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1. Cold Case Files: The Premiere Episode
  August 2, 1998
The unsolved murder of "Hogan's Heroes" star Bob Crane, and O.J. Simpson defense attorney Barry Scheck about an Illinois rape case.
 
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2. The Boy and the Monster / The Secret in the Cellar
  August 2, 1999
A decade-old murder case and a serial sexual offender are brought to justice in this fascinating look at the men and methods that prove virtually no case is unsolvable.
 
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3. The Texas Drifter/The Fingerprint File
 
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4. The Answer in the Box / Maternal Instinct
  August 4, 1999
Follow detectives as they finally unravel a 35-year-old murder case.
 
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5. The Hunter Homicides/The Skulls of Stanley Park
  August 5, 1999
See how new technologies and dedicated professionals are turning the tide on investigations long thought to have stalled.
 
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6. Through the Eyes of a Child/The Killer Next Door
  April 25, 2000
Psychological profiling, forensic anthropology, and a convicted felon's rekindled memory heat up cold cases.
 
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7. One Night on the Bayou / The Buckeye Misdemeanor
  June 13, 2000
Police crack a murder investigation with some help from hungry alligators, and Phoenix police discover that a preacher is the culprit in a 20-year-old murder.
 
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8. The Mark of Cain/Death on the Freeway
  June 27, 2000
A Florida man is missing and his roommate is the prime suspect. Also, a police officer's car accident looks to be a murder instead.
 
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9. Terror in Telluride/ Signature of a Killer
  August 8, 2000
Watch as investigators unravel long-dormant clues and prove that justice is better late than never.
 
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10. Diary of a Serial Arsonist/ The Lost Clue
  September 19, 2000
Detectives expose the secret life of an arson investigator, and a murderer is caught nearly two decades after committing his crime.
 
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11. Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder
  October 3, 2000
The discovery of lingerie stuffed into a furnace breaks open a 7-year-old murder case.
 
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12. Murder Illustrated / Blood Relations
  October 31, 2000
See how a series of disturbing drawings led detectives to solve a murder a dozen years after the body was found.
 
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13. The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed
  December 26, 2000
Detectives reopen a murder as part of a satanic ritual. And when the system fails a rape victim.
 
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14. Reconstructing Murder / Fire Flicks
  January 9, 2001
A video aired on "Unsolved Mysteries" helped investigators arrest the person responsible for a series of fires.
 
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15. The Missing Informant / Man's Best Friend
  February 20, 2001
A murder is solved after a skeleton is found in a car at the bottom of a river, and a dead dog's DNA helps crack open a six-year-old case.
 
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16. Killer In The County
  March 21, 2001
Three murders, three suspects, three police departments--and a mystery solved thanks to DNA evidence.
 
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16. Killer in the County
 
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17. Presumed Dead/The Tow Truck Killer
  May 1, 2001
Hear an exclusive jailhouse interview with a convicted killer and see how hypnosis helped solve the murder of a police officer.
 
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18. Portrait Of A Killer/ The Tortured Truth
  May 29, 2001
A tormented teen and an 18-year old murder are the subjects of this fascinating look at solving old crimes.
 
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19. Vanished
  June 19, 2001
Unhappy with his incarceration, a felon offers information in trade for relocation to a different state!
 
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20. The Missing and the Dead
  January 1, 2000
Investigators use a skull found alongside a road to solve a murder.
 
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21. Silent Witness / Innocence Lost
  August 28, 2001
The murder of a DNA researcher was finally solved -- thanks to techniques the victim helped develop.
 
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23. Family Secret / Blood Trail
  October 30, 2001
A 41 year old murder of a policeman is reexamined when a woman implicates members of her own family. And a look at the volunteers of the Vidocq Society.
 
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25. Operation Jambalaya / Footprints In The Snow
  December 17, 2001
Hear from the officer whose undercover work extracted a confession from a man who had thought he'd gotten away with murder.
 
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26. "Soft" Kill / Unsolved
  July 29, 2003
Police run down more than 11,000 leads before coming up with a suspect in the murders of three Virginia girls; and the abduction and strangulation of a California woman continues to baffle investigators more than 11 years after the crime.
 
