Cold Case Files

2017

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Jun 29, 2017

The loving aunt of a close-knit family is stabbed to death in her home. It takes two decades for detectives to discover that a key witness was an imposter--and caused the case to go cold. When they turn back to the crime scene, they discover a clue that lay hidden in plain sight for 24 years.

Season 1
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Season 1

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Dec 14, 2005

Nearly 20 years after they first suspect him, police arrest Gary Ridgway, the most prolific known serial killer in U.S. history.

Dec 21, 2005

BTK Dennis Rader terrorizes Wichita, Kan., for decades, leaving at least 10 murder victims in his wake.

Jan 13, 2006

A deacon suspected of having an affair is found shot to death in Tijuana, Mexico; a woman claims she was assaulted by the man that killed her husband.

Jan 20, 2006

A detective tracks down a man who raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl 10 years earlier; police search for the killer of an 18-year-old hitchhiker.

Feb 3, 2006

Publicity of a man's mandatory release in Texas brings forth a witness to a murder in Michigan.

Feb 10, 2006

A cell phone and an ATM card lead to the apprehension of a rapist.

Feb 17, 2006

Detectives work to solve the 1995 rape and murder of a 14-year-old.

Apr 1, 2006

DNA evidence solves the murder of a female law student; a man confesses to the random killing of a bowhunter.

Apr 6, 2006

In 1987, a young girl is found raped and strangled; in 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work.

May 5, 2006

A wiretapped conversation between a suspected killer and his sister cracks a 9-year-old murder case; a geologist finds human bones, solving the murder of a Virginia woman.

Jun 2, 2006

A police detective suspects a killer preys on older women; a protective mother disappears after learning her daughter has been sexually molested.

Jul 7, 2006

Young girls are sexually assaulted while waiting for their school buses; in 1991, a 9-year-old girl disappears from her home and is found murdered.

Jul 14, 2006

A brother is a suspect in the case of a 12-year-old found dead in her home in 1998; a 69-year-old woman is the victim of rape and murder in 1984.

Jul 28, 2006

In 1995, two women are raped in Louisville, Ky.; in 1982, a young man is found murdered in Deadwood, S.D.

Aug 11, 2006

Detective Danny Reyes investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman.

Sep 8, 2006

In 1947, actress Elizabeth Short's corpse is found nude and bisected in an empty lot.

Sep 22, 2006

Police go under cover to catch a man they suspect of killing three prostitutes; a letter opener links a priest to the murder of a nun.

Sep 29, 2006

A banker is beaten to death in his bed; a man with a guilty conscience helps police.

Oct 6, 2006

A missing sailor's sister works to prove he was killed; rape and murder.

Oct 20, 2006

The 1988 rape and murder of a California woman; a jailhouse snitch.

Oct 27, 2006

Two young girls are raped, murdered and dumped in an abandoned house; a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995.

Nov 17, 2006

A 25-year-old woman is killed in a hotel room in 1978; a 25-year-old woman is shot to death during a jewelry-store robbery in 1980.

Dec 23, 2006

A woman is found murdered in her mobile home; an Oregon man is shot dead.

Dec 30, 2006

A Detroit cab-company owner is murdered in 1989; in 1986 a woman is found murdered in her bedroom.

Dec 30, 2006

Fingerprints lifted from two beer bottles help a California detective track down a prostitute's killer; the investigations of a woman's murder and the death of a man killed in a car crash use DNA analysis.

Jul 25, 2007

Hours before Michael Johnson is scheduled to die by injection, the victim's family awaits justice, and the inmate's family braces for what it believes is unjust punishment.

Sep 19, 2007

College students take on the cases of jailed murderers who claim they are innocent; the students visit the inmates, track down key witnesses and seek DNA testing to prove their clients' innocence.

Oct 13, 2007

A member of the Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA Initiative to fund the testing of rape kits; a deputy district attorney in Sacramento County, Calif., uses a DNA grant to find a killer.

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Dec 31, 2001

A phone-sting operation helps police to nab killers; a district attorney uses a "John Doe"' warrant in the hunt for a rapist.

Jan 7, 2002

Business cards found at the scene reveal the killer of a New York teen; a murder suspect confesses after police take DNA samples from him.

Jan 14, 2002

Forensic testing helps to solve the murder of a beauty queen; two hairs help to put a double-murderer behind bars.

Jan 21, 2002

An ex-girlfriend helps to bring a child-murderer to justice; a mysterious set of bones puts police on the trail of a teen's killer.

