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  E1Obsession: Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer

  Dec 15, 2005· 60m

  In this special 100th edition of Cold Case Files, we look at the biggest serial murder case in U.S. history - the 20-year hunt for the Green River Killer. Dave Reichert, the detective who made finding the killer his obsession, walks us through the case. He tells vivid, sometimes harrowing stories about the murders, saying, "You never forget the sight of a 16-year-old body lying on her back on the riverbank with ligature around her neck." Reichert headed up two Green River task forces until forensic DNA technology helped crack the case and brought him face to face with the killer thought to be responsible for 48 deaths.

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  E2Finding BTK

  Dec 22, 2005· 60m

  The story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in recent American history--the BTK killer, who terrorized the Wichita, Kansas, area for years. After committing at least seven brutal murders, BTK (for Bind, Torture, Kill) vanished for over 25 years before sending clues of his crimes to the media in 2004. He continued to avoid capture until a forensic computer expert traced a computer disc that led investigators to a surprising suspect--a church president.

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  E3Death of a Deacon/A Wife's Mission

  Jan 14, 2006· 60m

  When an adulterous church deacon is found shot to death in the back seat of his car, it looks like police may have stumbled upon a multi-party murder plot. And, a wife remains a key suspect in her husband's murder case for six years, until she takes the matter into her own hands to prove her innocence.

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  E4Snatched/A Detective's Promise

  Jan 21, 2006· 60m

  The dogged work of an Alberta, Canada, detective finally pays off when he tracks down the man who raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl 10 years earlier. And when police search for the killer of an 18-year-old hitchhiker, they find that the victim's diary is one of their best clues.

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  E5The Sunday Morning Slasher

  Feb 4, 2006· 60m

  Law enforcement officials fear they may have to release a serial killer from prison until a 24-year-old murder case gives them a chance to lock him up for good.

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  E6Caught on Tape/A Son Remembers

  Feb 18, 2006· 60m

  A video tape made at an ATM machine helps police in Louisville, KY, to nab a man suspected of raping 13 women. And a DA investigator in Georgia helps crack a murder case that his father, a police chief, first worked on 30 years before.

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  E7On the Case: Nacole's Killer

  Mar 11, 2006· 60m

  This special edition of Cold Case Files offers an inside look, rarely seen, at an active cold case investigation. We follow Det. Vince Velazquez of Atlanta and Capt. Russell Popham of East Point, Ga., as they work to solve the 1995 rape and murder of 14-year-old Nacole Smith, one of Atlanta's most notorious unsolved crimes. We see Velazquez and Popham hit the streets to question people who might recognize the man in their composite sketch, and obtain DNA samples from potential suspects. "It's almost like the carrot's dangling in front of us, but we just can't catch it," Velazquez says of his painstaking, frustrating search for the killer.

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  E8Killer on Campus/Bow Hunter

  Apr 2, 2006· 60m

  Thirty-two years after the killing of University of Michigan law student Jane Mixer, police use DNA found on her pantyhose to finally track down the killer. And psychologists help solve a cold case by suggesting the lead detective take a page from the game of romance, and play hard to get with the killer.

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  E9Something Snapped/A Killer's Dream

  Apr 9, 2006· 60m

  On a summer night in 1987 a mother worries and waits for her 19-year-old daughter to come home. But Diana never comes home and she's found raped and strangled near the Hudson River. Investigators suspect her friend, Michael because his alibi is shaky and witnesses place his truck near the crime scene. Trouble is, he passes a polygraph and his DNA is no match. Nevertheless, Michael remains the chief suspect for 17 years, until DNA fingers another man who offers a chilling story of Diana's last breath. Then, a young family's life is shattered when a San Antonio interior design shop becomes a crime scene. In 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work. The crime remains unsolved for two decades. Then in 2003 detectives reopen the case pegging their hopes on DNA. But when the evidence turns up missing, detectives worry this case could be over before it starts.

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  E10Daddy Dearest/A Pastor's Wife

  May 6, 2006· 60m

  Nine years after the murders of a mother and her teenage daughters, a wiretapped conversation between the suspected killer and his sister helps police to crack the case. And the baffling murder of a Virginia woman is solved when human bones are discovered by a geologist working in North Carolina.

