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Cold Case Files Classic - Season 2

Series: Cold Case Files Classic

(2)

Episodes

Rating

TV14

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

A&E

About

The series examines each piece of forensic evidence, each witness, each possible lead, and each turn in the road that ultimately leads detectives to their killer. Cold Case Files is a pioneer in the nonfiction forensics genre.

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Episodes

1. Crimes of the KKK

42m

Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American store owner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the unsolved case of an African-American truck driver who was forced to leap to his death.

2. Murder on the Menu/Traces of Murder

43m

A boy's toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case against a serial killer who stalks and kills waitresses. Then, a killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates.

3. Mark of a Killer / Portrait

42m

A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eight years, and a group of super sleuths try to solve the slaying of 18-year-old Jamie Weiss, found dead in her bathtub in 1996.

4. The Widow and the Wolf / Texas Drifter

1h 27m

After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch an advocate group. Detectives use a DNA databank to catch a stalker. 9 years after a murder, Georgia police match a fingerprint found at the scene to a prisoner now serving a life sentence.

5. Family Secret / Justice Delayed

45m

Forty-one years after the crime, a woman implicates her brother and cousin in the murder of a policeman. Members of the Vidocq Society, a group of law enforcement professionals who volunteer their expertise to crack difficult cases, find blood-spatter.

6. The Widow and the Wolf/Unicorns and Alligators

45m

After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate group. And police solve a young girl's rape and murder.

7. Vintage Murder/In the Care of a Killer

44m

DNA evidence on cigarettes helps unravel a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime; a confession to a "Baywatch" TV star helps solve a woman's murder; the mysterious death of a young boy is cleared up.

8. The Perfect Murder/Death of the Innocents

42m

It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a medical examiner's wife. Then, a determined Alabama sheriff reopens the case of the deaths of two babies, hoping to get their mother to confess.

9. The Unluckiest Man/The Deadly Triangle

43m

Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set a series of fires to collect insurance money; and a prison inmate tells a homicide detective that he can't help him with his current murder investigation.

10. Cat and Mouse/Terror in Telluride

41m

A police investigator discovers a letter written 16 years earlier that provides clues to a woman's murder, and a firearms expert supplies evidence that South Carolina authorities need to put a man on trial in 2002 for a murder committed in 1961.

Extended Details

SeriesCold Case Files Classic

Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

CarolAnne DolanProducer

Tania LindsayProducer

Bill KurtisActor