Cold Case Files#Episode list
{{short description|Reality legal show/documentary television series}}
{{about|the television show|other uses|Case file (disambiguation)}}
{{other uses|Cold Case (disambiguation)}}
{{More citations needed|date=March 2008}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox television
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| runtime = About 45–50 minutes
| creator = Kurtis Productions, Ltd.
| starring = Bill Kurtis
Danny Glover
| company = Kurtis Productions, Ltd.
Blumhouse Television
AMPLE Entertainment
| country = United States
| network = A&E
| first_aired = {{start date|1999|1|1}}
| last_aired = present
| num_episodes = 168
| executive_producer = Laura Fleury
Ari Mark
Phil Lott
Jason Blum
James P. Axiotis
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Cold Case Files is a reality legal show/documentary on the cable channel A&E Network and a rebooted series. It is hosted by Bill Kurtis and the original series produced by Tom Golden. The show documents the investigation of many long-unsolved murders (referred to as "cold cases" in detectives' parlance) through the use of modern forensic science (especially recent advances in DNA techniques), and criminal psychology, in addition to recent breakthroughs in the case(s) involving previously silent witnesses.
On January 19, 2017, Blumhouse Television, AMPLE Entertainment and A&E revived the series for a ten-episode run. The well received reboot features highly cinematic recreations and music. The new episodes first began airing on February 27, 2017.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/01/cold-case-files-true-crime-series-reboot-ae-1201889745/|title='Cold Case Files' True Crime Series Getting Reboot On A&E|first=Denise|last=Petski|date=January 19, 2017|work=Deadline|access-date=June 15, 2017}} Actor Danny Glover took over for Kurtis as narrator for this new 10-episode series.{{Cite web |last=Holloway |first=Daniel |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/cold-case-files-1201964043/|title='Cold Case Files' Revived by A&E with Danny Glover|date=January 19, 2017}} Kurtis later returned. On August 20, 2021, after a four-year hiatus, the series returned with a new season on A&E, again with Kurtis as the host.{{Cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/now/bill-kurtis-returns-cold-case-225500484.html|title = Bill Kurtis Returns to Cold Case Files, Reclaims Throne as Voice of True Crime| date=August 20, 2021 }}
Overview
According to A&E, the show has been widely praised by law enforcement agencies, and its investigative reports are commonly used in the training of detectives.[http://www.aetv.com/cold_case_files/ccf_about.jsp About Cold Case Files], A&E Television Networks website.
Cold Case Files first aired as a sub-series of another A&E crime documentary program, Investigative Reports, also hosted by Bill Kurtis, which ran from 1991 to 2011. Reruns of the original 1997 series currently air on broadcast syndication in the United States, usually in lower-profile time slots, and on many RTV stations.
The Blumhouse Television, AMPLE Entertainment reboot aired its first episode on A&E on February 27, 2017. The complete first season was streamed on Hulu on January 1, 2018,{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=What's new on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon in January |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/netflix-hulu-amazon-january/story?id=52069781 |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=ABC News |language=en}} and later on Netflix on September 15, 2019.{{Cite web |date=2019-09-25 |title=What's Coming to Netflix in September 2019 |url=https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/coming-soon/whats-coming-to-netflix-in-september-2019-25-09/ |access-date=2025-04-02 |website=What's on Netflix |language=en}}
Some episodes of the series have now been adapted into a podcast of the same name, "Cold Case Files," hosted by Brooke Gittings and featuring the voice of the original Cold Case files host, Bill Kurtis. The podcast is part of the PodcastOne podcast network in conjunction with A&E.
Episode list
=Season 1 (1999)=
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| Title = Hour 1
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|1|1}}
| ShortSummary = "A Fingerprint and a Prayer": The murder of Felicia Prechtl by Karl Chamberlain
"My Brother the Killer"
"Murder of Bob Crane"
"Verdict Reversed"
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| EpisodeNumber = 2
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| Title = The Boy and the Monster
Secret in the Cellar
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|1|8}}
| ShortSummary = "The Boy and the Monster": The murder of Doris Ann McLeod.
"Secret in the Cellar": The murder of Pearl Bruns.
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| EpisodeNumber = 3
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = The Texas Drifter
The Fingerprint File
'Rose' Among Thorns
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|1|15}}
| ShortSummary = "The Texas Drifter": Rapist Lester Don Parks.
"The Fingerprint File": The murder of Beverly Eller.
"Rose Among Thorns": The murder of Juliet Rowe.
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| EpisodeNumber = 4
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = The Answer in the Box
Maternal Instinct
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|1|23}}
| ShortSummary = "The Answer in the Box": The murder of Alison Parrott.
"Maternal Instinct": The murders of Seth and Tegan Davis by their mother Marybeth Davis.
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| EpisodeNumber = 5
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = The Hunter Homicides
The Skulls Of Stanley Park
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|1|29}}
| ShortSummary = "The Hunter Homicides": The murders of Don Hill and Gregory Allan Wood
"The Skulls Of Stanley Park": Skulls are found in 1953 belonging to still-unidentified boys in Stanley Park; in the 1990s, another two skulls, belonging to Ramsey Rioux and Kenneth Lutz, were found in Stanley Park.
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| EpisodeNumber = 6
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Through Eyes of a Child
The Killer Next Door
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|2|6}}
| ShortSummary = "Through Eyes of a Child": The murder of Michelle Morgan.
"The Killer Next Door": Serial killer John Rodney McRae.
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| EpisodeNumber = 7
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = One Night on the Bayou
The Buckeye Misdemeanor
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|2|12}}
| ShortSummary = "One Night on the Bayou": The murder of Lester B. Hansen.
"The Buckeye Misdemeanor": The murder of Dale Sechrist.
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| EpisodeNumber = 8
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = The Mark of Cain
Death on the Freeway
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|2|19}}
| ShortSummary = "The Mark of Cain": The murder of James McCutcheon.
"Death on the Freeway": The murder of police office George Arthur.
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| EpisodeNumber = 9
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = Terror in Telluride
Signature of a Killer
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|2|26}}
| ShortSummary = "Terror in Telluride": The murder of Eva Schoen.
"Signature of a Killer": The murder of
Taylor Courtney by Larry Gibson.
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| EpisodeNumber = 10
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = Diary of a Serial Arsonist
The Lost Clue
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|3|3}}
| ShortSummary = "Diary of a Serial Arsonist": Serial arsonist John Leonard Orr.
"The Lost Clue": The murder of Carmen Torres by Billy Bob Sutherland.
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| EpisodeNumber = 11
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = Killer on the Strip
The Doll Murder
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|3|12}}
| ShortSummary = "Killer on the Strip": The murder of Lucie Pate.
"The Doll Murder": The murder of Susan Doll.
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| EpisodeNumber = 12
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = Murder Illustrated
Blood Relations
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|3|19}}
| ShortSummary = "Murder Illustrated": The murder of Peggy Hettrick.
"Blood Relations": The murder of Kimberly Marie Kuntz.
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| EpisodeNumber = 13
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = Justice Delayed
The Burning Secret
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|3|26}}
| ShortSummary = "Justice Delayed": Serial rapist Reginald Miller.
