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Cold Case Files

Tense new series exploring cold cases from victims death to criminal conviction. Expertly narrated by a foreboding Danny Glover.

11 Votes (7.3)

2017 HD 43min TV-14 United States English Ended
Crime Documentary
true crime investigation murder murder investigation homicide detective cold case forensic science crime scene forensic

Credits:

Bill Kurtis

Narrator (voice)

S1E1 - Little Girl Lost 2017-02-27

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

S1E2 - Killings on Christmas Eve 2017-03-06

The death of an elderly couple, Edward "Ed" and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Maurin Ed in Washington state on Christmas Eve 1985.

S1E3 - She Never Came Home 2017-03-13

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

S1E4 - Sweethearts, Silenced 2017-03-16

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.

S1E5 - The Night Shift 2017-05-25

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

S1E6 - Officer Down 2017-06-01

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

S1E7 - Circle of Friends 2017-06-08

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.

S1E8 - A Family Secret 2017-06-15

Ten years after a 17-year-old girl is found strangled in the woods in small-town Kentucky, detectives uncover a terrible family secret.

S1E9 - A Family Cursed 2017-06-22

One family faces two unsolved murders of loved ones and authorities finally uncover the missing clue that leads to solve the case 13 years after the murders occurred.

S1E10 - A Killer Slips Away 2017-06-29

Two decades after a close-knit familys loving aunt is stabbed in her home, detectives return to the crime scene and discover a pivotal clue hidden in plain view.

S2E1 - The Voice in the Lake 2021-08-21

When 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in the Florida swamps in December of 2000, authorities suspect he accidentally drowned. For sixteen years Mike’s disappearance remains a mystery. The case heats up when police receive a distress call from the victim’s wife in 2016. Featuring interviews with detectives and the victim’s mother as well as rare footage of the crime scene and recorded audio confessions with the accused, the episode explores how the disappearance unfolded into a sinister plot to cash in on millions of dollars of life insurance.

S2E2 - Devil at the Door 2021-08-28

When 36-year-old computer programmer Lisa Valdez fails to show up for work, her apartment manager finds her brutally murdered in her tiny studio. Her body is riddled with stab wounds, the walls are covered in blood. Evidence shows the killer cut off her long, dark hair, taking it as an apparent trophy. Detectives ask, could she be the victim of a brutal serial killer? Or was Lisa murdered by someone she knew? Clues left on an answering machine point to a co-worker who was known to have feelings for Lisa, but two bloody fingerprints left on a toilet seat clear him as a suspect, and the case goes cold for thirteen years. Things heat up when a detective gets a hit during a search of the states DNA database, leading to an unsuspected person from Lisas past.

S2E3 - Missing in Altoona 2021-09-04

When Sherry Leighty goes missing in 1999, her family is left wondering how a dedicated mother of three could vanish without a trace. A decade later, the cold case heats up when Sherrys sister launches a social media campaign to help solve her sisters mysterious disappearance. An online tip unearths the killer truth and a sinister family secret. Featuring an interview with Shelly Leighty, who never gave up on solving her sisters case, along with rare home video of Sherry and her family.

S2E4 - The School Teacher 2021-09-11

Twenty-six years after a schoolteachers murder, cold-case detectives get a break when a relative of the killer uploads DNA to a public genealogy website.

S2E5 - The Heartland Killer 2021-09-18

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S2E6 - The Devil in Disguise 2021-09-25

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S2E7 - Love and Hate 2022-01-07

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S2E8 - Ice Cold in Denver 2022-01-07

On a bitter morning in 1980, radio intern Helene Pruszynski is found brutalized in a snowy field. After 37 years of fruitless leads, investigators tap into a public genealogy website that leads them across the country to the killer theyve been hunting.

S2E9 - Cold Case Files 2022-01-08

Easter Sunday of 1992, the body of missing woman Lisa Ziegert is found in a field. The investigation yields hundreds of leads but no true suspect. After more than two decades on ice, the case is revived when DNA phenotyping puts a face to the killer.

