Cold Case Files

By A&E / PodcastOne

Society & Culture History

What's Cold Case Files about?

Based on the iconic, Emmy-nominated series on A&E, this show explores some of the most difficult-to-solve murders, which stymied investigators and went cold, sometimes for decades. In fact, one-third of all murders in America remain open. But thanks to dogged investigators and breakthroughs in forensic technology, these cases become part of the rare 1% of cold cases that are ever solved. Cold Case Files is hosted by Paula Barros.

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In January of 1981, 18-year-old Cheryl Bartlett Fann was walking home late at night with her fiancé Bud, when they were suddenly abducted and taken to an abandoned garage by two attackers. They would go free for years until DNA ...

Cold Case Files episodes:

12.09.2023 I SURVIVED: I Didn't Even Realize I Was Shot In January of 1981, 18-year-old Cheryl Bartlett Fann was walking home late at night with her fiancé Bud, when they were suddenly abducted and taken to an abandoned garage by two attackers. They would go free for years until DNA ...
12.05.2023 The Golden State Killer It began with a string of burglaries in the 1970s. Then, a series of sexual assaults. And finally, a dozen murders or more. At least three different crime sprees in California over the course of two decades have now been ...
12.02.2023 I SURVIVED: I Don't Want to Die Like That In September of 1992, 17-year-old Jennifer Asbenson is kidnapped and driven into the most desolate part of Palm Desert, CA. Her attacker, 32-year-old Andrew Urdiales, has already killed multiple women before luring his latest victim into his car. Jennifer recounts ...
11.28.2023 REOPENED: The Barrel A Long Island man is preparing to sell his house when he discovers a 55-gallon barrel hidden in his crawlspace. It has seemingly been there for decades - at least for as long as he's owned the home. But when ...
11.25.2023 I SURVIVED: The Box Became My Safe Haven 21-year-old Anita is at home alone, when a man she barely knows bursts in, ties her up, and abducts her. The attacker imprisons her in his home, keeping her locked in a metal box for hours on end. Over the ...
11.21.2023 REOPENED: A Sister Lost A thirteen-year-old girl vanishes, seemingly out of thin air, while her brother is standing just feet away. She was never seen again, and her disappearance would haunt her brother or thirty years. That is until another victim comes forward, and ...
11.18.2023 I SURVIVED: His Eyes Were Black Lynda is still healing from a difficult divorce when she meets a new man online. Their romance fizzles fast, but when the man calls Lynda in desperate need of help, she is lured into his trap. Sponsors: Bombas: Go to ...
11.14.2023 REOPENED: The Bedroom Basher After pregnant Diana is attacked in her home, she nearly dies. Despite a severe head injury, she believes she can identify her attacker - her husband, Kevin. Kevin insists he is innocent, and that his wife was attacked by a ...
11.11.2023 I SURVIVED: He Knew How To Control Us College student Holly and her new boyfriend are walking home from a party when the unthinkable happens. A strange man attacks them in the darkness, and Holly barely makes it out alive. Sponsors: Lily's: Download Lily’s Garden for free today ...
11.07.2023 REOPENED: NCIS Ensign Andrew Muns disappeared from the Navy ship he was serving on during the Vietnam War. His disappearance was officially ruled a desertion, but Andrew's sister, and investigators, never believed that story. They believed he was murdered. And they held ...
11.04.2023 I SURVIVED: A Two-Foot-Long Machete When a deranged attacker arrives at her elementary school, principal Norina is the only thing standing between her kindergarten students and the man’s machete. She risks life and limb to protect her kids, and bring down the violent assailant. Sponsors: ...
10.31.2023 REOPENED: Murder He Wrote In July of 1988, the owner of a taxi company in Michigan was shot by a disgruntled employee. He survived, until a year later when he was shot once again. The identity of his second attacker would remain a mystery ...
10.28.2023 I SURVIVED: I Just Jumped Eight year old Midsi is on her way home from school, when a strange man abducts her on the street and holds her captive for days. Despite her attacker’s threats, Midsi makes a daring escape and saves herself from certain ...
10.24.2023 REOPENED: A Killer's Dream For over 20 years, Kirsten was haunted by the unsolved murder of her mother when she was eight years old. And while Kirsten's nightmare drove her to keep working with Cold Case detectives and never stop believing her mother's case ...
10.21.2023 I SURVIVED: The Same Smell, The Same Burn When Karli starts a new relationship with a man from her past, she has no idea that he has some violent enemies. Karli survives not one, but two acid attacks at the hands of complete strangers, and must find a ...