"The Burning Secret": The murders of Donald Morris and Christopher Styles.
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| EpisodeNumber = 14
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = Reconstructing Murder
Fire Flicks
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|4|9}}
| ShortSummary = "Reconstructing Murder": The murder of Mwivano Mwambashi Kupaza.
"Fire Flicks": The story of two unnamed juvenile arsonists.
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| EpisodeNumber = 15
| EpisodeNumber2 = 15
| Title = The Missing Informant
Man's Best Friend
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|4|30}}
| ShortSummary = "The Missing Informant": The murder of ATF informant Christine Elkins.
"Man's Best Friend": The murder of Daniel Schraeder.
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| EpisodeNumber = 16
| EpisodeNumber2 = 16
| Title = Killer in the County
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|4|16}}
| ShortSummary = "Killer in the County": Serial killer Faryion Wardrip.
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| EpisodeNumber = 17
| EpisodeNumber2 = 17
| Title = Presumed Dead
The Tow Truck Killer
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|4|23}}
| ShortSummary = "Presumed Dead": The murder of Tracy Jo Shine.
"The Tow Truck Killer": The murder of Deputy Sheriff William D. Simmons.
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| EpisodeNumber= 18
| EpisodeNumber2= 18
| Title= Portrait of a Killer
The Tortured Truth
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|4|30}}
| ShortSummary= "Portrait of a Killer": The investigation into the 1974 disappearance of Michelle Wallace is aided by NecroSearch, who finally identifies Roy Melanson as the perpatrator.
"The Tortured Truth"
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|EpisodeNumber = 19
|EpisodeNumber2 = 19
| Title = Vanished
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|5|7}}
| ShortSummary = "Vanished": The murders of Jennie Hicks, Jerilyn Towers, and Lynn Willette by James R. Hicks
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| EpisodeNumber = 20
| EpisodeNumber2 = 20
| Title = The Missing and the Dead
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|5|14}}
| ShortSummary = The murder of Jean Marie "Annie" McLeod Tahan
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| EpisodeNumber = 21
| EpisodeNumber2 = 21
| Title = Silent Witness
Innocence Lost
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|5|21}}
| ShortSummary = "Silent Witness": The murder of Dr. Helena Margaret Greenwood.
"Innocence Lost": The South Bay Rapist – Billy Lee Mayshack.
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| EpisodeNumber = 22
| EpisodeNumber2 = 22
| Title = Frozen in Time
Little Girl Lost
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|5|28}}
| ShortSummary = "Frozen in Time": The murder of Denise Anette Huber.
"Little Girl Lost": The murder of Holly Lee Blake.
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| EpisodeNumber = 23
| EpisodeNumber2 = 23
| Title = Family Secret
Blood Trail
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|6|4}}
| ShortSummary = "Family Secret": The murder of a New Jersey police officer, Charles Bernoskie.
"Blood Trail": The murder of Roger Scott Dunn.
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| EpisodeNumber = 24
| EpisodeNumber2 = 24
| Title = Bodies In The Bay
Till Death Do Us Part
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1999|6|11}}
| ShortSummary = "Bodies In The Bay": The murders of Joan "Jo" Rogers and her two daughters.
"Till Death Do Us Part": The murders of Sharon Reeves and Emilita Reeves.
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=Season 2 (2000)=
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| EpisodeNumber = 25
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Operation Jambalaya
Footprints in the Snow
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|1}}
| ShortSummary = "Operation Jambalaya": A New Orleans police officer solves the murder of Marilyn Allen at Camp Pendleton.
"Footprints in the Snow": the murder of Thomas "Tommy" Bolchen.
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| EpisodeNumber = 26
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = The South Side Rapist
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|8}}
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| EpisodeNumber = 27
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Mark of a Killer
Dead Ends
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|15}}
| ShortSummary = "Mark of a Killer": Suspected serial killer Alfred Swinton is convicted of murdering Carla Terry via bite marks on her body.
"Dead Ends": Murder of 18-year-old Jamie Ellen Weiss by soon-to-be husband, Billy Justin Charles.
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| EpisodeNumber = 28
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = The Baiting Game
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|22}}
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| EpisodeNumber = 29
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Ticket to Nowhere
The Paper Route
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|1|29}}
| ShortSummary = "Ticket to Nowhere": The murder of Diane Chorba
"The Paper Route": The murder of Bertha Neaman
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| EpisodeNumber = 30
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Traces of Murder
The Bathtub Killer
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|5}}
| ShortSummary = "Traces of Murder": The murder of Enrique Elizarbe
"The Bathtub Killer": The murders of Michelle LaFond and Dina Kichler
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| EpisodeNumber = 31
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = Pride and the Fall
The Nail File
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|12}}
| ShortSummary = "Pride and the Fall": Serial killer Robert Spangler
"The Nail File": The infamous 1984 Roy Rogers Restaurant slaying of Terri Brooks
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| EpisodeNumber = 32
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = In the Care of a Killer
Deadly Lies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|19}}
| ShortSummary = "In the Care of a Killer": Babysitter Tawny Sue Gunter is suspected of killing a toddler, Billy Deon Blankenship, III, in 1990 after a second child, Mariah Lynn Sisco, dies in her care in 1998.
"Deadly Lies": James Kent Hill is convicted of killing Frank Ross in 1986, after Ross's body was found in a lake.
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| EpisodeNumber = 33
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = Lady in the Box
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|2|26}}
| ShortSummary = The murders Betty Fran Gladden Smith, Janice Hartman, and one unknown victim
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| EpisodeNumber = 34
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = Crimes of the KKK
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|3|5}}
| ShortSummary = The murders of Vernon Dahmer and Willie Edwards
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| EpisodeNumber = 35
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = Murder on the Menu
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|3|12}}
| ShortSummary = The murders of Alice, Susie, Wayne, and Patti Huling, Marlys Wohlenhaus, and Diane Edwards.
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| EpisodeNumber = 36
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = The Widow and the Wolf
Unicorns and Alligators
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|3|19}}
| ShortSummary = "The Widow and the Wolf": A woman suspects that her boyfriend murdered her aunt, Gertrude McCabe, in 1983.
"Unicorns and Alligators": Joseph Kondro is suspected of killing 8-year-old Rima Traxler in 1985 and 12-year-old Kara Patricia Rudd in 1996.
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| EpisodeNumber = 37
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = Vintage Murder
Trouble in Paradise
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|3|26}}
| ShortSummary = "Vintage Murder": Dawn Magyar is found raped and shot to death in 1973.
"Trouble in Paradise": The murder of Pegye Jann Bechler
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| EpisodeNumber = 38
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = The Perfect Murder
Death of the Innocents
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|4|2}}
| ShortSummary = "The Perfect Murder": The murder of Kay Sybers
"Death of the Innocents": The remains of two infants born to Susan Connell are found in an abandoned mobile home.
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| EpisodeNumber = 39
| EpisodeNumber2 = 15
| Title = The Unluckiest Man
The Deadly Triangle
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|4|9}}
| ShortSummary = "The Unluckiest Man": Serial arsonist John Veysey murdered his wife, Patricia DeBruyne Kemp Veysey.
