Cold Justice

Season 3 opens with Kelly and Yolanda landing in a small Idaho town to investigate the 2004 stabbing death of a young woman.

Near Naches, Washington, in February 1997, a passer-by found Deborah Bailey shot to death in her car. Her husband Barrett claimed he was at home at the time of her estimated death and suggested that someone from her secretive drug world possibly killed her. Friends and family admitted to her casual drug use but did not view that as a reason for her death.

In October 2007, Fairview Park, Ohio, emergency crews were called by neighbors to 67-year-old Gwen Bewley's house. She was found dead in her burned-out kitchen. Her neighbor's brother was soon arrested for stealing her rented car and some personal possessions, although he was responsible for helping her financially.

Lisa Bennett, a 29-year-old mother, and Kaylee, her six-year-old daughter, were found strangled to death in their Fort Wayne, Indiana, home in 1993. Two suspects, both of whom were Lisa's boyfriends, were viewed as suspects in the deaths. However, at the time, proper crime scene procedures were not followed, and contaminated DNA evidence has not led to an arrest in the unsolved case.

n 1981, Nancy Jo Canode, a young mother in St. Johns County, Florida, called 9-1-1 from her home phone, fearing for her life, but the call quickly ended. While the operator discussed the call with her supervisor, Nancy Jo was brutally stabbed to death. Nancy Jo's daughter Suzanne found her body an hour later and called the police.

When an older man was found beaten and stabbed to death in 2006, the investigation into the mystery eventually went cold. In this episode, Kelly and Yolanda go to Bridgeport, W.V., to work on their first case in which the victim might actually be the investigations very best witness since his daily diary might just help solve the crime.

Early one morning in October 2009, Paul Bowman was found dead in bed from blunt force trauma to his head. Arlington, Texas police found the house in disarray, as in a robbery, but nothing valuable was missing. After questioning Paul's wife Martha, who gave conflicting statements, and others, police thought of her and her lover as suspects.

When a family with dreams of a better life moves from India to Florida, their lives are torn apart after the young mother abruptly disappears without a trace. In this episode, Kelly and Yolanda head to Fort Myers, Fla., to face the challenge of navigating through different languages and cultural traditions as they try to figure out what really happened to her.

Real-life crime series Cold Justice follows former prosecutor Kelly Siegler and former crime-scene investigator Yolanda McClary as they dig into small-town murder cases that have lingered for years without answers or justice. After a well-liked young man is found murdered and dumped in a Hialeah, Fla., alleyway.

Marie Carlson, a mother of two, mysteriously vanishes from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, then several people receive a cryptic group text from her three days later than never hear from her again. Investigation reveals that Marie had been living in a secret polygamous relationship with the pastor of her church and his wife, James and Tanya Flanders.

In 1997, in Greenville, Ohio, Dennis Young and Kim Stephan were found shot dead inside Young's home. Stephan's ex-husband Bob and a woman named Patty Burton are the main suspects in the case. A case was made against Bob, and the DA agreed to review the file.

When a daughter returns home from school to find her mother gone without explanation in 1981, the team must sift through clues that are now decades old, making this the oldest missing person's case the team has yet to face.

John Walsh interviews the investigative team for their behind-the-scenes insights. Exclusive updates on past cases and questions to Kelly and Yolanda will be featured.

A respected doctor in Paducah, Kentucky, Dr. Frank Shemwell, is brutally murdered and set on fire in his kitchen. Suspects include Dr. Shemwell's younger wife (Penny), her son, and her lover. The team was able to eliminate Penny's son as a suspect. Although no charges for murder have been filed, Penny has been in and out of jail for various other offenses since.

A college student, Stacy Dillon, is killed in his hometown of Cleveland, Tennessee. The investigative team is able to narrow the suspect list down to one - Stacy's boyfriend, Robert Houston III - but did not have sufficient evidence to make an arrest.

n 2003 in West Palm Beach, Florida, Gwen Greenblatt is cornered in her apartment and shot twice. It seems her abusive, controlling husband (Matt Greenblatt) is the murderer, but first, investigators must find who left a smoldering cigarette outside her apartment. DNA was run before the Cold Justice team gets involved.

In 1987, Eric and Dottie Ferguson were shot multiple times inside their rural Spartanburg, South Carolina home. After visiting the crime scene, the team decides that a random intruder is incredibly unlikely, due to how remote the home was. The case builds against Eric's son Kevin, with even his brothers saying they believe that Kevin is responsible for the murders.

Investigators return to Fort Myers, Florida, to work on a 22-year-old murder case of a woman found shot in the head, covered in bloody sheets and dumped behind a community recreation center. In late-July 2017, Angelo E. Ruth pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Mattie Henry and was sentenced to 11 years in prison.

In 1985 in Oregon County, Missouri, Brenda Dunham, a young mother caught in an abusive relationship disappeared. The team must investigate whether or not she left town by her own design. After finding that she never picked up her last payroll check, the team feels that Brenda did not leave on her own. Their only suspect is her husband, Jeff.

The team heads to Johnson County, Iowa to work with the sheriff's office on the 1995 case of a mother and gifted artist (Sue Kersten) who was found dead in her car after an explosion. Her boyfriend's (Steven Klein) violent characteristics come to light, and the team takes the case against him to their county attorney. An arrest warrant is issued, and Steve is arrested.

In 2012, Ben Cooper is found dead of an apparent suicide by his wife, Samantha Price. Investigators are immediately suspicious because of the location of the gunshot to the back of Ben's head. Samantha is the only suspect for the team. After determining that it was highly unlikely that Ben shot himself in the back of the head, the team focuses on building a case against Samantha.

John Walsh interviews the investigative team for their behind-the-scenes insights. Exclusive updates on past cases and questions to Kelly and Yolanda were featured.

In 1992 in White Settlement, Texas, Laura Walsh was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in her home. Months later, two young men, Gene Giddens & Jonathan "Keith" Durington, have their throats slashed in the same neighborhood. All 3 victims were set on fire after their deaths. Investigators call in the team to determine if these two cases are potentially connected.

The White Settlement, Texas, the investigation continues. After interviewing a large number of suspects, the team seems to be getting nowhere, until a recorded phone call of Doughlas Wright changes the outlook of the investigation.