Cold Case Files

Operation Jambalaya/Footprints in the Snow

A New Orleans police officer goes undercover on a Baton Rouge riverboat to gain a confession from one of the ship's main

The South Side Rapist

A series of brutal rapes in St. Louis goes unsolved for many years until a fluke audit of a license plate number leads p

Mark of a Killer/Dead Ends

A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eight years, and Bill K

The Baiting Game/The Killer's Tattoo

Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropologist from the "bod

Ticket to Nowhere/The Paper Route

A 13-year-old girl's mother is murdered and 20 years later she helps bring the killer to justice; and a dogged policeman

Traces of Murder/The Bathtub Killer

A killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates; and New Hampshire investigators probi

Pride and the Fall/The Nail File

A woman's fall from a cliff in the Grand Canyon leads police to uncover a series of grisly murders, and investigators sm

In the Care of a Killer/Deadly Lies

The suspicious death of 2-year-old Billy Blankenship is solved when police force his babysitter to re-enact the circumst

Lady in the Box

The murder of an Ohio woman in 1974 is solved more than 20 years later after police get a crucial clue--the woman's husb

Crimes of the KKK

Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and inves

Murder On The Menu

A boy's toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case against a serial killer wh

The Widow and the Wolf/Unicorns and Alligators

After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate group that brings aw

Vintage Murder/Trouble in Paradise

Police doggedly reopen a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime and find enough DNA evidence on the suspect's cigaret

The Perfect Murder/Death of Innocents

It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a medical examiner's wife

The Unluckiest Man/The Deadly Triangle

Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set a series of fires to collect insur

Cat and Mouse/Cabbie Killer

A police investigator discovers a letter written 16 years earlier that provides clues to a woman's murder. And a firearm

The Cuff Link/Graveyard Shift

Police solve an old murder case with a painstaking examination of the tool mark on the plastic flex cuff that bound the

The Good Samaritan/Gun Shy

New DNA technology and the national DNA databank help police hunt down a rapist-killer 11 years after he committed his c

A Map To Murder/Life on the Run

After a long manhunt, cops finally close in on a serial killer with the help of the Internet and information supplied by

Soft Kill/Unsolved

Police run down more than 11,000 leads before coming up with a suspect in the murders of three Virginia girls; and the a

License to Kill/The Tell-Tale Mark/The Supermarket Mystery

A quarter of a century after the murders of two nurses, Canadian police suspect that a former Toronto cop committed the

The Original Night Stalker

In the 1980s, a serial killer prowled the posh streets of Orange County. Police were unaware of the serial attacks until

Cold Hit/Silent Kill

A thumbprint connects two separate murders and it is later discovered that the suspect had a strange fetish for women's

Mommie Dearest

A mother is suspected in the murders of two of her daughters, when her third daughter finally convinces police to reopen

A Sealed Fate/Deadly Divorce

A murderer's saliva, found on envelopes that he sealed, helps seal his doom 37 years after his first killing. And Colora

Cop Killer/Evil Twin

Included: Los Angeles detectives solve a 46-year-old murder case; and DNA leads to a suspected killer who has a twin bro

The Zodiac Killer

With access to the San Francisco Police Department's work, including saliva samples taken from letters the infamous Zodi

The Accidental Killer/Little Sister Lost

While hiking with husband Dennis in Montana, Leslee Larson fell into Wolf Creek. Then Dennis is convicted of murdering h

The Merry Widow/The Bad Cop

Included: the case of Douglas J. Wright, a former state trooper whose 1993 murder of his wife brought a conviction in 20

Daddy Knows Best/Dawn of the Dead

A detective works for 15 years to nab a man who murdered his wife and dismembered her body to hide the sexual abuse of h

The Killer's Tattoo

The search for a killer with a distinctive tattoo is recalled. Host: Bill Kurtis.

The Green River Killer

Cold Case discusses the story of the nearly 20-year hunt for the man responsible for the murders of 49 prostitutes and o

A Hitchhike to Murder/Never Forgotten

Police must wait nearly 30 years before advances in DNA technology give them the chance to convict the killer of a young

The DNA Link/The Secret Slide

Detectives from three different departments in Westchester County, NY team up to track down a serial killer; and a man k

Death Before I Do/Hollywood Homicide

Included: the 1988 murder of actress Myra Davis, Janet Leigh's stand-in for “Psycho,” brings a conviction in 2001. A

Blood Money/Precious Doe

Testimony about the growth of larvae in dead bodies helps convict the man who stabbed a couple to death and strangled th

Unholy Bible/A Daughter's Justice

A Texas woman's murder is solved when the killer's plan to murder another woman and stuff her into a duffel bag goes awr

Officer Down/Secret Twin

After 23 years, investigators finally track down the killers of an Atlanta policeman when the ex-wife of one of the kill

Weepy-Voiced Killer/The Mr. Big Sting

A prostitute who fights off a screwdriver-wielding man helps police track down a serial killer; and undercover agents ac

Blood on the Badge/Bump in the Night

A woman who takes down the license plate number of a car that had been following her helps police solve the murder of an

The Lady Killer/A Husband's Secret

The testimony of three prison inmates helps convict a man who viciously killed a woman out for a bike ride nearly two de

Mistaken for a Killer/A Woman Scorned

DNA technology that take place over 20 years help police to finally identify the man who brutally stabbed two women to d

The Missing Hunters/The Flashlight Rapist

Police suspect brothers J.R. and Coco Duvall beat two Michigan hunters to death, chopped up the bodies, and fed them to

Cowboys on the Case/Office Politics

Four retired law enforcement officers, known as the Cold Case Cowboys, help track down the killer of a man wanted for ra