"The Deadly Triangle": The murder of Walter Brown
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| EpisodeNumber = 40
| EpisodeNumber2 = 16
| Title = Cat and Mouse
Final Fare
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|4|16}}
| ShortSummary = "Cat and Mouse": The murder of Alma Nappier
"Final Fare": The murder of cabbie John Orner
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 41
| EpisodeNumber2 = 17
| Title = The Cuff Link
Graveyard Shift
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|4|23}}
| ShortSummary = "The Cuff Link": The murder of Jeanette Kirby by David Draheim
"Graveyard Shift": The murder of Tracy Benge Sewell
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 42
| EpisodeNumber2 = 18
| Title = The Good Samaritan
Gun Shy
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|4|30}}
| ShortSummary = "The Good Samaritan": The murder of Horst Eppenbach, Sr.
"Gun Shy": The murder of Abby Niebauer
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| EpisodeNumber = 43
| EpisodeNumber2 = 19
| Title = A Map To Murder
Life on the Run
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|5|7}}
| ShortSummary = "A Map To Murder": Serial killer Maury Travis
"Life on the Run":Richard Gordon Bannister
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| EpisodeNumber = 44
| EpisodeNumber2 = 20
| Title = Soft Kill
Unsolved
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|5|14}}
| ShortSummary = "Soft Kill": Richard Evonitz is sought in connection of the rape and murders of multiple underage girls.
"Unsolved": The story of the unsolved abduction and murder of Cindy Wanner in 1991.
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| EpisodeNumber= 45
| EpisodeNumber2= 21
| Title= License To Kill
The Tell-Tale Mark
The Supermarket Mystery
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|5|21}}
| ShortSummary= "License To Kill": The murders of Doreen Moorby and Helen Ferguson
"The Tell-Tale Mark": The murder of Amado Hermosillo
"The Supermarket Mystery": The murder of Mary Lloyd
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 46
| EpisodeNumber2 = 22
| Title = The Original Night Stalker
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|5|28}}
| ShortSummary = The then-unsolved "Golden State Killer" case
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| EpisodeNumber= 47
| EpisodeNumber2= 23
| Title= Cold Hit
Silent Kill
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2000|6|4}}
| ShortSummary="Cold Hit"
"Silent Kill"
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| EpisodeNumber = 48
| EpisodeNumber2 = 24
| Title = Mommy's Rules
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|6|11}}
| ShortSummary = Theresa Knorr is suspected in the murders of two of her daughters, and her third daughter finally convinces police to reopen two cold cases.
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| EpisodeNumber = 49
| EpisodeNumber2 = 25
| Title = A Sealed Fate
Deadly Divorce
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2000|6|18}}
| ShortSummary = "A Sealed Fate": Clyde Carl Wilkerson is convicted of murder as DNA links him to two 37-year-old cold cases.
"Deadly Divorce": Larry Britt is finally convicted of murdering his ex-wife 24 years earlier after DNA from blood found in his truck is matched to her.
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=Season 3 (2001)=
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| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Cop Killer
Evil Twin
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|1}}
| ShortSummary = "Cop Killer"
"Evil Twin": An identical twin is a suspected murderer.
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| EpisodeNumber = 51
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = The Zodiac Killer
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|8}}
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| EpisodeNumber = 52
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = The Accidental Killer
Little Sister Lost
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|15}}
| ShortSummary = On June 10, 1975, Leslee Larson is hiking through Wolf Creek, Montana with her husband, Dennis Larson. A short two hours later, Dennis Larson is asking for help from other Montana locals, claiming that his wife has fallen into the creek.
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| EpisodeNumber = 53
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = The Merry Widow
The Bad Cop
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|22}}
| ShortSummary = "The Merry Widow" describes how a woman arranges the murder of her husband to obtain insurance money.
"The Bad Cop" covers an attempt by a former state trooper to disguise a murder as a suicide.
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| EpisodeNumber = 54
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Daddy Knows Best
Dawn of the Dead
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|1|29}}
| ShortSummary = "Daddy Knows Best" reveals a child-molesting father who killed his wife and nearly got away with it.
"Dawn of the Dead" pursues the murder of a gas attendant on his first day at work in San Jose, California.
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| EpisodeNumber = 55
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Killer's Tattoo
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|2|5}}
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| EpisodeNumber= 56
| EpisodeNumber2= 7
| Title= The Green River Killer
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|2|12}}
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| EpisodeNumber= 57
| EpisodeNumber2= 8
| Title=A Hitchhike to Murder
Never Forgotten
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2001|2|19}}
| ShortSummary="A Hitchhike to Murder".
"Never Forgotten"
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| EpisodeNumber= 58
| EpisodeNumber2= 9
| Title= The DNA Link
The Secret Slide
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2001|2|26}}
| ShortSummary="The DNA Link": Patrick Baxter
"The Secret Slide":Murder of Melissa Bittler in Portland, Oregon.
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| EpisodeNumber = 59
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = Death Before I Do
Hollywood Homicide
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|3|5}}
| ShortSummary = "Death Before I Do": After being tipped to the police by his fiancé, Michael Schultz is convicted for raping and strangling Cindy Berger.
"Hollywood Homicide": After almost getting away with two murders, Kenneth Dean Hunt is convicted of raping and killing two elderly women, Myra Davis and Jean Orloff, 10 years apart.
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| EpisodeNumber = 60
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = Blood Money
Precious Doe
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|3|12}}
| ShortSummary = "Blood Money": Testimony about larvae growth helps solve a murder case.
"Precious Doe"
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| EpisodeNumber = 61
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = Unholy Bible
A Daughter's Justice
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|3|19}}
| ShortSummary = "Unholy Bible"
"A Daughter's Justice"
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| EpisodeNumber = 62
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = Officer Down
Secret Twin
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|3|26}}
| ShortSummary = "Officer Down"
"Secret Twin"
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| EpisodeNumber = 63
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = Weepy-Voiced Killer/The Mr. Big Sting
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|4|2}}
| ShortSummary = Minneapolis police search for a murderer who calls 911 and leaves weepy-voiced confessions.
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| EpisodeNumber= 64
| EpisodeNumber2= 15
| Title= Blood on the Badge
Bump in the Night
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2001|4|9}}
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| EpisodeNumber = 65
| EpisodeNumber2 = 16
| Title = The Lady Killer
A Husband's Secret
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|4|16}}
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| EpisodeNumber= 66
| EpisodeNumber2= 17
| Title= Mistaken for a Killer
A Woman Scorned
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2001|4|23}}
| ShortSummary="Mistaken for a Killer"
"A Woman Scorned"
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 67
| EpisodeNumber2 = 18
| Title = The Missing Hunters
The Flashlight Rapist
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|4|30}}
| ShortSummary = "The Missing Hunters": David Tyll and Brian Ognjan vanished after failing to return from a hunting trip in 1985.
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| EpisodeNumber2 = 19
| Title = Cowboys on the Case
Office Politics
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|7}}
| ShortSummary = "Cowboys on the Case": Four retired lawmen (nicknamed the "Cold Case Cowboys") trace a rendezvous with murder with the help of a convict.
A rape-robbery in Lookingglass, Oregon was solved when one of the perps bragged about his involvement, but his partner disappeared—for 23 years!
