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.
428 episodes transcribedThe body of 24-year-old Lisa Ziegert is found stabbed to death in a field in Agawam, Massachusetts on Easter Sunday of 1992. The investigation yields...
A worried father lays a trap for the mysterious prowler who has been peeping on his young son, but the man doesn't realize he's facing something far m...
In 1980, 21-year-old radio intern, Helene Pruszynski, is found bound and stabbed in a snowy field in Denver, Massachusetts. After 37 years of dead end...
The day before her 28th birthday, Kiva Bible is murdered. Detectives search for over a decade with just one scrap of evidence: a single eyelash. Chec...
Near what's known as the hanging tree, the mutilated body of Timothy Coggins is found in late 1983. The investigation stalls and goes cold for over 30...
An elderly woman is assaulted in her own home, and suffers a deadly heart attack during the assault. Her stolen checkbook is the only solid lead in a...
23-year-old former beauty queen and devout Catholic Irene Garza, vanishes in April 1960 after giving confession in her town of McAllen, Texas. Her bod...
When 21-year-old Julie Hill goes missing, everyone assumes she has just run off again. Fourteen years later, Julie's cousin starts to question the rea...
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, several states are terrorized by a sadistic serial killer, until the murders abruptly stop. In 2006, a cold case detec...
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 closed case,...
25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack is found brutally slain in her Lancaster, Pennsylvania apartment in 1992. The investigation uncovers a pletho...
A 74 year-old woman was assaulted and stabbed in her home. The case goes cold. Until another woman is attacked. And another. And this time, there’s an...
When 22-year-old Sherry Leighty vanishes in 1999, her family is left wondering how a dedicated mother of three could just vanish without a trace. The...
In 1980, Jane Alexander was newly widowed. When a new man came into her life, telling stories of exotic world travels and an off-shore trust fund, Jan...
The brutal 1998 murder of 36-year-old computer analyst Lisa Valdez has San Francisco police stumped. The case goes cold until advances in forensic tec...
When Pegye Bechler goes missing in a mysterious boating accident, all signs point towards her husband Eric. Without a body, the case goes cold until E...
In December of 2000, 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in Lake Seminole, Florida. Investigators...
An elderly man, loved by his community, is found dead at the bottom of a well. But the case goes cold until the murder weapon is found, three years la...
A woman is found murdered in a Michigan park, bound with police-grade, plastic handcuffs. Investigator’s prime suspect is found with identical cuffs i...
A district attorney uses a clever technique - a "John Doe indictment" - to give law enforcement officials the time they need to track down the a seria...
