Cold Case Files

This article is about the television show. For the album by Onyx, see Cold Case Files (album).

Cold Case Files
Format	Criminal justice, documentary
Created by	Kurtis Productions, Ltd.
Starring	Bill Kurtis (host)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	126
Production
Running time	approx. 45–50 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	A&E Network
Original run	January 1, 1999 – Present
External links
Website

Cold Case Files is documentary television series on the cable channel A&E Network hosted by Bill Kurtis that documents the investigation of various long-unsolved murders (referred to as "cold cases" in detectives' parlance) through the use of modern forensic science (especially recent advances in DNA techniques), and criminal psychology, in addition to recent breakthroughs in the case(s) involving previously silent witnesses.

Overview

According to A&E, the show has been widely praised by law enforcement agencies and its investigative reports are commonly used in the training of detectives.^[1]

Cold Case Files first aired as a sub-series of another A&E crime documentary program, Investigative Reports, also hosted by Bill Kurtis, which ran from 1991–2004.^{[citation needed]} Reruns of the series currently air on broadcast syndication in the United States, usually in lower-profile time slots, and on many RTV stations.

Episode list

1. Pilot Episode (featuring Cold Case #1: Murder of Felicia Prechtl by Karl Chamberlain; Cold Case #2: My Brother The Killer; Cold Case #3: The Bob Crane Murder; and Cold Case #4: Case Resolved)
2. The Boy and the Monster/Secret in the Cellar
3. The Texas Drifter/The Fingerprint File/A Rose Among Thorns
4. The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct
5. The Hunter Homicides/The Skulls Of Stanley Park
6. Through Eyes of a Child/The Killer Next Door - "Through Eyes of a Child" told the story of solving the murder of Michelle Morgan, a 4-year-old child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepmother in 1961.^[2]
7. One Night on the Bayou/The Buckeye Misdemeanor
8. The Mark of Cain/Death on The Freeway
9. Terror in Telluride/Signature of a Killer
10. Diary Of A Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue
11. Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder
12. Murder Illustrated/Blood Relations
13. The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed
14. Reconstructing Murder/Fire Flicks
15. The Missing Informant/Man's Best Friend
16. Killer in the County
17. Presumed Dead/The Tow Truck Killer
18. Portrait Of A Killer/The Tortured Truth - "Portrait of a Killer" told about how NecroSearch, a volunteer team of victim advocates with technical investigation skills, successfully investigated the disappearance of photographer Michelle Wallace, age 25, who had been reported missing from Gunnison, Colorado, in 1974.^[3]
19. Vanished
20. The Missing and the Dead
21. Silent Witness/Innocence Lost
22. Frozen in Time/Little Girl Lost
23. Family Secret/Blood Trail
24. Bodies In The Bay (Copyrights by Author Mason Ramsey) /Till Death Do Us Part
25. Operation Jambalaya/Footprints in the Snow
26. The South Side Rapist
27. Mark of a Killer/Dead Ends
28. The Baiting Game
29. Ticket to Nowhere/The Paper Route
30. Traces of Murder/The Bathtub Killer
31. Pride and the Fall/The Nail File
32. In the Care of a Killer/Deadly Lies
33. Lady in the Box (John Smith)
34. Crimes of the KKK
35. Murder On The Menu
36. The Widow and the Wolf/Unicorns and Alligators
37. Vintage Murder/Trouble in Paradise
38. [[]]/Death of Innocents
39. The Unluckiest Man/The Deadly Triangle
40. Cat and Mouse/Cabbie Killer
41. The Cuff Link/Graveyard Shift
42. The Good Samaritan/Gun Shy
43. A Map To Murder/Life on the Run
44. Soft Kill/Unsolved
45. License to Kill/The Tell-Tale Mark/The Super
