Cold Case Files

By PodcastOne / A&E

Society & Culture History

What's Cold Case Files about?

"Cold Case Files: The Podcast" explores compelling cases that have gone cold for years, and chronicles the journeys of the detectives who reopened them. The detectives relive the events of the crimes, revealing new twists and startling revelations for full immersion into these tragic cases. They rely on breakthroughs in forensic technology and the influence of social media to help crack these cases - bringing long-awaited closure to the victim's families and friends. "Cold Case Files: The Podcast" is hosted by Brooke Gittings ("Convicted", "Actual Innocence") with original music by Blake Maples.

From the Emmy and Peabody award winning studio Blumhouse Television ("The Jinx") and independent production studio, AMPLE, "Cold Case Files", the TV Show,, is all new Thursdays at 10P on A&E.

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Office Politics

09.21.2021

In 1989, 38-year-old Sharon Bloom disappears. A week later, her body is discovered. In the initial investigation, police have a suspect: a jealous coworker with a motive and blood evidence in his home, but investigators struggle to make the case ...

Cold Case Files episodes:

09.21.2021 Office Politics In 1989, 38-year-old Sharon Bloom disappears. A week later, her body is discovered. In the initial investigation, police have a suspect: a jealous coworker with a motive and blood evidence in his home, but investigators struggle to make the case ...
09.14.2021 A Child Remembers In this special episode, Cold Case Files follows Detective Manny Reyes as he works two cases. First, Detective Reyes investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman, which hinges on a 2-year-old witness. Then, as Reyes closes in ...
09.07.2021 The Final Fare A taxi driver is dispatched on his last call of the night outside Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Hours later, the driver’s body is found face down by the side of the road, and forty years will pass before the murderer ...
08.31.2021 Nacole's Killer: Part 2 In part two of this special edition of Cold Case Files follows detectives as they pursue every lead and work to solve the 1995 rape and murder of 14-year-old Nacole Smith, one of Atlanta's most notorious unsolved crimes. Check out ...
08.24.2021 Nacole's Killer: Part 1 This special two-part edition of Cold Case Files offers an inside look at an active cold case investigation as detectives work to solve the 1995 rape and murder of 14-year-old Nacole Smith, one of Atlanta's most notorious unsolved crimes. Check ...
08.17.2021 Skeletons in the Closet A scrapyard owner makes a gruesome discovery, which leads investigators to question a mother who may be killing her children. Check out our great sponsors! LifeLock: Join now and save up to 25% off your first year at LifeLock.com/coldcase SimpliSafe: ...
08.10.2021 Shattered A young woman is shot to death during a jewelry store robbery in 1980, but without the ability to test DNA evidence the case goes cold until the killer strikes again two decades later. Check out our great sponsors! Boll ...
08.03.2021 Mr. Big Sting When a convenience store clerk is murdered in cold blood, an investigator goes undercover as a mafia boss in an elaborate sting that will snare a killer. Check out our great sponsors!! LifeLock: Join now and save up to 25% ...
07.27.2021 The Closers A woman drops her daughter off at daycare then disappears. Without any evidence or clues, Los Angeles investigators have no leads until an anonymous tipster gives the detectives a name that may crack the case. Check out our great sponsors! ...
07.20.2021 The Punishment Despite several mysterious and concerning clues, the drowning death of 6-year-old Sally Cheesboro is deemed a tragic accident. Over two decades later, Sally's sister is all grown up and determined to keep a promise she made to her baby sister. ...
07.13.2021 The Bad Cop When Kimberly White – the estranged wife of a former state trooper – is found shot to death, her ex-husband swears that she took her own life. But as the investigation unfolds, the trooper's story doesn't quite add up. Check ...
07.06.2021 A Wife's Mission A woman's life is shattered when her house is broken into, she's assaulted, her husband is murdered, and her home is set aflame. To make matters worse, police consider her a suspect in her own attack and her husband's death. ...
06.29.2021 A Son Remembers Leslie Powers opened a box of family photographs to discover a Great Aunt she never knew existed. A Great Aunt who was murdered, and whose case was never solved. That is, until Leslie starts asking questions, and gets police to ...
06.24.2021 A Detective's Promise When an 18-year-old hitchhiker is found in a ravine, the autopsy reveals her killing is perhaps the most brutal the examiner has ever seen. Detective McManus is struck by this case, and so he makes a promise. He's going to ...
06.15.2021 Lil Miss 'Lil Miss' Lisa Marie Kimmel was 18 years old in 1988. She was working at a restaurant and driving around in her new, shiny black Honda CRX. One weekend, she was on her way to visit her family in Casper, ...
06.10.2021 Death of a Deacon Deacon Phil Perry was having an affair with a member of his congregation. Shortly after he told his own wife, his body was found in the trunk of a car in Mexico. He had been murdered. Who killed Deacon Phil ...
06.03.2021 Left For Dead In 1995, a sex worker named Pamela Shelley was shot in the back eight times and left in a field. With minimal evidence, the case goes cold. But seven years later, new technology may provide the means for investigators to ...
05.26.2021 The Flaming Gorge Falls In the summer of 1996, Bob Duke calls 911 after his wife and young son fall from a high cliff in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Green River, Wyoming. Their deaths are ruled an accident, but to investigators, the circumstances ...
