After running DNA tests on more than 50 suspects, Ohio police finally get a lead on a serial rapist suspected of attacking at least 14 women. And a cigarette butt found at a murder scene helps investigators to smoke out the killer 29 years later.

44min | Aired on Aug 25, 2005 | TV-14 V,D | CC

A high school janitor is suspected in the murder of a young girl, but with only circumstantial evidence to go on, police must let the case go cold. And a woman asks police to reopen the 24-year-old case of her cousin's disappearance.

44min | Aired on Sep 15, 2005 | TV-14 V | CC

A North Carolina man looking to clear his conscience gives police the information they need to solve a murder. And Indiana police are baffled by the murder of an 86-year-old woman, found dead in her bedroom.

45min | Aired on Sep 29, 2005 | TV-14 V | CC

A woman fails to show up for work; a woman reports being raped in her home.

44min | Aired on Jun 04, 2002 | TV-14 V,D | CC

A bloody dagger and a phone tap help detectives solve a 20-year-old murder.

43min | Aired on Jun 11, 2002 | TV-14 V | CC

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.

43min | Aired on Nov 17, 2005 | TV-14 V,D | CC

A look at the case of James Allen Selby, a serial rapist who eluded police for years while attacking 11 women in five states - Oklahoma, Nevada, California, Arizona, and Colorado.

43min | Aired on Nov 24, 2005 | TV-14 V,D | CC

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.

45min | Aired on Dec 01, 2005 | TV-14 V,D | CC

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.

45min | Aired on Dec 15, 2005 | TV-14 V,D | CC

When a church deacon is found shot to death 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 attempts to prove her own innocence.

45min | Aired on Jan 14, 2006 | TV-14 V,L,D | CC

Publicity of a man's mandatory release in Texas brings forth a witness to a murder in Michigan.

44min | Aired on Feb 04, 2006 | TV-14 V,D | CC

DNA evidence found on a murder victim whose body had been dumped in a Dairy Queen drive-thru leads to the arrest of Houston's notorious tourniquet killer.

45min | Aired on Feb 04, 2006 | TV-14 V | CC

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.

44min | Aired on Feb 11, 2006 | TV-14 V,D | CC

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.

44min | Aired on Mar 11, 2006 | TV-14 V,D | CC

DNA evidence solves a murder; a man confesses to a random killing.

43min | Aired on Apr 02, 2006 | TV-14 V,D | CC

On a summer night in 1987 a 17-year-old girl to come home is found raped and strangled near the Hudson River. And In 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work. The crime remains unsolved for two decades.

45min | Aired on Apr 08, 2006 | TV-14 V,D | CC

A detective vows not to shave until he solves the murder of a young Oregon woman.

45min | Aired on Apr 15, 2006 | TV-14 V | CC

A forensic scientist's painstaking examination of a rape kit helps solve the 15-year-old murder of a teenage girl. And when California investigators probe the murder of a 71-year-old man, they get help from the top suspect's former therapist.

43min | Aired on Apr 22, 2006 | TV-14 V | CC

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.

45min | Aired on May 06, 2006 | TV-14 V,D | CC