S2E10 - Suspicious Minds 2022-01-14

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 only fuels the town rumor mill, pointing an accusing finger at Reesas 13-year-old sister, Jodie.

S2E11 - A Lesson in Homicide 2022-01-15

When a beloved schoolteacher is found murdered in her Neptune, New Jersey apartment in the fall of 2009, suspicion is cast on her soon to be ex-husband. Long after the case goes cold, a detective embarks on a mission to help the man clear his name and track down the real killers.

S2E12 - Woman in the Woods 2022-01-21

In August 1972, the body of Jody Loomis is found in the woods. 34 years later, the killers DNA is recovered from Jodys old clothing but it isnt matched until 2018, when genetic genealogy helps point to one suspect--whose guilt must be proven in court.

S2E13 - Eyes of a Killer 2022-02-04

On February 2, 2010, two masked gunmen commit a violent robbery and shoot Michael Temple Jr., rendering him a quadriplegic for five years before his death. In this unusual cold case, DNA from a knife is used to create a sketch of the killer.

S2E14 - Dark Angel 2022-02-05

13 days after Pam Pitts disappears in 1988 her charred body is found at a popular hangout spot in the Arizona desert. When a second victim is discovered in a mineshaft, detectives suspect the killer may have known them both, but the truth is decades away.

S2E15 - Friday Night Ghosts 2022-02-11

In late 1983, the bodies of five people abducted from a local fast food restaurant are found brutally murdered in an oil field. The main suspect is long believed to be a well-connected local man, until new evidence reveals the true killers.

S2E16 - The Clock Strikes Murder 2022-02-25

When 23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Years Day 1985, a little boy is left motherless. A family must wait 35 years for advancements in forensic science to finally catch a killer using familial DNA.

S2E17 - Sisters In Death 2022-03-04

In March 1984, Jack Kennedy discovers his daughters brutally murdered. Their mother and niece spend their lives keeping the case alive. DNA leads nowhere. Thirty years later, an informant gives up a name. But the familys ordeal is far from over.

S2E18 - One Tough Mother 2022-03-11

The murder of Tiffany Johnston rocks the town of Bethany, Oklahoma. DNA points to her killer over a decade later.

S2E19 - Written in Blood 2022-03-18

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S2E20 - Cold Ashes 2022-03-25

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S2E21 - Queen of the Ozarks 2022-04-02

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S2E22 - The Bone Keeper 2022-04-08

In December 1985, when human bones are discovered in the woods, it puts an end to the search for missing teen David Reed. Davids skull fractures point to murder; but it will be decades before investigators can find his killer.

S2E23 - A is for Arson 2022-04-09

When Gary Parks is killed in a fire-ruled arson, the investigation into his death shifts to homicide.

S2E24 - Til Death Do Us Part 2022-04-15

Just two years into their marriage, Chuck and Cheryl Hall are torn apart when Cheryl is murdered. Though Cheryls family is certain they know her killer, the law isnt as sure. After several decades, a DNA match erases all doubt.

S2E25 - The Lost Patient 2022-04-16

Janie Landers disappeared in 1979 from the home for the impaired and later on, her body was found. It took years before the suspect was found and the horrors in the facility are uncovered.

S2E26 - Missing and Murdered 2022-04-22

A womans promise to bring her missing aunt back home unexpectedly took a lifetime.

S2E27 - Lone Survivor 2022-04-23

In early 1984, three-year-old Vanessa Bennett becomes the lone survivor of her familys brutal murder. Initial investigators suspect a serial killer is at large, but decades pass before DNA narrows the suspect pool to one man.

S3E1 - Killer in the Storm 2022-08-20

After a young mothers death in 1988 goes unsolved, her older sister promises to solve the crime, no matter how long it takes, so she sets about on a quest for answers to determine who killed the victim in her own home and why.

S3E2 - Gone in a New York Minute 2022-08-27

Landlord Bruce Blackwood disappears without a trace in March 2006. Though there is no body, the NYPD is sure this is a homicide and they, along with Bruces brother Ed, spend the next 9 years searching for answers and a killer.

