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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VideoThe Rostov Ripper: Butcher, Sadist, Savage
The horrifying true story of Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet serial killer who murdered 53 to 57 people over more than a decade, and the police incompetence that allowed him to roam free.
The Witness Who Never Came Forward
She drove past the house twice that morning. Once at 6:14, once at 7:02. She watched the second car pull in. For thirty-one years she said nothing — until a 2024 cold-case task force found her name on a Costco receipt.
The Bricked House on Hadley Lane
A walled-off basement, a missing-persons report no one followed, and three decades of the wrong question being asked.
The Ledger Found in the Walls
A 2024 renovation pulled drywall in a 1960s ranch house and dropped a ring-bound ledger onto the kitchen floor. The first entry was dated June 1971. The last was three weeks before the original owner went missing.
What The Second Search Warrant Found
The first warrant was for a phone. The second was for a chest freezer. Most prosecutions hinge on what the second warrant turns up — and on whether a judge signs it.