Cold Case Files Classic

Police get a surprise when a killer they think targets only older women is suspected in the murder of an elderly man. And the contents of a secret storage shed holds clues to a murder.

A boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the police coerced his confession. And two deteriorated medical examiner's slides give police the evidence they need.

A district attorney uses a clever technique to help track down the Schoolgirl Rapist from Rochester, NY. The cold case squad reopens a case, hoping DNA evidence will prove the suspect's guilt.

DNA extracted from the saliva in an envelope's seal is used to track a serial rapist down. And when a man is found dead in South Dakota, investigators go on a 20-year search for the killers.

Our cameras follow Detective Manny Reyes as he investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman. Reyes talks to the woman's two sons, who believe that her husband, Bobby, was the murderer.

Bill Kurtis examines one of the most infamous cold cases in Los Angeles history -- the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, who was found nude and cut in half in an empty lot.

Policewomen go undercover to nab the man suspected of murdering three prostitutes. And a letter opener is the key piece of evidence that links a priest to the grisly 1980 murder of a nun.

Kansas detectives reopen the case of a banker found beaten to death in his bed, and the chief suspect is his cheating wife. And a man with a guilty conscience helps Arkansas police.

After a U.S. Navy sailor disappears in 1968, his sister works tirelessly to prove that he was really killed. And DNA gathered from a cigarette butt helps to unravel a case of rape and murder.

DNA found on a joint in Florida in 2005 helps to solve the 1988 rape and murder of a California woman. And a cold case of murder in Illinois heats up when a jailhouse lawyer turns jailhouse snitch.

Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio. And a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995.

The killing of a woman goes unsolved for a quarter of a century. And when a woman is shot during a jewelry store robbery in 1980, investigators collect fingerprints and blood from the crime scene.

When a woman is found murdered in her mobile home, police make two shocking discoveries. And after an Oregon man is shot dead, the case takes an unusual twist.

Guns found dumped in a pond outside of Atlantic City help police solve a 15-year-old murder. And the rape and murder of an Atlanta TV station receptionist goes cold for 20 years.

A detective tracks down a killer with the help of fingerprints. And two detectives use DNA analyses to investigate the 1990 murder of a woman and the death of a man killed in a car crash in 1988.