Cold Cases
Unsolved crimes, official failures, and what reopened files reveal about how investigations go cold — and what it takes to bring them back.
131 articlesLatest Cold Cases
VideoThe Eight Immortals Murders
In 1985, a gambling debt led to the massacre of ten family members at a Macau restaurant. Discover the horrifying true story of the Eight Immortals Murders.
VideoGiovanni Brusca: A Mafia Horror Story
The brutal story of Giovanni Brusca, the Sicilian Mafia enforcer known as "The Swine" who murdered over 150 people before becoming an informant—and walking free.
VideoThe Mad Trapper of Rat River: A Cop-Killer Manhunt
In 1932, a mysterious trapper sparked Canada's largest and longest manhunt after killing an RCMP officer. The Mad Trapper of Rat River evaded capture for 53 days across 150 miles of arctic wilderness before his dramatic final confrontation.
VideoRod Ferrell: The Vampire Clan Murders
The shocking true story of Rod Ferrell, a teenage vampire cult leader who murdered two parents in Eustis, Florida in 1996, inspired by the roleplaying game Vampire: The Masquerade.
VideoThe Bloody Harpes: America’s 18th Century Serial Killer Duo
The horrifying true story of Micajah and Wiley Harpe, America's first documented serial killers, who terrorized the frontier with brutal murders, kidnappings, and atrocities during the Revolutionary War era.
VideoThe Horrifying Kyoto Animation Massacre
In 2019, a man set fire to Kyoto Animation's Studio 1, killing 36 people and wounding 33 more in Japan's deadliest mass killing since World War II. This is the complete story of the attack, the trial, and the victims.
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VideoAlexander Pichushkin: The Chessboard Killer
The horrifying true story of Alexander Pichushkin, the Russian serial killer who used a chessboard to track his victims and sought to become the most prolific murderer in modern Russian history.
VideoAlfred Packer: The Horrifying Story of the 'Colorado Cannibal'
The gruesome true story of Alfred Packer, the Colorado prospector who murdered and cannibalized five companions in the San Juan Mountains in 1874, and the decades-long fight for his freedom.
VideoAustin Harrouff: The Frat Boy Werewolf
The horrifying true story of Austin Harrouff, a Florida State University student who murdered and cannibalized an innocent couple in Jupiter, Florida, driven by schizophrenia and clinical lycanthropy.
VideoBobby Joe Long: The Classified Ads Rapist
The harrowing story of serial rapist and murderer Bobby Joe Long, and how one remarkable victim, Lisa McVey, used her wits to survive and bring him to justice.
VideoThe Family Massacre That England Got Wrong
Jeremy Bamber has spent nearly 40 years in prison for one of Britain's most notorious family massacres. But mounting evidence suggests this may be one of England's worst miscarriages of justice.
VideoGerman Love Stories: Lost in Delusion
Two disturbing German true crime stories explore the dark intersection of love, obsession, and delusion—from a lonely academic's doomed romance with a sex worker to an aspiring rapper's deadly bid for fame.