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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Cold Case Files Season 1 Episode 7 - Circle of Friends
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    #1 - Circle of Friends

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Cold Case Files Season 1 Episode 8 - A Family Secret
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    #2 - A Family Secret

    S1:E8

    Ten years after a 17-year-old girl is found strangled in the woods in small-town Kentucky, detectives uncover a terrible family secret.

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 7 - Sooner State Nightmare
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    #3 - Sooner State Nightmare

    S4:E7

    A massive search unfolds in Chandler, OK, when two women and a child go missing from a Walmart parking lot in 1992. It will take 23 years and a tip from an unlikely source to piece together a heinous plot of misdirection and murder.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 8 - Evil in Huntington Beach
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    #4 - Evil in Huntington Beach

    S4:E8

    When the body of a woman turns up in a field in Huntington Beach, CA 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 9 - Who Killed My Father
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    #5 - Who Killed My Father

    S4:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  6. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 10 - A Killer Confession
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    #6 - A Killer Confession

    S4:E10

    The quiet town of Redding, CA, 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 11 - Blood Red Snow
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    #7 - Blood Red Snow

    S4:E11

    In 2002, Chris Green, 19, is found beaten to death in a ditch in Michigan. The case remains cold for nearly a decade until investigators uncover a suspect whose incriminating statements blow the case wide open.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 12 - Damn His Soul to Hell
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    #8 - Damn His Soul to Hell

    S4:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 13 - The Evil Among Us
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    #9 - The Evil Among Us

    S4:E13

    When 8-year-old April Tinsley is found dead in a Fort Wayne, IN, ditch the community is shaken. Disturbing letters then appear, penned by her killer. Police scramble to catch April's murderer before he strikes again.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 14 - No Known Enemies
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    #10 - No Known Enemies

    S4:E14

    When 81-year-old Helen Gale is found in her burned-out car, investigators in Southfield, MI, wonder who would murder this pillar of the community. It will be eight years before a blown alibi brings them face-to face with her killer.

    Director:Unknown
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  11. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 15 - Contracted to Kill
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    #11 - Contracted to Kill

    S4:E15

    When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982, police suspect the work of a professional. It will take four decades to identify her killer and, in the process, reveal a shocking truth.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 16 - A Dawn to Remember
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    #12 - A Dawn to Remember

    S4:E16

    Dawn Koons, an 18-year-old model with dreams of making it big in California. Her family back in Yonkers had their concerns about her move, fearing that she might be making a mistake. Unfortunately, their worries would soon turn into heartbreak.

    Director:Unknown
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  13. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 17 - The Campfire Mint Murder
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    #13 - The Campfire Mint Murder

    S4:E17

    When nine-year-old Campfire Girl, Candy Rogers turns up dead after selling mints door-to-door, Spokane detectives launch a dogged campaign find her killer. What follows is one of the longest cold case investigations in Washington State history.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 1 - Money Moguls and Murder
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Money Moguls and Murder

    S4:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 2 - Death of a Baseball Mom
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Death of a Baseball Mom

    S4:E2

    When beloved mother and sister Janora Stevens is found brutally stabbed in her Tulsa, OK, 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 3 - Good Girl Gone
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Good Girl Gone

    S4:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 4 - A Bullet to the Heart
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - A Bullet to the Heart

    S4:E4

    When night manager Rodney Castlin 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.

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 5 - The Smoking Gun
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - The Smoking Gun

    S4:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Cold Case Files Season 4 Episode 6 - Viciously Murdered
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Viciously Murdered

    S4:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Cold Case Files Season 2 Episode 4 - The School Teacher
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - The School Teacher

    S2:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Cold Case Files Season 2 Episode 5 - The Heartland Killer
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #21 - The Heartland Killer

    S2:E5

    In the 1980s, a suspected serial killer preyed on women in small towns located on the banks of the Mississippi River until the murders abruptly ceased and went unsolved. In 2006, 26 years later, a cold case detective and producer on the set of "Cold Case Files" unknowingly began to connect the dots that would crack the case while discussing the murder of Deborah Sheppard, a Southern Illinois University student whose death had remained a mystery since 1982.

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Cold Case Files Season 2 Episode 6 - The Devil in Disguise
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #22 - The Devil in Disguise

    S2:E6

    23-year-old teacher Irene Garza was a former beauty queen and devout Catholic who vanished the evening before Easter after giving confession. Residents of her close-knit border town did their best to find her, but after a series of false leads, her body was found floating in a drainage canal clearly the victim of a violent sexual predator. At the time, a key witness hinted that a member of the Catholic clergy may have been responsible, but the clue remained buried for 42 years until a former priest comes forward with a damning confession from another man of the cloth that reveals a sinister coverup.

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Cold Case Files Season 2 Episode 7 - Love and Hate
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Love and Hate

    S2:E7

    Near what's known as the hanging tree, the mutilated body of Timothy Coggins is found in late 1983. The investigation is thwarted and the case freezes for over 30 years, until a newly elected sheriff vows to bring the killers to justice.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Cold Case Files Season 2 Episode 8 - Ice Cold in Denver
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Ice Cold in Denver

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Cold Case Files Season 2 Episode 9 - Murder by Moonlight
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Murder by Moonlight

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Circle of Friends" is the worst rated episode of "Cold Case Files". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 6/8/2017. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "A Family Secret".