Cold Case Files

It’s one of the most infamous crimes in American history: the gruesome murder of a young beauty, unsolved for decades. There’s a long line of suspects, each more mysterious than the next. Can the questions surrounding one of history’s most notorious unsolved cases finally be answered?

Thank you to our experts who contributed to this episode: Cheryl Dorsey, Dr. Robert Schug, Glynn Martin, James Queally, Rachell Howzell Hall, Forrest Burgess, Miles Corwin, and Yvette Gentile.

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A prostitute who fights off a screwdriver-wielding man helps police track down a serial killer; and undercover agents acting as mobsters conduct an elaborate sting to solve a murder case that had gone cold for years.

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Mary is a 15-year-old hitchhiking in Florida when the man who gives her a ride sexually assaults her, cuts her arms off and throws her off a cliff leaving her for dead. Brooke is pregnant when she, along with her daughter, goes to visit her own parents in Marysville Australia. When a massive wildfire breaks out Mary and her father are separated from her mother and daughter as all parties desperately seek shelter. Sharene’s ex-boyfriend won’t take no for an answer nor accept the end of the relationship. When Sharene finally relents and gets back with the man, a drug fueled rage leads him to stab her multiple times.

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When jewelry seller Minerva Cantu, 26, is found bound, gagged and lifeless in her home, police suspect robbery as the motive. But who killed this mother as her infant slept in the next room is a mystery that would haunt one detective for 20 years.

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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 of the brutal murder of a 63-year-old newspaper delivery woman.

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Scott and Sean are enjoying a fishing trip on the Appalachian Trail when they meet a stranger and share dinner. After dinner, however, the man in their company pulls out a gun and proceeds to shoots both men. Stacey and her best friend have recently moved into their first apartment when a man breaks in and proceeds to sexually assault the two of them. Timothy is walking his dog near his cabin in the woods when a grizzly bear attacks them.

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When teens Llianna Adank and Eric Goldstrand are found shot to death at an Oregon park in 1977, their parent’s worst nightmare had come true. Detectives pursue leads for 40 years until a single piece of evidence leads them to a suspect 3 states away.

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Police suspect a gay man murdered a woman because she became too friendly with his boy friend. And a man goes on a monstrous crime spree, abducting five women over 15 years and forcing each to spend months and even years as his sex slave

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Gwen is a librarian and Lloyd is a Sheriff’s deputy, both are among the 18 hostages held captive by an armed assailant with a dead man’s switch in a Salt Lake City library. Rose discovers she is with child shortly before an intense storm leads to an industrial accident at sea, mangling her legs and endangering her pregnancy. After ending her abusive marriage, Kelly finds herself in even more danger when her ex-husband stalks and eventually shoots her.

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When the blood-smeared car of 27-year-old Stefanie Watson is found in a Maryland parking lot, her family holds out hope she's still alive. When part of her remains are found in a neighborhood, the missing persons investigation becomes a hunt for a murderer.

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