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S1 E3 Texas Drifter/Fingerprints/Rose Among Thorns

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PG

45 minutes

Aug 2, 1999

From England to Texas to Georgia, I.R. will go inside cold case units and watch as police use ballistics testing, old fashioned fingerprints and a new DNA data bank for criminals, to crack open the mysteries of unsolved crimes.

Season 1, 13 Episodes

Season 1 (13 Episodes)

Cold Case Files (#1),

Looks at how law enforcers stick with cases for many years, using fresh evidence to win convictions or to free prisoners who were wrongfully jailed. We examine the unsolved murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.

The Boy And The Monster/Secret In The Cellar,

In Portland, Maine a housewife disappears. One year later her body is unearthed in the cellar. I.R. unravels this cold case investigation from the inside out. With the help of science, police are able to uncover a blueprint of the crime.

Texas Drifter/Fingerprints/Rose Among Thorns,

From England to Texas to Georgia, I.R. will go inside cold case units and watch as police use ballistics testing, old fashioned fingerprints and a new DNA data bank for criminals, to crack open the mysteries of unsolved crimes.

Cold Case Files Classics,

In Missouri, a part-time missionary is convicted, 38 years later, of killing her 5-year-old stepdaughter, and the skeleton of a Michigan boy, dead for 10 years, leads police to a serial killer.

Traces Of Murder/The Bathtub Killer,

A killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates; and New Hampshire investigators probing the murder of a pregnant woman found raped, strangled, and dumped into her bathtub, get a new lead.

Diary Of A Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue,

A highly-regarded California arson investigator is suspected of setting a series of fires, and in Texas, a man is convicted of raping and murdering his 68-year-old neighbor.

Killer On The Strip/The Doll Murder,

In 1989, socialite Susan Doll was found beaten, raped, and strangled in Colorado.

The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed,

A detective keeps a murder investigation going for 16 years and finally proves a woman killed her husband in a satanic rite; THE BURNING SECRET: and a rape victim fails to get a conviction on her attacker.

Cold Case Files Classics,

A woman tracks down the man who raped her 7 years earlier, only to find out that the statute of limitations on rape is 6 years; and a detective keeps a murder investigation going for 16 years to proves a woman killed her husband in a satanic rite.

Cold Case Files Classics,

In Wisconsin, advances in forensic clay modeling help investigators identify a murder victim whose skin was stripped from her head, neck, and legs. And in California, police track down two boys who enjoy satanic rituals and setting fires.

Cold Case Files Classics,

Police solve a murder when divers find a skeleton in a car at the bottom of a river, and a dead dog's DNA helps crack open a 6-year-old case.

In The Care Of A Killer/Deadly Lies,

The suspicious death of 2-year-old Billy Blankenship is solved when police force his babysitter to re-enact the circumstances of his death. Then, a murder case is solved when the dead man's body is accidentally found by divers.

Cold Case Files Classics,

A district attorney uses a clever technique--a "John Doe indictment"--to give law enforcement officials the time they need to track down the Schoolgirl Rapist from Rochester, N. Y.

Details

Cold Case Files Classic

Crime

14+

1 Season

41 minutes

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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