10.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - Little Girl Lost
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/27/2017
Halloween in a small town is cancelled indefinitely when a young girl is kidnapped and killed on her way home from a costume party.
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- 8.0/10115 votesLoading...
#2 - A Family Secret
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/15/2017
Ten years after a 17-year-old girl is found strangled in the woods in small-town Kentucky, detectives uncover a terrible family secret.
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- 7.8/10127 votesLoading...
#3 - Sweethearts, Silenced
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2017
A killer authors a book about his con-man past that becomes the key to solving a 29-year-old cold case of two high school sweethearts--and three other cold case murders--leading police to believe he could be the Zodiac Killer.
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- 7.7/10145 votesLoading...
#4 - She Never Came Home
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/13/2017
The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a bullied teenager remains unsolved for 27 years.
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- 7.5/10147 votesLoading...
#5 - Killings on Christmas Eve
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/2017
The death of an elderly couple, Edward "Ed" and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Maurin Ed in Washington state on Christmas Eve 1985.
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- 7.5/10114 votesLoading...
#6 - Circle of Friends
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/8/2017
When 18-year-old Shannon Siders' body is found in the woods, everyone in the small town of Newaygo, Michigan, becomes a suspect--but no one is convicted of the crime.
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- 7.4/10102 votesLoading...
#7 - A Killer Slips Away
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/29/2017
Two decades after a close-knit family's loving aunt is stabbed in her home, detectives return to the crime scene and discover a pivotal clue hidden in plain view.
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- 7.3/10116 votesLoading...
#8 - The Night Shift
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/25/2017
College student Brad Perry shows up to work his graveyard shift at the gas station and is never seen alive again.
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- 7.3/10117 votesLoading...
#9 - Officer Down
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/1/2017
The longest running cold case of a law enforcement officer in the United States was the murder of Sheriff's Lt. Joe Clark.
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- 7.3/1077 votesLoading...
#10 - The Voice in the Lake
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/21/2021
When 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in the Florida swamps in December of 2000, authorities suspect he accidentally drowned. For sixteen years Mike’s disappearance remains a mystery. The case heats up when police receive a distress call from the victim’s wife in 2016. Featuring interviews with detectives and the victim’s mother as well as rare footage of the crime scene and recorded audio confessions with the accused, the episode explores how the disappearance unfolded into a sinister plot to cash in on millions of dollars of life insurance.
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- 7.2/1058 votesLoading...
#11 - The Devil in Disguise
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/2021
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- 7.2/1055 votesLoading...
#12 - Ice Cold in Denver
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/7/2022
On a bitter morning in 1980, radio intern Helene Pruszynski is found brutalized in a snowy field. After 37 years of fruitless leads, investigators tap into a public genealogy website that leads them across the country to the killer they've been hunting.
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- 7.2/1039 votesLoading...
#13 - Killer in the Storm
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/20/2022
After a young mother's death in 1988 goes unsolved, her older sister promises to solve the crime, no matter how long it takes, so she sets about on a quest for answers to determine who killed the victim in her own home and why.
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- 7.2/1029 votesLoading...
#14 - Taken in Tacoma
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/23/2022
When 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian is abducted and murdered in August of 1986, residents of Tacoma panic. This is the second young girl killed in five months. Convinced a predator is loose, police embark on a 32-year inquiry.
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- 7.1/1056 votesLoading...
#15 - The School Teacher
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/11/2021
Twenty-six years after a schoolteacher's murder, cold-case detectives get a break when a relative of the killer uploads DNA to a public genealogy website.
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- 7.1/1053 votesLoading...
#16 - Love and Hate
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/7/2022
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- 7.1/1051 votesLoading...
#17 - Suspicious Minds
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/2022
Just after the last day of school in 1984, 15-year-old Reesa Trexler is found murdered in her grandparents' home. For decades, a stalled investigation only fuels the town rumor mill, pointing an accusing finger at Reesa's 13-year-old sister, Jodie.
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- 7.0/10113 votesLoading...
#18 - A Family Cursed
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/2017
One family faces two unsolved murders of loved ones and authorities finally uncover the missing clue that leads to solve the case 13 years after the murders occurred.
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- 7.0/1062 votesLoading...
#19 - Devil at the Door
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 8/28/2021
When 36-year-old computer programmer Lisa Valdez fails to show up for work, her apartment manager finds her brutally murdered in her tiny studio. Her body is riddled with stab wounds, the walls are covered in blood. Evidence shows the killer cut off her long, dark hair, taking it as an apparent trophy. Detectives ask, could she be the victim of a brutal serial killer? Or was Lisa murdered by someone she knew? Clues left on an answering machine point to a co-worker who was known to have feelings for Lisa, but two bloody fingerprints left on a toilet seat clear him as a suspect, and the case goes cold for thirteen years. Things heat up when a detective gets a hit during a search of the state's DNA database, leading to an unsuspected person from Lisa's past.
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- 7.0/1049 votesLoading...
#20 - The Heartland Killer
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/18/2021
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- 7.0/1051 votesLoading...
#21 - Cold Case Files
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/8/2022
Easter Sunday of 1992, the body of missing woman Lisa Ziegert is found in a field. The investigation yields hundreds of leads but no true suspect. After more than two decades on ice, the case is revived when DNA phenotyping puts a face to the killer.
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- 7.0/1042 votesLoading...
#22 - A Lesson in Homicide
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/15/2022
When a beloved schoolteacher is found murdered in her Neptune, New Jersey apartment in the fall of 2009, suspicion is cast on her soon to be ex-husband. Long after the case goes cold, a detective embarks on a mission to help the man clear his name and track down the real killers.
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- 6.9/1046 votesLoading...
#23 - Woman in the Woods
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2022
In August 1972, the body of Jody Loomis is found in the woods. 34 years later, the killer's DNA is recovered from Jody's old clothing but it isn't matched until 2018, when genetic genealogy helps point to one suspect--whose guilt must be proven in court.
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- 6.8/1067 votesLoading...
#24 - Missing in Altoona
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/4/2021
When Sherry Leighty goes missing in 1999, her family is left wondering how a dedicated mother of three could vanish without a trace. A decade later, the cold case heats up when Sherry's sister launches a social media campaign to help solve her sister's mysterious disappearance. An online tip unearths the killer truth and a sinister family secret. Featuring an interview with Shelly Leighty, who never gave up on solving her sister's case, along with rare home video of Sherry and her family.
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- 6.8/1042 votesLoading...
#25 - Dark Angel
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2022
13 days after Pam Pitts disappears in 1988 her charred body is found at a popular hangout spot in the Arizona desert. When a second victim is discovered in a mineshaft, detectives suspect the killer may have known them both, but the truth is decades away.
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The Best Episodes of Cold Case Files
Every episode of Cold Case Files ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Cold Case Files!
There are over 100,000 cold cases in America, and only about 1% are ever solved. With recent advancements in technology and the methods used to...
Genres:CrimeMysteryDocumentary
Network:A&E
Best Episodes Summary
"Little Girl Lost" is the best rated episode of "Cold Case Files". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/27/2017. This episode scored 2.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Family Secret".