Cold Case Files Classic

In Portland, Maine a housewife disappears. One year later her body is unearthed in the cellar. I.R. unravels this cold case investigation from the inside out. With the help of science, police are able to uncover a blueprint of the crime.

From England to Texas to Georgia, I.R. will go inside cold case units and watch as police use ballistics testing, old fashioned fingerprints and a new DNA data bank for criminals, to crack open the mysteries of unsolved crimes.

Cold Case Units use psychological profiling, forensic anthropology, and a convicted felon's rekindled memory to heat up old cases.

A highly-regarded California arson investigator is suspected of setting a series of fires, and in Texas, a man is convicted of raping and murdering his 68-year-old neighbor.

In 1989, socialite Susan Doll was found beaten, raped, and strangled in Colorado.

A detective keeps a murder investigation going for 16 years and finally proves a woman killed her husband in a satanic rite; THE BURNING SECRET: and a rape victim fails to get a conviction on her attacker.

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 down two boys who enjoy satanic rituals and setting fires.

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 six-year-old case.

Investigators in Virginia, probing the murder case of a sailor, seek the help of a forensic anthropologist from the "body farm" in the Great Smoky Mountains.

A 13-year-old girl's mother is murdered and 20 years later she helps bring the killer to justice; and a dogged policeman gets to the bottom of the brutal murder of a 63-year-old newspaper delivery woman.

A killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates; and New Hampshire investigators probing the murder of a pregnant woman found raped, strangled, and dumped into her bathtub, get a new lead.

A woman's fall from a cliff in the Grand Canyon leads police to uncover a series of grisly murders, and investigators smoke out a killer when they find crucial DNA evidence.

The suspicious death of 2-year-old Billy Blankenship is solved when police force his babysitter to re-enact the circumstances of his death. Then, a murder case is solved when the dead man's body is accidentally found by divers.

The murder of an Ohio woman in 1974 is solved more than 20 years later after police get a crucial clue--the woman's husband was seen building a coffin-shaped box