Episode list

Looks at how law enforcers stick with cases for many years, using fresh evidence to win convictions or to free prisoners wrongfully jailed. This episode focuses on the unsolved murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, we meet a Dallas criminologist who uses a state-of-the-art fingerprinting matching to catch a rapist, also watch Phoenix Police solve a 20 year old murder of a missing Navajo girl, and talk to Barry Scheck, who was on O.J. Simpson's defense team, about DNA, and an Illinois rape case.

Two different crimes with two different solutions in ending Cold Case files. One involves help from a person the other relies on science and footwork to get the case solved.

In this episode we travel to very different places where horrific crimes were committed. One takes place in a small town in Texas, the other takes place in an English Countryside. All three crimes run cold but later are solved due to hard work, science and loose lips.

A heartless mother and an innocent girl are the focus of this episode. Their only connecting threat is that both cases take 10 years to solve.

See how new technologies and dedicated professionals are turning the tide on investigations long thought to have stalled.

George Morgan, a prison inmate, recalls an incident over thirty years earlier that resulted in his sister Michell's death. John McRae, a killer who started very young is tracked for fifty years before being caught.

Light is shed on the murder of a convicted child molester, Lester B. Hansen, in the bayou when a thief is arrested years later. Over twenty years passes before police find any leads in a motel robbery that led to murder.

"The Mark of Cain": Jim McCutcheon, a Florida landowner and business owner, hires James Drysdale whom he met at church. When McCutcheon disappears in 1994, Drysdale takes over; he is suspected of foul play, especially when his criminal record is discovered. He runs and is found in Tennessee four years later. Though they had no body, officers brought Drysdale back to Florida; they hoped he would confess and reveal the grave. Comparison is made with the Biblical story of Cain and Abel and its consequences. "Death on the Freeway": George Arthur, a sheriff's deputy who was killed on the freeway, is at first thought to be a drunk driver but the autopsy reveals he was shot. Street gangs are suspected. Fourteen years later, a DNA profile is obtained from a blood sample taken from the street. Arthur's wife points the detectives to a suspect they should look at, a man who had stalked her, a fellow officer. Obtaining a warrant, LA detectives converge on his house in Spokane, Washington to get a saliva sample. Bingo! BUT an arrest warrant will require a blood sample, and the suspect is on the lam. A TV crew makes a gruesome discovery in the woods behind his home.

The murder of a loving wife and mother goes unsolved for years until a recorded conversation gives detectives the break they need. Over twenty years after the death of a young man, fingerprint evidence leads detectives to the killer.

Two fires in two years held near fire investigators' conferences lead investigators to suspect that one of their own is an arsonist. An elderly man is accused of the murder of his wife until a lost clue helps investigators find the killer.

Years after the death of a prostitute, a cop finds the clues that lead to a serial killer who is pretending to be a cop. Six years after a woman is murdered in her home, detectives use DNA testing on resurfaced evidence to find her killer.

Nine years after police had to release the teenage suspect in a woman's murder due to lack of evidence, they find a new lead in the case. Twenty years after a young woman is murdered while babysitting her nephew, police are able to find DNA evidence that points to her killer.

A rapist is captured seven years after the crime, but when he is released on a technicality his victim, Jeri Elster, is determined to fight back. Fifteen years after a fire claimed the lives of a father and son, detectives interview the grown surviving son and learn a tragic tale of a mother who burned her family.

One case remains unsolved. One takes the police to the killer but would not lead to an arrest. Some cold cases are just not able to be solved others take a long time to solve. Its the hardship on the family left behind that suffer when a case goes cold.

A case has gone cold for 6 years. In the bottom of a river some divers make a gruesome discovery. Detectives work to solve the mystery of the skeleton found in the car. A dead dog holds a clue to his master's murder...in the DNA.

A serial killer of four women, Faryion Wardrip, is brought to justice in Wichita Falls, Texas after a DNA sample is found on a coffee cup.

One will take 10 years and one will take 17 years to solve but they do get solved. Dedication, science, luck, and even hypnosis is used to make sure justice is done for the dead.

Discovery of a human scalp helps convict a murderer; teen kidnaps, tortures and kills younger boys.

Sometimes killers trip themselves up in leading the police to catch them and convict them as who they really are, Cold Case Killers. In this case James Hicks was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Coming face to face with one of his victims' brothers was the unfortunate demise for Hicks.

The saying goes "Loose lips sink ships" Well that especially applies in this situation. No matter how hard some try their past seems to always catch up with them. You can't get rid of evidence but you can't get rid of your past.

In this episode there are two cases that involve researchers in solving crimes. The difference between the two cases are one research is alive and well he other ends up dead.

In Arizona, the body of a California woman is discovered in a freezer three years after her disappearance. In Chicago, the skeleton of an infant girl is found in an ally between two homes.

Secrets have a way of coming out no matter how old they are. And follow the trail of blood. A motto most enforcement people go by.

A gut feeling and a saved piece of paper help solve this crime. A husband takes a wedding vow taken all too seriously...more than once.