Cold Case Files Classic

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.

In Wisconsin, advances in forensic clay modeling help investigators identify a murder victim whose skin was stripped from her head, neck, and legs.

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.

Investigators seek the help of a forensic anthropologist Dr. William Bass, who became an expert on the human body's rate of decay by watching bodies rot.

A 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.

A killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates. Investigators probing the murder of a pregnant woman get a new lead when they discover a similar case.

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.

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

The murder of an Ohio woman in 1974 is solved more than 20 years later after police get a crucial clue--the woman's husband was seen building a coffin-shaped box about the time the woman disappeared.