When model Dawn Koons, 18, heads to California with dreams of stardom, her family back in Yonkers worry she's made a mistake; within months, her body is found in her bathtub; police have a suspect but unmasking her killer takes nearly 40 years.
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When 9-year-old Campfire Girl, Candy Rogers, turns up dead after selling mints door-to-door, Spokane detectives launch a dogged campaign to find her killer. One of the longest Cold Case investigations in Washington State history.
When model Dawn Koons, 18, heads to California with dreams of stardom, her family back in Yonkers worry she's made a mistake; within months, her body is found in her bathtub; police have a suspect but unmasking her killer takes nearly 40 years.
When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982 with a single stab wound to the heart, police suspect the work of a professional; it takes four decades to identify her killer and, in the process, reveal a shocking truth.
When the body of 81-year-old Helen Gale is found in her burned-out car, investigators in Southfield, Mich., 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.
When 8-year-old April Tinsley is found dead in a Fort Wayne, Ind., the community is shaken; disturbing letters then appear, penned by her killer, targeting other young girls; police scramble to catch April's murderer before he strikes again.
When Chris Green, 19, is found beaten to death in a snowy Bangor, Michigan, ditch in 2002, his family fears their son's murder will never be solved; years pass before shocking revelations from an informant emerge and blow the case wide open.
When 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian is abducted and murdered in August 1986, residents of Tacoma, Wash., panic; convinced a predator is on the loose, police embark on a 32-year inquiry to catch the killer.
When 30-year-old mother Lisa Gaudenzi fails to report for duty in Virginia, the Army lists her as AWOL; her family immediately suspects foul play, so they embark on a 13-year quest for answers before an eyewitness blows the case wide open.
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 nine years searching for answers and a killer.
In the heart of Cajun country, young mother Brenda DuPont is found murdered in her home in May 1988. The initial investigation sputters and turns cold, but Brenda's older sister Linda vows to solve Brenda's murder, no matter how long it takes.
In early 1984, 3-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.
When Cree woman Shirley Soosay goes missing in 1980, her niece Violet promises her grandmother that she will bring Shirley home; Violet never dreamed the search for Shirley -- and justice -- would take a lifetime.
In 1979, Janie Landers disappears from a home for the impaired; when Janie's body is found, there are many suspects, but it is years before the killer and the atrocities in the facility are revealed.
Just two years into their marriage, Chuck and Cheryl Hall are torn apart when Chuck finds Cheryl murdered; though Cheryl's family is certain they know her killer, the law isn't as sure; decades later, a DNA match erases all doubt.
When firefighter Gary Parks is killed in a fire ruled to be arson, the investigation into his death shifts to homicide; a serial arsonist is thought to be the culprit, but it takes a dogged cold-case detective to track down the real killer.
When human bones are discovered in the woods in December 1985, it puts an end to the search for missing teen David Reed; skull fractures point to murder, but it will be decades before investigators can find David's killer.
In June 1985, a 20-year-old Sucker Day Festival Queen is found brutalized; the small community of Nixa, Mo., is certain her blood is on the hands of a local wealthy businessman, but after 25 years DNA reveals the true killer.
When a deadly house fire claims the life of a family in rural Oklahoma, investigators suspect foul play and a mother goes on a decadeslong crusade to find out what happened to her missing teenage daughter and best friend.
In July 1970, the brutal murder of single mom Loretta Jones leaves 4-year-old Heidi Jones motherless; nearly 40 years later, Heidi vows to solve her mother's cold case and calls on an old high school friend to help her find justice for Loretta.
In July 1997, the brutal murder of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston rocks the small town of Bethany, Okla.; DNA evidence points to her killer over a decade later and leads to the buried bodies of two other missing women in Texas.
In 1984, Jack Kennedy discovers his daughters brutally murdered; their mother and niece spend their lives keeping the case alive; thirty years later, an informant gives up a name, but the family's ordeal is far from over.
