Cold Case Files: Dead West
The American West, death is always a shadow over the shoulder: a grizzly bear , an avalanche, a bite from a rattlesnake; those are just the natural threats; if one wants to get away with murder, the West may be the perfect place to do it.
- 2025-2025
- 1 season
- A&E Network
- Documentary, Suspense
The American West, death is always a shadow over the shoulder: a grizzly bear , an avalanche, a bite from a rattlesnake; those are just the natural threats; if one wants to get away with murder, the West may be the perfect place to do it.
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 2025
Episode 1
Mystery in Cuero
Fri, Feb 21, 2025
When Pam Shelly, 31, is found in her Cuero, Texas bathroom with a fatal gunshot wound to the head, her death is initially ruled a suicide. Yet a tenacious investigator's instincts and his suspicion of foul play eventually cracks the case wide open.
Episode 2
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Fri, Feb 28, 2025
When Dan Lavigne, 52, is shot dead on his porch in Rapelje, Montana, 2002, deputies find no shortage of suspects. What follows is an 8-year quest for justice that stretches across three states before police finally unmask his killer.
Episode 3
Rocky Mountain Murder
Fri, Mar 7, 2025
Carolyn Jansen, 43, is found dead, stuffed into a duct-taped container in Aurora, Colorado . Detectives have two suspects but no clear way to tell who is the killer. Forensics, and a fearless DA, will finally reveal her murderer.
Episode 4
Murder in the City of Saints
Fri, Mar 14, 2025
When beloved 64-year-old Sherry Black is murdered in her rare-books store in Salt Lake City, investigators suspect theft as the motive. The case goes cold until her daughter teams with a wily investigator to bring her killer to justice.
Episode 5
Lovers, Lies and Canyon Murder
Fri, Mar 14, 2025
In 1987, 28-year-old Carol Murphy is found dead in a wooded area of Boulder, Colorado. It will take 20 years and a new technology to finally solve her murder.
Episode 6
The Death of Lavender Doe
Fri, Mar 14, 2025
When a woman's burning body is found in an oil field in 2006, the rural community of Kilgore, Texas and a determined lawman do everything to solve her case. It takes 13 years to ID Lavender Doe and nab her callous killer.