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  E11A Killer's Skin / Where's Peggy?

  Jun 3, 2006· 60m

  Police in Albany, N.Y., get a surprise when a killer they think targets only older women is suspected in the murder of an elderly man. And the contents of a secret storage shed holds the grisly clues to a murder that has gone cold for more than 14 years.

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  E12Innocence Stolen/Danger at the Door

  Jul 8, 2006· 60m

  A district attorney uses a clever technique--a "John Doe indictment"--to give law enforcement officials the time they need to track down the Schoolgirl Rapist from Rochester, N. Y. And prosecutors reluctantly decide not to prosecute their lead suspect in the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl because they have only circumstantial evidence. But 12 years later, the cold case squad reopens the case, hoping DNA evidence will prove the supect's guilt.

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  E13The Interrogation/The Slide

  Jul 15, 2006· 60m

  A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the police coerced the boy's confession and that the real killer is still on the loose. And two deteriorated medical examiner's slides, made in a murder investigation 16 years earlier, give police the evidence they need to reopen the cold case and bring the lead suspect to trial.

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  E14The Taunt / Death in Deadwood

  Jul 29, 2006· 60m

  A serial rapist seals his own fate when he sends a taunting letter to police, who use the DNA extracted from the saliva in the envelope's seal to track him down. And when a man is found dead in South Dakota, his head bashed in by a 50-pound rock, investigators go on a 20-year search for the killers--a man and woman who were part of a free-loving hippie group and are known only by the names "Outlaw" and "Inlaw."

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  E15A Child Remembers

  Aug 12, 2006· 60m

  Our cameras follow Detective Manny Reyes as he investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman. Reyes talks to the woman's two sons, who believe that her husband, Bobby, was the murderer. We then watch as one of the husband's relatives tells Reyes that Bobby has confessed the crime to him. To make the case even stronger, Reyes collects physical evidence that connects him to the crime. Finally, Reyes meets Bobby for a dramatic interrogation. Will he crack and admit the crime--or will he hang tough and deny it all?

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  E16The Black Dahlia

  Sep 9, 2006· 60m

  Bill Kurtis examines one of the most infamous cold cases in Los Angeles history -- the 1947 murder of actress Elizabeth Short, who was found nude and cut in half in an empty lot. Though charges have never been filed in the case, theories abound, and Kurtis investigates some of the most prominent ones. He talks to a retired LAPD detective whose 3 year investigation led to the stunning conclusion that his own father committed the murder. Kurtis also probes the theory that the killer was a surgeon named Walter Bayley. Kurtis finally explores the possibility that there may have been a police cover-up in the case to protect the real killer.

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  E17The Deadly Stroll / Unholy Secret

  Sep 23, 2006· 60m

  In Rhode Island, policewomen go undercover in as street walkers to nab the man suspected of murdering three prostitutes. And a dagger-shaped letter opener is the key piece of evidence that links a priest to the grisly 1980 murder of a nun in Toledo, Ohio.

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  E18A Deadly Affair / The Sting Operation

  Sep 30, 2006· 60m

  After 19 years, Kansas detectives reopen the case of a banker found beaten to death in his bed--and the chief suspect is his cheating wife. And a man with a guilty conscience helps Arkansas police to crack a cold case of murder when he tells them that his ex-wife knows who the killer is.

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  E19NCIS / Exhuming the Truth

  Oct 7, 2006· 60m

  After U.S. Navy sailor Andrew Muns disappears in 1968, the Navy claims that Muns went AWOL from his ship. But his sister works tirelessly for over 30 years to prove that Muns was really killed. And DNA surreptitiously gathered from a cigarette butt helps detectives to unravel a 20-year-old case of rape and murder.

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  E20Cross Country Connection / Eyes at the Window

  Oct 21, 2006· 60m

  DNA found on a marijuana joint in Florida in 2005 helps to solve the 1988 rape and murder of a California woman. And a cold case of murder in Illinois heats up when a jailhouse lawyer turns jailhouse snitch.

