Cold Case Files Classic

Klan leader goes on trial for murder. A case of a man who was forced to leap to his death by the Klan is reopened. A fall from a cliff uncovers murders. DNA evidence is found on cigarette butts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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; in Texas, a man is convicted of raping and murdering his 68-year-old neighbor.

Five years after the murder of prostitute Lucy Pate, a determined cop cracks the case. Susan Doll was beaten, raped & strangled in 1989. Investigators had no suspect to match DNA--until 1995.

A detective keeps a murder investigation going for 16 years and finally proves a woman killed her husband in a satanic rite; THE BURNING SECRET: and a rape victim fails to get a conviction on her attacker.

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.

The killer of four women goes free until cold case detective John Little is brought in and finds key evidence on a coffee cup. This portrait of a ruthless murderer includes tapes of his chilling confessions.

DNA evidence helps crack the case of a white supremacist who strangled his girlfriend and put her body in a refrigerator, and hypnosis helps solve the murder of a deputy sheriff.

The accidental discovery of a human scalp leads to the conviction of a man for murder 18 years after the killing.

The story of serial killer James Rodney Hicks, who left a trail of bodies and kept police, prosecutors, and the FBI quite busy working on his cases for over 20 years.

When a passing motorist spots a fire along a country road in South Carolina and calls it in, police arrive to discover the badly burned and battered remains of a woman, her skull smashed into 97 fragments.

The murder of scientist Helena Greenwood, who was helping to develop DNA forensic technology when she died, is solved 12 years later with the help of DNA evidence.

Using a hair dryer to thaw a frozen corpse, detectives get to the bottom of a grisly murder. And the discovery of a child's skeleton in a Chicago garden puts police on the trail of an "oddball" family.

Forty-one years after the crime, a woman implicates her brother and cousin in the murder of a New Jersey policeman.

A sunset boat ride in Florida leads to death for a vacationing woman and her two daughters, and police investigate a Texas man whose three wives all died in mysterious fashions.

A New Orleans police officer goes undercover on a Baton Rouge riverboat to gain a confession from one of the ship's maintenance workers who is suspected of murder.

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.