46. The Original Night Stalker
47. Cold Hit/Silent Kill
48. Mommy Rules - Murder of Suesan and Sheila Knorr
49. A Sealed Fate/Deadly Divorce
50. Cop Killer/Evil Twin
51. The Zodiac Killer
52. The Accidental Killer/Little Sister Lost
53. The Merry Widow/The Bad Cop
54. Daddy Knows Best/Dawn of the Dead
55. The Killer's Tattoo
56. The Green River Killer
57. A Hitchhike to Murder/Never Forgotten
58. The DNA Link/The Secret Slide
59. Death Before I Do/Hollywood Homicide
60. Blood Money/Precious Doe
61. Unholy Bible/A Daughter's Justice
62. Officer Down/Secret Twin
63. Weepy-Voiced Killer/The Mr. Big Sting
64. Blood on the Badge/Bump in the Night
65. The Lady Killer/A Husband's Secret
66. Mistaken for a Killer/A Woman Scorned
67. The Missing Hunters/The Flashlight Rapist
68. Cowboys on the Case/Office Politics
69. The Flaming Gorge Falls/Caught in the Mail
70. Murder Checks In / Killer in the City
71. The Shopping Cart Killer
72. The Hit makers/Favor For A Friend
73. Lil Miss /Skeletons In The Closet
74. Innocent Prey/The Punishment
75. Love Triangle/2nd Story Rapist
76. The Calling Card/Carol's Diary
77. Beauty Queen Killer/The Fingerprint
78. Friend of the Family/Remains of Murder
79. Under a Spell/Justice for Lisa
80. A Man Scorned/The Dungeon
81. A Killer Named Korn/The Night Watchman
82. The Bedroom Basher
83. Baby for Sale/The Barrel
84. The Bitemark/Justice for Eglena
85. Sex, Lies and Murder
86. The Monster/A Cousin's Promise
87. A Brother's Burden/The Midnight Attacker
88. The Well/The Deadly Ex
89. Déjà Vu/Secret In The Well
90. The Tourniquet/Burning Desire
91. Manhunt
92. The Family / The Clue That Stuck
93. Man in the Shadows/The Hitchhiker
94. A Confession for Carmen/The Girls
95. A Sister Lost/Rumors of Murder
96. Smoky Mountain Mystery / A Drop of Blood
97. Rear Window / The Peeper
98. The Closers/Caught by an Eyelash
99. Obsession: Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer
100. Kidnapped
101. On the Case: Nacole's Killer
102. Caught on Tape/A Son Remembers
103. Snatched/A Detective's Promise
104. Finding BTK
105. Death Of A Deacon/A Wife's Mission
106. The Sunday Morning Slasher
107. Killer on Campus/The Bow Hunter
108. Something Snapped/A Killer's Dream
109. Daddy Dearest/A Pastor's Wife
110. A Killer's Skin / Where's Peggy?
111. The Interrogation/The Slide
112. A Deadly Affair/The Sting Operation
113. Innocence Stolen/Danger at the Door
114. On the Case: A Child Remembers
115. The Deadly Stroll/Unholy Secret
116. The Black Dahlia: The 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short
117. Seattle, WA: Long Walk Home
118. The Taunt/Death in Deadwood
119. NCIS/Exhuming the Truth
120. Cross Country Connection/Eyes at the Window
121. Abandoned Houses/A Son's Memory
122. A Knock at the Door/Shattered
123. A Deadly Pattern/A Desperate Housewife
124. Murder He Wrote/Caught By the Past
125. Evidence Kit
126. Left for Dead/On the Case

Awards/Nominations

Emmy Award: Outstanding Nonfiction Series (2004 & 2005) Michael Harvey^{[disambiguation needed ]} (executive producer) Laura Fleury (executive producer) Tania Lindsay (supervising producer) Michael West (supervising producer) Mary Frances O'Conner (producer) Bill Kurtis

TV Ratings

The ratings are good.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ About Cold Case Files, A&E Television Networks website.
2. ^ "Death Investigation: Part 5" (PDF). A&E. 2007. http://bbs.historytravel.com/tv/shows/coldcasefiles/pdf/CCch01.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-30. 
3. ^ "2". A&E. 2007. pp. 4. http://bbs.historytravel.com/tv/shows/coldcasefiles/pdf/CCch01.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-30. 

External links

• Official website
• Cold Case Files at the Internet Movie Database
• Cold Case Files at TV.com