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| EpisodeNumber = 69
| EpisodeNumber2 = 20
| Title = The Flaming Gorge Falls
Caught in the Mail
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|14}}
| ShortSummary = "The Flaming Gorge Falls": A man is suspected of killing his family by pushing them off a cliff in 1996.
"Caught in the Mail": A 13-year-old girl is murdered in Seattle in 1982 and DNA on an envelope may lead to her killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 70
| EpisodeNumber2 = 21
| Title = Murder Checks In
Killer in the City
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|21}}
| ShortSummary = "Murder Checks In": Three women raped and killed in Iowa hotels. Police have a prime suspect in the serial killer case: Donald Piper.
"Killer in the City": A frightened Bronx woman is stabbed 39 times, but the suspect claims self-defense.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 71
| EpisodeNumber2 = 22
| Title = The Shopping Cart Killer
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|5|28}}
| ShortSummary = New York denizen Arohn Kee is a lesser known serial killer, but no less odious. He preyed on teenage girls in Harlem.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 72
| EpisodeNumber2 = 23
| Title = The Hitmakers
Favor for a Friend
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|6|4}}
| ShortSummary = "The Hitmakers"
"Favor for a Friend"
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 73
| EpisodeNumber2 = 24
| Title = Lil Miss
Skeletons in the Closet
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|6|11}}
| ShortSummary = "Lil Miss"
"Skeletons in the Closet"
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 74
| EpisodeNumber2 = 25
| Title = Innocent Prey
The Punishment
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2001|6|18}}
| ShortSummary = "Innocent Prey"
"The Punishment"
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| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Love Triangle
2nd Story Rapist
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|1|1}}
| ShortSummary = "Love Triangle"
"2nd Story Rapist": A California district attorney uses an unprecedented legal strategy—a "John Doe" warrant—to solve a rape case.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 76
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = The Calling Card
Carol's Diary
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|1|8}}
| ShortSummary = "The Calling Card": Donald Sigsbee is convicted of killing Regina Reynolds after accidentally leaving his business card near the scene of her body.
"Carol's Diary": 16-year-old Carol Hutto's homicide is a cold case for over 20 years until James Kuenn confesses under the threat of DNA evidence.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 77
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Beauty Queen Killer
The Fingerprint
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|1|15}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 78
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Friend of the Family
Remains of Murder
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|1|22}}
| ShortSummary = "Friend of the Family": After 18 years, Manny Pacheco is convicted of murdering his 11-year-old friend, Angela Wong.
"Remains of Murder": James Crummel reports finding the remains of 13-year-old Jamey Trotter during a hike, and six years later police arrest him for abducting, molesting, and murdering Jamie 15 years earlier.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 79
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Under a Spell
Justice for Lisa
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|1|29}}
| ShortSummary = "Under a Spell": Francisco del Junco confesses to killing and torching four homeless women.
"Justice for Lisa": After 23 years, Stephen Robert Smith confesses to killing 6-year-old Lisa after DNA links him to the murder.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 80
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = A Man Scorned
The Dungeon
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|2|5}}
| ShortSummary = "A Man Scorned": Archie Talley is convicted of murdering Elizabeth Herrington, after seeing her with his ex-lover.
"The Dungeon": John Jamelske kidnapped multiple women and held them in a concrete bunker behind his home.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 81
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = A Killer Named Korn
The Night Watchman
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|2|12}}
| ShortSummary = "A Killer Named Korn": Donald Korn is convicted of the 1974 rape and murder of Mildred Ruth Doench, and the assault and rape of Dorothy Hendren in 1975.
"The Night Watchman": Security guard Dimas Garcia is murdered by a local car thief, Steven Peace.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 82
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = The Bedroom Basher
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|2|19}}
| ShortSummary = A serial killer is suspected of killing five women in Orange County, California in 1978 and 1979, and of another crime that a man was falsely convicted of.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 83
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = Baby for Sale
The Barrel
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|2|26}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 84
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = The Bitemark
Justice for Eglena
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|3|5}}
| ShortSummary = "The Bitemark": Forensic dentistry is the key to solving a teen's murder, using a photo of a bite mark on the arm of child killer Wayne Garrison.
"Justice for Eglena": 15-year-old Eglena Deleon is murdered by Guadalupe Sandoval less than a block from a Diez y Seis de Septiembre celebration.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 85
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = Sex, Lies and Murder
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|3|12}}
| ShortSummary = The episode describes the investigations that lead to the arrest of John Edward Robinson, the "Internet slave master".
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 86
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = The Monster
A Cousin's Promise
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|3|19}}
| ShortSummary = "The Monster": Charles Vines is caught raping a 16-year-old, and his DNA links him to the rape and murders of two elderly women. "A Cousin's Promise": Darlene Hines's murderer, James Mertini, is only sentenced to five years in prison.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 87
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = A Brother's Burden
The Midnight Attacker
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|3|26}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 88
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = The Well
The Deadly Ex
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|4|2}}
| ShortSummary = "The Well": An elderly man is murdered and tossed into his well in 1996, and his stolen guns lead to his killers.
"The Deadly Ex": When a young mother's body is found beaten to death in her car's trunk in October 1988, her ex-husband is suspected of the crime.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 89
| EpisodeNumber2 = 15
| Title = Déjà Vu
Secret in the Well
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|4|9}}
| ShortSummary = "Déjà Vu"
"Secret in the Well"
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 90
| EpisodeNumber2 = 16
| Title = The Tourniquet
Burning Desire
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|4|16}}
| ShortSummary = "The Tourniquet": The murders by Anthony Allen Shore.
"Burning Desire": After being linked by fingerprints to the death of Andrea Born, Kevin Mitchell points a finger at his friend, J. L. Travis, as the murderer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 91
| EpisodeNumber2 = 17
| Title = Manhunt
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|4|23}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 92
| EpisodeNumber2 = 18
| Title = The Family
The Clue That Stuck
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|4|30}}
| ShortSummary = "The Family": A Mexican crime family is suspected of a teen girl's murder
"The Clue That Stuck"
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 93
| EpisodeNumber2 = 19
| Title = Man in the Shadows
The Hitchhiker
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|5|7}}
| ShortSummary = "Man in the Shadows"
"The Hitchhiker"
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 94
| EpisodeNumber2 = 20
| Title = A Confession for Carmen
The Girls
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|5|14}}
| ShortSummary = "A Confession for Carmen"
"The Girls"
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 95
| EpisodeNumber2= 21
| Title= A Sister Lost
Rumors of Murder
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|5|21}}
| ShortSummary= "A Sister Lost": The murder of Lizabeth Wilson at 1974 in Prairie Village, Kansas.
"Rumors of Murder": Murder of Julie Hill in Duluth, Minnesota
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 96
| EpisodeNumber2= 22
| Title= Smoky Mountain Mystery
A Drop of Blood
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2002|5|28}}
| ShortSummary= "Smoky Mountain Mystery": In April 1979, 41-year-old Harriet Simmons heads to Nashville for a weekend road trip. Eleven months later in Buncombe County the Sheriff's Office finds her skeletal remains.
