nov 2023

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College student Holly and her new boyfriend are walking home from a party when the unthinkable happens. A strange man attacks them in the darkness, an...

REOPENED: NCIS

07 Nov 2023

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Ensign Andrew Muns disappeared from the Navy ship he was serving on during the Vietnam War. His disappearance was officially ruled a desertion, but An...

I SURVIVED: A Two-Foot-Long Machete

04 Nov 2023

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When a deranged attacker arrives at her elementary school, principal Norina is the only thing standing between her kindergarten students and the man’...

REOPENED: Murder He Wrote

31 Oct 2023

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In July of 1988, the owner of a taxi company in Michigan was shot by a disgruntled employee. He survived, until a year later when he was shot once aga...

I SURVIVED: I Just Jumped

28 Oct 2023

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Eight year old Midsi is on her way home from school, when a strange man abducts her on the street and holds her captive for days. Despite her attacker...

REOPENED: A Killer's Dream

24 Oct 2023

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For over 20 years, Kirsten was haunted by the unsolved murder of her mother when she was eight years old. And while Kirsten's nightmare drove her to k...

I SURVIVED: The Same Smell, The Same Burn

21 Oct 2023

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When Karli starts a new relationship with a man from her past, she has no idea that he has some violent enemies. Karli survives not one, but two acid ...

REOPENED: A Brother's Burden

17 Oct 2023

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There were three Evans brothers: the cop, the truck driver, and the troublemaker. When a rumor surfaces connecting one of the three brothers to a murd...

I SURVIVED: The Ninja in the Attic

14 Oct 2023

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On a normal Friday morning, Ellen is at home alone when she is brutally attacked by a strange man in all black. Ellen's attacker had been hiding in he...

Preview: Bad Bad Thing Season 2 The Blackstone Sisters

12 Oct 2023

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TV show producer Jill Blackstone is accused of killing her disabled sister Wendy, and some of their rescue dogs, by leaving them in a garage with a ba...

REOPENED: The Sting Operation

10 Oct 2023

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In the spring of 1977, a small town convenience store in Arkansas becomes the site of a robbery and a murder. What makes this case unique, is that the...

I SURVIVED: Everything Went to Slow Motion

07 Oct 2023

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Kim and Nina set out on an early morning hike, when a man emerges from the wilderness armed with a knife. What should have been a fun day trip quickly...

REOPENED: The Interrogation

03 Oct 2023

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After a young girl is murdered in her home while the rest of her family slept, the police investigation zeroes in on the girl's teenage brother. But b...

I SURVIVED: I Could Feel Myself Fading

30 Sep 2023

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Kendra, a single mom, is one year into a new relationship with a Hollywood actor, when his jealous, controlling behavior forces her to end the relatio...

REOPENED: Unholy Secret

26 Sep 2023

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In Toledo, Ohio in 1980, a woman's body was found in a chapel, covered only by an altar cloth. She had been stabbed 31 times. The woman's name? Sister...

I SURVIVED: I Just Saw Evil

23 Sep 2023

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Maggie is just 15 years old when an attacker snatches her off the street during her early morning run. When police close in on him, the attacker gets ...

REOPENED: The Tourniquet

19 Sep 2023

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It's the late 90's in Houston, Texas and a serial killer is on the loose, having already strangled at least three women to death. His signature? A lig...

I SURVIVED: I Could Feel Snow All Around Me

16 Sep 2023

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Teri’s ex-husband attacks her in a jealous rage and leaves her to die, jammed in a garbage can filled with snow. For 27 freezing hours Teri wills he...

REOPENED: A Confession for Carmen

12 Sep 2023

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In a big city like Philadelphia, it's easy for an unsolved murder to slip into the cold files and be forgotten. But in this case, one victim's boyfrie...

I SURVIVED: The One That Killed My Husband

09 Sep 2023

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While Debbie is outside gardening, an unknown attacker hides in her home waiting for her to come inside. He abducts Debbie beginning a 5-day nightmare...

REOPENED: Smoky Mountain Mystery

05 Sep 2023

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After nearly two decades of silence, a man known as the Smoky Mountain Gypsy comes forward with information that could lead police to solve not one, b...

I SURVIVED: The Hardest Twenty Yards I Have Ever Walked

02 Sep 2023

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When Amanda, a school teacher, is carjacked and abducted by an escaped inmate, she quickly forms a game plan: play along and stay alive. In order to c...

REOPENED: The Clue That Stuck

29 Aug 2023

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In an ocean-side town in California, a woman is strangled to death in her home and her head is wrapped in duct tape. Police are at a loss for evidence...

I SURVIVED: It Looks Like Dynamite

26 Aug 2023

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Michelle and her daughter Breea are home alone when three masked gunman burst through the door. The home invasion turns into a high stakes bank robber...

REOPENED: Killer on Campus

22 Aug 2023

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In the spring of 1969, Jane Mixer becomes one of several young women murdered around the University of Michigan. Police think there may be a serial ki...

I SURVIVED: I Didn't Stop Running

19 Aug 2023

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One phone call turned Karen’s seemingly happy marriage into a violent nightmare. A prisoner in her own home, Karen outsmarted her husband and escape...