Cold Case Files Classic

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Police solve the killing of an 11-year-old track star 10 years later when they obtain the DNA evidence they need in a cigarette butt dropped by the suspect.

In Vancouver, DNA tests identify a skull of a 14-year-old boy who went missing 6 years earlier. When a second skull is found, investigators fear they have a sexual stalker and killer in the area.

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.

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.

Cold Case Units use psychological profiling, forensic anthropology, and a convicted felon's rekindled memory to heat up old cases. In Missouri, a part-time missionary is convicted, 38 years later.

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.

A man in Florida is reported missing and his roommate at the time, who tried to take over his business, is the main suspect. But he has an alibi. Then, at first it looks like L.A.P.D. Sgt. George Arthur died in a car crash.

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.

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.

A tipster's phone call helps solve the murder of the heir to the U-Haul company fortune, and a grisly murder case is solved two decades later with the use of new fingerprint technology.

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.

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.

In 1989, socialite Susan Doll was found beaten, raped, and strangled in Colorado. Investigators extracted DNA from a semen stain, but had no suspect to match it against--until 1995 when a local landlord found 25 pairs of panties stuffed into a furnace.

Police solve an old murder case with a painstaking examination of the tool mark on the plastic flex cuff that bound the victim's hands, and a 15-year-old murder case is finally cracked open.

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

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.

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.

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 six-year-old case.