In the first case in this episode Felicia Prechtl is found raped and murdered in Dallas, Texas/ The...

The Boy and the Monster In Wisconsin in the winter of 1991 a young woman's body was found naked, ba...

Texas Drifter Two women in two separate towns in Texas who where raped. The rapist uses a knife to...

Answer in the Box Alison Parrott was a runner. Not only was she was runner she was a great runner,...

DNA tests identify a skull of a 14-year-old boy who went missing 6 years earlier. When a second skul...

In Missouri, a part-time missionary is convicted, 38 years later, of killing her 5-year-old stepdaug...

Alligators feasting on a human corpse help police to crack a murder investigation. Phoenix police di...

A man in Florida is reported missing and his roommate is the main suspect. Then, at first it looks l...

Shoot outside her bedroom, Eva Shoen was shot to death. Living in Telluride, on the mountain side. E...

Every 2 years, a group of fire investigators meet for a conference. While attending the conference i...

In the beautiful byways of West Palm Beach, along the canals a woman was fond dead in the canal. Aft...

Nine years after police had to release the teenage suspect in a woman's murder due to lack of eviden...

A rapist is captured seven years after the crime, but when he is released on a technicality his vict...

In Wisconsin, advances in forensic clay modeling help investigators identify a murder victim whose s...

Time is not always on the killer's side. He never knows where or when. Bt somebody is inevitably goi...

One will take 10 years and one will take 17 years to solve but they do get solved. Dedication, scien...

Police solve a murder when divers find a skeleton in a car at the bottom of a river, and a dead dog'...

The accidental discovery of a human scalp leads to the conviction of a man for murder 18 years after...

The story of serial killer James Rodney Hicks, who left a trail of bodies and kept police, prosecuto...

When a passing motorist spots a fire along a country road in South Carolina and calls it in, police...

The murder of scientist Helena Greenwood, who was helping to develop DNA forensic technology when sh...

Using a hair dryer to thaw a frozen corpse, detectives get to the bottom of a grisly murder. And the...

Forty-one years after the crime, a woman implicates her brother and cousin in the murder of a New Je...

A sunset boat ride in Florida leads to death for a vacationing woman and her two daughters, and poli...

A New Orleans police officer goes undercover on a Baton Rouge riverboat to gain a confession from on...

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

A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eig...

Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropo...

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

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

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

The suspicious death of 2-year-old Billy Blankenship is solved when police force his babysitter to r...

The murder of an Ohio woman in 1974 is solved more than 20 years later after police get a crucial cl...

Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 ye...

A boy's toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case agains...

After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate...

Police doggedly reopen a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime and find enough DNA evidence on t...

It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a med...

Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set a series of fi...

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

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

New DNA technology and the national DNA databank help police hunt down a rapist-killer 11 years afte...

After a long manhunt, cops finally close in on a serial killer with the help of the Internet and inf...

Police run down more than 11,000 leads before coming up with a suspect in the murders of three Virgi...

A quarter of a century after the murders of two nurses, Canadian police suspect that a former Toront...

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

A thumbprint connects two separate murders and it is later discovered that the suspect had a strange...

A mother is suspected in the murders of two of her daughters, when her third daughter finally convin...

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

Included: Los Angeles detectives solve a 46-year-old murder case; and DNA leads to a suspected kille...

Included: the case of Douglas J. Wright, a former state trooper whose 1993 murder of his wife brough...

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

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

The case of serial killer and rapist Arohn Kee is recalled. Host: Bill Kurtis.

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

A new fingerprint identification system known as I-AFIS helps Texas detectives track down a killer a...

Included: the 1998 murder of waitress Corey Parker in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., by Robert Erik Denne...

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

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

The story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in recent American history--the B...

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

When an adulterous church deacon is found shot to death in the back seat of his car, it looks like p...

The dogged work of an Alberta, Canada, detective finally pays off when he tracks down the man who ra...

Law enforcement officials fear they may have to release a serial killer from prison until a 24-year-...

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

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

Thirty-two years after the killing of University of Michigan law student Jane Mixer, police use DNA...

On a summer night in 1987 a mother worries and waits for her 19-year-old daughter to come home. But...

Nine years after the murders of a mother and her teenage daughters, a wiretapped conversation betwee...

Police in Albany, N.Y., get a surprise when a killer they think targets only older women is suspecte...

A district attorney uses a clever technique--a "John Doe indictment"--to give law enforcement offici...

A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the pol...

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

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

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

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

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

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

DNA found on a marijuana joint in Florida in 2005 helps to solve the 1988 rape and murder of a Calif...

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

The killing of a woman in a Virginia hotel room goes unsolved for a quarter of a century before inve...

Included: a man is suspected of killing his wife. Also: the case of a mother who vanished on Christm...

When a woman is found murdered in her mobile home, police make two shocking discoveries--her husband...

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

Looks at how law enforcers stick with cases for many years, using fresh evidence to win convictions...

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

The Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA initiative to fund the testing of backlogged...