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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VideoUnsolved: The Yuba County Five
In 1978, five men from a California disability support program vanished after a basketball game. Four were found dead under inexplicable circumstances; the fifth remains missing. Explore the enduring mystery of the Yuba County Five.
VideoA Dingo Ate My Baby
Two Australian cases—Lindy Chamberlain and Kathleen Folbigg—where circumstantial evidence led to convictions for infanticide, and where "The Dingo Defense" became a matter of life and imprisonment.
VideoThe Boston Strangler: Serial Murder, Solved or Unsolved
Between 1962 and 1964, 13 women were strangled in Boston. Albert DeSalvo confessed, but did he do it? Explore the evidence, theories, and DNA breakthrough in this infamous case.
VideoCarl Panzram: Murderous Monster and Rage Incarnate
The terrifying true story of Carl Panzram, one of America's most prolific and depraved serial killers, whose rage-fueled crime spree across the globe claimed dozens of lives.
VideoHenry Lee Lucas: The Confession Killer
The shocking true story of Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole, whose hundreds of false confessions triggered one of America's most spectacular miscarriages of justice, exposed by courageous journalists, victims' families, and a determined district attorney.
VideoIgor Komarov: the Bali Dismembering Case
The disturbing true crime case of Igor Komarov, a Ukrainian tourist kidnapped, tortured, and dismembered in Bali in February 2026, with ransom videos leaked online and connections to fraudulent call centres in Dnipro.