About this series
Explore compelling cases that have gone cold for years, chronicling the journeys of the detectives who reopened them. The detectives relive the events of the crimes, reveal new twists and startling revelations, relying on breakthroughs in forensic technology and the influence of social media to help crack these cases.
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Quick facts
First Aired
1999
Seasons
5
Episodes
128
TMDB Rating
⭐ 8.5/10
Votes
33
Genre
Crime, Mystery, Documentary
Status
Ended
Network
A&E
Language
EN
Seasons
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S01E01
Hour 1 - Cold Case Files
In the first case in this episode Felicia Prechtl is found raped and murdered in Dallas, Texas/ The only thing the killer left behind was a fingerprint which was smudged. The finge…
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S01E02
The Boy and the Monster/Secret in the Cellar
The Boy and the Monster
In Wisconsin in the winter of 1991 a young woman's body was found naked, badly beaten and to make it harder to identify her, her fingertips were cut off. A…
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S01E03
The Texas Drifter/The Fingerprint File
Texas Drifter
Two women in two separate towns in Texas who where raped. The rapist uses a knife to threaten these women then rapes them and leaves his DNA behind. Back when these …
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S01E04
The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct
Answer in the Box
Alison Parrott was a runner. Not only was she was runner she was a great runner, So much so that she had the local media interested in her, So when she got a cal…
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S01E05
The Hunter Homicides / Skulls in Stanley Park
DNA tests identify a skull of a 14-year-old boy who went missing 6 years earlier. When a second skull is found, investigators fear they have a serial killer in the area. In Florida…
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S01E06
Through the Eyes of a Child / Killer Next Door
In Missouri, a part-time missionary is convicted, 38 years later, of killing her 5-year-old stepdaughter, and the skeleton of a Michigan boy, dead for 10 years, leads police to a s…
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S01E07
One Night on the Bayou / Buckeye Misdemeanor
Alligators feasting on a human corpse help police to crack a murder investigation. Phoenix police discover that a preacher is the culprit in a 20-year-old murder.
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S01E08
The Mark of Cain / Death on the Freeway
A man in Florida is reported missing and his roommate is the main suspect. Then, at first it looks like L.A.P.D. Sgt. George Arthur died in a car crash. But two days later, four bu…
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S01E09
Terror in Telluride/Signature of a Killer
Shoot outside her bedroom, Eva Shoen was shot to death. Living in Telluride, on the mountain side. Eva was married to the son of the billion dollar Shoen family who owned the U-Hau…
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S01E10
Diary Of A Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue
Every 2 years, a group of fire investigators meet for a conference. While attending the conference in 1987 in Fresno, California, 3 suspicious fires break out near the conference. …
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S01E11
Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder
In the beautiful byways of West Palm Beach, along the canals a woman was fond dead in the canal. After some research they found that the woman was a prostitute. Even with all the e…
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S01E12
Murder Illustrated/Blood Relations
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 murder…
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S01E13
The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed
A rapist is captured seven years after the crime, but when he is released on a technicality his victim is determined to fight back. Fifteen years after a fire claimed the lives of …
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S01E14
Reconstructing Murder/Fire Flicks
In Wisconsin, advances in forensic clay modeling help investigators identify a murder victim whose skin was stripped from her head, neck, and legs. And in California, police track …
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S01E15
Killer in the County
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.
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S01E16
Presumed Dead/The Tow Truck Killer
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.
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S01E17
The Missing Informant/Man's Best Friend
Police solve a murder when divers find a skeleton in a car at the bottom of a river, and a dead dog's DNA helps crack open a 6-year-old case.
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S01E18
The Tortured Truth/Portrait Of A Killer
The accidental discovery of a human scalp leads to the conviction of a man for murder 18 years after the killing. And a teenager who likes to kidnap younger boys and break their bo…
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S01E19
Vanished
The story of serial killer James Rodney Hicks, who left a trail of bodies and kept police, prosecutors, and the FBI quite busy working on his cases for over 20 years. Hicks murdere…
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S01E20
The Missing and the Dead
When a passing motorist spots a fire along a country road in South Carolina and calls it in, police arrive to discover the badly burned and battered remains of a woman, her skull s…
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S01E21
Silent Witness/Innocence Lost
The murder of scientist Helena Greenwood, who was helping to develop DNA forensic technology when she died, is solved 12 years later with the help of DNA evidence. And a Los Angele…
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S01E22
Frozen in Time/Little Girl Lost
Using a hair dryer to thaw a frozen corpse, detectives get to the bottom of a grisly murder. And the discovery of a child's skeleton in a Chicago garden puts police on the trail of…
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S01E23
Family Secret/Blood Trail
Forty-one years after the crime, a woman implicates her brother and cousin in the murder of a New Jersey policeman. And members of the Vidocq Society, a group of law enforcement pr…
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S01E24
Bodies In The Bay/Cold Hit
A sunset boat ride in Florida leads to death for a vacationing woman and her two daughters, and police investigate a Texas man whose three wives all died in mysterious fashions.
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S01E26
Man in the Shadows/The Hitchhiker
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Questions about Cold Case Files
How many seasons does Cold Case Files have?
Cold Case Files has 5 seasons and 128 episodes total.
What genre is Cold Case Files?
Cold Case Files is a Crime, Mystery, Documentary series.
Who stars in Cold Case Files?
The cast of Cold Case Files includes Bill Kurtis.
What is the TMDB rating for Cold Case Files?
Cold Case Files has a TMDB rating of 8.5/10 based on 33 votes.
