Season 5 · Episode 12 — Innocence Stolen/Danger at the Door
A district attorney uses a clever technique--a "John Doe indictment"--to give law enforcement officials the time they need to track down the Schoolgirl Rapist from Rochester, N. Y. And prosecutors reluctantly decide not to prosecute their lead suspect in the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl because they have only circumstantial evidence. But 12 years later, the cold case squad reopens the case, hoping DNA evidence will prove the supect's guilt.
Season 5 episodes
E1In this special 100th edition of Cold Case Files, we look at the biggest serial murder case in U.S. history - the 20-year hunt for the Gree…
E2The story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in recent American history--the BTK killer, who terrorized the Wichita,…
E3When an adulterous church deacon is found shot to death in the back seat of his car, it looks like police may have stumbled upon a multi-pa…
E4The dogged work of an Alberta, Canada, detective finally pays off when he tracks down the man who raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl 10 y…
E5Law enforcement officials fear they may have to release a serial killer from prison until a 24-year-old murder case gives them a chance to…
E6A video tape made at an ATM machine helps police in Louisville, KY, to nab a man suspected of raping 13 women. And a DA investigator in Geo…
E7This special edition of Cold Case Files offers an inside look, rarely seen, at an active cold case investigation. We follow Det. Vince Vela…
E8Thirty-two years after the killing of University of Michigan law student Jane Mixer, police use DNA found on her pantyhose to finally track…
E9On a summer night in 1987 a mother worries and waits for her 19-year-old daughter to come home. But Diana never comes home and she's found…
E10Nine years after the murders of a mother and her teenage daughters, a wiretapped conversation between the suspected killer and his sister h…
E11Police in Albany, N.Y., get a surprise when a killer they think targets only older women is suspected in the murder of an elderly man. And…
E12A district attorney uses a clever technique--a "John Doe indictment"--to give law enforcement officials the time they need to track down th…
E13A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the police coerced the boy's confession and th…
E14A serial rapist seals his own fate when he sends a taunting letter to police, who use the DNA extracted from the saliva in the envelope's s…
E15Our cameras follow Detective Manny Reyes as he investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman. Reyes talks to the woman's two so…
E16Bill Kurtis examines one of the most infamous cold cases in Los Angeles history -- the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, who was foun…
E17In Rhode Island, policewomen go undercover in as street walkers to nab the man suspected of murdering three prostitutes. And a dagger-shape…
E18After 19 years, Kansas detectives reopen the case of a banker found beaten to death in his bed--and the chief suspect is his cheating wife.…
E19After U.S. Navy sailor Andrew Muns disappears in 1968, the Navy claims that Muns went AWOL from his ship. But his sister works tirelessly f…
E20DNA found on a marijuana joint in Florida in 2005 helps to solve the 1988 rape and murder of a California woman. And a cold case of murder…
E21Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio. And a 26-year-old mother…
E22The killing of a woman in a Virginia hotel room goes unsolved for a quarter of a century before investigators are finally able to zero in o…
E23When a woman is found murdered in her mobile home, police make two shocking discoveries--her husband may not only have been the killer, but…
E24Guns found dumped in a pond outside of Atlantic City, N.J., help police to solve the 15-year-old murder of Detroit cab company owner. And t…
E25A detective in California tracks down a prostitute's killer with the help of a key piece of evidence--fingerprints lifted off two beer bott…
E26Michael Johnson was convicted of the senseless killing of Jeff Wetterman, 11 years earlier. While being interviewed in his last days, camer…
E27Students of the University of Cincinnati and Texas Tech University Innocence Project take on the cases of jailed murderers who claim they'r…
E28The Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA initiative to fund the testing of backlogged rape evidence kits and help rape victim…