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  E21Abandoned Houses / A Son's Memory

  Oct 28, 2006· 60m

  Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio. And a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995, but the missing persons case goes cold when police can find few clues to her whereabouts.

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  E22A Knock at the Door / Shattered

  Nov 18, 2006· 60m

  The killing of a woman in a Virginia hotel room goes unsolved for a quarter of a century before investigators are finally able to zero in on the likely killer. And, when a 25-year -old women is shot to death during a jewelry store robbery in 1980, investigators collect fingerprints and blood from the crime scene. There are few leads and the case goes cold until 1999, when detectives test the blood evidence and develop a DNA profile. For two years more, that profile sits without a match, until 2001 when a convicted burglar is entered into the DNA databank.

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  E23A Deadly Pattern / A Desperate Housewife

  Nov 23, 2006· 60m

  When a woman is found murdered in her mobile home, police make two shocking discoveries--her husband may not only have been the killer, but he may have also killed his first wife 31 years before. And after an Oregon man is shot dead, the case takes an unusual twist when one of the investigating detectives has an affair with the chief suspect--the dead man's wife.

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  E24Murder He Wrote / Caught By the Past

  Dec 31, 2006· 60m

  Guns found dumped in a pond outside of Atlantic City, N.J., help police to solve the 15-year-old murder of Detroit cab company owner. And the rape and murder of an Atlanta TV station receptionist goes cold for 20 years before the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) links a man with three prior burglary convictions to the crime.

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  E25Left for Dead / On the Case

  Dec 31, 2006· 60m

  A detective in California tracks down a prostitute's killer with the help of a key piece of evidence--fingerprints lifted off two beer bottles found at the murder scene. And two persistent cold case detectives in Kansas City, Mo., use DNA analyses to investigate the 1990 murder of a woman and the death of a man killed in a car crash in 1988.

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  E26The Execution of Michael Johnson

  Jul 24, 2007· 60m

  Michael Johnson was convicted of the senseless killing of Jeff Wetterman, 11 years earlier. While being interviewed in his last days, cameras capture how Michael's family fights to save him from being executed, and the rising tension leading up to the execution date. In a shocking twist, the story ends in a way no one could have foreseen.

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  E27Innocence Files

  Sep 18, 2007· 60m

  Students of the University of Cincinnati and Texas Tech University Innocence Project take on the cases of jailed murderers who claim they're innocent. With exclusive, behind-the-scenes access, viewers watch as the students visit the inmates, track down key witnesses, and seek DNA testing that could prove their clients' innocence. While their focus is on the cases of Texas death row inmate, Anthony Graves, and mentally ill Ohio inmate Glen Tinney, who plead guilty but now professes his innocence.

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  E28Evidence KitFinale

  Oct 12, 2007· 60m

  The Chicago Police Department launches the Women's DNA initiative to fund the testing of backlogged rape evidence kits and help rape victims find justice. Meanwhile in Sacramento County, California, the deputy district attorney hunts for the killer of a man who was brutally stabbed to death in his home 16 years earlier, using a new grant for DNA testing.

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  E1Love Triangle/2nd Story Rapist

  Jan 1, 2002· 60m
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  E2The Calling Card/Carol's Diary

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  E3Beauty Queen Killer/The Fingerprint

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  E4Friend of the Family/Remains of Murder

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  E5Under a Spell/Justice for Lisa

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  E6A Man Scorned/The Dungeon

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  E7A Killer Named Korn/The Night Watchman

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  E8The Bedroom Basher

  Feb 19, 2002· 60m
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  E9Baby for Sale/The Barrel

  Feb 26, 2002· 60m
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  E10The Bitemark/Justice for Eglena

  Mar 5, 2002· 60m
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  E11Sex, Lies and Murder

  Mar 12, 2002· 60m
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  E12The Monster/A Cousin's Promise

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  E13A Brother's Burden/The Midnight Attacker

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  E14The Well/The Deadly Ex

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  E15Deja Vu/Secret In The Well

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  A new fingerprint identification system known as I-AFIS helps Texas detectives track down a killer after three years of searching. And a Georgia investigator gets to the bottom of a 16-year-old murder case when he discovers where the victim's body had been hidden -- in the bottom of a well.

