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Cold Case Files: Season 1

25 episodes Premiered Jan 1, 1999
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Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Hour 1 - Cold Case Files

Jan 1, 1999

In 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 finge

S1·E2 Core

The Boy and the Monster/Secret in the Cellar

Jan 8, 1999

The Boy and the Monster In Wisconsin in the winter of 1991 a young woman's body was found naked, badly beaten and to make it harder to identify her, her fingertips were cut off. A

S1·E3 Core

The Texas Drifter/The Fingerprint File

Jan 15, 1999

Texas Drifter Two women in two separate towns in Texas who where raped. The rapist uses a knife to threaten these women then rapes them and leaves his DNA behind. Back when these

S1·E4 Mytharc

The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct

Jan 23, 1999

Answer in the Box Alison Parrott was a runner. Not only was she was runner she was a great runner, So much so that she had the local media interested in her, So when she got a cal

S1·E5 Core

The Hunter Homicides / Skulls in Stanley Park

Jan 29, 1999

DNA tests identify a skull of a 14-year-old boy who went missing 6 years earlier. When a second skull is found, investigators fear they have a serial killer in the area. In Florida

S1·E6 Core

Through the Eyes of a Child / Killer Next Door

Feb 6, 1999

In Missouri, a part-time missionary is convicted, 38 years later, of killing her 5-year-old stepdaughter, and the skeleton of a Michigan boy, dead for 10 years, leads police to a s

S1·E7 Core

One Night on the Bayou / Buckeye Misdemeanor

Feb 12, 1999

Alligators feasting on a human corpse help police to crack a murder investigation. Phoenix police discover that a preacher is the culprit in a 20-year-old murder.

S1·E8 Core

The Mark of Cain / Death on the Freeway

Feb 19, 1999

A man in Florida is reported missing and his roommate is the main suspect. Then, at first it looks like L.A.P.D. Sgt. George Arthur died in a car crash. But two days later, four bu

S1·E9 Mytharc

Terror in Telluride/Signature of a Killer

Feb 26, 1999

Shoot outside her bedroom, Eva Shoen was shot to death. Living in Telluride, on the mountain side. Eva was married to the son of the billion dollar Shoen family who owned the U-Hau

S1·E10 Core

Diary Of A Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue

Mar 5, 1999

Every 2 years, a group of fire investigators meet for a conference. While attending the conference in 1987 in Fresno, California, 3 suspicious fires break out near the conference.

S1·E11 Mytharc

Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder

Mar 12, 1999

In the beautiful byways of West Palm Beach, along the canals a woman was fond dead in the canal. After some research they found that the woman was a prostitute. Even with all the e

S1·E12 Mytharc

Murder Illustrated/Blood Relations

Mar 19, 1999

Nine years after police had to release the teenage suspect in a woman's murder due to lack of evidence, they find a new lead in the case. Twenty years after a young woman is murder

S1·E13 Core

The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed

Mar 26, 1999

A rapist is captured seven years after the crime, but when he is released on a technicality his victim is determined to fight back. Fifteen years after a fire claimed the lives of

S1·E14 Core

Reconstructing Murder/Fire Flicks

Apr 9, 1999

In Wisconsin, advances in forensic clay modeling help investigators identify a murder victim whose skin was stripped from her head, neck, and legs. And in California, police track

S1·E15 Core

Killer in the County

Apr 16, 1999

A serial killer of four women, Faryion Wardrip, is brought to justice in Wichita Falls, Texas after a DNA sample is found on a coffee cup.

S1·E16 Core

Presumed Dead/The Tow Truck Killer

Apr 23, 1999

One will take 10 years and one will take 17 years to solve but they do get solved. Dedication, science, luck, and even hypnosis is used to make sure justice is done for the dead.

S1·E17 Core

The Missing Informant/Man's Best Friend

Apr 30, 1999

Police solve a murder when divers find a skeleton in a car at the bottom of a river, and a dead dog's DNA helps crack open a 6-year-old case.

S1·E18 Core

The Tortured Truth/Portrait Of A Killer

Apr 30, 1999

The accidental discovery of a human scalp leads to the conviction of a man for murder 18 years after the killing. And a teenager who likes to kidnap younger boys and break their bo

S1·E19 Mytharc

Vanished

May 7, 1999

The story of serial killer James Rodney Hicks, who left a trail of bodies and kept police, prosecutors, and the FBI quite busy working on his cases for over 20 years. Hicks murdere

S1·E20 Core

The Missing and the Dead

May 14, 1999

When a passing motorist spots a fire along a country road in South Carolina and calls it in, police arrive to discover the badly burned and battered remains of a woman, her skull s

S1·E21 Core

Silent Witness/Innocence Lost

May 21, 1999

The murder of scientist Helena Greenwood, who was helping to develop DNA forensic technology when she died, is solved 12 years later with the help of DNA evidence. And a Los Angele

S1·E22 Core

Frozen in Time/Little Girl Lost

May 28, 1999

Using a hair dryer to thaw a frozen corpse, detectives get to the bottom of a grisly murder. And the discovery of a child's skeleton in a Chicago garden puts police on the trail of

S1·E23 Core

Family Secret/Blood Trail

Jun 4, 1999

Forty-one years after the crime, a woman implicates her brother and cousin in the murder of a New Jersey policeman. And members of the Vidocq Society, a group of law enforcement pr

S1·E24 Core

Bodies In The Bay/Cold Hit

Jun 11, 1999

A sunset boat ride in Florida leads to death for a vacationing woman and her two daughters, and police investigate a Texas man whose three wives all died in mysterious fashions.

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