Cold Case Files (1999)

A New Orleans police officer goes undercover on a Baton Rouge riverboat to gain a confession from one of the ship's maintenance workers who…

A series of brutal rapes in St. Louis goes unsolved for many years until a fluke audit of a license plate number leads police to the culpri…

A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eight years, and Bill Kurtis joins a group…

Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropologist from the "body farm" in the Grea…

A 13-year-old girl's mother is murdered and 20 years later she helps bring the killer to justice; and a dogged policeman gets to the bottom…

A killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates; and New Hampshire investigators probing the murder of a…

A woman's fall from a cliff in the Grand Canyon leads police to uncover a series of grisly murders, and investigators smoke out a killer wh…

The suspicious death of 2-year-old Billy Blankenship is solved when police force his babysitter to re-enact the circumstances of his death.…

The murder of an Ohio woman in 1974 is solved more than 20 years later after police get a crucial clue--the woman's husband was seen buildi…

Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the…

A boy's toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case against a serial killer who stalks and kills…

After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate group that brings awareness to cases th…

Police doggedly reopen a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime and find enough DNA evidence on the suspect's cigarette butts to bring h…

It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a medical examiner's wife. Then, a determine…

Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set a series of fires to collect insurance money; and a p…

A police investigator discovers a letter written 16 years earlier that provides clues to a woman's murder. And a firearms expert supplies t…

Police solve an old murder case with a painstaking examination of the tool mark on the plastic flex cuff that bound the victim's hands, and…

New DNA technology and the national DNA databank help police hunt down a rapist-killer 11 years after he committed his crimes, and a detect…

After a long manhunt, cops finally close in on a serial killer with the help of the Internet and information supplied by a subsidiary of Mi…

Police run down more than 11,000 leads before coming up with a suspect in the murders of three Virginia girls; and the abduction and strang…

A quarter of a century after the murders of two nurses, Canadian police suspect that a former Toronto cop committed the crimes. A blow to t…

In the 1980s, a serial killer prowled the posh streets of Orange County. Police were unaware of the serial attacks until 1996, when DNA rev…

A thumbprint connects two separate murders and it is later discovered that the suspect had a strange fetish for women's lingerie. Then, an…

A mother is suspected in the murders of two of her daughters, when her third daughter finally convinces police to reopen two cold cases.

A murderer's saliva, found on envelopes that he sealed, helps seal his doom 37 years after his first killing. And Colorado police crack a c…