Cold Case Files

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

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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

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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

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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

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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’...

REOPENED: She Never Came Home

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A fourteen-year-old girl walks home from school to avoid bullies on the bus. On the way through "The Culvert," she's murdered, and the police are left...

Til Death Do Us Part

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just two years into their marriage, Chuck Hall finds his wife, Cheryl, murdered in their home. Although Cheryl’s family is certain they know her kil...

REOPENED: Innocent Prey

19 Jan 2023

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A serial rapist is terrorizing women around Portland, Oregon, and investigators are faced with an endless list of potential suspects until a hunch fin...

A Is For Arson

17 Jan 2023

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When the fire that kills firefighter Gary Parks is ruled an arson, the investigation into his death shifts to a homicide. A serial arsonist is believe...

REOPENED: Bump in the Night

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1996, Aimee Willard was home for the summer in Northern Pennsylvania. One night, her car was found abandoned on a highway off-ramp with blood on th...

The Bone Collector

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When human bones were discovered in the woods in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania in December, 1985, it put an end to the search for missing 13-year-old...

REOPENED: Office Politics

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1989, 38-year-old Sharon Bloom disappears. A week later, her body is discovered. In the initial investigation, police have a suspect: a jealous cow...

Queen of the Ozarks

03 Jan 2023

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In June, 1985, a 20-year-old ‘Sucker Day’ festival queen is found brutalized. The small community of Nixa, Missouri are certain that her blood is ...

REOPENED: The Final Fare

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A taxi driver is dispatched on his last call of the night outside Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Hours later, the driver’s body is found face down by...

I Survived – The Box Became My Safe Haven

27 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

“I Survived.” What is it like to face death and make it out alive? Based on the groundbreaking A&E television series, I Survived documents har...

REOPENED: Skeletons in the Closet

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A scrapyard owner makes a gruesome discovery, which leads investigators to question a mother who may be killing her children. Check out our great spo...

Cold Ashes

20 Dec 2022

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A house fire claims the lives of a family in rural Oklahoma, and foul play is suspected. Two teenage girls were not found among the charred rubble, an...

REOPENED: Mr. Big Sting

15 Dec 2022

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When a convenience store clerk is murdered in cold blood, an investigator goes undercover as a mafia boss in an elaborate sting that will snare a kill...

Written In Blood

13 Dec 2022

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Heidi Jones was just four years old when her mother was killed in 1970. Four decades later she vows to solve the cold case and enlists an old high sch...

REOPENED: The Punishment

08 Dec 2022

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Despite several mysterious and concerning clues, the drowning death of 6-year-old Sally Cheesboro is deemed a tragic accident. Over two decades later,...

One Tough Mother

06 Dec 2022

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When 19-year-old newlywed Tiffany Johnston is found dead in a small town in Oklahoma, her mother vows to exact justice for her killer. Over a decade l...

REOPENED: The Bad Cop

01 Dec 2022

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When Kimberly White – the estranged wife of a former state trooper – is found shot to death, her ex-husband swears that she took her own life. But...

Sisters In Death

29 Nov 2022

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A father discovers his daughters killed in horrific circumstances in March, 1984. The mission to find the person responsible is passed from generation...

REOPENED: Carol's Diary

24 Nov 2022

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A 16-year-old girl is killed and her brother is the first to come upon her murder scene. The teenager's diary leads detectives to her killer... Check...

The Clock Strikes Murder

22 Nov 2022

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23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Years Day in 1985, forcing her boy to grow up without her. It takes 35 long years for fam...

REOPENED: A Deadly Affair

17 Nov 2022

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When a bank cashier is brutally murdered in his own bed, initial evidence points to a bank robbery plot. But as investigators follow the trail, they d...

Friday Night Ghosts

15 Nov 2022

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In late 1983, five people were abducted from a fast food restaurant before being found brutally murdered in an oil field. The main suspect is believed...

REOPENED: Life on the Run

10 Nov 2022

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When a beloved fixture of a Colorado community goes missing, his neighbors are shocked to learn that the man they thought they knew never existed, and...

Dark Angel

08 Nov 2022

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Pam Pitts’ body was found burned at a popular party spot in the Arizona desert. Even when a second victim is discovered in a mineshaft it takes deca...

REOPENED: Beauty Queen Killer

03 Nov 2022

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In 1978, beauty queen Tana Woolley moves into her first apartment alone. Not long after her move, Tana is found murdered and everyone in her apartment...

Eyes of a Killer

01 Nov 2022

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A violent robbery in February, 2010 caused Michael Temple Jr. to become quadriplegic for five years before his death. DNA taken from a knife used in t...

REOPENED: The Paper Route

27 Oct 2022

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A newspaper carrier is found murdered execution style, and the investigator on the case has known the victim for over 30 years. Determined to find his...

The Woman In The Woods

25 Oct 2022

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For 34 years Jody Loomis’ killer goes undetected. And even when genetic genealogy leads to a suspect, their guilt must be proven in court. Check ou...

REOPENED: Unicorns and Alligators

20 Oct 2022

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The disappearance of a 8-year-old Rima Traxler kicks off a manhunt for a shadowy figure seen driving away with Rima the day she went missing. When pol...

A Lesson in Homicide

18 Oct 2022

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When beloved Red Bank middle school teacher Jonelle Melton is found murdered in her Neptune City, New Jersey apartment in the fall of 2009, suspicion ...

REOPENED: Graveyard Shift

13 Oct 2022

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A gas station attendant is brutally murdered in the middle of the night, and investigators struggle to indict their prime suspect despite eye witness ...

Suspicious Minds

11 Oct 2022

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Just after the last day of school in 1984, 15-year-old Reesa Trexler is found murdered in her grandparents' home; for decades, a stalled investigation...

REOPENED: Exhuming the Truth

06 Oct 2022

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A college student is murdered - and two viable suspects surface almost immediately - but it will take 20 years to pin down the killer... Check out ou...

Murder By Moonlight

04 Oct 2022

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The body of 24-year-old Lisa Ziegert is found stabbed to death in a field in Agawam, Massachusetts on Easter Sunday of 1992. The investigation yields ...