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Cold Case Files
Cold Case Files

Cold Case Files

—"Cold Case Files," one of A&E Network's most popular and successful series of all time, chronicles the re-examination of long-unsolved crimes and the journeys of law enforcement personnel who reopened them. With the use of forensic advances and new evidence, police and detectives attempt to crack the cases and clarify unanswered questions. Each story is brought to life through cinematic dramatizations and first-person storytelling from the detectives and loved ones who lived through the harrowing experiences. Original episodes, which date back to 1999 and span nearly 10 years, are hosted by Bill Kurtis.
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Season 73 of 3 Episodes

  • A member of the Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA Initiative to fund the testing of rape kits; a deputy district attorney in Sacramento County, Calif., uses a DNA grant to find a killer.

  • College students take on the cases of jailed murderers who claim they are innocent; the students visit the inmates, track down key witnesses and seek DNA testing to prove their clients' innocence.

  • Hours before Michael Johnson is scheduled to die by injection, the victim's family awaits justice, and the inmate's family braces for what it believes is unjust punishment.

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82 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Manhunt
    Rear Window; The Peeper
    Innocence Stolen; Danger at the Door
    The Bedroom Basher
    The Original Nightstalker
    The Merry Widow; The Missing Informant
    Mark Of A Killer; Portrait
    The Lady Killer; A Map to Murder
    The Boy and the Monster; The Secret in the Cellar
    Soft Kill; Unsolved
  • Manhunt

    James Allen Selby, a serial rapist who eluded police for years.
    Upcoming
  • Rear Window; The Peeper

    A co-worker goes to check on a woman who failed to show up for work; a woman reports being raped in her home.
    Upcoming
  • Innocence Stolen; Danger at the Door

    Young girls are sexually assaulted while waiting for their school buses; in 1991, a 9-year-old girl disappears from her home and is found murdered.
    Upcoming
  • The Bedroom Basher

    Fifteen years after a husband is convicted of murder, police discover that he may have been wrongly accused.
    Upcoming
  • The Original Nightstalker

    Police link four murders to a single DNA profile.
    Upcoming
  • The Merry Widow; The Missing Informant

    An off-duty seaman is gunned down; a skeleton is found in a car on a river bottom.
    Upcoming
Cold Case Files

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"Cold Case Files," one of A&E Network's most popular and successful series of all time, chronicles the re-examination of long-unsolved crimes and the journeys of law enforcement personnel who reopened them. With the use of forensic advances and new evidence, police and detectives attempt to crack the cases and clarify unanswered questions. Each story is brought to life through cinematic dramatizations and first-person storytelling from the detectives and loved ones who lived through the harrowing experiences. Original episodes, which date back to 1999 and span nearly 10 years, are hosted by Bill Kurtis.

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  • Fifteen years after a husband is convicted of murder, police discover that he may have been wrongly accused.

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