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S2 E22 The Original Nightstalker

Crime

15+

42 minutes

31 Aug 2003

In the 1980s, a serial killer prowled the posh streets of Orange County. Police were unaware of the serial attacks until 1996, when DNA revealed the killer's secret and they linked four murders to a single DNA profile.

Season 2, 20 Episodes

Cold Case Files Classic - Mark Of A Killer/Dead Ends

Mark Of A Killer/Dead Ends,

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

Cold Case Files Classic - The Baiting Game

The Baiting Game,

Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropologist from the "body farm" in the Great Smoky Mountains. Dr. William Bass became an expert on the human body's rate of decay by watching bodies.

Cold Case Files Classic - Ticket To Nowhere/The Paper Route

Ticket To Nowhere/The Paper Route,

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.

Cold Case Files Classic - The Widow And The Wolf/Unicorns And Alligators

The Widow And The Wolf/Unicorns And Alligators,

After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate group that brings awareness to cases that have gone unsolved.

Cold Case Files Classic - Pride And The Fall/The Nail File

Pride And The Fall/The Nail File,

A woman's fall from a cliff in the Grand Canyon leads police to uncover a series of grisly murders, and investigators smoke out a killer when they find crucial DNA evidence on his cigarette butts.

Cold Case Files Classic - Crimes Of The KKK/Pride And The Fall

Crimes Of The KKK/Pride And The Fall,

Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the unsolved case of an African-American truck driver who was forced to leap to his death from a bridge by Klan member

Cold Case Files Classic - Murder On The Menu/Traces Of Murder

Murder On The Menu/Traces Of Murder,

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.

Cold Case Files Classic - Vintage Murder/In The Care Of A Killer

Vintage Murder/In The Care Of A Killer,

Police reopen a rape-murder case 25 years after the crime and find enough DNA evidence to bring him to justice. And a confession made to a "Baywatch" TV star helps police solve the three-year-old riddle of a wealthy Newport Beach woman's murder.

Cold Case Files Classic - The Perfect Murder/Death Of The Innocents

The Perfect Murder/Death Of The Innocents,

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.

Cold Case Files Classic - The Unluckiest Man/The Deadly Triangle

The Unluckiest Man/The Deadly Triangle,

Fire investigator Jack Malooly helps crack the case of an arsonist and killer who set fires to collect insurance money; and a prison inmate tells a detective that he can't help him with his current investigation, but knows about a 15-year-old murder.

Cold Case Files Classic - Cat And Mouse/Terror In Telluride

Cat And Mouse/Terror In Telluride,

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

Cold Case Files Classic - The Cuff Link/The Unluckiest Man

The Cuff Link/The Unluckiest Man,

Police solve an old murder case with an examination of the tool mark on the plastic flex cuff that bound the victim's hands, a 15-year-old murder case is finally cracked when a disgruntled wife tells police that her husband committed the crime.

Cold Case Files Classic - The Good Samaritan/Cat And Mouse

The Good Samaritan/Cat And Mouse,

New DNA technology and the national DNA databank help police hunt down a rapist-killer 11 years after he committed his crimes, and a detective's painstaking recreation of a woman's shooting death proves it wasn't an accident.

Cold Case Files Classic - A Map To Murder/Life On The Run

A Map To Murder/Life On The Run,

Cops finally close in on a serial killer with the help of the Internet. And a drug trafficker jumps bail, goes into the bike shop business, and helps pioneer the sport of mountain biking while he's on the lam.

Cold Case Files Classic - "Soft" Kill/Unsolved

"Soft" Kill/Unsolved,

Police run down more than 11,000 leads before coming up with a suspect in the murders of three Virginia girls; and the abduction and strangulation of a California woman continues to baffle investigators more than 11 years after the crime.

Cold Case Files Classic - License To Kill/The Tell-Tale Mark

License To Kill/The Tell-Tale Mark,

A quarter of a century after the murders of two nurses, Canadian police suspect that a former Toronto cop committed the crimes. A blow to the head of a garbage collector in San Jose leaves strange markings.

Cold Case Files Classic - The Original Nightstalker

The Original Nightstalker,

In the 1980s, a serial killer prowled the posh streets of Orange County. Police were unaware of the serial attacks until 1996, when DNA revealed the killer's secret and they linked four murders to a single DNA profile.

Cold Case Files Classic - Cold Hit/Silent Kill

Cold Hit/Silent Kill,

A thumbprint connects two separate murders and it is later discovered that the suspect had a strange fetish for women's lingerie. Then, an elderly woman is found murdered in her bed and the only evidence is a single strand of hair.

Cold Case Files Classic - Mommy's Rules

A mother is suspected in the murders of two of her daughters, when her third daughter finally convinces police to reopen two cold cases.

Cold Case Files Classic - A Sealed Fate/Diary Of A Serial Arsonist

A Sealed Fate/Diary Of A Serial Arsonist,

A murderer's saliva, found on envelopes, helps seal his doom 37 years after his first killing. And Colorado police crack a cold case 24 years later when they take a DNA sample from the victim's son that proves that his father murdered his mother.

Details

Cold Case Files Classic

Crime

15+

4 Seasons

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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