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 hosted by Paula Barros.
617 episodes transcribedIn March 2006, landlord Bruce Blackwood disappears without a trace in a city with eight million residents. The NYPD are sure there is foul pl...
Fingerprints lifted from two beer bottles help a California detective track down a prostitute's killers. Two persistent cold case detectives...
A malicious workplace shooting haunts the nightmares of Cheryl, Carol and Layla. Tamara swims through shark infested waters in a desperate bi...
Young mother Brenda DuPont is found murdered in her home in Opelousas, Louisiana in May 1988. The initial investigation quickly turns cold, b...
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-yea...
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 t...
Three-year-old Vanessa Bennett becomes the lone survivor of her family’s brutal massacre in early 1984. Investigators at the time suspect tha...
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 yea...
Survivor Morgan Rowan describes for the first time on television how she was brutally attacked in 1968 by social gadfly Rodney Alcala, during...
A promise is sacred in North American Indigenous Cree culture, and when Cree woman Shirley Soosay vanishes in 1980, her niece, Violet, promis...
Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the u...
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...
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...
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 F...
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,...
Just two years into their marriage, Chuck Hall finds his wife, Cheryl, murdered in their home. Although Cheryl’s family is certain they know...
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...
When the fire that kills firefighter Gary Parks is ruled an arson, the investigation into his death shifts to a homicide. A serial arsonist i...
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...
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...
