Cold Case Files
Episodes
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 ...
REOPENED: A Killer's Skin
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a pair of attacks on older and middle-aged women, police believe they are on the trail of a sexual predator turned murderer. But when a third vi...
I SURVIVED: The Box Became My Safe Haven
27 May 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: Burning Desire
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A California Highway Patrol officer spots a fire in an olive orchard and pulls off to investigate. He finds a woman's body, shot and set ablaze. It do...
I SURVIVED: His Eyes Were Black
20 May 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: Sex, Lies and Murder
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Robinson is a con artist. He has a history of scamming vulnerable women, convincing them that he has the best of intentions, and then taking thei...
I SURVIVED: He Knew How to Control Us
13 May 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: A Drop of Blood
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Indiana police are baffled by the murder of an 86-year-old woman, found dead in her bedroom with a pillow and a footstool on top of her head. With few...
I SURVIVED: A Two-Foot-Long Machete
06 May 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: The Killer's Tattoo
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A murdered man in his 70's, a tube of hydrocortisone cream, a stolen identity, and a plea deal involving the Super Bowl. What do all of these things h...
I SURVIVED: I Just Jumped
29 Apr 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: Manhunt
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From 1999 to 2002, eleven young girls and women were sexually assaulted in a similar way. Despite these cases spanning across five states, in all of t...
I SURVIVED: The Same Smell, The Same Burn
22 Apr 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: Baby For Sale
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the burned body of an infant is found in the Arizona desert, investigators search for the child's identity and come up empty-handed. Four years l...
I SURVIVED: The Ninja in the Attic
15 Apr 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 ...
REOPENED: Sunday Morning Slasher
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
While police in Michigan and Texas search for what they believe to be two separate killers, women are being strangled, stabbed, and sometimes left ali...
The Grim Sleeper Part 2
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1980s Los Angeles, a killer is terrorizing South Central, murdering African American women and discarding their bodies in the street. As the victim...
I SURVIVED: Everything Went to Slow Motion
08 Apr 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: Secret in the Well
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the fall of 1987, Fred Wilkerson disappeared. He didn't leave a note. There was no sign of foul play. And yet his son, Tim, knew in his heart what ...
The Grim Sleeper Part 1
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1980s Los Angeles, a killer is terrorizing South Central, murdering African American women and discarding their bodies in the street. As the victim...
I SURVIVED: I Could Feel Myself Fading
01 Apr 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: The Green River Killer
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1980s the police discovered no fewer than 44 bodies along the Green River near Seattle, making the Green River Killer the most prolific serial ...
Taken In Tacoma
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian is abducted and murdered in August of 1986, residents of Tacoma panic. This is the second young girl killed in five ...
I SURVIVED: I Just Saw Evil
25 Mar 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: A Family Cursed
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone in the family knew that Zilpha was the cool aunt, but to Jeremiah she was more. They had a special bond, almost like brother and sister. So i...
Vanished In Virginia
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a 30-year-old mother, Lisa Gaudenzi, fails to report for duty in Virginia, the Army lists her as AWOL. Her family immediately suspects foul play....
I SURVIVED: I Could Feel Snow All Around Me
18 Mar 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 Killer Slips Away
16 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lily and Alonzo knock on Anna Mae's door. They've come to take their elderly sister shopping. Instead, her door flies open and a young woman runs past...
Death Of A Hero
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A fire in January 2007 claims the life of WWII vet Bennie Angelo. A closer look at the crime scene reveals Bennie was dead before the fire, bumping an...
I SURVIVED: The One That Killed My Husband
11 Mar 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: A Family Secret
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Kentucky teenager goes missing before school. Her bed is unmade, her car is in the driveway, and in the front seat is her purse, one shoe, and her c...
Murder In The Midwest
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When the body of Lori Nesson is found in a ditch in 1974, her death is not ruled as a homicide. Her sister knows that there was foul play, but it take...
I SURVIVED: The Hardest Twenty Yards I Have Ever Walked
04 Mar 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: Circle of Friends
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a teenager goes missing in a small town investigators are desperate to identity a culprit, but few are willing to talk. Following a series of sev...
Gone In A New York Minute
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2006, landlord Bruce Blackwood disappears without a trace in a city with eight million residents. The NYPD are sure there is foul play, despi...
I SURVIVED: It Looks Like Dynamite
25 Feb 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: Officer Down
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A police lieutenant goes into his kitchen to get a snack, then his wife hears shattering glass and finds her husband has been killed. He was shot in t...
Killer In The Storm
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Young mother Brenda DuPont is found murdered in her home in Opelousas, Louisiana in May 1988. The initial investigation quickly turns cold, but Brenda...
I SURVIVED: I Didn't Stop Running
18 Feb 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: The Night Shift
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A college student in Utah is brutally murdered while working the graveyard shift at a local gas station. His death shakes this small Mormon community ...
Lone Survivor
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Three-year-old Vanessa Bennett becomes the lone survivor of her family’s brutal massacre in early 1984. Investigators at the time suspect that a ser...
REOPENED: Little Girl Lost
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1992, Halloween was cancelled in Oil City, Pennsylvania. Just days before, an 11-year-old was kidnapped and brutally murdered. The small town is ro...
Missing and Murdered
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A promise is sacred in North American Indigenous Cree culture, and when Cree woman Shirley Soosay vanishes in 1980, her niece, Violet, promises her gr...
REOPENED: Sweethearts, Silenced
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A teenage couple disappears from a wedding in rural Wisconsin. Did they simply run off or was it something more sinister? When their bodies surface tw...
The Lost Patient
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Janie Landers disappeared from a home for the impaired in 1979, in what is the latest consequence of the facility’s history of neglect. When Janie’...