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Cold Case Files
Based on the iconic, Emmy-nominated series on A&E, this show explores some of the most difficult-to-solve murders, which stymied investigators and went cold, sometimes for decades. In fact, one-third of all murders in America remain open. But thanks to dogged investigators and breakthroughs in forensic technology, these cases become part of the rare 1% of cold cases that are ever solved. Cold Case Files is narrated by Marisa Pinson.
Episodes
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REOPENED: Gone In A New York Minute
In March 2006, landlord Bruce Blackwood disappears without a trace in a city with eight million residents. The NYPD are sure there is foul play, despite no…
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Left For Dead / On The Case
Fingerprints lifted from two beer bottles help a California detective track down a prostitute's killers. Two persistent cold case detectives wait many years…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED: I Saw Her Go Straight Up Like in the Jaws Movie
A malicious workplace shooting haunts the nightmares of Cheryl, Carol and Layla. Tamara swims through shark infested waters in a desperate bid for survival…
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REOPENED: Killer in the Storm
Young mother Brenda DuPont is found murdered in her home in Opelousas, Louisiana in May 1988. The initial investigation quickly turns cold, but Brenda’s older…
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The Flaming Gorge / 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 detectives solve the 20-year-old murder of a…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The House of Horrors
In November of 1986, 25-year-old Josephina Rivera's life comes to a devastating halt when she's kidnapped by 43-year-old Gary Heidnik. Over the next four…
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REOPENED: Lone Survivor
Three-year-old Vanessa Bennett becomes the lone survivor of her family’s brutal massacre in early 1984. Investigators at the time suspect that a serial killer…
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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-year-old girl 10 years earlier. And…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Dating Game Killer
Survivor Morgan Rowan describes for the first time on television how she was brutally attacked in 1968 by social gadfly Rodney Alcala, during a party at his…
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REOPENED: Missing and Murdered
A promise is sacred in North American Indigenous Cree culture, and when Cree woman Shirley Soosay vanishes in 1980, her niece, Violet, promises her grandmother…
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Crimes of the KKK
Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the unsolved case of an…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Catfishing Killer
In November of 2016, Tiffany Taylor is held captive and brutally assaulted in Essex County, New Jersey after agreeing to give a ride to a man in exchange for…
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REOPENED: The Lost Patient
Janie Landers disappeared from a home for the impaired in 1979, in what is the latest consequence of the facility’s history of neglect. When Janie’s body is…
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A Sister Lost / Rumors of Murder
A high school janitor is suspected in the murder of a young girl, but police must let the case go cold. After watching an episode Cold Case Files on TV, a…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Freeway Killer
In September of 1975, 14-year-old David McVicker is abducted while hitchhiking home from a friend’s house in Garden Grove, CA. His assailant, William Bonin…
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REOPENED: Til Death Do Us Part
Just two years into their marriage, Chuck Hall finds his wife, Cheryl, murdered in their home. Although Cheryl’s family is certain they know her killer, the…
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The Bedroom Basher
A California jury convicts Kevin Green of raping and bludgeoning his wife, despite his claims of innocence. But 15 years later, police nab a serial killer…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Fast Food Killer
On March 23, 1997, during just his third day of work at a local fast food restaurant, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez, along with three co-workers were attacked. Jose’s…
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REOPENED: A is for Arson
When the fire that kills firefighter Gary Parks is ruled an arson, the investigation into his death shifts to a homicide. A serial arsonist is believed to be…
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NCIS / Exhuming The Past
After U.S. Navy sailor Andrew Muns disappears in 1968, the Navy claims that Muns went AWOL from his ship. But his sister works tirelessly for over 30 years to…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Grim Sleeper
In November of 1988, 27-year-old Enietra Margette is walking to a party in South Los Angeles, when a neatly dressed man in a souped-up orange pinto offers her…
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REOPENED: The Bone Keeper
In December 1985, when human bones are discovered in the woods, it puts an end to the search for missing teen David Reed. David's disappearance shook a small…
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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 company owner. And the rape and murder…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Mid-Michigan Killer
In August of 1978, 14-year-old Lisa Gilbert and her 13-year-old brother, Randy, were attacked by a stranger in their newly built home in Lansing, Michigan…
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REOPENED: Queen on the Ozarks
In June, 1985, a 20-year-old ‘Sucker Day’ festival queen is found brutalized. The small community of Nixa, Missouri are certain that her blood is on the hands…
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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 home and she's found raped and strangled…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Toybox Killer
In 1999, Cynthia Vigil was abducted and held captive for 3 horrific days in Truth or Consequences, NM. Cynthia managed to escape and report her experience to…
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REOPENED: Cold Ashes
A house fire claims the lives of a family in rural Oklahoma, and foul play is suspected. Two teenage girls were not found among the charred rubble, and one of…
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A Brother's Burden / The Midnight Attacker
A police officer helps solve an 18-year-old murder case when he finds the prime suspect-his older brother. And a biker with a bloody finger is the clue that…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Cleveland Strangler