Jan 28, 2002

A man is convicted in the gruesome murders of four black female prostitutes in Miami; detectives nail the rapist-killer of a 6-year-old girl.

Feb 4, 2002

DNA on a scarf helps to convict a homeless man of murder; a victim's phone call and his own writings help to convict a man who imprisoned teens in an underground bunker.

Feb 11, 2002

DNA evidence helps to convict the man who raped and killed an elderly woman; shell casings help to convict the killer of a security guard.

Feb 18, 2002

Fifteen years after a husband is convicted of murder, police discover that he may have been wrongly accused.

Feb 25, 2002

The infant subject of a child-custody dispute is found burned; a body is discovered in a home's crawlspace.

Mar 4, 2002

Bite marks help to get a child predator off the streets; after a decade, justice is finally served in the slaying of a 15-year-old girl.

Mar 11, 2002

A serial killer lures women to Kansas for trysts at hotels.

Mar 25, 2002

A 51-year-old man is shot to death near his horse stable; a rapist is sentenced to more than 1,000 years in prison.

Apr 1, 2002

The body of a man killed by a bullet is found in his well; detectives try to connect a man to his ex-wife's murder.

Apr 8, 2002

Detectives search for a man who rapes and kills women; an ex-girlfriend is the prime suspect when a man goes missing.

Apr 15, 2002

DNA evidence leads to the arrest of Houston's notorious "tourniquet killer"; a young woman is found shot and burned in an olive orchard.

Apr 22, 2002

James Allen Selby, a serial rapist who eluded police for years.

Apr 29, 2002

A detective vows not to shave until he solves the murder of a young woman; investigators track down a killer with the help of DNA found on duct tape used on the victim.

May 6, 2002

Rapes plague the Linden area of Columbus, Ohio; a hitchhiker's corpse is found in the California redwoods.

May 13, 2002

A body is found in Cobbs Creek on the west side of Philadelphia; two girls befriend an elderly rich man who winds up missing.

May 20, 2002

An unresolved murder from 1974 leads back to a high school janitor; a man confesses to killing his girlfriend.

May 27, 2002

A man gives police the information they need to solve a case; a murder baffles Indiana police.

Jun 3, 2002

A co-worker goes to check on a woman who failed to show up for work; a woman reports being raped in her home.

Jun 10, 2002

After a woman's disappearance, the Los Angeles police get an anonymous call to investigate a suspect; an eyelash is a clue in the death of a woman stabbed many times.

Jun 17, 2002

A kidnapper torments a child's parents with ransom demands and a package.

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Jan 7, 2003

Bite marks and a jailhouse snitch help solve an eight-year-old crime.

Jan 14, 2003

Fingerprints from a decomposing body help implicate the dead man's flatmates.

Jan 21, 2003

A girl believes her mother was killed in a plane crash for two decades.

Feb 11, 2003

Suspicious deaths at a nursery.

Feb 18, 2003

A man released after 22 years in prison, is convicted of a second crime.

Mar 11, 2003

A prostitute escapes after being handcuffed and raped.

Apr 22, 2003

The body of a local hunter is discovered in a Florida forest, but the case grows cold when no murder weapon can be found.

May 20, 2003

A young family on its first vacation never returns.

May 27, 2003

An Arizona woman discovers a frozen corpse in a refrigerated truck.

Jun 5, 2003

A woman's strangled body is found at a U.S. naval base.

Jun 24, 2003

It takes 12 years but the murders of two women found in bathtubs in separate states are finally connected.

Jul 15, 2003

A former member becomes the FBI's star witness against the Ku Klux Klan.

Jul 29, 2003

A massive manhunt is launched to find two missing girls.

Aug 5, 2003

DNA evidence helps solve a murder after two decades; a wealthy man fails to conceal his wife's murder.

Aug 12, 2003

A respected Florida man's wife dies suddenly; the remains of two newborn babies are discovered.

Sep 9, 2003

A chance remark leads to a conviction in a 20-year-old murder case.

Sep 16, 2003

A woman refuses to give up the fight to bring her daughter's murderer to justice.

Oct 3, 2003

Oct 15, 2003

Police become suspicious of the circumstances surrounding a man's seemingly tragic life.

Oct 20, 2003

A Klansman becomes the FBI's star witness in the case of a 1966 murder.

Oct 27, 2003

A man with a record for insurance fraud and arson is suspected of killing his wife.

Oct 29, 2003

A mother fights to bring her daughter's killer to justice.

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Dec 31, 1999

A girl's body is found, minus hands, in a wood in Wisconsin. Years later, DNA techniques enable investigators to find the killer.

