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.
482 episodes transcribedA newspaper carrier is found murdered execution style, and the investigator on the case has known the victim for over 30 years. Determined to find his...
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...
The disappearance of a 8-year-old Rima Traxler kicks off a manhunt for a shadowy figure seen driving away with Rima the day she went missing. When pol...
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...
A gas station attendant is brutally murdered in the middle of the night, and investigators struggle to indict their prime suspect despite eye witness...
Police in Columbus, Ohio spend more than a decade hunting a man who terrorized a neighborhood known as Linden. In the process, he became one of the mo...
In 1993, Charles Murray, an experienced hunter, went missing on the first day of bow hunting season. His family fears that something terrible had happ...
On a fall day in 1978, an apartment manager in Reynoldsburg, Ohio takes a call. On the other end of the line is a frantic tenant who says water is pou...
Jack Irwin is a 71-year-old war veteran who lives by himself in San Bernardino, CA. That is until two young women - Marcia Ann Johnson and Judy Geller...
After a pair of attacks on older and middle-aged women, police believe they are on the trail of a sexual predator turned murderer. But when a third vi...
A California Highway Patrol officer spots a fire in an olive orchard and pulls off to investigate. He finds a woman's body, shot and set ablaze. It do...
John Robinson is a con artist. He has a history of scamming vulnerable women, convincing them that he has the best of intentions, and then taking thei...
Indiana police are baffled by the murder of an 86-year-old woman, found dead in her bedroom with a pillow and a footstool on top of her head. With few...
A murdered man in his 70's, a tube of hydrocortisone cream, a stolen identity, and a plea deal involving the Super Bowl. What do all of these things h...
From 1999 to 2002, eleven young girls and women were sexually assaulted in a similar way. Despite these cases spanning across five states, in all of t...
When the burned body of an infant is found in the Arizona desert, investigators search for the child's identity and come up empty-handed. Four years l...
In the fall of 1987, Fred Wilkerson disappeared. He didn't leave a note. There was no sign of foul play. And yet his son, Tim, knew in his heart what...
Everyone in the family knew that Zilpha was the cool aunt, but to Jeremiah she was more. They had a special bond, almost like brother and sister. So i...
Lily and Alonzo knock on Anna Mae's door. They've come to take their elderly sister shopping. Instead, her door flies open and a young woman runs past...
When a teenager goes missing in a small town, investigators are desperate to identity a culprit. But few are willing to talk. Following a series of se...