10.17.2023 REOPENED: A Brother's Burden There were three Evans brothers: the cop, the truck driver, and the troublemaker. When a rumor surfaces connecting one of the three brothers to a murder case eighteen-years cold, the boundaries of loyalty, morality, and trust between siblings are tested. ...
10.14.2023 I SURVIVED: The Ninja in the Attic On a normal Friday morning, Ellen is at home alone when she is brutally attacked by a strange man in all black. Ellen's attacker had been hiding in her home for days, waiting for the right moment to strike. Sponsors: ...
10.12.2023 Preview: Bad Bad Thing Season 2 The Blackstone Sisters TV show producer Jill Blackstone is accused of killing her disabled sister Wendy, and some of their rescue dogs, by leaving them in a garage with a barbecue grill. Jill blames the deaths on accidental monoxide poisoning But police believe ...
10.10.2023 REOPENED: The Sting Operation In the spring of 1977, a small town convenience store in Arkansas becomes the site of a robbery and a murder. What makes this case unique, is that the victim was seventy-one years old - and a cop. Solving his ...
10.07.2023 I SURVIVED: Everything Went to Slow Motion Kim and Nina set out on an early morning hike, when a man emerges from the wilderness armed with a knife. What should have been a fun day trip quickly turns into a fight for their lives. Sponsors: Bombas: Go ...
10.03.2023 REOPENED: The Interrogation After a young girl is murdered in her home while the rest of her family slept, the police investigation zeroes in on the girl's teenage brother. But by focusing so closely on the brother, did investigators miss another suspect?. Sponsors: ...
09.30.2023 I SURVIVED: I Could Feel Myself Fading Kendra, a single mom, is one year into a new relationship with a Hollywood actor, when his jealous, controlling behavior forces her to end the relationship. Just when she thinks it's finally over, her ex shows up at her house, ...
09.26.2023 REOPENED: Unholy Secret In Toledo, Ohio in 1980, a woman's body was found in a chapel, covered only by an altar cloth. She had been stabbed 31 times. The woman's name? Sister Margaret Ann Pahl. Somebody had murdered a nun. Sponsors: Nutrafol: Take ...
09.23.2023 I SURVIVED: I Just Saw Evil Maggie is just 15 years old when an attacker snatches her off the street during her early morning run. When police close in on him, the attacker gets desperate, and Maggie clings to life. Sponsors: PDS DEBT: PDS Debt is ...
09.19.2023 REOPENED: The Tourniquet It's the late 90's in Houston, Texas and a serial killer is on the loose, having already strangled at least three women to death. His signature? A ligature tied around the neck, and tightened with a tourniquet.
09.16.2023 I SURVIVED: I Could Feel Snow All Around Me Teri’s ex-husband attacks her in a jealous rage and leaves her to die, jammed in a garbage can filled with snow. For 27 freezing hours Teri wills herself to stay alive for her children. Sponsors: Babbel: Here's a special, (limited ...
09.12.2023 REOPENED: A Confession for Carmen In a big city like Philadelphia, it's easy for an unsolved murder to slip into the cold files and be forgotten. But in this case, one victim's boyfriend was set on doing everything possible to make sure people didn't forget, ...
09.09.2023 I SURVIVED: The One That Killed My Husband While Debbie is outside gardening, an unknown attacker hides in her home waiting for her to come inside. He abducts Debbie beginning a 5-day nightmare, during which Debbie will discover that she isn't this man's only victim. Sponsors: AMCN: Visit ...
09.05.2023 REOPENED: Smoky Mountain Mystery After nearly two decades of silence, a man known as the Smoky Mountain Gypsy comes forward with information that could lead police to solve not one, but two different murders, which had never before been connected. Sponsors: Nutrafol: Take the ...
09.02.2023 I SURVIVED: The Hardest Twenty Yards I Have Ever Walked When Amanda, a school teacher, is carjacked and abducted by an escaped inmate, she quickly forms a game plan: play along and stay alive. In order to convince her abductor that they are friends and get out alive, she is ...
08.29.2023 REOPENED: The Clue That Stuck In an ocean-side town in California, a woman is strangled to death in her home and her head is wrapped in duct tape. Police are at a loss for evidence, but there is one eye-witness: the victim's four-year-old son. Sponsors: ...
08.26.2023 I SURVIVED: It Looks Like Dynamite Michelle and her daughter Breea are home alone when three masked gunman burst through the door. The home invasion turns into a high stakes bank robbery, and Michelle's only hope of survival is to help her captors pull it off. ...
08.22.2023 REOPENED: Killer on Campus In the spring of 1969, Jane Mixer becomes one of several young women murdered around the University of Michigan. Police think there may be a serial killer, but does Jane fit the pattern? And years later, how does the DNA ...