When 23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Year's Day 1985, a boy is left motherless; a family waits 35 years for advancements in forensic science to finally catch a killer using familial DNA.
The bodies of five people abducted from a restaurant in 1983 are found in an oil field; the main suspect is long believed to be a well-connected local man, until evidence reveals the true killers had been hiding in plain sight for decades.
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.
When a beloved schoolteacher is found murdered in her Neptune, N.J., apartment in the fall of 2009, suspicion is cast on her soon-to-be ex-husband.
In 1972, the body of Jody Loomis is found in the woods; thirty-four years later, the killer's DNA is recovered from Jody's old clothing but it isn't matched until 2018 when genetic genealogy helps point to one suspect.
On Easter Sunday of 1992, the body of missing woman Lisa Ziegert is found in a field; the investigation yields many 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.
Just after the last day of school in 1984, 15-year-old Reesa Trexler is found murdered in her grandparents' home; for decades, a stalled investigation only fuels the town rumor mill, pointing an accusing finger at Reesa's 13-year-old sister, Jodie.
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.
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.
Twenty-three-year-old teacher Irene Garza is a former beauty queen and devout Catholic who vanishes the evening before Easter; residents of her close-knit border town do their best to locate her, but her body is found floating in a drainage canal.
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.
When 25-year-old schoolteacher Christy Mirack is found brutally murdered in her Lancaster, Pa., apartment in 1992, there is no shortage of suspects.
When Sherry Leighty goes missing in 1999, her family is left wondering how a dedicated mother of three could vanish without a trace; a decade later, the cold case heats up when Sherry's sister launches a social media campaign.
When 36-year-old computer programmer Lisa Valdez fails to show up for work, her apartment manager finds her brutally murdered in her tiny studio; her body is riddled with stab wounds, and the walls are covered in blood.
When 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in the Florida swamps in December of 2000, authorities suspect he accidentally drowned.
Police learn the key witness in the stabbing death of a beloved aunt was an imposter; a return to the crime scene reveals a clue hidden in plain sight.
A special cold-case unit needs a small town's help to solve the 22-year-old murder of a Michigan teenager whose body was found in the woods.
After 33 years, police finally unravel the case of a law-enforcement officer who was shot execution-style in his home.
A college student disappears from his graveyard shift at a gas station; new forensic technology and the discovery of an illegal drug ring in a squeaky-clean town helps police solve the case two decades later.
Two unsolved murders of loved ones plague a family; detectives uncover a hidden crime scene that may help solve the 13-year-old cold case.
A rookie cold-case detective investigating the brutal stabbing death of a bullied teenager notices a clue in an old crime scene photo that may help solve the 27-year-old case.
The murder of two grandparents tears a family apart; two decades later, a detective races to solve the cold case that has haunted him since he was a child.
Ten years after a young girl is kidnapped and killed on her way home from a costume party, a mistake comes to light.
Fingerprints lifted from two beer bottles help a California detective track down a prostitute's killer; the investigations of a woman's murder and the death of a man killed in a car crash use DNA analysis.
Guns found dumped in a pond help police to solve the 15-year-old murder of Detroit cab company owner; the rape and murder of an Atlanta TV station receptionist goes cold for 20 years before DNA links a man to the crime.
A woman is found murdered in her mobile home; an Oregon man is shot dead.
A 25-year-old woman is killed in a hotel room in 1978; a 25-year-old woman is shot to death during a jewelry-store robbery in 1980.
Detectives are baffled when two young girls are raped, murdered, and dumped in an abandoned house in Akron, Ohio; a 26-year-old mother of three disappears on Christmas Eve in 1995, but the missing person case goes cold when police can find few clues.
The 1988 rape and murder of a California woman; a jailhouse snitch.
After U.S. Navy sailor disappears in 68, the Navy claims he went AWOL; but his sister works for over 30 years to prove that he was really killed; DNA from a cigarette butt helps detectives to unravel a 20-year-old case of rape and murder.