05.18.2021 Snatched A six-year-old girl goes missing from her backyard. The only witness is a five-year-old, who says a strange man took the missing girl. Who was this man? And why was the girl taken? Check out our great sponsors! Scott's Cheap ...
05.12.2021 Déjà Vu In the fall of 1996, a 25-year-old school teacher was found murdered in the bathtub of her Arlington, Texas apartment. Three months later, a 22-year-old woman was found murdered in the bathtub of her Arlington, Texas apartment - located in ...
05.05.2021 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 ...
04.28.2021 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 ...
04.21.2021 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 ...
04.15.2021 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 ...
04.06.2021 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 ...
03.31.2021 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. ...
03.24.2021 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 ...
03.16.2021 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. Check out our ...
03.10.2021 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. Check out our ...
03.02.2021 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, ...
02.23.2021 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. Check out our great ...
02.16.2021 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? Don't ...
02.10.2021 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. Check ...
02.02.2021 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 ...
01.26.2021 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. ...
01.20.2021 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 ...
01.12.2021 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 ...
01.07.2021 Eyes at the Window The community is shocked when nursing student Jana Reynolds is raped and murdered. Without DNA testing available the case goes cold, but when the killer strikes again a detective with a hunch puts the pieces together. Check our our great ...
12.29.2020 The Merry Widow A man is shot point blank. And with no suspect, the only thing police know is that this murder was committed with intent. When the weapon is found years later, the case reopens and takes a closer look at a ...
12.22.2020 A Son's Memory A mother of three goes missing on Christmas eve in 1994, and suspicion surrounds her sudden disappearance. In 2004, her case is still unsolved, until her son opens up about a memory that’s been buried for a decade. Thanks to ...
12.15.2020 Caught By The Past Clydine Dallas is murdered in her own home, and despite fingerprint evidence her case goes cold until a special squad tasked with re-opening tough cases picks up the investigation. Need a gift idea? Check out our great sponsors! Bambee: Go ...
12.08.2020 Carol's Diary A 16-year-old girl is killed and her brother is the first to come upon her murder scene. The teenager's diary leads detectives to her killer... Check out our great sponsors! Bambee: Go to Bambee.com/coldcase RIGHT NOW to schedule your FREE ...
12.01.2020 A Deadly Affair When a bank cashier is brutally murdered in his own bed, initial evidence points to a bank robbery plot. But as investigators follow the trail, they discover that the perpetrator might be much closer to home. Check out our great ...
11.24.2020 Exhuming the Truth A college student is murdered - and two viable suspects surface almost immediately - but it will take 20 years to pin down the killer... Check out the great deals from our sponsors! Man Crates: Get the guy in your ...
11.17.2020 Life on the Run When a beloved fixture of a Colorado community goes missing, his neighbors are shocked to learn that the man they thought they knew never existed, and a con man is in the wind again. Check out our great sponsors! Talkspace: ...
11.10.2020 The Peeper A worried father lays a trap for the mysterious prowler who has been peeping on his young son, but the man doesn't realize he's facing something far more sinister than he could have imagined. Check out our great sponsors! Madison ...
11.03.2020 Beauty Queen Killer In 1978, beauty queen Tana Woolley moves into her first apartment alone. Not long after her move, Tana is found murdered and everyone in her apartment building becomes a suspect. Here's some great deals from our sponsors! Nutrafol: Go to ...
10.27.2020 Caught by an Eyelash The day before her 28th birthday, Kiva Bible is murdered. Detectives search for over a decade with just one scrap of evidence: a single eyelash. Here's some great deals from our sponsors! Jenny Life: Ladies! Visit www.JennyLife.com/coldcase to get a ...
10.20.2020 The Paper Route A newspaper carrier is found murdered execution style, and the investigator on the case has known the victim for over 30 years. Determined to find his friend's killer, the investigator will search for more than a decade before finally bringing ...
10.13.2020 The Slide An elderly woman is assaulted in her own home, and suffers a deadly heart attack during the assault. Her stolen checkbook is the only solid lead in a decades-long search for a killer. Find your perfect shade with MADISON REED! ...

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Cold Case Files episodes:

Office Politics

A Child Remembers

The Final Fare

Nacole's Killer: Part 2

Nacole's Killer: Part 1

Skeletons in the Closet

Shattered

Mr. Big Sting

The Closers

The Punishment

The Bad Cop

A Wife's Mission

A Son Remembers

A Detective's Promise

Lil Miss

Death of a Deacon

Left For Dead

The Flaming Gorge Falls

Snatched

Déjà Vu

A Sister Lost

The Bedroom Basher

NCIS

Murder He Wrote

A Killer's Dream

A Brother's Burden

The Sting Operation

Unholy Secret

The Tourniquet

A Confession for Carmen

Smoky Mountain Mystery

The Interrogation

The Clue That Stuck

Killer on Campus

Where's Peggy?

Kidnapped

Death in Deadwood

Eyes at the Window

The Merry Widow

A Son's Memory

Caught By The Past

Carol's Diary

A Deadly Affair

Exhuming the Truth

Life on the Run

The Peeper

Beauty Queen Killer

Caught by an Eyelash

The Paper Route

The Slide

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