December 15, 2005 • 1h
The story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in recent American history--the BTK killer, who terrorized the ...Read more
December 15, 2005 • 1h
In this special 100th edition of Cold Case Files, we look at the biggest serial murder case in U.S. history - the 20-year hunt for...Read more
January 14, 2006 • 1h
When an adulterous church deacon is found shot to death in the back seat of his car, it looks like police may have stumbled upon a...Read more
January 21, 2006 • 1h
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 ...Read more
February 4, 2006 • 1h
Law enforcement officials fear they may have to release a serial killer from prison until a 24-year-old murder case gives them a c...Read more
February 18, 2006 • 1h
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 investigat...Read more
March 11, 2006 • 1h
This special edition of Cold Case Files offers an inside look, rarely seen, at an active cold case investigation. We follow Det. V...Read more
April 2, 2006 • 1h
Thirty-two years after the killing of University of Michigan law student Jane Mixer, police use DNA found on her pantyhose to fina...Read more
April 9, 2006 • 1h
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...Read more
May 6, 2006 • 1h
Nine years after the murders of a mother and her teenage daughters, a wiretapped conversation between the suspected killer and his...Read more
June 3, 2006 • 1h
Police in Albany, N.Y., get a surprise when a killer they think targets only older women is suspected in the murder of an elderly ...Read more
July 8, 2006 • 1h
A district attorney uses a clever technique--a "John Doe indictment"--to give law enforcement officials the time they need to trac...Read more
July 15, 2006 • 1h
A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the police coerced the boy's confessi...Read more
July 29, 2006 • 1h
A serial rapist seals his own fate when he sends a taunting letter to police, who use the DNA extracted from the saliva in the env...Read more
August 12, 2006 • 1h
Our cameras follow Detective Manny Reyes as he investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman. Reyes talks to the woman...Read more
September 9, 2006 • 1h
Bill Kurtis examines one of the most infamous cold cases in Los Angeles history -- the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, who...Read more
September 23, 2006 • 1h
In Rhode Island, policewomen go undercover in as street walkers to nab the man suspected of murdering three prostitutes. And a dag...Read more
September 30, 2006 • 1h
After 19 years, Kansas detectives reopen the case of a banker found beaten to death in his bed--and the chief suspect is his cheat...Read more
October 7, 2006 • 1h
After U.S. Navy sailor Andrew Muns disappears in 1968, the Navy claims that Muns went AWOL from his ship. But his sister works tir...Read more
October 21, 2006 • 1h
DNA found on a marijuana joint in Florida in 2005 helps to solve the 1988 rape and murder of a California woman. And a cold case o...Read more
October 28, 2006 • 1h
Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio. And a 26-year-ol...Read more
November 18, 2006 • 1h
The killing of a woman in a Virginia hotel room goes unsolved for a quarter of a century before investigators are finally able to ...Read more
November 18, 2006 • 1h
Included: a man is suspected of killing his wife. Also: the case of a mother who vanished on Christmas Eve in 1995.
January 1, 1970 • 1h
When a woman is found murdered in her mobile home, police make two shocking discoveries--her husband may not only have been the ki...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 1h
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 own...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 1h
Looks at how law enforcers stick with cases for many years, using fresh evidence to win convictions or to free prisoners who were wrongfully jailed.
December 31, 2006 • 1h
A detective in California tracks down a prostitute's killer with the help of a key piece of evidence--fingerprints lifted off two ...Read more
December 31, 2006 • 1h
The Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA initiative to fund the testing of backlogged rape evidence kits and help ra...Read more