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 Rare Case of Ellen Friar
The disturbing true crime case of 15-year-old Ellen Friar, who conspired with her older boyfriend and his friend to murder her father Aaron Friar in Medford, Oregon in 2017.
VideoThe Watts Family Disappearance
The disturbing true story of the Watts family murders, where social media perfection hid dark secrets that led to tragedy in Frederick, Colorado.
VideoThe Weepy-Voiced-Killer: Calls of Regret
Explore the chilling case of Paul Michael Stephani, the Weepy-Voiced-Killer, whose tearful 911 calls confessed to brutal murders across Minnesota in the early 1980s.
VideoThe Twisted Tale of "Lyin’ Randall": The Appalachian Wanderer
The horrifying true story of Randall Lee Smith, a pathological liar who murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail in 1981 and attacked two more men nearly three decades later.
VideoUnmasking the Killer: How the Police Caught Robert Napper
The inside story of how a dedicated team of five investigators finally captured serial rapist and killer Robert Napper, solving the Green Chain Rapist case and the murders of Rachel Nickell, Samantha Bisset, and Jazmine Bisset after years of Metropolitan Police failures.
VideoThe Unsolved Mystery of the Black Dahlia Case
Explore the unsolved 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, from the brutal discovery of her body to the enduring theories that continue to captivate true crime investigators.