Jan 7, 2000

The killer responsible for the deaths of four women is brought to justice.

Jan 14, 2000

A cigarette left at a murder scene provides enough evidence to convict a child killer ten years later.

Jan 21, 2000

A forensic anthropologist becomes an expert on the human body's rate of decay.

Jan 28, 2000

A woman helps to solve her mother's murder; an officer solves the murder of a newspaper-delivery woman.

Feb 4, 2000

A case is closed when a man sends his ex-wife the gory evidence of a murder committed years earlier.

Feb 11, 2000

A woman's fall from a cliff leads police to uncover a series of grisly murders; investigators find crucial DNA evidence on a killer's cigarette butts.

Feb 18, 2000

The suspicious death of 2-year-old Billy Blankenship is solved when police force his babysitter to re-enact the circumstances of his death. Then, a murder case is solved when the dead man's body is found by divers searching underwater for a car.

Feb 25, 2000

After receiving a crucial clue, police solve a woman's murder more than 20 years after the fact.

Mar 4, 2000

Klansmen set fire to an NAACP president's home, killing him; a white man confesses to forcing a black man to jump from a bridge to his death.

Mar 11, 2000

A Minnesota serial-killer, who targets waitresses, remains free for nearly 20 years.

Mar 18, 2000

A murder victim's niece starts an advocate group; a car preserves a victim's body.

Mar 25, 2000

A convicted rapist is set free after ground-breaking DNA technology proves his innocence.

Apr 1, 2000

A priest and father of 17 children whose denials don't match the facts.

Apr 8, 2000

Apr 15, 2000

A letter provides clues to a woman's murder; the oldest murder case ever tried in the state of South Carolina.

Apr 22, 2000

After nearly ten years, a man confesses on camera.

Apr 29, 2000

The national DNA databank helps police hunt down a rapist; the re-enactment of a shooting death proves it was not an accident.

May 6, 2000

A man confesses to killing three former lovers in a plea bargain that kept him out of the chair.

May 13, 2000

A teenager leads police to the killer of three girls; a woman disappears from her sister's home.

May 20, 2000

A corpse is discovered in a refrigerated truck.

May 27, 2000

Police link four murders to a single DNA profile.

Jun 3, 2000

DNA connects two Michigan murders a decade apart; a single foreign hair helps police to find a killer.

Jun 10, 2000

A woman is suspected of murdering two of her daughters when a third convinces police to reopen the cases.

Jun 17, 2000

Saliva seals a killer's doom; DNA from the victim's son solves a murder; an arson investigator is accused of setting fires; a neighbor rapes, robs and murders an older woman.

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Feb 27, 2017

Halloween in a small town is cancelled indefinitely when a young girl is kidnapped and killed on her way home from a costume party.

Mar 6, 2017

A family torn apart by their grandparents' murders. Two decades later, a cold case detective takes on the case that has haunted him since he was a child--racing to solve it before the family take matters into their own hands.

Mar 13, 2017

The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a bullied teenager remains unsolved for 27 years.

Mar 16, 2017

A killer authors a book about his con-man past that becomes the key to solving a 29-year-old cold case of two high school sweethearts--and three other cold case murders--leading police to believe he could be the Zodiac Killer.

May 25, 2017

College student Brad Perry shows up to work his graveyard shift at the gas station and is never seen alive again.

Jun 1, 2017

The longest running cold case of a law enforcement officer in the United States was the murder of Sheriff's Lt. Joe Clark.

Jun 8, 2017

When 18-year-old Shannon Siders' body is found in the woods, everyone in the small town of Newaygo, Michigan, becomes a suspect--but no one is convicted of the crime.

Jun 15, 2017

A seventeen-year-old girl goes missing in a small Kentucky town. Two weeks later, she is found strangled in the woods. It will take more than a decade for a cold case detective to solve the case.

Jun 22, 2017

One family faces two unsolved murders of their loved ones. It takes thirteen years for detectives to uncover the one missing clue that can lead them to the killer: the hidden crime scene.

Jun 29, 2017

Description

The return of Cold Case Files will explore compelling new cases that have gone cold for years and chronicle the journeys of the detectives who reopened them. The detectives relive the events of the crimes, reveal new twists and rely on breakthroughs in forensic technology and the influence of social media to help crack cases – bringing long-awaited closure to the victim’s families and friends.

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I want a refund because I paid for the full season and they only have been showing 4 for the longest when I know for a fact new episodes have come out. I even called customer service and no help!

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