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27. The Accidental Killer / Little Sister Lost
  December 9, 2003
Montana detectives track down a man who murdered his wife 25 years later after he's convicted of killing his third wife in Maine under similar circumstances; and after 15-year-old papergirl Penny Parker goes missing, a search volunteer finds her body. Watch cold case detectives find a genetic trace, 24 years later, to the volunteer. Then, a killer helps convict himself when he boasts to cellmates; and investigators probe the murder of a pregnant woman found dumped in her bathtub.
 
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28. Baby for Sale /The Barrel
  March 8, 2005
When a Nevada couple demands the return of a baby they had sold to another couple, the burned body of the baby turns up in Arizona. Then, when a Long Island, N.Y., man prepares his house for sale, he discovers a barrel in his crawlspace that contains the body of a pregnant woman who has been dead for decades.
 
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29. Baiting Game
  July 16, 2005
Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropologist from the "body farm" in the Great Smoky Mountains. Dr. William Bass became an expert on the human body's rate of decay by watching bodies rot at his
 
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30. The Bedroom Basher
  February 22, 2005
A California jury convicts Kevin Green of raping and bludgeoning his wife, despite his claims of innocence. But 15 years later, police nab a serial killer known as the "Bedroom Basher" and discover that Green may have been wrongly jailed after all.
 
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31. The Bitemark / Justice for Eglena
  March 22, 2005
A forensic dentist helps police nab a child killer by showing that the teeth marks on the killer's arms matches the teeth of the murdered boy. And telltale blood stains on a blue bandana solve the 10-year-old case of a teenage girl murdered at a Texas carnival.
 
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32. A Brother's Burden/The Midnight Attacker
  May 10, 2005
A police officer helps solve an 18-year-old murder case when he finds the prime suspect-his older brother. And a biker with a bloody finger is the clue that police need to put away a rapist who assaulted 31 women over six years.
 
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33. Calling Card/Carol's Diary
  November 9, 2005
Business cards found at a murder scene plus 38 years of advances in DNA technology reveal the killer of a 19-year-old New York woman. And, the lead suspect in a 22-year-old murder confesses after police take DNA samples from him, giving him the impression that they really had something on him. But they didn't--after the confession, the lab reported that no DNA evidence actually existed.
 
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34. The Good Samaritan /Cat And Mouse
  June 24, 2003
A police investigator discovers a letter written 16 years earlier that provides clues to a woman's murder. And a firearms expert supplies the evidence that South Carolina authorities need to put a man on trial in 2002 for a murder committed in 1961. It was the oldest murder case ever tried in the state.
 
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36. A Confession for Carmen / The Girls - 95
  April 22, 2006
A forensic scientist's painstaking examination of a rape kit helps solve the 15-year-old murder of a teenage girl.
 
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37. Cowboys on the Case / Office Politics
  November 11, 2004
Sixteen-year-old Benny King disappears from Roseburg, Oregon, after being released on bail for the 1974 rape and robbery of a young couple
 
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38. Daddy Knows Best / Dawn of the Dead
  September 6, 2004
A detective works for 15 years to nab a man who murdered his wife.
 
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39. Deja Vu / Secret in the Well - # 90
  May 31, 2005
A new fingerprint identification system known as I-AFIS helps Texas detectives track down a killer after three years of searching.
 
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40. The Family / The Clue That Stuck # 93
  April 15, 2006
A detective vows not to shave until he solves the murder of a young Oregon woman.
 
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41. Finding BTK - 104
  December 1, 2005
The story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in recent American history--the BTK killer, who terrorized the Wichita, Kansas, area for years.
 
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42. Good Samaritan / Gun Shy
  May 31, 2004
New DNA technology and the national DNA databank help police hunt down a rapist-killer 11 years after he committed his crimes.
 
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44. Innocent Prey/Punishment
  October 19, 2004
Police play a wild hunch that pays off in the capture of a serial rapist.
 
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45. A Killer Named Korn / The Night Watchman
  December 21, 2006
The conviction of a man found guilty of sexually assaulting and stabbing an Ohio woman to death is overturned because his Miranda rights were violated when he was arrested.
 