In September of 2008, Vanessa Gay met Anthony Sowell on a sidewalk in Cleveland Ohio. He invited her to share drinks and drugs at his home. She was unaware…
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REOPENED: Written In Blood
Heidi Jones was just four years old when her mother was killed in 1970. Four decades later she vows to solve the cold case and enlists an old high school…
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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's confession and that the real killer…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED: I Knew He Had Nothing To Lose So I Began Fighting Him
Terri and one of her daughters are taken hostage by Terri’s ex-husband who was a law enforcement officer. James’ home is invaded by two masked men who bind he…
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REOPENED: One Tough Mother
When 19-year-old newlywed Tiffany Johnston is found dead in a small town in Oklahoma, her mother vows to exact justice for her killer. Over a decade later the…
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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 his cheating wife. And a man with a…
Cold Case FilesI Survived A Serial Killer: The Coast to Coast Killer
In 1992, 19-year-old Fabienne Witherspoon was trying to help a man down on his luck when he attacked her in her own home. In this episode, Fabienne describes…
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REOPENED: Sisters In Death
A father discovers his daughters killed in horrific circumstances in March, 1984. The mission to find the person responsible is passed from generation to…
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Man in the Shadows / The Hitchhiker
After running DNA tests on more than 50 suspects, Ohio police finally get a good a lead on a serial rapist suspected of attacking at least 14 women. And a…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: Craigslist Killer
In November 2011, 48-year-old Scott Davis sat in the backseat of a musty Buick–traveling on a rural highway in the Ohio Appalachia. He thought he was on his…
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REOPENED: The Clock Strikes Murder
23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Years Day in 1985, forcing her boy to grow up without her. It takes 35 long years for familial DNA…
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The Family / The Clue That Stuck
A detective vows not to shave until he solves the murder of a young Oregon woman. And investigators track down a killer with the help of DNA found on the duct…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED: I Was Bleeding Like Water Running Out Of My Chest
Debbie is taken from her home and sexually assaulted by a man who tells her he and his friend will kill her entire family if she resists. Ray and his friend…
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REOPENED: Friday Night Ghosts
In late 1983, five people were abducted from a fast food restaurant before being found brutally murdered in an oil field. The main suspect is believed to be…
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Kidnapped
A kidnapper grabs 8-year-old Chad Choice from his home in Texas, then torments his parents with two ransom demands; the case goes cold until the parents…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: Tampa Terror
In November of 1984, 17-year-old Lisa McVey Noland was biking home from her job working the night shift at a local Tampa donut shop when she was suddenly…
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REOPENED: Dark Angel
Pam Pitts’ body was found burned at a popular party spot in the Arizona desert. Even when a second victim is discovered in a mineshaft it takes decades for the…
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The Taunt / Death in Deadwood
A serial rapist seals his own fate when he sends a taunting letter to police. And when a man is found dead in South Dakota, his head bashed in by a 50-pound…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED A SERIAL KILLER: The Cook Brothers
In January of 1981, 18-year-old Cheryl Bartlett Fann was walking home late at night with her fianc Bud, when they were suddenly abducted and taken to an…
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REOPENED: Eyes of a Killer
A violent robbery in February, 2010 caused Michael Temple Jr. to become quadriplegic for five years before his death. DNA taken from a knife used in the attack…
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Deadly Stroll / Unholy Secret
In Rhode Island, policewomen go undercover in as street walkers to nab the man suspected of murdering three prostitutes. And a dagger-shaped letter opener is…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED: I Tried To Yell But My Jaw Was Shattered
When a gunman opens fire in a crowded cafeteria Suzanna sees her father shot dead right in front of her. Kirby, a pastor also caught in the gunfire, sees seven…
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REOPENED: The Woman In The Woods
For 34 years Jody Loomis’ killer goes undetected. And even when genetic genealogy leads to a suspect, their guilt must be proven in court. See Privacy Policy…
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The Rifkin Murders Part 4
After 30 years, serial killer Joel Rifkin is providing clues to New York State Police in order to identify two of his 17 victims--the only victims that remain…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED: I Couldn't Breathe and I Remember Feeling Like I Was Falling Asleep
Anita is abducted and put through a horrifying eight day ordeal by a man who forces her to live inside a metal box. Brothers Jim and Glen are struck by…
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REOPENED: A Lesson in Homicide
When beloved Red Bank middle school teacher Jonelle Melton is found murdered in her Neptune City, New Jersey apartment in the fall of 2009, suspicion is cast…
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The Rifkin Murders Part 3
After 30 years, serial killer Joel Rifkin is providing clues to New York State Police in order to identify two of his 17 victims--the only victims that remain…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED: If I Don't Pretend To Be Dead They're Really Going To Kill Me
After a train derails near their home, Wayne and Mary wake up to find the area surrounded by a cloud of chlorine gas. Linda is run off the road, attacked and…
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REOPENED: Suspicious Minds
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…
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The Rifkin Murders Part 2
Serial killer Joel Rifkin took the lives of 17 women in New York before he was caught red handed in 1993. Almost thirty years later, after interviewing Rifkin…
Cold Case FilesI SURVIVED: It Was My Own Husband That Was Doing The Worst Possible Thing To Me
Crystal is violently attacked and raped by her husband as his abuse continues to escalate over time. Johanna’s ex boyfriend sexually assaults her after they…