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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VideoBilly Milligan: Man of 24 Faces or Violent Conman
In 1977, Billy Milligan became the first person to use multiple personalities as an insanity defense. But was he truly suffering from dissociative identity disorder, or did he exploit the zeitgeist of 1970s clinical psychology to escape justice?
VideoThe Bizarre Case of Paul Warner Powell: The Man Who Sent Himself to the Electric Chair
How convicted murderer Paul Warner Powell escaped death row through a legal technicality, then wrote a taunting letter to prosecutors that placed himself back on Virginia's electric chair.
VideoBraemar Hill Murders: The Double Murder that Shocked Hong Kong
The brutal 1985 killings of two British teenagers on Hong Kong's Braemar Hill exposed colonial policing double standards and became one of the territory's most infamous criminal cases.
VideoThe Murderous Story of Burke and Hare: The Anatomy Killers
The dark true story of William Burke and William Hare, who murdered at least 16 people in 1828 Edinburgh and sold their corpses to medical schools for dissection.
VideoCarl Tanzler: The Depraved Man Who Lived With a Corpse for 7 Years
The disturbing true story of Carl Tanzler, a radiology assistant who became obsessed with tuberculosis patient Elena de Hoyos, dug up her corpse after her death, and lived with her preserved body for seven years.
VideoCaught in the Act - The LuluLemon Murder
The shocking true story of the Lululemon murder, where employee Brittany Norwood staged a violent robbery after killing coworker Jayna Murray—only to be undone by forensic evidence that never left the store.