Cold Case Files

Season 3

25 episodes · Jan 1, 2001

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  • S3E1

    Cop Killer/Evil Twin

    Jan 1, 200160m

    Included: Los Angeles detectives solve a 46-year-old murder case; and DNA leads to a suspected killer who has a twin brother. Host: Bill Kurtis.

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  • S3E2

    The Zodiac Killer

    Jan 8, 200160m

    With access to the San Francisco Police Department's work, including saliva samples taken from letters the infamous Zodiac Killer sent 30 year ago, we reevaluate the case of the serial killer who began terrorizing California in the late 1960s.

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  • S3E3

    The Accidental Killer/Little Sister Lost

    Jan 15, 200160m

    While hiking with husband Dennis in Montana, Leslee Larson fell into Wolf Creek. Then Dennis is convicted of murdering his wife, while in Main. And 15-year-old papergirl Penny Parker goes missing, then her body is found by a search volunteer.

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  • S3E4

    The Merry Widow/The Bad Cop

    Jan 22, 200160m

    Included: the case of Douglas J. Wright, a former state trooper whose 1993 murder of his wife brought a conviction in 2003. Also: the murder of a Navy seaman. Host: Bill Kurtis.

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  • S3E5

    Daddy Knows Best/Dawn of the Dead

    Jan 29, 200160m

    A detective works for 15 years to nab a man who murdered his wife and dismembered her body to hide the sexual abuse of his children. Then, 20 years after the shooting murder of a gas station attendant, detectives get a lead.

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  • S3E6

    The Killer's Tattoo

    Feb 5, 200160m

    The search for a killer with a distinctive tattoo is recalled. Host: Bill Kurtis.

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  • S3E7

    The Green River Killer

    Feb 12, 200160m

    Cold Case discusses the story of the nearly 20-year hunt for the man responsible for the murders of 49 prostitutes and other women in the Seattle, Washington area.

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  • S3E8

    A Hitchhike to Murder/Never Forgotten

    Feb 19, 200160m

    Police must wait nearly 30 years before advances in DNA technology give them the chance to convict the killer of a young hitchhiker, and Philadelphia police wage a 16-year hunt for the man who raped and killed a 10-year-old girl.

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  • S3E9

    The DNA Link/The Secret Slide

    Feb 26, 200160m

    Detectives from three different departments in Westchester County, NY team up to track down a serial killer; and a man known as the Bus Stop Rapist becomes the lead suspect decades after a woman is found murdered under a hotel bed in the case.

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  • S3E10

    Death Before I Do/Hollywood Homicide

    Mar 5, 200160m

    Included: the 1988 murder of actress Myra Davis, Janet Leigh's stand-in for “Psycho,” brings a conviction in 2001. Also: a phone tip helps solve a cold case.

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  • S3E11

    Blood Money/Precious Doe

    Mar 12, 200160m

    Testimony about the growth of larvae in dead bodies helps convict the man who stabbed a couple to death and strangled their 4-year-old daughter in 1993. And the 2001 murder of a young girl, whose head was cut off, remains unsolved.

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  • S3E12

    Unholy Bible/A Daughter's Justice

    Mar 19, 200160m

    A Texas woman's murder is solved when the killer's plan to murder another woman and stuff her into a duffel bag goes awry; and a reporter doing a story on unsolved homicides helps crack a case of murder that had been ruled an accidental death.

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  • S3E13

    Officer Down/Secret Twin

    Mar 26, 200160m

    After 23 years, investigators finally track down the killers of an Atlanta policeman when the ex-wife of one of the killers phones in a tip; and a mother keeps the skeletal remains of the 3-year-old daughter she killed in a footlocker.

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  • S3E14

    Weepy-Voiced Killer/The Mr. Big Sting

    Apr 2, 200160m

    A prostitute who fights off a screwdriver-wielding man helps police track down a serial killer; and undercover agents acting as mobsters conduct an elaborate sting to solve a murder case that had gone cold for years. Then, detectives from three different police departments in Westchester County, New York team up to track down a serial killer.

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  • S3E15

    Blood on the Badge/Bump in the Night

    Apr 9, 200160m

    A woman who takes down the license plate number of a car that had been following her helps police solve the murder of another young woman.; a phone call gives police the lead they need to solve a 30-year-old crime.

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  • S3E16

    The Lady Killer/A Husband's Secret

    Apr 16, 200160m

    The testimony of three prison inmates helps convict a man who viciously killed a woman out for a bike ride nearly two decades prior; and a self-admitted sex addict who strangled his cat is a suspect in the 30-year-old murder of a neighbor.

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  • S3E17

    Mistaken for a Killer/A Woman Scorned

    Apr 23, 200160m

    DNA technology that take place over 20 years help police to finally identify the man who brutally stabbed two women to death; and an anonymous caller leads police to the killer of a 13-year-old girl who was shot dead and left in the woods.

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  • S3E18

    The Missing Hunters/The Flashlight Rapist

    Apr 30, 200160m

    Police suspect brothers J.R. and Coco Duvall beat two Michigan hunters to death, chopped up the bodies, and fed them to pigs; and a serial rapist, who holds a mini-flashlight in his mouth to blind victims, is nabbed when he drops it during an attack.

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  • S3E19

    Cowboys on the Case/Office Politics

    May 7, 200160m

    Four retired law enforcement officers, known as the Cold Case Cowboys, help track down the killer of a man wanted for rape and robbery; and police await for advancements in DNA technology before they can put away a killer.

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  • S3E20

    The Flaming Gorge Falls/Caught in the Mail

    May 14, 200160m

    A man suspected of the cold case murder of his wife and son hatches a new plot to kill his mother and father; and detectives solve the 20-year-old murder of a teenager by tricking her killer into licking an envelope, then extracting DNA from the saliva.

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  • S3E21

    Murder Checks In / Killer in the City

    May 21, 200160m

    Police hunt for a man who killed three women in three different hotels, not far from one another in Des Moines, Iowa. And police get a killer to confess when they tell him prosecutors will show photos of the gruesome crime scene.

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  • S3E22

    The Shopping Cart Killer

    May 28, 200160m

    A dry cleaning tag inside a sweatshirt left at a crime scene helps police track down a serial killer and rapist who had been eluding them for years.

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  • S3E23

    The Hit makers/Favor For A Friend

    Jun 4, 200160m

    A scheme to bribe a country music magazine to manipulate the charts leads to murder in Nashville and a 13-year hunt for the killer; and a murderer's plan to hide his gun is foiled when the man who buried the evidence for him spills the beans to cops.

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  • S3E24

    Lil' Miss /Skeletons In The Closet

    Jun 11, 200160m

    An eerie note left on a grave helps solve a 12-year-old case of murder, and an exhaustive questioning of a mother helps police unravel the mysterious deaths of three of her

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  • S3E25

    Innocent Prey/The Punishment

    Jun 18, 200160m

    Police play a wild hunch that pays off in the capture of a serial rapist. And after 26 years, investigators finally solve the murder of a 6-year-old girl who had been forced to take a cold-water bath as punishment for painting her nails with pink polish without permission.

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