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  E16The Tourniquet/Burning Desire

  Apr 16, 2002· 60m
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  E17Manhunt

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  E18The Family / The Clue That Stuck

  Apr 30, 2002· 60m
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  E19Man in the Shadows/The Hitchhiker

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  E20A Confession for Carmen/The Girls

  May 14, 2002· 60m
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  E21A Sister Lost/Rumors of Murder

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  E22Smoky Mountain Mystery / A Drop of Blood

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  E23Rear Window / The Peeper

  Jun 4, 2002· 60m

  Included: the 1998 murder of waitress Corey Parker in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., by Robert Erik Denney. Host: Bill Kurtis.

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  E24The Closers/Caught by an Eyelash

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  A bloody dagger and a phone tap help detectives solve a 20-year-old murder case. And DNA taken from an eyelash found on a dead prostitute's body brings a killer to justice.

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  E25KidnappedFinale

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  A kidnapper grabs 8-year-old Chad Choice from his home in Texas, then torments his parents with two ransom demands. The case goes cold until the parents receive a chilling package in the mail that contains a letter--and a skull.

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  E1Cop Killer/Evil Twin

  Jan 1, 2001· 60m

  Included: Los Angeles detectives solve a 46-year-old murder case; and DNA leads to a suspected killer who has a twin brother. Host: Bill Kurtis.

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  E2The Zodiac Killer

  Jan 8, 2001· 60m

  With access to the San Francisco Police Department's work, including saliva samples taken from letters the infamous Zodiac Killer sent 30 year ago, we reevaluate the case of the serial killer who began terrorizing California in the late 1960s.

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  E3The Accidental Killer/Little Sister Lost

  Jan 15, 2001· 60m

  While hiking with husband Dennis in Montana, Leslee Larson fell into Wolf Creek. Then Dennis is convicted of murdering his wife, while in Main. And 15-year-old papergirl Penny Parker goes missing, then her body is found by a search volunteer.

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  E4The Merry Widow/The Bad Cop

  Jan 22, 2001· 60m

  Included: the case of Douglas J. Wright, a former state trooper whose 1993 murder of his wife brought a conviction in 2003. Also: the murder of a Navy seaman. Host: Bill Kurtis.

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  E5Daddy Knows Best/Dawn of the Dead

  Jan 29, 2001· 60m

  A detective works for 15 years to nab a man who murdered his wife and dismembered her body to hide the sexual abuse of his children. Then, 20 years after the shooting murder of a gas station attendant, detectives get a lead.

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  E6The Killer's Tattoo

  Feb 5, 2001· 60m

  The search for a killer with a distinctive tattoo is recalled. Host: Bill Kurtis.

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  E7The Green River Killer

  Feb 12, 2001· 60m

  Cold Case discusses the story of the nearly 20-year hunt for the man responsible for the murders of 49 prostitutes and other women in the Seattle, Washington area.

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  E8A Hitchhike to Murder/Never Forgotten

  Feb 19, 2001· 60m

  Police must wait nearly 30 years before advances in DNA technology give them the chance to convict the killer of a young hitchhiker, and Philadelphia police wage a 16-year hunt for the man who raped and killed a 10-year-old girl.

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  E9The DNA Link/The Secret Slide

  Feb 26, 2001· 60m

  Detectives from three different departments in Westchester County, NY team up to track down a serial killer; and a man known as the Bus Stop Rapist becomes the lead suspect decades after a woman is found murdered under a hotel bed in the case.

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  E10Death Before I Do/Hollywood Homicide

  Mar 5, 2001· 60m

  Included: the 1988 murder of actress Myra Davis, Janet Leigh's stand-in for “Psycho,” brings a conviction in 2001. Also: a phone tip helps solve a cold case.

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  E11Blood Money/Precious Doe

  Mar 12, 2001· 60m

  Testimony about the growth of larvae in dead bodies helps convict the man who stabbed a couple to death and strangled their 4-year-old daughter in 1993. And the 2001 murder of a young girl, whose head was cut off, remains unsolved.