"A Drop of Blood": Terry Hyatt
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 97
| EpisodeNumber2 = 23
| Title = Rear Window
The Peeper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|6|4}}
| ShortSummary = "Rear Window": A 23-year-old fails to show up for work, and police find her body. A suspect emerges, but getting a DNA sample requires finesse.
"The Peeper": A neighborhood with a peeping Tom is shocked when a man is murdered and assaulted. Clues include DNA and a footprint. Fourteen years later the assailant is caught during another 'peep' job.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 98
| EpisodeNumber2 = 24
| Title = The Closers
Caught by an Eyelash
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|6|11}}
| ShortSummary = "The Closers": Edmund Marr is suspected of killing Elaine Graham, but isn't convicted until 22 years later.
"Caught by an Eyelash": James Suknaich is connected to the murder of prostitute Kiva Bible by a single eyelash found on Bible's sock.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 99
| EpisodeNumber2 = 25
| Title = Kidnapped
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2002|6|18}}
| ShortSummary = The parents of Chad Choice, a missing 8-year-old boy in Tyler, Texas, receive a grisly package containing his skull.
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=Season 5 (2005–06)=
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| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title= Obsession: Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|12|15}}
| ShortSummary= One of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history, dubbed "The Green River Killer," confessed to murdering dozens of women in the Seattle area. Dave Reichert had reopened the case after being elected sheriff and succeeded in solving the case thanks to scientific advances.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 101
| EpisodeNumber2= 2
| Title= Finding BTK
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2005|12|22}}
| ShortSummary= A special on the BTK Killer who murdered 10 people in Wichita, Kansas between 1974 and 1990.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 102
| EpisodeNumber2= 3
| Title= Death of a Deacon
A Wife's Mission
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|1|14}}
| ShortSummary= "Death of a Deacon": A deacon suspected of having an affair is found shot to death in Tijuana.
"A Wife's Mission": A woman claims she was assaulted by the man that killed her husband.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 103
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title= Snatched
A Detective's Promise
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|1|21}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 104
| EpisodeNumber2= 5
| Title = The Sunday Morning Slasher
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|2|4}}
| ShortSummary= Police in Michigan hope to link Carl Watts to two murders in 1974 and 1979 before he is released from a Texas prison.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 105
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Caught on Tape
A Son Remembers
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|2|11}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 106
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title= On the Case: Nacole's Killer
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|2|18}}
| ShortSummary= Atlanta police detectives attempt to solve the 1995 rape and murder of Nacole Smith.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 107
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = Killer on Campus
The Bow Hunter
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|4|2}}
| ShortSummary = "Killer on Campus": A college student is murdered in a cemetery in 1969.
"The Bow Hunter": A hunter is murdered in 1993.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 108
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title= Something Snapped
A Killer's Dream
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|4|7}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 109
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title= Daddy Dearest
A Pastor's Wife
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|5|6}}
| ShortSummary= "Daddy Dearest": Estanislao Gonzalez is convicted nine years after murdering his wife and two teenage daughters.
"A Pastor's Wife": Pastor Rick Pulley convicted of killing his wife after scratches on his body connect him with her disappearance.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 110
| EpisodeNumber2= 11
| Title= A Killer's Skin
Where's Peggy?
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|6|3}}
| ShortSummary= "A Killer's Skin": Violent serial killer Raymon McGill is convicted of over a dozen rape-murders spanning over a decade, after accidentally leaving skin cells at the site of a robbery. After he is convicted, police discover there may be an accomplice.
"Where's Peggy": Peggy Reome's body is found in a storage unit in Clay, New York, 14 years after she was reported missing.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 111
| EpisodeNumber2= 12
| Title= Innocence Stolen
Danger at the Door
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|7|8}}
| ShortSummary = "Danger at the Door": Laura Arroyo
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 112
| EpisodeNumber2= 13
| Title= The Interrogation
The Slide
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|7|15}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 113
| EpisodeNumber2= 14
| Title= The Taunt
Death in Deadwood
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|7|29}}
| ShortSummary= "The Taunt": A rapist/murderer's taunting postcard provides DNA to identify him.
"Death in Deadwood": Deadwood, South Dakota uses the FBI fingerprint database to locate "Outlaw," an elusive hippie who bashed David Rose to death with a 70-pound boulder in 1982.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 114
| EpisodeNumber2= 15
| Title= On the Case: A Child Remembers
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|8|12}}
| ShortSummary= One detective checks into a rapist/murderer's background, which includes the death of an 11-year-old girl and photos of children. The detective finds out if there are more than the victims the killer has been convicted of. The same detective meanwhile reopens an unsolved domestic killing which ends with the uniting of siblings who didn't know each other existed.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 115
| EpisodeNumber2= 16
| Title= The Black Dahlia
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|9|9}}
| ShortSummary = The 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, the oldest unsolved case in L.A.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 116
| EpisodeNumber2= 17
| Title= The Deadly Stroll
Unholy Secret
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2006|9|23}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 117
| EpisodeNumber2= 18
| Title= A Deadly Affair
The Sting Operation
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|9|30}}
| ShortSummary= "A Deadly Affair" leads to a dead husband in Olathe, Kansas, unsolved for over 20 years.
"The Sting Operation" catches a drugstore robber who killed an officer in Beebe, Arkansas.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 118
| EpisodeNumber2= 19
| Title= NCIS
Exhuming the Truth
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|10|7}}
| ShortSummary= "NCIS": Federal agents reopen the 1968 disappearance of a navy ensign who was labeled a deserter.
"Exhuming the Truth": An Illinois college student is raped and murdered in 1981.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 119
| EpisodeNumber2= 20
| Title= Cross Country Connection
Eyes at the Window
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|10|21}}
| ShortSummary= DNA links sexual assaults in Florida to a woman murdered in California in 1988.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 120
| EpisodeNumber2= 21
| Title= Abandoned Houses
A Son's Memory
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|10|28}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 121
| EpisodeNumber2= 22
| Title= A Knock at the Door
Shattered
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|11|18}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 122
| EpisodeNumber2= 23
| Title= A Deadly Pattern
A Desperate Housewife
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2006|11|18}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 123
| EpisodeNumber2= 24
| Title= Murder He Wrote
Caught by the Past
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2006|10|21}}
| ShortSummary= A Michigan taxi company owner is murdered outside his home in 1989.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 124
| EpisodeNumber2= 25
| Title= Evidence Kit
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2006|10|28}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 125
| EpisodeNumber2= 26
| Title= Left for Dead
On the Case
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2006|11|18}}
| ShortSummary= "Left for Dead": Fingerprints on a beer bottle connect two suspects, Andre Robinson and Adrian Sutherland, to the murder of a prostitute, Pamela Shelley.
"On the Case": Two Kansas City police detectives solve the separate homicides of Linda Winfield and John Sehanchuk using DNA evidence.
