Cold Case Files

REOPENED: A Killer's Skin

30 May 2023

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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

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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: Burning Desire

23 May 2023

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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

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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: Sex, Lies and Murder

16 May 2023

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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

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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: A Drop of Blood

09 May 2023

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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

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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: The Killer's Tattoo

02 May 2023

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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

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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: Manhunt

25 Apr 2023

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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

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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: Baby For Sale

18 Apr 2023

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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

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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 ...

REOPENED: Sunday Morning Slasher

13 Apr 2023

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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

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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

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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: Secret in the Well

06 Apr 2023

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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

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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

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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: The Green River Killer

30 Mar 2023

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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

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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: A Family Cursed

23 Mar 2023

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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

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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

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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 Killer Slips Away

16 Mar 2023

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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

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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

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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: A Family Secret

09 Mar 2023

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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

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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

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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: Circle of Friends

02 Mar 2023

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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

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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

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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: 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

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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

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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...

REOPENED: The Night Shift

16 Feb 2023

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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 ...

REOPENED: The Peeper

29 Sep 2022

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A worried father lays a trap for the mysterious prowler who has been peeping on his young son, but the man doesn't realize he's facing something far m...

Ice Cold in Denver

27 Sep 2022

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In 1980, 21-year-old radio intern, Helene Pruszynski, is found bound and stabbed in a snowy field in Denver, Massachusetts. After 37 years of dead end...

REOPENED: Caught by an Eyelash

22 Sep 2022

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The day before her 28th birthday, Kiva Bible is murdered. Detectives search for over a decade with just one scrap of evidence: a single eyelash. Chec...

The Secrets In The Well

20 Sep 2022

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Near what's known as the hanging tree, the mutilated body of Timothy Coggins is found in late 1983. The investigation stalls and goes cold for over 30...

REOPENED: The Slide

15 Sep 2022

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An elderly woman is assaulted in her own home, and suffers a deadly heart attack during the assault. Her stolen checkbook is the only solid lead in a ...

Devil In Disguise

13 Sep 2022

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23-year-old former beauty queen and devout Catholic Irene Garza, vanishes in April 1960 after giving confession in her town of McAllen, Texas. Her bod...

REOPENED: Rumors of Murder

08 Sep 2022

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When 21-year-old Julie Hill goes missing, everyone assumes she has just run off again. Fourteen years later, Julie's cousin starts to question the rea...

The Heartland Killer

06 Sep 2022

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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, several states are terrorized by a sadistic serial killer, until the murders abruptly stop. In 2006, a cold case detec...

REOPENED: Cat & Mouse

01 Sep 2022

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The death of Alma Napier was ruled an accident when her car was discovered overturned and smoldering one night in 1980. It would remain a closed case,...

The School Teacher

30 Aug 2022

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25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack is found brutally slain in her Lancaster, Pennsylvania apartment in 1992. The investigation uncovers a pletho...

REOPENED: A Killer Named Korn

25 Aug 2022

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A 74 year-old woman was assaulted and stabbed in her home. The case goes cold. Until another woman is attacked. And another. And this time, there’s ...

Missing in Altoona

23 Aug 2022

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When 22-year-old Sherry Leighty vanishes in 1999, her family is left wondering how a dedicated mother of three could just vanish without a trace. The ...

REOPENED: The Widow and the Wolf

18 Aug 2022

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In 1980, Jane Alexander was newly widowed. When a new man came into her life, telling stories of exotic world travels and an off-shore trust fund, Jan...

Devil at the Door

16 Aug 2022

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The brutal 1998 murder of 36-year-old computer analyst Lisa Valdez has San Francisco police stumped. The case goes cold until advances in forensic tec...

REOPENED: Trouble In Paradise

11 Aug 2022

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When Pegye Bechler goes missing in a mysterious boating accident, all signs point towards her husband Eric. Without a body, the case goes cold until E...

The Voice In The Lake

09 Aug 2022

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In December of 2000, 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in Lake Seminole, Florida. Investigators...

The Well

02 Aug 2022

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An elderly man, loved by his community, is found dead at the bottom of a well. But the case goes cold until the murder weapon is found, three years la...

The Cufflink

28 Jul 2022

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A woman is found murdered in a Michigan park, bound with police-grade, plastic handcuffs. Investigator’s prime suspect is found with identical cuffs...

Innocence Stolen

19 Jul 2022

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A district attorney uses a clever technique - a "John Doe indictment" - to give law enforcement officials the time they need to track down the a seria...

The Calling Card

12 Jul 2022

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A hitchhiker is murdered, and a mysterious stack of business cards leads police on a 38-year hunt for her killer. Check out our great sponsors! K12:...

Daddy Dearest

05 Jul 2022

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Nine years after a mother and her teenage daughters are murdered... the killer’s sisters helps crack the case. Check out our great sponsors! Downl...

Vintage Murder

28 Jun 2022

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A sudden memory flash leads detectives to a killer’s door and closes a case 25 years in the making. Check out our great sponsors! Shopify: Go to s...