Cold Case Files Episode Rating Graph
Feb 2017 - present
Feb 2017 - present
7.5
Browse episode ratings trends for Cold Case Files. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of Cold Case Files's 65 episodes.
S2 Ep14
8.5
5th Feb 2022
13 days after Pam Pitts disappears in 1988 her charred body is found at a popular hangout spot in the Arizona desert. When a second victim is discovered in a mineshaft, detectives suspect the killer may have known them both, but the truth is decades away.
S1 Ep9
8.4
22nd Jun 2017
One family faces two unsolved murders of loved ones and authorities finally uncover the missing clue that leads to solve the case 13 years after the murders occurred.
S2 Ep15
8.3
11th Feb 2022
In late 1983, the bodies of five people abducted from a local fast food restaurant are found brutally murdered in an oil field. The main suspect is long believed to be a well-connected local man, until new evidence reveals the true killers.
S1 Ep3
7.9
13th Mar 2017
The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a bullied teenager remains unsolved for 27 years.
S1 Ep8
7.9
15th Jun 2017
Ten years after a 17-year-old girl is found strangled in the woods in small-town Kentucky, detectives uncover a terrible family secret.
S1 Ep4
7.8
16th Mar 2017
A killer authors a book about his con-man past that becomes the key to solving a 29-year-old cold case of two high school sweethearts--and three other cold case murders--leading police to believe he could be the Zodiac Killer.
S2 Ep27
7.8
23rd Apr 2022
In early 1984, three-year-old Vanessa Bennett becomes the lone survivor of her family's brutal murder. Initial investigators suspect a serial killer is at large, but decades pass before DNA narrows the suspect pool to one man.
S2 Ep11
7.8
15th Jan 2022
When a beloved schoolteacher is found murdered in her Neptune, New Jersey apartment in the fall of 2009, suspicion is cast on her soon to be ex-husband. Long after the case goes cold, a detective embarks on a mission to help the man clear his name and track down the real killers.
S1 Ep2
7.7
6th Mar 2017
The death of an elderly couple, Edward "Ed" and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Maurin Ed in Washington state on Christmas Eve 1985.
S3 Ep6
7.7
23rd Sep 2022
When 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian is abducted and murdered in August of 1986, residents of Tacoma panic. This is the second young girl killed in five months. Convinced a predator is loose, police embark on a 32-year inquiry.
S2 Ep16
7.7
25th Feb 2022
When 23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Years Day 1985, a little boy is left motherless. A family must wait 35 years for advancements in forensic science to finally catch a killer using familial DNA.
S3 Ep4
7.5
10th Sep 2022
A fire in January 2007 in Canton, OH, claims the life of WWII vet Bennie Angelo; a closer look at the crime scene reveals Bennie was dead before the fire, bumping an arson case up to homicide.
S2 Ep24
6.5
15th Apr 2022
Just two years into their marriage, Chuck and Cheryl Hall are torn apart when Cheryl is murdered. Though Cheryl's family is certain they know her killer, the law isn't as sure. After several decades, a DNA match erases all doubt.
S2 Ep26
6.5
22nd Apr 2022
A woman's promise to bring her missing aunt back home unexpectedly took a lifetime.
S3 Ep5
6.6
17th Sep 2022
When a 30-year-old mother fails to report for duty in Virginia, the Army lists her as AWOL. Her family immediately suspect foul play. They embark on a 13-year quest for answers before an eyewitness blows the case wide open.
S2 Ep22
6.7
8th Apr 2022
In December 1985, when human bones are discovered in the woods, it puts an end to the search for missing teen David Reed. David's skull fractures point to murder; but it will be decades before investigators can find his killer.
S2 Ep9
6.8
8th Jan 2022
Easter Sunday of 1992, the body of missing woman Lisa Ziegert is found in a field. The investigation yields hundreds of leads but no true suspect. After more than two decades on ice, the case is revived when DNA phenotyping puts a face to the killer.
S2 Ep10
6.9
14th Jan 2022
Just after the last day of school in 1984, 15-year-old Reesa Trexler is found murdered in her grandparents' home. For decades, a stalled investigation only fuels the town rumor mill, pointing an accusing finger at Reesa's 13-year-old sister, Jodie.
S2 Ep4
6.9
11th Sep 2021
Twenty-six years after a schoolteacher's murder, cold-case detectives get a break when a relative of the killer uploads DNA to a public genealogy website.
S2 Ep8
7.0
7th Jan 2022
On a bitter morning in 1980, radio intern Helene Pruszynski is found brutalized in a snowy field. After 37 years of fruitless leads, investigators tap into a public genealogy website that leads them across the country to the killer they've been hunting.
S2 Ep12
7.0
21st Jan 2022
In August 1972, the body of Jody Loomis is found in the woods. 34 years later, the killer's DNA is recovered from Jody's old clothing but it isn't matched until 2018, when genetic genealogy helps point to one suspect--whose guilt must be proven in court.
S2 Ep17
7.0
4th Mar 2022
In March 1984, Jack Kennedy discovers his daughters brutally murdered. Their mother and niece spend their lives keeping the case alive. DNA leads nowhere. Thirty years later, an informant gives up a name. But the family's ordeal is far from over.
S4 Ep7
7.0
11th Jan 2024
A 2007 cold case resurfaces when a detective reopens the investigation into the brutal killing of Audrey Giannotti, 20, in rural Pennsylvania; uncovering hidden secrets, he races against time to bring justice to a family desperate for answers.
S4 Ep8
7.0
11th Jan 2024
When night manager Rodney Castin is gunned down in the lobby of his hotel three weeks before Christmas, detectives scour Georgia for his killer; two decades pass before an informant's shocking testimony breaks the case wide open.
S1 Ep1
7.3
27th Feb 2017
Halloween in a small town is cancelled indefinitely when a young girl is kidnapped and killed on her way home from a costume party.
S1 Ep2
7.7
6th Mar 2017
The death of an elderly couple, Edward "Ed" and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Maurin Ed in Washington state on Christmas Eve 1985.
S1 Ep3
7.9
13th Mar 2017
The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a bullied teenager remains unsolved for 27 years.
S1 Ep4
7.8
16th Mar 2017
A killer authors a book about his con-man past that becomes the key to solving a 29-year-old cold case of two high school sweethearts--and three other cold case murders--leading police to believe he could be the Zodiac Killer.
S1 Ep5
7.4
25th May 2017
College student Brad Perry shows up to work his graveyard shift at the gas station and is never seen alive again.
S1 Ep6
7.3
1st Jun 2017
The longest running cold case of a law enforcement officer in the United States was the murder of Sheriff's Lt. Joe Clark.
S1 Ep7
7.3
8th Jun 2017
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.
S1 Ep8
7.9
15th Jun 2017
Ten years after a 17-year-old girl is found strangled in the woods in small-town Kentucky, detectives uncover a terrible family secret.
S1 Ep9
8.4
22nd Jun 2017
One family faces two unsolved murders of loved ones and authorities finally uncover the missing clue that leads to solve the case 13 years after the murders occurred.
S1 Ep10
7.2
29th Jun 2017
Two decades after a close-knit family's loving aunt is stabbed in her home, detectives return to the crime scene and discover a pivotal clue hidden in plain view.
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The first episode of Cold Case Files aired on February 27, 2017.
The last episode of Cold Case Files aired on January 11, 2024.
There are 65 episodes of Cold Case Files.
There are 4 seasons of Cold Case Files.
Yes.
Cold Case Files is set to return for future episodes.