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=Season 6 (2017)=
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| EpisodeNumber = 1 (126) | Title = Little Girl Lost | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|2|27}} | ShortSummary = Halloween in a small town is cancelled indefinitely when a young girl named Shauna Howe is kidnapped and killed on her way home from a costume party. Note: First appearance of Danny Glover as narrator. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 (127) | Title = Killings on Christmas Eve | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|3|06}} | ShortSummary = The Cold Case of Minnie and Ed Maurin who were murdered on Christmas Eve in 1985. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 (128) | Title = She Never Came Home | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|3|13}} | ShortSummary = The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a bullied teenager, Tina Faelz, remains unsolved for 27 years. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 (129) | Title = Sweethearts, Silenced | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|3|16}} | ShortSummary = High School Sweethearts Tim Hack and Kelly Drew (both 19) are reported missing after a night of dancing in Wisconsin. Their bodies are found days later in the woods. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 (130) | Title = A Family Cursed | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|3|20}} | ShortSummary = Two unsolved murders of loved ones, Zilphia Lowery and Jeremiah Pittman, plague a family; detectives uncover a hidden crime scene that may help solve the 13-year-old cold case. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 (131) | Title = The Night Shift | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|5|25}} | ShortSummary = College student Brad Perry shows up to work his graveyard shift at the gas station and is never seen alive again. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 (132) | Title = Officer Down | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|6|1}} | ShortSummary = The murder of Sheriff's Lt. Joe Clark was the longest-running cold case in the United States involving a law enforcement officer. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 (133) | Title = Circle of Friends | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|6|8}} | ShortSummary = When 18-year-old Shannon Siders' body is found in the woods, everyone in the small town of Newaygo, Michigan, becomes a suspect—but no one is convicted of the crime. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 (134) | Title = A Family Secret | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|6|15}} | ShortSummary = A 17-year-old girl, Jessica Dishon, from a small Kentucky town goes missing, then is found strangled two weeks later; a police investigation into the crime uncovers a terrible family secret. | LineColor = FADA00| }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 (135) | Title = A Killer Slips Away | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2017|6|29}} | ShortSummary = Two decades after a close-knit family's loving aunt, Anna Mae Florence, is stabbed in her home, detectives return to the crime scene and discover a pivotal clue hidden in plain view.| | LineColor = FADA00| }} |
=Season 7 (2021)=
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| EpisodeNumber= 136
| EpisodeNumber2= 1
| Title= The Voice in the Lake
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2021|8|21}}
| ShortSummary= The 2000 murder of 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams in the Florida swamps
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 137
| EpisodeNumber2= 2
| Title= Devil at the Door
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2021|8|27}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of 36-year-old computer programmer Lisa Valdez.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 138
| EpisodeNumber2= 3
| Title= Missing in Altoona
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2021|9|3}}
| ShortSummary= The 1999 murder of Sherry Leighty
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 139
| EpisodeNumber2= 4
| Title= The School Teacher
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2021|9|10}}
| ShortSummary= The 1992 murder of 25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 140
| EpisodeNumber2= 5
| Title= The Heartland Killer
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2021|9|17}}
| ShortSummary= Crimes committed by serial killer Timothy Krajcir
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 141
| EpisodeNumber2= 6
| Title= The Devil in Disguise
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2021|9|24}}
| ShortSummary= The Murder of Irene Garza in 1960.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 142
| EpisodeNumber2= 7
| Title= Love and Hate
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|1|07}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of Timothy Coggins in 1983
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 143
| EpisodeNumber2= 8
| Title= Ice Cold in Denver
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|1|07}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of radio intern Helen Pruzsynski in 1980.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 144
| EpisodeNumber2= 9
| Title= Murder by Moonlight
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|1|14}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of Lisa Ziegert in 1992.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 145
| EpisodeNumber2= 10
| Title= Suspicious Minds
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|1|14}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of 15-year-old Ressa Trexler in 1984
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 146
| EpisodeNumber2= 11
| Title= Lesson in the Woods
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|1|21}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of schoolteacher Jonelle Melton in 2009
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 147
| EpisodeNumber2= 12
| Title= Woman in the Woods
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|1|21}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of Jody Loomis in 1972
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 148
| EpisodeNumber2= 13
| Title= Eyes of a Killer
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|2|4}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of Michael Temple, Jr. in 2010
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 149
| EpisodeNumber2= 14
| Title= Dark Angel
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|2|11}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of Pam Pitts in Arizona 1988
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 150
| EpisodeNumber2= 15
| Title= Friday Night Ghosts
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|2|18}}
| ShortSummary= The murders of five people who were abducted from a KFC restaurant in 1983
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 151
| EpisodeNumber2= 16
| Title= The Clock Strikes Murder
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|2|25}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of 23-year-old Tonya McKinley in 1985
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 152
| EpisodeNumber2= 17
| Title= Sisters in Death
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|3|4}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of Jack Kennedy's daughters in 1984
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 153
| EpisodeNumber2= 18
| Title= One Tough Mother
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|3|11}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnstone in July 1997 and the subsequent arrest of William Lewis Reece.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 154
| EpisodeNumber2= 19
| Title= Written in Blood
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|3|18}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of Loretta Jones in 1970
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 155
| EpisodeNumber2= 20
| Title= Cold Ashes
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|3|25}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of a couple in 1999, who were found burned in their home, and subsequent disappearance of two teenage girls
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 156
| EpisodeNumber2= 21
| Title= Queen of the Ozarks
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|4|1}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of a 20-year-old "Sucker Day" festival queen in June 1985
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 157
| EpisodeNumber2= 22
| Title= The Bone Keeper
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|4|8}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of teen David Reed in December 1985
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 158
| EpisodeNumber2= 23
| Title= A is for Arson
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|4|15}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of firefighter Gary Parks, which was originally ruled an arson death
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 159
| EpisodeNumber2= 24
| Title= 'Til Death Do Us Part
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|4|22}}
| ShortSummary= The 1981 murder of Cheryl Hall, whose body was discovered by her husband Chuck
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 160
| EpisodeNumber2= 25
| Title= The Lost Patient
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|4|29}}
| ShortSummary= The 1979 disappearance and subsequent murder of Janie Landers, a mental patient
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 161
| EpisodeNumber2= 26
| Title= Missing and Murdered
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|5|6}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of Cree woman Shirley Soosay in 1980
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 162
| EpisodeNumber2= 27
| Title= Sole Survivor
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2022|5|13}}
| ShortSummary= The murder of the Bennett Family in 1984. The sole survivor is three-year-old Vanessa.
