NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - 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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#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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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - A Killer Confession
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2024
The quiet town of Redding, Calif., is rocked by the disappearance of Frank McAlister, a teen with a recent cash windfall who leaves only a blood-stained car behind; 25 years will pass before someone makes a stunning on-air confession.
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#4 - Good Girl Gone
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2024
When 19-year-old Tara Sidarovich goes missing from her Punta Gorda home, Florida police consider her a runaway; then her body turns up in a swamp; shocking prison recordings will send detectives on a nationwide hunt for her killer.
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#5 - Who Killed My Father
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2024
When 34-year-old Freddie Farah is gunned down in his Florida grocery store, police urgently seek his killer; decades later, Farah's son will have a chance encounter with a cold case detective which brings the case back to life and exposes a killer.
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#6 - Damn His Soul to Hell
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 1/11/2024
The 1964 murder of 9-year-old Marise Chiverella leaves the town of Hazelton, Pa., in fear; an intense manhunt yields numerous suspects but no killer; five decades pass before a student moonlighting as a genetic genealogist reignites the case.
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#7 - Money, Moguls and Murder
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/2024
In 1977, Florida Nurse Deborah Clark, 23, is found brutally slain in her home; detectives unearth an affair, a jilted wife, and a web of money and power, but no true suspect; it will take 40 years and advanced DNA testing to expose her killer.
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#8 - Evil in Huntington Beach
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 1/11/2024
When the body of a woman turns up in a field in Huntington Beach, Calif., in 1968, police simultaneously seek a killer and the identity of the victim herself; it takes 52 years for detectives to solve this dual mystery and expose a vicious predator.
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#9 - The Smoking Gun
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 1/11/2024
A 2007 cold case resurfaces when a detective reopens the investigation into the brutal killing of Audrey Giannotti, 20, in rural Pennsylvania; uncovering hidden secrets, he races against time to bring justice to a family desperate for answers.
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#10 - A Bullet to the Heart
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 1/11/2024
When night manager Rodney Castin is gunned down in the lobby of his hotel three weeks before Christmas, detectives scour Georgia for his killer; two decades pass before an informant's shocking testimony breaks the case wide open.
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#11 - Viciously Murdered
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/2024
When Susan Schwarz is found shot to death in her apartment in 1979, police suspect a robbery gone wrong; thirty-two years pass before a witness reveals a much darker motive that breaks the case wide open and leads to Susan's killer.
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#12 - Death of a Baseball Mom
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2024
When beloved mother and sister Janora Stevens is found brutally stabbed in her Tulsa, Okla., home, her family is bitterly divided and increasingly suspicious of each other; the case chills until a trail of tell-tale fibers leads cops to her killer.
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#13 - Gone in a New York Minute
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/2022
Landlord Bruce Blackwood disappears without a trace in March 2006. Though there is no body, the NYPD is sure this is a homicide and they, along with Bruce's brother Ed, spend the next 9 years searching for answers and a killer.
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- 6.2/1030 votesLoading...
#14 - Vanished in Virginia
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/17/2022
When a 30-year-old mother fails to report for duty in Virginia, the Army lists her as AWOL. Her family immediately suspect foul play. They embark on a 13-year quest for answers before an eyewitness blows the case wide open.
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- 6.3/1029 votesLoading...
#15 - Murder in the Midwest
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/3/2022
In September 1974 in Ohio, 15-year-old Lori Nesson disappeared while walking home from a high school football game after-party. Her naked body is found in a ditch the next day yet is ruled undetermined natural causes. The search for her killer finally begins when the cause of death is changed to homicide 40 years later.
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#16 - Death of a Hero?
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/10/2022
A fire in January 2007 in Canton, OH, claims the life of WWII vet Bennie Angelo; a closer look at the crime scene reveals Bennie was dead before the fire, bumping an arson case up to homicide.
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- 6.4/1039 votesLoading...
#17 - A is for Arson
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 4/9/2022
When Gary Parks is killed in a fire-ruled arson, the investigation into his death shifts to homicide.
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- 6.4/1040 votesLoading...
#18 - Til Death Do Us Part
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/15/2022
Just two years into their marriage, Chuck and Cheryl Hall are torn apart when Cheryl is murdered. Though Cheryl's family is certain they know her killer, the law isn't as sure. After several decades, a DNA match erases all doubt.
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- 6.4/1030 votesLoading...
#19 - Lone Survivor
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 4/23/2022
In early 1984, three-year-old Vanessa Bennett becomes the lone survivor of her family's brutal murder. Initial investigators suspect a serial killer is at large, but decades pass before DNA narrows the suspect pool to one man.
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- 6.5/1041 votesLoading...
#20 - The Bone Keeper
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/8/2022
In December 1985, when human bones are discovered in the woods, it puts an end to the search for missing teen David Reed. David's skull fractures point to murder; but it will be decades before investigators can find his killer.
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#21 - The Lost Patient
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 4/16/2022
Janie Landers disappeared in 1979 from the home for the impaired and later on, her body was found. It took years before the suspect was found and the horrors in the facility are uncovered.
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- 6.6/1047 votesLoading...
#22 - Eyes of a Killer
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2022
On February 2, 2010, two masked gunmen commit a violent robbery and shoot Michael Temple Jr., rendering him a quadriplegic for five years before his death. In this unusual cold case, DNA from a knife is used to create a sketch of the killer.
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- 6.6/1042 votesLoading...
#23 - Friday Night Ghosts
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/2022
In late 1983, the bodies of five people abducted from a local fast food restaurant are found brutally murdered in an oil field. The main suspect is long believed to be a well-connected local man, until new evidence reveals the true killers.
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- 6.6/1043 votesLoading...
#24 - The Clock Strikes Murder
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2022
When 23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Years Day 1985, a little boy is left motherless. A family must wait 35 years for advancements in forensic science to finally catch a killer using familial DNA.
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#25 - Sisters In Death
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/2022
In March 1984, Jack Kennedy discovers his daughters brutally murdered. Their mother and niece spend their lives keeping the case alive. DNA leads nowhere. Thirty years later, an informant gives up a name. But the family's ordeal is far from over.
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The Worst Episodes of Cold Case Files
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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...
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Circle of Friends" is the worst rated episode of "Cold Case Files". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/8/2017. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Family Secret".