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  E12Unholy Bible/A Daughter's Justice

  Mar 19, 2001· 60m

  A Texas woman's murder is solved when the killer's plan to murder another woman and stuff her into a duffel bag goes awry; and a reporter doing a story on unsolved homicides helps crack a case of murder that had been ruled an accidental death.

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  E13Officer Down/Secret Twin

  Mar 26, 2001· 60m

  After 23 years, investigators finally track down the killers of an Atlanta policeman when the ex-wife of one of the killers phones in a tip; and a mother keeps the skeletal remains of the 3-year-old daughter she killed in a footlocker.

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  E14Weepy-Voiced Killer/The Mr. Big Sting

  Apr 2, 2001· 60m

  A prostitute who fights off a screwdriver-wielding man helps police track down a serial killer; and undercover agents acting as mobsters conduct an elaborate sting to solve a murder case that had gone cold for years. Then, detectives from three different police departments in Westchester County, New York team up to track down a serial killer.

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  E15Blood on the Badge/Bump in the Night

  Apr 9, 2001· 60m

  A woman who takes down the license plate number of a car that had been following her helps police solve the murder of another young woman.; a phone call gives police the lead they need to solve a 30-year-old crime.

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  E16The Lady Killer/A Husband's Secret

  Apr 16, 2001· 60m

  The testimony of three prison inmates helps convict a man who viciously killed a woman out for a bike ride nearly two decades prior; and a self-admitted sex addict who strangled his cat is a suspect in the 30-year-old murder of a neighbor.

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  E17Mistaken for a Killer/A Woman Scorned

  Apr 23, 2001· 60m

  DNA technology that take place over 20 years help police to finally identify the man who brutally stabbed two women to death; and an anonymous caller leads police to the killer of a 13-year-old girl who was shot dead and left in the woods.

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  E18The Missing Hunters/The Flashlight Rapist

  Apr 30, 2001· 60m

  Police suspect brothers J.R. and Coco Duvall beat two Michigan hunters to death, chopped up the bodies, and fed them to pigs; and a serial rapist, who holds a mini-flashlight in his mouth to blind victims, is nabbed when he drops it during an attack.

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  E19Cowboys on the Case/Office Politics

  May 7, 2001· 60m

  Four retired law enforcement officers, known as the Cold Case Cowboys, help track down the killer of a man wanted for rape and robbery; and police await for advancements in DNA technology before they can put away a killer.

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  E20The Flaming Gorge Falls/Caught in the Mail

  May 14, 2001· 60m

  A man suspected of the cold case murder of his wife and son hatches a new plot to kill his mother and father; and detectives solve the 20-year-old murder of a teenager by tricking her killer into licking an envelope, then extracting DNA from the saliva.

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  E21Murder Checks In / Killer in the City

  May 21, 2001· 60m

  Police hunt for a man who killed three women in three different hotels, not far from one another in Des Moines, Iowa. And police get a killer to confess when they tell him prosecutors will show photos of the gruesome crime scene.

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  E22The Shopping Cart Killer

  May 28, 2001· 60m

  A dry cleaning tag inside a sweatshirt left at a crime scene helps police track down a serial killer and rapist who had been eluding them for years.

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  E23The Hit makers/Favor For A Friend

  Jun 4, 2001· 60m

  A scheme to bribe a country music magazine to manipulate the charts leads to murder in Nashville and a 13-year hunt for the killer; and a murderer's plan to hide his gun is foiled when the man who buried the evidence for him spills the beans to cops.

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  E24Lil' Miss /Skeletons In The Closet

  Jun 11, 2001· 60m

  An eerie note left on a grave helps solve a 12-year-old case of murder, and an exhaustive questioning of a mother helps police unravel the mysterious deaths of three of her

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  E25Innocent Prey/The PunishmentFinale

  Jun 18, 2001· 60m

  Police play a wild hunch that pays off in the capture of a serial rapist. And after 26 years, investigators finally solve the murder of a 6-year-old girl who had been forced to take a cold-water bath as punishment for painting her nails with pink polish without permission.

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