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=Season 8 (2022)=
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 163
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Killer in the Storm
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|8|21}}
| ShortSummary = The murder of Brenda DuPont in Opelousas, Louisiana in May 1988
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 164
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Gone in a New York Minute
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|8|27}}
| ShortSummary = The disappearance of Queens landlord Bruce Blackwood in March 2006
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 165
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Murder in the Midwest
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|9|3}}
| ShortSummary = The 1974 murder of Lori Nesson in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 166
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = The Death of a Hero
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|9|10}}
| ShortSummary = The January 2007 murder of World War II vet Bennie Angelo, whose death was initially ruled an arson as his body was found in a burning home
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 167
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = Vanished in Virginia
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|9|17}}
| ShortSummary = The 1995 murder of 30-year-old army lieutenant Lisa Gaudenzi in Richmond, Virginia
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 168
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = Taken in Tacoma
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2022|9|24}}
| ShortSummary = The 1986 murder of 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian in Tacoma, Washington
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=Season 9 (2024–2025)=
The first ten episodes were made available to stream on Hulu on January 11, 2024.{{Cite web |title=January 2024 |url=https://press.hulu.com/schedule/january-2024/ |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=Hulu |language=en}} The episodes were later broadcast on A&E beginning with "Money Moguls and Murder" on November 15, 2024.{{Cite web |title=Cold Case Files Full Episodes, Video & More {{!}} A&E |url=https://play.aetv.com/shows/cold-case-files-2017#episodes |access-date=2025-03-01 |website=play.aetv.com}}
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 169
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = A Killer Confession
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary = In 1993, the town of Redding, California is rocked by the disappearance of Frank McAlister, who only leaves behind a blood-stained car. 25 years will pass before someone makes a stunning on-air confession.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber= 170
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title= Good Girl Gone
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary = When 19-year-old Tara Sidarovich goes missing from her Punta Gorda, Florida home in 2002, police consider her a runaway. Then her body turns up in a swamp. Shocking prison recordings will send detectives on a nationwide hunt for her killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =171
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = Who Killed My Father
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary= In 1974, 34-year-old Freddie Farah is gunned down in his Jacksonville, Florida grocery store, police urgently seek his killer. Four decades later, Farah's son will have a chance encounter with a cold case detective which brings the case back to life and exposes a killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =172
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title =Damn His Soul to Hell
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary = The 1964 murder of 9-year-old Marise Chiverella leaves the town of Hazleton, Pennsylvania in fear. An intense manhunt yields numerous suspects but no killer. Five decades pass before a student moonlighting as a genetic genealogist reignites the case.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =173
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title =Money, Moguls and Murder
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary = In 1977, 23-year-old nurse Deborah Clark is found brutally killed in her Coral Gables, Florida home. Detectives unearth an affair, a jilted wife, and a web of money and power, but no true suspect. It will take 40 years and advanced DNA testing to expose her killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =174
| EpisodeNumber2= 6
| Title=Evil in Huntington Beach
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary = When the body of a woman turns up in a field in Huntington Beach, California in 1968, police simultaneously seek a killer and the identity of the victim herself. It takes 52 years for detectives to solve this dual mystery and expose a vicious predator.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =175
| EpisodeNumber2= 7
| Title=The Smoking Gun
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary = A 2007 cold case resurfaces when a detective reopens the investigation into the brutal killing of 20-year-old Audrey Giannotti, in Laureldale, Pennsylvania. Uncovering hidden secrets, he races against time to bring justice to a family desperate for answers.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =176
| EpisodeNumber2=8
| Title= A Bullet to the Heart
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary=When 36-year-old night manager Rodney Castin is gunned down in the lobby of his hotel in 2000, detectives scour Marietta, Georgia for his killer. Almost two decades pass before an informant's shocking testimony breaks the case wide open.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =177
| EpisodeNumber2=9
| Title= Viciously Murdered
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary=When 22-year-old Susan Schwarz is found shot to death in her Lynnwood, Washington apartment in 1979, police suspect a robbery gone wrong. 32 years pass before a witness reveals a much darker motive that breaks the case wide open and leads to her killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =178
| EpisodeNumber2=10
| Title= Death of a Baseball Mom
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|1|11}}
| ShortSummary= When beloved mother and sister Janora Stevens is found brutally stabbed in her Tulsa, Oklahoma home in 1987, her family is bitterly divided and increasingly suspicious of each other. The case chills until a trail of tell-tale fibers leads cops to her killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=179
| EpisodeNumber2= 11
| Title=Sooner State Nightmare
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|12|27}}
| ShortSummary=A massive search unfolds in Chandler, Oklahoma when two women and a child go missing from a parking lot in 1992. It will take 23 years and a tip from an unlikely source to piece together a heinous plot of misdirection and murder.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =180
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title=Blood Red Snow
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|1|24}}
| ShortSummary=When 19 year-old Chris Green is found beaten to death near Bangor, Michigan in 2002, his family fear their son's murder will never be solved. Years pass before shocking revelations from an informant emerge and blow the case wide open.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=181
| EpisodeNumber2=13
| Title=The Evil Among Us
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|1|31}}
| ShortSummary=When 8-year-old April Tinsley is found dead in a Fort Wayne, Indiana ditch, the community is shaken. Disturbing letters then appear, penned by her killer, targeting other young girls. Police scramble to catch April's murderer before he strikes again.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=182
| EpisodeNumber2 =14
| Title =No Known Enemies
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|2|7}}
| ShortSummary=When 81-year-old Helen Gale is found in her burned-out car, investigators of Southfield, Michigan wonder who would murder this pillar of the community. It will be eight years before a blown alibi brings them face-to face with her killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =183
| EpisodeNumber2=15
| Title=Contracted to Kill
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|2|21}}
| ShortSummary=When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982 with a single stab wound to the heart, police suspect the work of a professional. It will take four decades to identify her killer and, in the process, reveal a shocking truth.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =184
| EpisodeNumber2=16
| Title=A Dawn to Remember
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|2|28}}
| ShortSummary=When 18-year-old Dawn Koons heads to Bakersfield, California with dreams of stardom, her family back in Yonkers, New York worry she's made a mistake. When her body is found in her bathtub police have a suspect but unmasking her killer takes nearly 40 years.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =185
| EpisodeNumber2=17
| Title=The Campfire Mint Murder
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|3|7}}
| ShortSummary=When 9-year-old Candy Rogers turns up dead after selling mints door-to-door, Spokane, Washington detectives launch a dogged campaign to find her killer. What follows is one of the longest Cold Case investigations in the State history.