A banker is beaten to death in his bed; a man with a guilty conscience helps police.
Police go under cover to catch a man they suspect of killing three prostitutes; a letter opener links a priest to the murder of a nun.
Detective Danny Reyes investigates the 1990 murder of a Fort Worth, Texas woman.
In 1995, two women are raped in Louisville, Ky.; in 1982, a young man is found murdered in Deadwood, S.D.
Young girls are sexually assaulted while waiting for their school buses; in 1991, a 9-year-old girl disappears from her home and is found murdered.
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; the contents of a secret storage shed hold the clues to a murder that has gone cold for more than 14 years.
A wiretapped conversation between a suspected killer and his sister cracks a 9-year-old murder case; a geologist finds human bones, solving the murder of a Virginia woman.
In 1987, a young girl is found raped and strangled; in 1983, a young mother is raped and murdered at work.
DNA evidence solves the murder of a female law student; a man confesses to the random killing of a bowhunter.
Det. Vince Velazquez of Atlanta and Capt. Russell Popham of East Point, Ga., work to solve the 1995 rape and murder of 14-year-old Nacole Smith, one of Atlanta's most notorious unsolved crimes.
A cell phone and an ATM card lead to the apprehension of a rapist.
Publicity of a man's mandatory release in Texas brings forth a witness to a murder after 24 years in Michigan.
When a church deacon is found shot to death it looks like police may have stumbled upon a multi-party murder plot; a wife remains a key suspect in her husband's murder case for six years, until she attempts to prove her own innocence.
BTK Dennis Rader terrorizes Wichita, Kan., for decades, leaving at least 10 murder victims in his wake.
A Minnesota serial killer targets waitresses; a killer boasts of his crime to fellow prisoners; police link a New Hampshire murder to one in Florida.
A co-worker goes to check on a woman who failed to show up for work; a woman reports being raped in her home.
James Allen Selby, a serial rapist who eluded police for years.
Detectives search for a man who rapes and kills women; an ex-girlfriend is the prime suspect when a man goes missing.
Detectives suspect that several violent crimes are connected; a maintenance man finds a body in a bathroom.
Police hunt for over 15 years for a serial killer who lures women to Kansas for sadomasochistic sexual trysts at hotels; unprecedented access to surveillance photos and video from the investigation provides a glimpse inside the probe.
The infant subject of a child-custody dispute is found burned; a body is discovered in a home's crawlspace.
Fifteen years after a husband is convicted of murder, police discover that he may have been wrongly accused.
An ex-girlfriend helps to bring a child-murderer to justice; a mysterious set of bones puts police on the trail of a teen's killer.
A wild hunch pays off in the capture of a serial rapist; investigators solve the murder of a 6-year-old girl.
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.
Police hunt for a man who murders women in Iowa hotels; police get a killer to confess.
Retired officers track down a killer; DNA technology puts away a man who killed a co-worker.
A murderer's ex-wife phones in a tip; a mother keeps the skeletal remains of the child she killed in a footlocker.
A wife goes missing; a gas-station attendant is shot.
An undercover agent solves a 15-year-old crime; a former state trooper becomes the prime suspect in his wife's death.
A second murder solves the first; genetic trace solves a teen's murder.
The Zodiac killer provokes the police by sending clues to the media.
DNA on a cigarette brings a rapist and murderer to justice; a confession made to a TV star helps police to solve a murder.
A murder victim's niece starts an advocate group; a car preserves a victim's body.
A Minnesota serial-killer, who targets waitresses, remains free for nearly 20 years.
Klansmen set fire to an NAACP president's home, killing him; a white man confesses to forcing a black man to jump from a bridge to his death.
A woman helps to solve her mother's murder; an officer solves the murder of a newspaper-delivery woman.
Discovery of a human scalp helps convict a murderer; teen kidnaps, tortures and kills younger boys.
