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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VideoJoel Guy Jr
The horrifying case of Joel Guy Jr, who brutally murdered and dismembered his parents after they cut off his financial support, and the detailed murder notebook that led to his conviction.
VideoJohn Leonard Orr: Firefighter, Arsonist, Murderer
The shocking true story of John Leonard Orr, a respected arson investigator who set over 2,000 fires, murdered four people, and ultimately confessed through his own novel.
VideoThe Chilling Case of John Wayne Glover: The Mosman Granny Killer
The horrifying true story of John Wayne Glover, the serial killer who terrorized Sydney's affluent North Shore in 1989, murdering elderly women in one of Australia's most shocking crime sprees.
VideoKelsey Turner: The Instagram Model Who Became a Murderer
The shocking true crime story of Kelsey Turner, an Instagram model and Playboy Italia cover girl who murdered her 71-year-old benefactor Dr. Thomas Burchard and left his body in the trunk of a Mercedes in the Mojave Desert.
VideoMandy Stavik: The Case that took 30 Years to Solve
The decades-long investigation into the 1989 murder of Mandy Stavik, an 18-year-old college student from Acme, Washington, and how a bakery worker's courageous act finally brought her killer to justice.
VideoMary Blandy: The Poisoner
The 1751 case of Mary Blandy, who conspired with her lover Captain William Cranstoun to poison her father with arsenic-laced "love powders," became a landmark trial in early forensic medicine and remains debated today.