Cold Case Files

About the Series

The return of Cold Case Files explores compelling new cases that have gone cold for years and chronicles the journeys of the detectives who reopened them. The detectives relive the events of the crimes, reveal new twists and startling revelations for full viewer immersion into these tragic cases, relying on breakthroughs in forensic technology and the influence of social m ...

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A Killer Slips Away

Aired on Jun 29, 201742m

The loving aunt of a close-knit family is stabbed to death in her home. It takes two decades for detectives to discover that a key witness was an imposter—and caused the case to go cold.

S1 E9

A Family Cursed

Aired on Jun 22, 201743m

One family faces two unsolved murders of their loved ones. It takes thirteen years for detectives to uncover the one missing clue that can lead them to the killer: the hidden crime scene.

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A Family Secret

Aired on Jun 15, 201743m

A seventeen-year-old girl in a small Kentucky town is found strangled in the woods. It will take more than a decade to solve the case—and her investigation will uncover a terrible family secret.

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Circle of Friends

Aired on Jun 08, 201743m

When 18-year-old Shannon's 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. It takes 22 years to solve her murder.

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Officer Down

Aired on Jun 01, 201743m

The longest running cold case of a law enforcement officer in the U.S. was the murder of Sheriff's Lt. Joe Clark—shot execution style in his own home. It takes 33 years for them to discover the truth.

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The Night Shift

Aired on May 25, 201743m

Brad shows up to work his graveyard shift and is never seen alive again. It will take twenty years, the uncovering of a drug ring in a squeaky-clean Mormon town, and new technology to solve this case.

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Sweethearts, Silenced

Aired on Mar 16, 201743m

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.

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She Never Came Home

Aired on Mar 13, 201743m

The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a teenager remains unsolved for 27 years—until a rookie cold case detective sees a new clue in an old crime scene photo, leading her to a killer that everyone thought could not possibly have committed the crime.

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Killings on Christmas Eve

Aired on Mar 06, 201742m

A family is torn apart by their grandparents' murders. Two decades later, a cold case detective takes on the case that has haunted him since he was a child.

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Little Girl Lost

Aired on Feb 27, 201743m

Halloween in a small town is cancelled indefinitely when a young girl is kidnapped and killed on her way home from a costume party. Ten years later, a detective's obsessive attention to detail exposes a shocking mistake.