08.19.2023 I SURVIVED: I Didn't Stop Running One phone call turned Karen’s seemingly happy marriage into a violent nightmare. A prisoner in her own home, Karen outsmarted her husband and escaped with her life twice. Today, she uses her experience for good, helping others survive and learn ...
08.15.2023 REOPENED: Where's Peggy? After a mother hears about allegations that her physically abusive boyfriend has sexually abused her daughter, she goes mysteriously missing for over a decade. A trunk, a storage unit, and a Cold Case detective's dogged determination help solve the mystery. ...
08.12.2023 I SURVIVED: I Had A Dark Secret In September 1975, 14-year-old David McVicker is abducted while hitchhiking home from a friend's house in Garden Grove, California. His assailant, William Bonin, has an appetite for assaulting young men and boys. David wasn’t his first victim, nor would he ...
08.08.2023 REOPENED: Kidnapped In 1991, an eight-year-old boy is kidnapped from home while his mother is at church. Police believe the kidnapper is someone close to the family, but rule out all the obvious suspects. Despite years going by, ransom notes, and briefcase ...
08.05.2023 I SURVIVED: If I go to Sleep, I Might Not Wake Up Paul Dennis Reid Jr., a country-star wannabe, spends nights robbing fast food joints and killing innocent workers. One of those workers, Jose Ramirez Gonzalez, recounts the night he faced off with Reid in a stock room and managed to survive. ...
08.01.2023 REOPENED: Death in Deadwood In a town most famous for the death of legendary gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok, police try to solve a murder not in the 1880s, but the 1980s. This murder involves a man named David Crockett, another named "Outlaw," a bus ...
07.29.2023 I SURVIVED: I Was Scared to See The Blood In November 1988, 27-year-old Enietra Margette is walking to a party in South Los Angeles, when a neatly dressed man offers her a ride. After she gets in the car, he shoots her in the chest setting off a lifetime ...
07.25.2023 REOPENED: Man in the Shadows Police in Columbus, Ohio spend more than a decade hunting a man who terrorized a neighborhood known as Linden. In the process, he became one of the most prolific rapists in U.S. history. Sponsors: Fab Fit Fun: Sign up at ...
07.22.2023 I SURVIVED: Somebody's Trying to Kill My Brother In August of 1978, 14-year-old Lisa Gilbert and her 13-year-old brother, Randy, were attacked by a stranger in their newly built home in Lansing, Michigan. A good samaritan helped catch their attacker but started a years-long struggle to keep him ...
07.18.2023 REOPENED: The Bow Hunter In 1993, Charles Murray, an experienced hunter, went missing on the first day of bow hunting season. His family fears that something terrible had happened were quickly realized. But who was it that found Charles out in the middle of ...
07.15.2023 I SURVIVED: I Knew I Wasn't The Only Victim In 1999, Cynthia Vigil was abducted, held captive and tortured for three days. Her escape from the brink of death would stop The Toybox Killer, David Parker Ray, from harming any other women. Sponsors: Angi: Download the free Angi mobile ...
07.11.2023 REOPENED: The Black Dahlia This week marks the 71st anniversary of one of the most infamous cold cases in America - the gruesome murder of Los Angeles actress Elizabeth Short, more commonly known as The Black Dahlia. We'll go explore what makes this case ...
07.08.2023 I SURVIVED: I Felt Less Than Human Vanessa Gay recounts her escape from Anthony Sowell in Cleveland, Ohio. Her mistrust of the police makes her reluctant to report her attack for many years. But eventually, her testimony would put her attacker behind bars. Check out our great ...
07.04.2023 REOPENED: A Cousin's Promise On a fall day in 1978, an apartment manager in Reynoldsburg, Ohio takes a call. On the other end of the line is a frantic tenant who says water is pouring out of her ceiling. The super calls a maintenance ...
07.01.2023 I SURVIVED: I Can't Believe I'm Still Alive In 1992, 19-year-old Fabienne Witherspoon tries to help a man who was down on his luck when he attacked her in her own home. In an effort to stay alive, she wages a physical and psychological war against the man ...
06.27.2023 REOPENED: Mommy's Rules The bodies of two teenage girls are discovered. One set on fire, the other stuffed in a box and thrown in a lake. Both are Jane Does. Both have been murdered. Eight years later, a third woman comes forward and ...
06.24.2023 I SURVIVED: I Ran For Everything I Had In November 2011, 48-year-old Scott Davis thinks he is on his way to a gig as a farm caretaker, a job he has secured on Craigslist. Unbeknownst to him, it’s actually a murderous trap laid by a psychopathic serial killer ...

