Contracted to Kill
Episode Date: June 17, 2025When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982, police suspect the work of a professional. It will take four decades t...
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.
488 episodes transcribedWhen 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982, police suspect the work of a professional. It will take four decades t...
Amber is 9 years old when her adoptive parents move the family to Utah where they become involved in a fundamentalist mormon cult known as th...
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When beloved matriarch, Sherry Black, 64, is murdered in her rare books store in Salt Lake City, investigators suspect theft as the motive. T...
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The death of Alma Napier was ruled an accident when her car was discovered overturned and smoldering one night in 1980. It would remain a clo...
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In 1991 Curtis "Cochise" Smith, 29, heads out for diapers in Plaquemine, Louisiana and vanishes. Twenty-five-years later, a body surfaces in...
A special profile of three extraordinary stories of people who literally died and came back to life. Deb’s heart stops shortly after deliveri...
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