Cold Case Files
Episodes
I SURVIVED: I Just Can't Get Over The Look In His Eyes
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
'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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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
Contributed by Lukas
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...
REOPENED: Where's Peggy?
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a mother hears about allegations that her physically abusive boyfriend has sexually abused her daughter, she goes mysteriously missing for over ...
I SURVIVED: I Had A Dark Secret
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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: Kidnapped
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1991, an eight-year-old boy is kidnapped from home while his mother is at church. Police believe the kidnapper is someone close to the family, but ...
I SURVIVED: If I go to Sleep, I Might Not Wake Up
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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: Death in Deadwood
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a town most famous for the death of legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok, police try to solve a murder not in the 1880s, but the 1980s. This murde...
I SURVIVED: I Was Scared to See The Blood
29 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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: Man in the Shadows
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Police in Columbus, Ohio spend more than a decade hunting a man who terrorized a neighborhood known as Linden. In the process, he became one of the mo...
I SURVIVED: Somebody's Trying to Kill My Brother
22 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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: The Bow Hunter
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1993, Charles Murray, an experienced hunter, went missing on the first day of bow hunting season. His family fears that something terrible had happ...
I SURVIVED: I Knew I Wasn't The Only Victim
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Black Dahlia
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week marks the 71st anniversary of one of the most infamous cold cases in America - the gruesome murder of Los Angeles actress Elizabeth Short, m...
I SURVIVED: I Felt Less Than Human
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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: A Cousin's Promise
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On a fall day in 1978, an apartment manager in Reynoldsburg, Ohio takes a call. On the other end of the line is a frantic tenant who says water is pou...
I SURVIVED: I Can't Believe I'm Still Alive
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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: Mommy's Rules
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The bodies of two teenage girls are discovered. One set on fire, the other stuffed in a box and thrown in a lake. Both are Jane Does. Both have been m...
I SURVIVED: I Ran For Everything I Had
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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: The Girls
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Irwin is a 71-year-old war veteran who lives by himself in San Bernardino, CA. That is until two young women - Marcia Ann Johnson and Judy Geller...
I SURVIVED: I Could See Beneath The Blindfold
17 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Shopping Cart Killer
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Detectives track a serial killer and predator through the projects of East Harlem, who keeps finding new and creative ways to dispose of bodies, and e...
I SURVIVED: I Didn't Even Realize I Was Shot
10 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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: Finding BTK
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bind. Torture. Kill. That was the mantra of one of America's most notorious serial killers. After killing at least seven people in the Wichita, Kansas...
I SURVIVED: I Don't Want to Die Like That
03 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...