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46. The Killer's Tattoo
  October 29, 2005
The murder of a 73-year-old man leads police on a long chase for a man who's suspected of identity theft and bears a rose tattoo with the name "Phyllis".
 
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47. The Lady Killer / A Husband's Secret
  May 30, 2005
The testimony of three prison inmates helps convict a man who viciously killed a woman.
 
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48. License to Kill/Tell Tale Mark/Supermarket Mystery
  August 19, 2003
A quarter of a century after the murders of two nurses, Canadian police suspect that a former Toronto cop committed the crimes.
 
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49. Li'l Miss / Skeletons in the Closet
  October 5, 2004
An eerie note left on a grave helps solve a 12-year-old case of murder.
 
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50. Love Triangle/Second Story Rapist
  October 26, 2004
A phone-sting operation produces a big surprise.
 
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51. The Man in the Shadows / The Hitchiker # 94
  August 25, 2005
After running DNA tests on more than 50 suspects, Ohio police finally get a good a lead on a serial rapist suspected of attacking at least 14 women.
 
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52. A Man Scorned / The Dungeon
  December 13, 2004
Police suspect a gay man murdered a woman because she became too friendly with his boy friend
 
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53. Manhunt #92
  November 24, 2005
A look at the case of James Allen Selby.
 
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54. Mark Of A Killer / Dead Ends
  June 25, 2002
A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eight years.
 
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55. The Merry Widdow / The Bad Cop
  March 7, 2005
In 1983, Navy seamen Sonny Grotton left base for a long weekend at home. But as he pulled into his driveway, a gunman killed him.
 
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56. Missing Hunters / Flashlight Rapist
  November 8, 2004
Police suspect brothers J.R. and Coco Duvall beat two Michigan hunters to death
 
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57. Mommy's Rules
  October 28, 2003
A mother is suspected in the murders of two of her daughters, when her third daughter finally convinces police to reopen two cold cases.
 
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58. The Monster / A Cousin's Promise - 87
  April 19, 2005
After an Arkansas man confesses to the brutal murders of two women, police are shocked when the DNA evidence shows that he isn't the killer.
 
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59. Murder Checks In / Killer in the City
  September 7, 2004
Police hunt for a man who killed three women in three different hotels.
 
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60. Murder On The Menu
  August 4, 2003
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.
 
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61. Officer Down / A Secret Twin
  January 3, 2005
After 23 years, investigators finally track down the killers of an Atlanta policeman.
 
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62. Perfect Murder /Death of The Innocents
  November 25, 2004
It takes nine years and the work of cutting-edge forensic toxicologists to solve the murder of a medical examiner's wife
 
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64. Rear Window / The Peeper - 98
  December 6, 2005
The brutal stabbing murder of a Florida woman is solved when police find crucial DNA evidence in spit left on a pavement.
 
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65. A Sealed Fate / Deadly Divorce
  December 8, 2003
A murderer's saliva, found on envelopes that he sealed, helps seal his doom
 
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66. Sex, Lies and Murder
  April 5, 2005
Police in Overland Park, Kansas, believe they have a serial killer in their midst. From 1984 to 1987, three women and an infant go missing - all having ties to a local scam artist-turned-businessman named John Robinson.
 
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67. A Sister Lost / Rumors of Murder
  September 15, 2005
In the summer of 1974, 11-year-old John Wilson does a cannonball into the local swimming pool in Prairie Village, Kansas. He lands on his sister Lizabeth, 13, who starts running home to tell Mom and Dad what John has done. John also races home, trying to beat Lizabeth to the house.
 
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68. Smoky Mountain Mystery / A Drop of Blood
  September 29, 2005
On April 15, 1979, 41-year-old Harriet Simmons finishes her night shift at the bar, jumps in her car and heads to Nashville for a weekend road trip. She tells her seven children that she will call the next morning when she arrives. The call never comes.
 
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70. South Side Rapist
  June 24, 2004
1992--For three months, the St. Louis metro area is seized by a string of rapes. The victims each report the same scenario to detectives at the St. Louis Metro Police Dept.: a man with his face covered breaks into their home under the guise of a burglary.
 
