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The series examines each piece of forensic evidence, each witness, each possible lead, and each turn in the road that ultimately leads detectives to their killer. Cold Case Files is a pioneer in the nonfiction forensics genre.
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Episodes
1. Crimes of the KKK
42m
Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American store owner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the unsolved case of an African-American truck driver who was forced to leap to his death.
2. Murder on the Menu/Traces of Murder
43m
A boy's toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case against a serial killer who stalks and kills waitresses. Then, a killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates.
3. Mark of a Killer / Portrait
42m
A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eight years, and a group of super sleuths try to solve the slaying of 18-year-old Jamie Weiss, found dead in her bathtub in 1996.
4. The Widow and the Wolf / Texas Drifter
1h 27m
After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch an advocate group. Detectives use a DNA databank to catch a stalker. 9 years after a murder, Georgia police match a fingerprint found at the scene to a prisoner now serving a life sentence.
5. Family Secret / Justice Delayed
45m
Forty-one years after the crime, a woman implicates her brother and cousin in the murder of a policeman. Members of the Vidocq Society, a group of law enforcement professionals who volunteer their expertise to crack difficult cases, find blood-spatter.
6. The Widow and the Wolf/Unicorns and Alligators
45m
After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate group. And police solve a young girl's rape and murder.
7. Vintage Murder/In the Care of a Killer
44m
DNA evidence on cigarettes helps unravel a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime; a confession to a "Baywatch" TV star helps solve a woman's murder; the mysterious death of a young boy is cleared up.
8. The Perfect Murder/Death of the Innocents
42m
It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a medical examiner's wife. Then, a determined Alabama sheriff reopens the case of the deaths of two babies, hoping to get their mother to confess.
9. The Unluckiest Man/The Deadly Triangle
43m
Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set a series of fires to collect insurance money; and a prison inmate tells a homicide detective that he can't help him with his current murder investigation.
10. Cat and Mouse/Terror in Telluride
41m
A police investigator discovers a letter written 16 years earlier that provides clues to a woman's murder, and a firearms expert supplies evidence that South Carolina authorities need to put a man on trial in 2002 for a murder committed in 1961.
Extended Details
- SeriesCold Case Files Classic
- Closed CaptionsEnglish