Cold Case Files
Episodes
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...