This episode of Cold Blood: True Crime presents an account of Erik and Lyle Menéndez — the brothers convicted of killing their parents in 1989, the resentencing that made them eligible for parole, and the high‑profile parole hearings in 2025.

In February 2009, 47‑year‑old Environmental Protection Agency analyst Pamela Butler disappeared from her Washington, D.C., home. Years later her ex‑boyfriend, Jose Angel Rodriguez‑Cruz, admitted to killing her and led investigators to the area where her remains were believed buried — a location later determined to be unrecoverable because of highway construction. The investigation ultimately connected Rodriguez‑Cruz to a decades‑old disappearance of his estranged wife.

This episode of Cold Blood: True Crime presents account of the murder of 19‑year‑old Arnima Hayat in North Parramatta, Sydney, and the subsequent conviction of her husband, Meraj Zafar.

22‑year‑old Elizabeth Short — later nicknamed the "Black Dahlia" — was found dead and mutilated in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. Her body was bisected with apparent surgical precision, drained of blood and posed. Despite an intensive investigation, endless leads and decades of speculation, her killer was never charged. This episode retells the verifiable facts of the case, the major investigative leads, and why the Black Dahlia mystery continues to grip the public imagination.

3‑year‑old Nola Dinkins — reported missing in an Amber Alert and later found dead in Maryland.

In 2019–2020 a series of shootings in Memphis left five victims dead, including a 19‑year‑old woman who was several months pregnant. Joshua Dotson — who at trial called himself a “serial killer” and likened himself to the fictional slasher Michael Myers — was convicted and later pleaded guilty to multiple counts of first‑degree murder. In 2024–2025 he received consecutive sentences that together total 261 years behind bars. This episode recounts the facts established in court, the victims, the investigations and the sentences imposed.

In September 2024, 18‑year‑old Nicholas Prosper killed his mother and two siblings in Luton and planned a mass shooting at his former primary school. In March 2025 he was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 49 years. That sentence was referred to the Court of Appeal as “unduly lenient”; in July 2025 the court refused to replace the 49‑year minimum with a whole‑life order. This episode explains the crimes, the trial and sentencing reasoning, the legal challenge, and why the appeal judges left the original sentence in place.

This episode of Cold Blood: True Crime presents account of the February 26, 2024 murder of 23‑year‑old Rebekah A. Byler — a pregnant Amish mother killed inside her home — and the investigation, trial and sentencing of Shawn Christopher Cranston.

In this episode of Cold Blood: True Crime we present account of the February 20, 2017 killing of Whittier Police Officer Keith Boyer — the circumstances of the shooting, the investigation that followed, and the prosecution and sentencing of the man convicted in the case.

we examine the allegations against Thomas Pinkerton, a former youth pastor at Central Christian Church in Baltimore County, who was arrested and extradited from Georgia to Maryland on multiple counts of sexual abuse dating to 2006–2010.