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71. Torniquet / Burning Desire
  February 4, 2006
In August of 1994 9-year-old Dianna Rebollar is found raped and strangled to death in an empty Houston parking lot. Det. Bob King of the Houston PD takes note of the tourniquet left around the young victim's neck and, thinking it might be one killer's signature, shares photos of the deadly device with other investigators. Back at the station, King learns of a similar attack two years earlier in which 21-year-old Maria del Carmen Estrada was sexually assaulted, strangled with a tourniquet and dumped in a Dairy Queen drive-thru.
 
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72. Traces Of Murder / Bathtub Killer
  September 10, 2002
In 1985, Enrique Elizarbe, a recent immigrant from Peru trying to find a better life, was robbed and beaten to death in the warehouse where he works in northern Virginia. Prince William County detectives talk to a co-worker, Rowland Wheeler, who says he came back from a lunch break, found Elizarbe barely conscious, and tried to render aid. But Wheeler's stories don't make sense, and the detectives suspect Wheeler is not a Good Samaritan but a killer.
 
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73. Unholy Bible / A Daughter's Justice
  May 4, 2004
Inez Deaton drives across town to visit a friend and never returns. Her husband reports her missing, and police begin to search. They find Inez the next morning, dead on the banks of a bayou just beyond a car wash. Deaton has been stabbed repeatedly, with something like an ice pick. She has been raped, and semen and foreign hairs are recovered. Police try to retrace Deaton's steps that night.
 
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74. Unluckiest Man / Deadly Triangle
  April 12, 2003
May 15, 1995. 10 year old Cassie Kemp and her brother Eric are picked up after school by their stepfather, John Veysey. When they get home, Cassie races for the door of their Galena, IL home. As she walks into the kitchen, she sees her mother, Patricia Veysey, dead on the floor.
 
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75. Vintage Murder / Trouble In Paradise
  March 4, 2003
In 1973 in the small town of Owosso, Michigan, 20-year-old Dawn Magyar is abducted from a grocery store parking lot. Six weeks later, a farmboy is checking maple syrup pails in a forest near Owosso and stumbles upon a body, later identified as Magyar.
 
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76. Weepy-Voiced Killer / The "Mr. Big" Sting
  June 8, 2004
On December 31, 1980 a 20 year old college student, Karen Potack, leaves a New Year's Eve party at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota. That night a man calls police to tell them where to find her body. Police discover Karen Potack, naked in a snow bank near a manufacturing company, alive, barely. She survives, but has no recollection of the attack. On June 3, 1981, 18 year old Kimberly Compton gets off a greyhound bus in St. Paul, Minnesota.
 
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77. The Well / Deadly Ex
  May 24, 2005
The Last Frontier, New Mexico is far removed from the bright city lights. It's also the place where 72 year-old Bruce Stark has decided to retire. On September 11, 1996, Bruce Stark goes missing and his friends, Bob Nelson and Ken Hamel are unable to locate the retiree.After four days of searching through the wilderness of The Last Frontier, Bob Nelson is just about fresh out of places to look for his missing friend Bruce.
 
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78. Widow And The Wolf / Unicorns And Alligators
  February 15, 2003
October 23, 1983, Gertrude McCabe is found brutally murdered in her home. At first investigation, detectives pursue the case as an attempted robbery gone bad. A second glance at the crime scene shows that the scene was staged - this was not a robber gone bad, but a vicious murder of an elderly woman. Detectives comb the crime scene but lack the information to identify a suspect for the murder and the case grows cold.
 
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Episode 7, "One Night on the Bayou / The Buckeye Misdemeanor"
Synopsis: Police crack a murder investigation with some help from hungry alligators, and Phoenix police discover that a preacher is the culprit in a 20-year-old murder.
Original air date: June 13, 2000
Runtime: 50 minutes
ASIN: B000GK6TEK
Cold Case Files Season 1
Synopsis: Cold Case Files shows how timing, persistence and high-tech police work combine to catch people who have slipped through the cracks for decades.
Network: A&E (DO NOT USE)
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