Cold Case Files

A massive search unfolds in Chandler, Oklahoma when two women and a child go missing from a Walmart parking lot in 1992. It will take 23 years and a tip from an unlikely source to piece together a heinous plot of misdirection and murder.

When Chris Green, 19, is found beaten to death in a snowy Bangor, Michigan ditch in 2002, his family fear their son's murder will never be solved. Years pass before shocking revelations from an informant emerge and blow the case wide open.

The 1964 murder of 9-year-old Marise Chiverella leaves the devout town of Hazelton, PA, in fear. An intense manhunt yields numerous suspects but no killer. Five decades pass before a student moonlighting as a genetic genealogist reignites the case.

When 8-year-old April Tinsley is found dead in a Fort Wayne, Indiana ditch the community is shaken. Disturbing letters then appear, penned by her killer, targeting other young girls. Police scramble to catch April's murderer before he strikes again.

When the body of 81-year-old Helen Gale is found in her burned-out car, investigators in Southfield, Michigan wonder who would murder this pillar of the community. It will be eight years before a blown alibi brings them face-to face with her killer.

When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982 with a single stab wound to the heart, police suspect the work of a professional. It will take four decades to identify her killer and, in the process, reveal a shocking truth.

When nine-year-old Campfire Girl, Candy Rogers, turns up dead after selling mints door-to-door, Spokane detectives launch a dogged campaign to find her killer. What follows is one of the longest Cold Case investigations in Washington State history. 

In 1987, a young girl is found raped and strangled; in 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work.

A wiretapped conversation between a suspected killer and his sister cracks a 9-year-old murder case; a geologist finds human bones, solving the murder of a Virginia woman.

A police detective suspects a killer preys on older women; a protective mother disappears after learning her daughter has been sexually molested.

Young girls are sexually assaulted while waiting for their school buses; in 1991, a 9-year-old girl disappears from her home and is found murdered.

A brother is a suspect in the case of a 12-year-old found dead in her home in 1998; a 69-year-old woman is the victim of rape and murder in 1984.

In 1995, two women are raped in Louisville, Ky.; in 1982, a young man is found murdered in Deadwood, S.D.

Detective Danny Reyes investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman.

In 1947, actress Elizabeth Short's corpse is found nude and bisected in an empty lot.

Police go under cover to catch a man they suspect of killing three prostitutes; a letter opener links a priest to the murder of a nun.

A banker is beaten to death in his bed; a man with a guilty conscience helps police.

A missing sailor's sister works to prove he was killed; rape and murder.

The 1988 rape and murder of a California woman; a jailhouse snitch.

Two young girls are raped, murdered and dumped in an abandoned house; a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995.

A 25-year-old woman is killed in a hotel room in 1978; a 25-year-old woman is shot to death during a jewelry-store robbery in 1980.

A woman is found murdered in her mobile home; an Oregon man is shot dead.

A Detroit cab-company owner is murdered in 1989; in 1986 a woman is found murdered in her bedroom.

Fingerprints lifted from two beer bottles help a California detective track down a prostitute's killer; the investigations of a woman's murder and the death of a man killed in a car crash use DNA analysis.