
Cold Case Files Episode Rating Graph
Feb 2017 - present

Feb 2017 - present
7.6
There are over 100,000 cold cases in America, and only about 1% are ever solved. With recent advancements in technology and the methods used to solve these cases, as well as the unwavering dedication of victimsâ families, law enforcement and the public, âCold Case Filesâ explores the cases that defied the odds. Each episode of the Emmy-nominated series examines the twists and turns of one murder case that remained unsolved for years, and the critical element that heated it up, leading to the evidence that finally solved it. Featuring interviews with family members, friends, detectives, and others close to the cases, the refreshed classic series examines all facets of the crime and shines a light on a range of voices and victims.
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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
7.8
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 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.
S1 Ep3
7.8
13th Mar 2017
The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a bullied teenager remains unsolved for 27 years.
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.
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.
S2 Ep14
7.6
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.
S4 Ep1
7.5
15th Nov 2024
In 1977, Florida nurse Deborah Clark, 23, is found brutally slain in her 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.
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 Ep23
7.5
9th Apr 2022
When Gary Parks is killed in a fire-ruled arson, the investigation into his death shifts to homicide.
S1 Ep4
7.4
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 Ep11
7.4
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.
S2 Ep16
7.4
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.
S2 Ep25
7.3
16th Apr 2022
Janie Landers disappeared in 1979 from the home for the impaired and later on, her body was found. It took years before the suspect was found and the horrors in the facility are uncovered.
S1 Ep5
7.3
25th May 2017
College student Brad Perry shows up to work his graveyard shift at the gas station and is never seen alive again.
S4 Ep3
5.8
29th Nov 2024
When 19-year-old Tara Sidarovich goes missing from her Punta Gorda home, Florida 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.
S4 Ep11
6.3
24th Jan 2025
In 2002, Chris Green, 19, is found beaten to death in a ditch in Michigan. The case remains cold for nearly a decade until investigators uncover a suspect whose incriminating statements blow the case wide open.
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.
S4 Ep2
6.5
22nd Nov 2024
When beloved mother and sister Janora Stevens is found brutally stabbed in her Tulsa, OK, home, 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.
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 Ep9
6.6
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 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.
S4 Ep6
6.7
20th Dec 2024
When Susan Schwarz is found shot to death in her apartment in 1979, police suspect a robbery gone wrong. Thirty-two years pass before a witness reveals a much darker motive that breaks the case wide open and leads to Susan's killer.
S4 Ep8
6.7
3rd Jan 2025
When the body of a woman turns up in a field in Huntington Beach, CA 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.
S4 Ep7
6.8
27th Dec 2024
A massive search unfolds in Chandler, OK, when two women and a child go missing from a Walmart 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.
S4 Ep10
6.8
17th Jan 2025
The quiet town of Redding, CA, is rocked by the disappearance of Frank McAlister, a teen with a recent cash windfall who leaves only a blood-stained car behind. 25 years will pass before someone makes a stunning on-air confession.
S2 Ep17
6.8
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.
S2 Ep1
6.9
21st Aug 2021
When 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in the Florida swamps in December of 2000, authorities suspect he accidentally drowned. For sixteen years Mikeâs disappearance remains a mystery. The case heats up when police receive a distress call from the victimâs wife in 2016. Featuring interviews with detectives and the victimâs mother as well as rare footage of the crime scene and recorded audio confessions with the accused, the episode explores how the disappearance unfolded into a sinister plot to cash in on millions of dollars of life insurance.
S2 Ep8
6.9
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.
S1 Ep1
7.2
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
7.8
13th Mar 2017
The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a bullied teenager remains unsolved for 27 years.
S1 Ep4
7.4
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
7.3
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
7.1
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
7.8
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
7.1
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.