The Flaming Gorge Falls/Caught in the Mail

A man suspected of the cold case murder of his wife and son hatches a new plot to kill his mother and father; and detect

Murder Checks In / Killer in the City

Police hunt for a man who killed three women in three different hotels, not far from one another in Des Moines, Iowa. An

The Shopping Cart Killer

A dry cleaning tag inside a sweatshirt left at a crime scene helps police track down a serial killer and rapist who had

The Hit makers/Favor For A Friend

A scheme to bribe a country music magazine to manipulate the charts leads to murder in Nashville and a 13-year hunt for

Lil' Miss /Skeletons In The Closet

An eerie note left on a grave helps solve a 12-year-old case of murder, and an exhaustive questioning of a mother helps

Innocent Prey/The Punishment

Police play a wild hunch that pays off in the capture of a serial rapist. And after 26 years, investigators finally solv

Love Triangle/2nd Story Rapist

The Calling Card/Carol's Diary

Beauty Queen Killer/The Fingerprint

Friend of the Family/Remains of Murder

Under a Spell/Justice for Lisa

A Man Scorned/The Dungeon

A Killer Named Korn/The Night Watchman

The Bedroom Basher

Baby for Sale/The Barrel

The Bitemark/Justice for Eglena

Sex, Lies and Murder

The Monster/A Cousin's Promise

A Brother's Burden/The Midnight Attacker

The Well/The Deadly Ex

Deja Vu/Secret In The Well

A new fingerprint identification system known as I-AFIS helps Texas detectives track down a killer after three years of

The Tourniquet/Burning Desire

Manhunt

The Family / The Clue That Stuck

Man in the Shadows/The Hitchhiker

A Confession for Carmen/The Girls

A Sister Lost/Rumors of Murder

Smoky Mountain Mystery / A Drop of Blood

Rear Window / The Peeper

Included: the 1998 murder of waitress Corey Parker in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., by Robert Erik Denney. Host: Bill Kurtis

The Closers/Caught by an Eyelash

A bloody dagger and a phone tap help detectives solve a 20-year-old murder case. And DNA taken from an eyelash found on

Kidnapped

A kidnapper grabs 8-year-old Chad Choice from his home in Texas, then torments his parents with two ransom demands. The

Obsession: Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer

In this special 100th edition of Cold Case Files, we look at the biggest serial murder case in U.S. history - the 20-yea

Finding BTK

The story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in recent American history--the BTK killer, who terro

Death of a Deacon/A Wife's Mission

When an adulterous church deacon is found shot to death in the back seat of his car, it looks like police may have stumb

Snatched/A Detective's Promise

The dogged work of an Alberta, Canada, detective finally pays off when he tracks down the man who raped and murdered a 6

The Sunday Morning Slasher

Law enforcement officials fear they may have to release a serial killer from prison until a 24-year-old murder case give

Caught on Tape/A Son Remembers

A video tape made at an ATM machine helps police in Louisville, KY, to nab a man suspected of raping 13 women. And a DA

On the Case: Nacole's Killer

This special edition of Cold Case Files offers an inside look, rarely seen, at an active cold case investigation. We fol

Killer on Campus/Bow Hunter

Thirty-two years after the killing of University of Michigan law student Jane Mixer, police use DNA found on her pantyho

Something Snapped/A Killer's Dream

On a summer night in 1987 a mother worries and waits for her 19-year-old daughter to come home. But Diana never comes ho

Daddy Dearest/A Pastor's Wife

Nine years after the murders of a mother and her teenage daughters, a wiretapped conversation between the suspected kill

A Killer's Skin / Where's Peggy?

Police in Albany, N.Y., get a surprise when a killer they think targets only older women is suspected in the murder of a

Innocence Stolen/Danger at the Door

A district attorney uses a clever technique--a "John Doe indictment"--to give law enforcement officials the time they ne

The Interrogation/The Slide

A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the police coerced the boy'

The Taunt / Death in Deadwood

A serial rapist seals his own fate when he sends a taunting letter to police, who use the DNA extracted from the saliva

A Child Remembers

Our cameras follow Detective Manny Reyes as he investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman. Reyes talks to

The Black Dahlia

Bill Kurtis examines one of the most infamous cold cases in Los Angeles history -- the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth

The Deadly Stroll / Unholy Secret

In Rhode Island, policewomen go undercover in as street walkers to nab the man suspected of murdering three prostitutes.

A Deadly Affair / The Sting Operation

After 19 years, Kansas detectives reopen the case of a banker found beaten to death in his bed--and the chief suspect is

NCIS / Exhuming the Truth

After U.S. Navy sailor Andrew Muns disappears in 1968, the Navy claims that Muns went AWOL from his ship. But his sister

Cross Country Connection / Eyes at the Window

DNA found on a marijuana joint in Florida in 2005 helps to solve the 1988 rape and murder of a California woman. And a c

Abandoned Houses / A Son's Memory

Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio. And a

A Knock at the Door / Shattered

The killing of a woman in a Virginia hotel room goes unsolved for a quarter of a century before investigators are finall

Innocence Files

Students of the University of Cincinnati and Texas Tech University Innocence Project take on the cases of jailed murdere

A Deadly Pattern / A Desperate Housewife

When a woman is found murdered in her mobile home, police make two shocking discoveries--her husband may not only have b

Murder He Wrote / Caught By the Past

Guns found dumped in a pond outside of Atlantic City, N.J., help police to solve the 15-year-old murder of Detroit cab c

The Execution of Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson was convicted of the senseless killing of Jeff Wetterman, 11 years earlier. While being interviewed in h

Left for Dead / On the Case

A detective in California tracks down a prostitute's killer with the help of a key piece of evidence--fingerprints lifte

Evidence Kit

The Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA initiative to fund the testing of backlogged rape evidence kits a