Cold Case Files
Episodes
The Deadly Ex
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A mother disappears and her voicemails lead detectives to the body. But the case goes cold until over a decade later when an informant discloses criti...
The Merry Widow
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A man is shot point blank. And with no suspect, the only thing police know is that this murder was committed with intent. When the weapon is found yea...
A Son's Memory
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A mother of three goes missing on Christmas eve in 1994, and suspicion surrounds her sudden disappearance. In 2004, her case is still unsolved, until ...
Cross Country Connection
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A heinous murder goes cold... until 18 years later when a string of rapes across state lines force the perpetrator to face his crimes. Want to save m...
Caught in the Mail
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A brutal murder and suspected sexual assault of a 13-year-old goes cold... until 22 years later when detectives turn their attention to untested DNA f...
Frozen In Time
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On a dark summer night, a young woman vanishes from her car. With no trace of her, the case goes cold... until years later when a stolen truck reveals...
Rear Window
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A heinous murder, an innocent victim, and an unsolved homicide investigation reopens a year after the crime when a new tip leads detectives to a teen ...
The Hitmakers
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A murder on Music Row leads detectives to investigate a crooked business that promises fame and fortune in the country music capitol, Nashville... but...
Most Notorious: The Shopping Cart Killer
27 Jun 2019
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...
Most Notorious: Sunday Morning Slasher
20 Jun 2019
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...
Most Notorious: Crimes of the Klan
14 Jun 2019
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...
Most Notorious: The Golden State Killer, Part 2
04 Jun 2019
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 ...
Most Notorious: The Golden State Killer
31 May 2019
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...
Most Notorious: The Black Dahlia
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, we'll cover one of the most infamous cold cases in America - the gruesome murder of Los Angeles actress Elizabeth Short, more commonl...
Most Notorious: Finding BTK
14 May 2019
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...
Caught on Tape
30 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A serial rapist is terrorizing Louisville, Kentucky, and despite his tell-tale MO - it will take investigators seven years to bring the perpetrator to...
Danger At The Door
25 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When a 9-year-old girl is abducted from her own home and brutally murdered, shock waves spread throughout the community. Detectives refuse to give up ...
The Weepy-Voiced Killer
16 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Women are being murdered in Minnesota's twin cities, and police are desperate to catch the murderer who keeps calling to confess his crimes. Wanna ge...
A Deadly Pattern
09 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2004, 58-year-old Phyllis New was found dead, the victim of an apparent home invasion. However, when a second murder comes to light, police suspect...
Ticket to Nowhere
02 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Flight 191 crashed in Chicago in 1979, killing nearly 300 people on board. It was the deadliest plane accident in American history. A single mother, D...
The Green River Killer
26 Mar 2019
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 ...
A Man Scorned
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A young woman is murdered in her bed, and investigators' key witness soon becomes their prime suspect. NEED A BETTER TOOTHBRUSH? Go to www.getquip.co...
Something Snapped
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When a young woman is murdered, investigators believe they have the perfect suspect, until DNA advancements prove they might be looking in the wrong d...
A Desperate Housewife
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A picture perfect marriage is shattered when the husband is shot and killed. But the woman who appears to be his grieving widow...soon becomes invest...
Cowboys on the Case
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When an alleged rapist's remains are found 30 years after his disappearance, the PD calls in The Cowboys - a retired team of cold case investigators -...
Abandoned Houses
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Two little girls go missing in Akron under the exact same circumstances. When their bodies are discovered, the families and investigators are desperat...
Under a Spell
12 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a dark corner of Miami, several women are found murdered and their bodies burned. A mysterious footprint, a bottle of gasoline, and a Santeria prie...
License To Kill
05 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, a couple moves into a brand new home in rural Ontario. During renovations, they discover a buried clue that is the key to solving a brutal do...
The Family
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Deadly Stroll
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Murder On The Menu
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Modus Operandi
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
In The Care of a Killer
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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...
A Wife's Mission
06 Nov 2018
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...
A Son Remembers
30 Oct 2018
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...
A Map To Murder
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A serial killer targets women who live on the fringes of society - with little to no connection to the mainstream world. As victims, this makes them ...
A Detective's Promise
16 Oct 2018
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 ...
Lil Miss
09 Oct 2018
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...
Death of a Deacon
02 Oct 2018
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...
Left For Dead
25 Sep 2018
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 ...
The Flaming Gorge Falls
18 Sep 2018
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. ...
Snatched
11 Sep 2018
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...
Crimes of the Klan
04 Sep 2018
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...
Déjà Vu
28 Aug 2018
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...
The Golden State Killer: Part 2
21 Aug 2018
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 ...
The Golden State Killer
14 Aug 2018
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...
The Barrel
07 Aug 2018
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...
A Sister Lost
29 May 2018
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...
The Bedroom Basher
22 May 2018
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,...
NCIS
15 May 2018
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...
Murder He Wrote
08 May 2018
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...
A Killer's Dream
30 Apr 2018
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...
A Brother's Burden
24 Apr 2018
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...
The Sting Operation
17 Apr 2018
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...
The Interrogation
10 Apr 2018
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...
Unholy Secret
03 Apr 2018
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...
The Tourniquet
27 Mar 2018
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...
A Confession for Carmen
20 Mar 2018
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...
Smoky Mountain Mystery
13 Mar 2018
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...
The Clue That Stuck
06 Mar 2018
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...
Killer on Campus
27 Feb 2018
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...
Where's Peggy?
20 Feb 2018
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 ...
Kidnapped
13 Feb 2018
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 ...
Death in Deadwood
06 Feb 2018
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...
Man in the Shadows
30 Jan 2018
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...
The Bow Hunter
23 Jan 2018
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...
The Black Dahlia
16 Jan 2018
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...
A Cousin's Promise
09 Jan 2018
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...
Mommy's Rules
02 Jan 2018
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...
The Girls
26 Dec 2017
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...
The Shopping Cart Killer
19 Dec 2017
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...
A Killer's Skin
12 Dec 2017
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...
Finding BTK
05 Dec 2017
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...
Burning Desire
28 Nov 2017
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...
Sex, Lies, and Murder
21 Nov 2017
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...
A Family Secret
01 Aug 2017
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...
Little Girl Lost
20 Jun 2017
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...
Sweethearts, Silenced
13 Jun 2017
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...
She Never Came Home
06 Jun 2017
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...