Cold Case Files Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Hour 1

Fri, Jan 1, 1999

Episode 2

The Boy and the Monster/Secret in the Cellar

Fri, Jan 8, 199945 mins

Two different crimes with two different solutions in ending Cold Case files. One involves help from a person the other relies on science and footwork to get the case solved.

Episode 3

The Texas Drifter/The Fingerprint File

Fri, Jan 15, 1999

In this episode we travel to very different places where horrific crimes were committed. One takes place in a small town in Texas, the other takes place in an English Countryside. All three crimes run cold but later are solved due to hard work, science and loose lips.

Episode 4

The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct

Sat, Jan 23, 199943 mins

The murder of Alison Parrott by Francis Carl Roy in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the poisoning of Seth and Tegan Davis in West Virginia. Mary Beth Davis, their mother, was convicted of poisoning her two children largely on circumstantial evidence.

Episode 5

The Hunter Homicides/The Skulls of Stanley Park

Fri, Jan 29, 199943 mins

See how new technologies and dedicated professionals are turning the tide on investigations long thought to have stalled.

Episode 6

Through Eyes of a Child/The Killer Next Door

Sat, Feb 6, 199960 mins

George Morgan, a prison inmate, recalls an incident over thirty years earlier that resulted in his sister Michell's death. John McRae, a killer who started very young is tracked for fifty years before being caught.

Episode 7

One Night on the Bayou/The Buckeye Misdemeanor

Fri, Feb 12, 199946 mins

Light is shed on the murder of a convicted child molester, Lester B. Hansen, in the bayou when a thief is arrested years later. Over twenty years passes before police find any leads in a motel robbery that led to murder.

Episode 8

The Mark of Cain/Death on the Freeway

Fri, Feb 19, 199945 mins

"The Mark of Cain": Jim McCutcheon, a Florida landowner and business owner, hires James Drysdale whom he met at church. When McCutcheon disappears in 1994, Drysdale takes over; he is suspected of foul play, especially when his criminal record is discovered. He runs and is found in Tennessee four years later. Though they had no body, officers brought Drysdale back to Florida; they hoped he would confess and reveal the grave. Comparison is made with the Biblical story of Cain and Abel and its consequences. "Death on the Freeway": George Arthur, a sheriff's deputy who was killed on the freeway, is at first thought to be a drunk driver but the autopsy reveals he was shot. Street gangs are suspected. Fourteen years later, a DNA profile is obtained from a blood sample taken from the street. Arthur's wife points the detectives to a suspect they should look at, a man who had stalked her, a fellow officer. Obtaining a warrant, LA detectives converge on his house in Spokane, Washington to get a saliva sample. Bingo! BUT an arrest warrant will require a blood sample, and the suspect is on the lam. A TV crew makes a gruesome discovery in the woods behind his home.

Episode 9

Terror in Telluride/Signature of a Killer

Fri, Feb 26, 199945 mins

The shooting death of Ava Shoen in Telluride, Colorado goes unsolved for years until a recorded conversation gives detectives the break they need. Over twenty years after the death of a young man, Taylor Courtney in Phoenix, fingerprint evidence leads detectives to the killer.

Episode 10

Diary of a Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue

Wed, Mar 3, 199960 mins

In central California during 1987 and then 1989, multiple fires occurred in the area of conventions for arson investigators. Investigator Marvin Casey theorizes that one of of their own is starting the fires. An elderly man is accused of the murder of his wife. Then a lost clue helps investigators find the killer.

Episode 11

Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder

Fri, Mar 12, 199945 mins

Years after the death of a prostitute, a cop finds the clues that lead to a serial killer who is pretending to be a cop. Six years after a woman is murdered in her home, detectives use DNA testing on resurfaced evidence to find her killer.

Episode 12

Murder Illustrated/Blood Relations

Fri, Mar 19, 199946 mins

Nine years after police had to release the teenage suspect in a woman's murder due to lack of evidence, they find a new lead in the case. Twenty years after a young woman is murdered while babysitting her nephew, police are able to find DNA evidence that points to her killer.

Episode 13

The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed

Fri, Mar 26, 199946 mins

A rapist is captured seven years after the crime, but when he is released on a technicality his victim, Jeri Elster, is determined to fight back. Fifteen years after a fire claimed the lives of a father and son, detectives interview the grown surviving son and learn a tragic tale of a mother who burned her family.

Episode 14

Reconstructing Murder/Fire Flicks

Fri, Apr 9, 199945 mins

One case remains unsolved. One takes the police to the killer but would not lead to an arrest. Some cold cases are just not able to be solved others take a long time to solve. Its the hardship on the family left behind that suffer when a case goes cold.

Episode 15

The Missing Informant/Man's Best Friend

Fri, Apr 30, 199945 mins

32 year old Christine Ann Elkins has gone missing. Police are sure she was murdered but they have no body to prove it. Then they find her car at the bottom of the Missouri River. 81 year old Daniel Schraeder is found beaten to death along with his dog in his home. The dog's DNA on the killer clinches the case.

Episode 16

Killer in the County

Fri, Apr 16, 199942 mins

A serial killer of four women, Faryion Wardrip, is brought to justice in Wichita Falls, Texas after a DNA sample is found on a coffee cup.

Episode 17

Presumed Dead/The Tow Truck Killer

Fri, Apr 23, 199945 mins

One will take 10 years and one will take 17 years to solve but they do get solved. Dedication, science, luck, and even hypnosis is used to make sure justice is done for the dead.

Episode 18

Portrait of a Killer/The Tortured Truth

Fri, Apr 30, 199944 mins

Discovery of a human scalp helps convict a murderer; teen kidnaps, tortures and kills younger boys.

Episode 19

Vanished

Tue, Nov 12, 200245 mins

Sometimes killers trip themselves up in leading the police to catch them and convict them as who they really are, Cold Case Killers. In this case James Hicks was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Coming face to face with one of his victims' brothers was the unfortunate demise for Hicks.

Episode 20

The Missing and the Dead

Fri, May 14, 199941 mins

The saying goes "Loose lips sink ships" Well that especially applies in this situation. No matter how hard some try their past seems to always catch up with them. You can't get rid of evidence but you can't get rid of your past.

Episode 21

Silent Witness/Innocence Lost

Fri, May 21, 199943 mins

In this episode there are two cases that involve researchers in solving crimes. The difference between the two cases are one research is alive and well he other ends up dead.

Episode 22

Frozen in Time/Little Girl Lost

Fri, May 28, 199944 mins

In Arizona, the body of a California woman is discovered in a freezer three years after her disappearance. In Chicago, the skeleton of an infant girl is found in an ally between two homes.

Episode 23

Family Secret/Blood Trail

Fri, Jun 4, 199944 mins

Secrets have a way of coming out no matter how old they are. And follow the trail of blood. A motto most enforcement people go by.

Episode 24

Bodies in the Bay/Cold Hit

Fri, Jun 11, 199941 mins

A gut feeling and a saved piece of paper help solve this crime. A husband takes a wedding vow taken all too seriously...more than once.