S3E3 - Murder in the Midwest 2022-09-03

In September 1974 in Ohio, 15-year-old Lori Nesson disappeared while walking home from a high school football game after-party. Her naked body is found in a ditch the next day yet is ruled undetermined natural causes. The search for her killer finally begins when the cause of death is changed to homicide 40 years later.

S3E4 - Death of a Hero? 2022-09-10

A fire in January 2007 in Canton, OH, claims the life of WWII vet Bennie Angelo; a closer look at the crime scene reveals Bennie was dead before the fire, bumping an arson case up to homicide.

S3E5 - Vanished in Virginia 2022-09-17

When a 30-year-old mother fails to report for duty in Virginia, the Army lists her as AWOL. Her family immediately suspect foul play. They embark on a 13-year quest for answers before an eyewitness blows the case wide open.

S3E6 - Taken in Tacoma 2022-09-23

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 months. Convinced a predator is loose, police embark on a 32-year inquiry.

S4E1 - Money Moguls and Murder 2024-11-15

In 1977, Florida nurse Deborah Clark, 23, is found brutally slain in her home; detectives unearth an affair, a jilted wife, and a web of money and power, but no true suspect. It will take 40 years and advanced DNA testing to expose her killer.

S4E2 - Death of a Baseball Mom 2024-11-22

When beloved mother and sister Janora Stevens is found brutally stabbed in her Tulsa, OK, home, her family is bitterly divided and increasingly suspicious of each other. The case chills until a trail of tell-tale fibers leads cops to her killer.

S4E3 - Good Girl Gone 2024-11-29

When 19-year-old Tara Sidarovich goes missing from her Punta Gorda home, Florida police consider her a runaway; then her body turns up in a swamp. Shocking prison recordings will send detectives on a nationwide hunt for her killer.

S4E4 - A Bullet to the Heart 2024-12-06

When night manager Rodney Castlin is gunned down in the lobby of his hotel three weeks before Christmas, detectives scour Georgia for his killer. Two decades pass before an informants shocking testimony breaks the case wide open.

S4E5 - The Smoking Gun 2024-12-13

A 2007 cold case resurfaces when a detective reopens the investigation into the brutal killing of Audrey Giannotti, 20, in rural Pennsylvania. Uncovering hidden secrets, he races against time to bring justice to a family desperate for answers.

S4E6 - Viciously Murdered 2024-12-20

When Susan Schwarz is found shot to death in her apartment in 1979, police suspect a robbery gone wrong. Thirty-two years pass before a witness reveals a much darker motive that breaks the case wide open and leads to Susans killer.

S4E7 - Sooner State Nightmare 2024-12-27

A massive search unfolds in Chandler, OK, when two women and a child go missing from a Walmart parking lot in 1992. It will take 23 years and a tip from an unlikely source to piece together a heinous plot of misdirection and murder.

S4E8 - Evil in Huntington Beach 2025-01-03

When the body of a woman turns up in a field in Huntington Beach, CA in 1968, police simultaneously seek a killer and the identity of the victim herself. It takes 52 years for detectives to solve this dual mystery and expose a vicious predator.

S4E9 - Who Killed My Father 2025-01-10

When 34-year-old Freddie Farah is gunned down in his Florida grocery store, police urgently seek his killer. Decades later, Farahs son will have a chance encounter with a cold case detective which brings the case back to life and exposes a killer.

S4E10 - A Killer Confession 2025-01-17

The quiet town of Redding, CA, is rocked by the disappearance of Frank McAlister, a teen with a recent cash windfall who leaves only a blood-stained car behind. 25 years will pass before someone makes a stunning on-air confession.

S4E11 - Blood Red Snow 2025-01-24

In 2002, Chris Green, 19, is found beaten to death in a ditch in Michigan. The case remains cold for nearly a decade until investigators uncover a suspect whose incriminating statements blow the case wide open.