

Cold Case Files
Explore compelling cases that have gone cold for years, chronicling the journeys of the detectives who reopened them. The detectives relive the events of the crimes, reveal new twists and startling revelations, relying on breakthroughs in forensic technology and the influence of social media to help crack these cases.
- First aired
- Jan 1, 1999
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- A&E
- Episodes
- 128
- Country
- US
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S1 E1: Hour 1 - Cold Case Files
S1 E1 Hour 1 - Cold Case Files
Jan 1, 1999In the first case in this episode Felicia Prechtl is found raped and murdered in Dallas, Texas/ The only thing the killer left behind was a fingerprint which was smudged. The fingerprint was left on a piece of duct tape that the killer used to tie up Felicia. It would take many years before Felicia would get justice. It would take the work of a dedicated detective to runs the prints through the system and find not only a match to the print but also finds the killer. And he wants to confess. The second story in this episode is about a little girl, Surrette Clark, who lived in the Arizona desert. She disappeared with nobody to even recognize that she was gone. After Surrette went missing at the age of 3 it would take more then 20 years to solve this mystery. Her parents took off across the Canadian border right after her disappearance. Finally a woman comes forward to tell of the families secret. With this information cold case detectives find out about a story of child abuse and how deadly some people will go to hide them. The third story in this episode is about a known man. One who has passed through our live via television either from watching the show or somebody talking about it. Its Bob Crane. Best known for his role on Hogan's Heroes as Colonel Hogan. Crane was strangled and beaten to death in his own bed in 1978. The story goes that Bob and a friend of his had a fight one night. With the small evidence that the police did have the police suspected his friend of his murder but could not prove it. It would be 12 years before anybody takes a second look at this case. On the second try police do find the evidence they need but will it be enough? In the fourth installment to this episode is about Ronnie Bullock. He was a man who had served 10 years of his sentence for raping an 11 year old girl. Through the entire time of his imprisionment he stayed stedfast to his claim of innocence. It would not be until DNA was founded that someone would listen to him and prove him innocent.
- 1Hour 1 - Cold Case Files
- 2The Boy and the Monster/Secret in the Cellar
- 3The Texas Drifter/The Fingerprint File
- 4The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct
- 5The Hunter Homicides / Skulls in Stanley Park
- 6Through the Eyes of a Child / Killer Next Door
- 7One Night on the Bayou / Buckeye Misdemeanor
- 8The Mark of Cain / Death on the Freeway
- 9Terror in Telluride/Signature of a Killer
- 10Diary Of A Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue
- 11Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder
- 12Murder Illustrated/Blood Relations
- 13The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed
- 14Reconstructing Murder/Fire Flicks
- 15Killer in the County
- 16Presumed Dead/The Tow Truck Killer
- 17The Missing Informant/Man's Best Friend
- 18The Tortured Truth/Portrait Of A Killer
- 19Vanished
- 20The Missing and the Dead
- 21Silent Witness/Innocence Lost
- 22Frozen in Time/Little Girl Lost
- 23Family Secret/Blood Trail
- 24Bodies In The Bay/Cold Hit
- 26Man in the Shadows/The Hitchhiker
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