A killer of four goes free until a detective finds key evidence on a coffee cup.
Forensic clay modeling helps investigators identify a murder victim; two boys perform satanic rituals and set fires.
A tipster's call helps solve the murder of the heir to the U-Haul fortune; new fingerprint technology helps solve a decades-old murder.
When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982 with a single stab wound to the heart, police suspect the work of a professional; it takes four decades to identify her killer and, in the process, reveal a shocking truth.
A Minnesota serial killer targets waitresses; a killer boasts of his crime to fellow prisoners; police link a New Hampshire murder to one in Florida.
A woman helps to solve her mother's murder; an officer solves the murder of a newspaper-delivery woman.
Discovery of a human scalp helps convict a murderer; teen kidnaps, tortures and kills younger boys.
A killer of four goes free until a detective finds key evidence on a coffee cup.
Forensic clay modeling helps investigators identify a murder victim; two boys perform satanic rituals and set fires.
In 1979, Janie Landers disappears from a home for the impaired; when Janie's body is found, there are many suspects, but it is years before the killer and the atrocities in the facility are revealed.
A tipster's call helps solve the murder of the heir to the U-Haul fortune; new fingerprint technology helps solve a decades-old murder.
When 30-year-old mother Lisa Gaudenzi fails to report for duty in Virginia, the Army lists her as AWOL; her family immediately suspects foul play, so they embark on a 13-year quest for answers before an eyewitness blows the case wide open.
When Cree woman Shirley Soosay goes missing in 1980, her niece Violet promises her grandmother that she will bring Shirley home; Violet never dreamed the search for Shirley -- and justice -- would take a lifetime.
Just after the last day of school in 1984, 15-year-old Reesa Trexler is found murdered in her grandparents' home; for decades, a stalled investigation only fuels the town rumor mill, pointing an accusing finger at Reesa's 13-year-old sister, Jodie.
In July 1997, the brutal murder of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston rocks the small town of Bethany, Okla.; DNA evidence points to her killer over a decade later and leads to the buried bodies of two other missing women in Texas.
In June 1985, a 20-year-old Sucker Day Festival Queen is found brutalized; the small community of Nixa, Mo., is certain her blood is on the hands of a local wealthy businessman, but after 25 years DNA reveals the true killer.
When 23-year-old Tonya McKinley is found brutally murdered on New Year's Day 1985, a boy is left motherless; a family waits 35 years for advancements in forensic science to finally catch a killer using familial DNA.
When a deadly house fire claims the life of a family in rural Oklahoma, investigators suspect foul play and a mother goes on a decadeslong crusade to find out what happened to her missing teenage daughter and best friend.
When Sherry Leighty goes missing in 1999, her family is left wondering how a dedicated mother of three could vanish without a trace; a decade later, the cold case heats up when Sherry's sister launches a social media campaign.
When firefighter Gary Parks is killed in a fire ruled to be arson, the investigation into his death shifts to homicide; a serial arsonist is thought to be the culprit, but it takes a dogged cold-case detective to track down the real killer.
In early 1984, 3-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.
When human bones are discovered in the woods in December 1985, it puts an end to the search for missing teen David Reed; skull fractures point to murder, but it will be decades before investigators can find David's killer.
In 1984, Jack Kennedy discovers his daughters brutally murdered; their mother and niece spend their lives keeping the case alive; thirty years later, an informant gives up a name, but the family's ordeal is far from over.
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.
A college student disappears from his graveyard shift at a gas station; new forensic technology and the discovery of an illegal drug ring in a squeaky-clean town helps police solve the case two decades later.
When model Dawn Koons, 18, heads to California with dreams of stardom, her family back in Yonkers worry she's made a mistake; within months, her body is found in her bathtub; police have a suspect but unmasking her killer takes nearly 40 years.
When the body of 81-year-old Helen Gale is found in her burned-out car, investigators in Southfield, Mich., 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.
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