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S5 E21 Abandoned Houses / A Son's Memory (#120)

Crime

TV-14

45m

Oct 26, 2006

Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio. And a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995, but the missing person case goes cold when police can find few clues

Season 5, 25 Episodes

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In this special 100th edition of Cold Case Files, we look at the biggest serial murder case in U.S. history; hunt for the Green River Killer. Dave Reichert, the detective who made finding the killer his obsession, walks us through the case.

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This is the story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in American history--the BTK killer. After committing at least seven brutal murders he vanished for over 25 years before sending clues of his crimes to the media in 2004.

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When a church deacon is found shot to death it looks like police may have stumbled upon a multi-party murder plot. And, a wife remains a key suspect in her husband's murder case for six years, until she attempts to prove her own innocence.

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Work of an Alberta, Canada detective finally pays off when he tracks down the man who murdered a 6-year-old girl 10 years earlier. And when police search for the killer of a hitchhiker, they find that the victim's diary is one of their best clues.

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Law enforcement officials fear they may have to release a serial killer from prison until a 24-year-old murder case gives them a chance to lock him up for good.

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A videotape made at an ATM machine helps police in Louisville, KY, to nab a man suspected of raping 13 women. And a DA investigator in Georgia helps crack a murder case that his father, a police chief, first worked on 30 years before.

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We follow Det. Vince Velazquez of Atlanta and Capt. Russell Popham of East Point, Ga., as they work to solve the 1995 rape and murder of 14-year-old Nacole Smith, one of Atlanta's most notorious unsolved crimes.

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On a summer night in 1987, a 17-year-old girl to come home is found raped and strangled near the Hudson River. And In 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work. The crime remains unsolved for two decades.

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A detective vows not to shave until he solves the murder of a young Oregon woman. It takes three years and a string of Mexican Mafia informants to crack the case and allow the dedicated detective to shave his beard.

The Sunday Morning Slasher,

Law enforcement officials fear they may have to release a serial killer from prison until a 24-year-old murder case gives them a chance to lock him up for good.

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A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the real killer is still on the loose. And two deteriorated slides, made 16 years earlier, give police the evidence they need to reopen the cold case.

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A serial rapist seals his own fate when he sends a taunting letter to police. And when a man is found dead in South Dakota, his head bashed in by a 50-pound rock, investigators go on a 20-year search for the killers.

Killer on Campus / The Bow Hunter,

Thirty-two years after the killing of University of Michigan law student Jane Mixer, police use DNA found on her pantyhose to finally track down the killer.

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In Rhode Island, policewomen go undercover as streetwalkers to nab the man suspected of murdering three prostitutes. And a dagger-shaped letter opener is the key piece of evidence that links a priest to the grisly 1980 murder of a nun in Ohio.

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After 19 years, Kansas detectives reopen the case of a banker found beaten to death in his bed--and the chief suspect is his cheating wife. And a man with a guilty conscience helps Arkansas police to crack a cold case of murder.

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After U.S. Navy sailor disappears in 68, the Navy claims he went AWOL. But his sister works for over 30 years to prove that he was really killed. And DNA from a cigarette butt helps detectives to unravel a 20-year-old case of rape and murder.

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DNA found on a marijuana joint in Florida in 2005 helps to solve the 1988 rape and murder of a California woman. And a cold case of murder in Illinois heats up when a jailhouse lawyer turns jailhouse snitch.

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Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio. And a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995, but the missing person case goes cold when police can find few clues

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The killing of a woman in a VA goes unsolved for a quarter of a century before investigators are finally able to zero in on the likely killer. And, in 1999 detectives test the blood evidence and develop a DNA profile of a shooting death from 1980.

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When a woman is found murdered in her mobile home, police make two shocking discoveries--her husband may not only have been the killer, but he may have also killed his first wife 31 years before.

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Guns found dumped in a pond help police to solve the 15-year-old murder of Detroit cab company owner. And the rape and murder of an Atlanta TV station receptionist goes cold for 20 years before DNA links a man to the crime.

Left for Dead / On the Case (#126),

A detective in California tracks down a prostitute's killer with the help of a key piece of evidence. And two persistent cold case detectives use DNA to investigate the 1990 murder of a woman and the death of a man killed in a car crash in 1988.

A Killer's Skin / Where's Peggy? (#110),

Police in Albany, N.Y., get a surprise when a killer they think targets only older women is suspected in the murder of an elderly man. And the contents of a secret storage shed holds the grisly clues to a murder that has gone cold for more than 14 years.

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Nine years after the murders of a mother and her teenage daughters, a wiretapped conversation helps police to crack the case. And the baffling murder of a Virginia woman is solved when human bones are discovered by a geologist in North Carolina.

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Our cameras follow Detective Manny Reyes as he investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman. Reyes talks to the woman's two sons, who believe that her husband, Bobby, was the murderer.

Details

Cold Case Files Classic

Crime

TV-14

2 Seasons

44m

Murders go unsolved. Killers slip through the cracks. With the passage of time, families lose hope and another unsolved homicide file settles into obscurity. The pattern is familiar, but changing, thanks to the efforts of a special breed of detectives.

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