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}}
Specials
=Cold Case Files: The Rifkin Murders (2023)=
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=1
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=Part 1
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|9|30}}
| ShortSummary=Documents the real-time cold case investigation into the two unidentified victims of Joel Rifkin, the most prolific serial killer in New York State history.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=1
| EpisodeNumber2=2
| Title=Part 2
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|9|30}}
| ShortSummary=
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=Cold Case Files: The Grim Sleeper (2024)=
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=1
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=Part 1
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|11|08}}
| ShortSummary=Explores the crimes of elusive serial killer Lonnie Franklin who preyed on vulnerable women over a span of 25 years. Narrated by Regina Hall.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=1
| EpisodeNumber2=2
| Title=Part 2
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|11|08}}
| ShortSummary=
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Spin-off series
=Cold Case Files: DNA Speaks (2023)=
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=1
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=A Fatal Path
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary=When 14-year-old Nacole Smith is brutally murdered in 1995 on a wooded path in Atlanta, the police and community rally around her mother as she seeks justice. It will take decades and a second brutal assault to finally reveal her killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=2
| EpisodeNumber2=2
| Title=A Deadly Heist
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary= When 26-yeard old Minerva Cantu is found lifeless in her Lake Worth, Florida home, police suspect robbery as the motive. But who killed this mother as her infant slept in the next room is a mystery that would haunt one detective for 20 years.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=3
| EpisodeNumber2=3
| Title= Horror in the Dark
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary= When teens Llianna Adank and Eric Goldstrand are found shot to death at a Eugene, Oregon park in 1977, every parent's nightmare comes true. Detectives doggedly pursue leads for 40 years.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=4
| EpisodeNumber2=4
| Title=Justice for Mary
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary=23-year-old Mary Scott is found murdered in her San Diego home in 1969. A case with few leads quickly loses steam. Years later, Mary's daughters grow determined to find answers.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=5
| EpisodeNumber2 =5
| Title=Fought Like Hell
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary=In 1982, the blood-smeared car of 27-year-old Stefanie Watson was found in a Laurel, Maryland parking lot. Her family hold out hope she's still alive. When a jawbone is dumped in a neighborhood, a missing person's investigation becomes a murder.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=6
| EpisodeNumber2=6
| Title=A Deadly Premonition
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary=When 31-year-old Linda Slaten is strangled in her Lakeland, Florida, home, a complex web of suspects emerges. The 1981 case takes a dramatic turn when a DNA hit exposes the sinister underbelly of a seemingly peaceful community.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=7
| EpisodeNumber2=7
| Title=Killed for the Cash
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary=In 2002, 58-year-old gas store owner Subir Chatterjee was shot inside his check cashing booth. With the murderer's DNA in hand, one detective refuses to retire until the case is solved.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=8
| EpisodeNumber2=8
| Title=Deadly Web of Lies
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary=When 47-year-old Scott Martinez is found murdered in his La Mesa, California home, investigators can't tell who is telling the truth within his inner circle. It takes 13 years and an advance in DNA analysis to find his killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=9
| EpisodeNumber2=9
| Title=Death Downstream
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary=In 1993, the battered body of 16-year-old Shawna Yandell was found floating in a river near Yakima, Washington. Detectives first suspect those closest to her. The case grew cold until new DNA technology revealed a callous killer that no one suspected.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=10
| EpisodeNumber2=10
| Title=Death of a Yellow Rose
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2023|8|17}}
| ShortSummary=When 30-year-old Susan Woods is found drowned in her tub in Stephenville, Texas, suspicion falls on her estranged husband. With a suspect's DNA in hand, detectives go back to the basics to unmask a killer cowboy living in plain sight.
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}}
=Cold Case Files: Murder in the Bayou (2025)=
The spin-off series is narrated by Keith David.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=1
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=A Trinity River Murder
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2024|12|27}}
| ShortSummary=When 13-year-old Krystal Jean Baker is found dead beneath a bridge in Texas City, Texas investigators are stumped. The quest to track down her killer will take investigators 14 years, and lead to a new law.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=2
| EpisodeNumber2 =2
| Title=The Devil in Hammond
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|1|3}}
| ShortSummary=When a young mother, 26-year-old Selonia Reed is found brutally murdered in her car, detectives turn over every rock around Hammond, Louisiana in search of her killer. Selonia's case languishes for more than 30 years before justice is finally served.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =3
| EpisodeNumber2=3
| Title=Lost Soul in Lafayette
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|1|10}}
| ShortSummary=In 2008, the body of free-spirited Bonnie Ruphard is discovered by a jogger in a wooded area of Lafayette, Louisiana. The case sits for a decade until DNA places a sprawling Bayou family under the microscope for her murder.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=4
| EpisodeNumber2=4
| Title= Horror in Starkville Mississippi
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|1|17}}
| ShortSummary= When Betty Jones and Kathryn Crigler are brutally attacked in a 1990 home invasion, the tiny community of Starkville, Mississippi, is left living in fear. Decades pass and a detective devotes himself to cracking the case using new technology.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =5
| EpisodeNumber2=5
| Title=Evil in Cajun Country
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|1|24}}
| ShortSummary= The town of Alexandria, Louisiana is rocked when the body of 19-year-old Courtney Coco is found dumped 200 miles away in Winnie, Texas. The case cools until a retired homicide detective, turned podcaster, discovers her killer hiding in plain sight.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =6
| EpisodeNumber2=6
| Title= Monster in Bayou Pigeon
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|1|31}}
| ShortSummary= In 1991, 29-year-old Curtis "Cochise" Smith, heads out for diapers in Plaquemine, Louisiana and vanishes. 25 later, a body surfaces in the bayou and his murder case reignites. A local with a long rap sheet becomes the prime suspect.
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}}
=Cold Case Files: Dead West (2025)=
The spin-off series is narrated by Dude Walker.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=1
| EpisodeNumber2=1
| Title=Mystery in Cuero
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|2|21}}
| ShortSummary=In 2001, 31-year-old Pam Shelly is found in her Cuero, Texas bathroom with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. Her death is initially ruled a suicide. Yet a tenacious investigator's instincts and his suspicion of foul play eventually cracks the case wide open.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=2
| EpisodeNumber2 =2
| Title=Thou Shalt Not Kill
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|2|28}}
| ShortSummary=When 52-year-old Dan Lavigne is shot dead on his porch in Rapelje, Montana, 2002, deputies find no shortage of suspects. What follows is an 8-year quest for justice that stretches across three states before police finally unmask his killer.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =3
| EpisodeNumber2=3
| Title=Rocky Mountain Murder
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|3|7}}
| ShortSummary=In 2005, 43-year-old Carolyn Jansen is found dead, stuffed into a duct-taped container in Aurora, Colorado. Forensics and a fearless DA will finally reveal her murderer after years.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber=4
| EpisodeNumber2=4
| Title= Murder in the City of Saints
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|3|14}}
| ShortSummary=When beloved 64-year-old Sherry Black is murdered in her rare-books store in Salt Lake City, investigators suspect theft as the motive. The case goes cold until her daughter teams with a wily investigator to bring her killer to justice.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =5
| EpisodeNumber2=5
| Title=Lovers, Lies and Canyon Murder
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|3|21}}
| ShortSummary=In 1987 28-year-old Carol Murphy is found dead in a wooded area of Boulder, Colorado. It will take 20 years and a new technology to finally solve her murder.
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber =6
| EpisodeNumber2=6
| Title= The Death of Lavender Doe
| OriginalAirDate= {{Start date|2025|3|28}}
| ShortSummary=When a woman's burning body is found in an oil field in 2006, the rural community of Kilgore, Texas and a determined lawman do everything to solve her case. It takes 13 years to ID Lavender Doe and nab her callous killer.
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Awards and nominations
- Outstanding Nonfiction Series (2005) nomination: Michael Harvey (executive producer), Laura Fleury (executive producer), Tania Lindsay (supervising producer), Michael West (supervising producer), Mary Frances O'Conner (producer), Bill Kurtis (host)
- Outstanding Nonfiction Series (2004) nomination: Laura Fleury (executive producer), Michael Harvey (supervising producer), Mike West (producer), Bill Kurtis (host)
Online Film & Television Association Awards:
- Best Informational Program (2007) – nomination{{cite web | url=http://www.oftaawards.com/television-awards/11th-annual-tv-awards-2006-07/ | title=Site is undergoing maintenance }}
See also
- Solved, USA / ID, 2008 (true cases)
- Cold Justice, USA / TNT, 2013 (true cases)
- To Catch a Killer, CAN / OWN, 2014 (true cases)
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.aetv.com/cold_case_files}}
- {{IMDb title|0426666|Cold Case Files}}
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