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Cold Case Files episodes:

I SURVIVED: I Didn't Even Realize I Was Shot

The Golden State Killer

I SURVIVED: I Don't Want to Die Like That

REOPENED: The Barrel

I SURVIVED: The Box Became My Safe Haven

REOPENED: A Sister Lost

I SURVIVED: His Eyes Were Black

REOPENED: The Bedroom Basher

I SURVIVED: He Knew How To Control Us

REOPENED: NCIS

I SURVIVED: A Two-Foot-Long Machete

REOPENED: Murder He Wrote

I SURVIVED: I Just Jumped

REOPENED: A Killer's Dream

I SURVIVED: The Same Smell, The Same Burn

REOPENED: A Brother's Burden

I SURVIVED: The Ninja in the Attic

Preview: Bad Bad Thing Season 2 The Blackstone Sisters

REOPENED: The Sting Operation

I SURVIVED: Everything Went to Slow Motion

REOPENED: The Interrogation

I SURVIVED: I Could Feel Myself Fading

REOPENED: Unholy Secret

I SURVIVED: I Just Saw Evil

REOPENED: The Tourniquet

I SURVIVED: I Could Feel Snow All Around Me

REOPENED: A Confession for Carmen

I SURVIVED: The One That Killed My Husband

REOPENED: Smoky Mountain Mystery

I SURVIVED: The Hardest Twenty Yards I Have Ever Walked

REOPENED: The Clue That Stuck

I SURVIVED: It Looks Like Dynamite

REOPENED: Killer on Campus

I SURVIVED: I Didn't Stop Running

REOPENED: Where's Peggy?

I SURVIVED: I Had A Dark Secret

REOPENED: Kidnapped

I SURVIVED: If I go to Sleep, I Might Not Wake Up

REOPENED: Death in Deadwood

I SURVIVED: I Was Scared to See The Blood

REOPENED: Man in the Shadows

I SURVIVED: Somebody's Trying to Kill My Brother

REOPENED: The Bow Hunter

I SURVIVED: I Knew I Wasn't The Only Victim

REOPENED: The Black Dahlia

I SURVIVED: I Felt Less Than Human

REOPENED: A Cousin's Promise

I SURVIVED: I Can't Believe I'm Still Alive

REOPENED: Mommy's Rules

I SURVIVED: I Ran For Everything I Had

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