—"Cold Case Files," one of A&E Network's most popular and successful series of all time, chronicles the re-examination of long-unsolved crimes and the journeys of law enforcement personnel who reopened them. With the use of forensic advances and new evidence, police and detectives attempt to crack the cases and clarify unanswered questions. Each story is brought to life through cinematic dramatizations and first-person storytelling from the detectives and loved ones who lived through the harrowing experiences. Bill Kurtis narrates.

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In 1977, Fla. Nurse Deborah Clark, 23, is found slain in her home; detectives unearth an affair, a jilted wife, and a web of money and power, but no true suspect; it takes 40 years and advanced DNA testing to expose her killer.
When 19-year-old Tara Sidarovich goes missing from her Punta Gorda home, Florida police consider her a runaway; then her body turns up in a swamp; shocking prison recordings will send detectives on a nationwide hunt for her killer.
When beloved mother and sister Janora Stevens is found brutally stabbed in her Tulsa, Oklahoma, home, her family is divided and increasingly suspicious of each other; the case chills until a trail of tell-tale fibers leads cops to her killer.
When night manager Rodney Castin is gunned down in the lobby of his hotel three weeks before Christmas, detectives scour Georgia for his killer; two decades pass before an informant's shocking testimony breaks the case wide open.
A 2007 cold case resurfaces when a detective reopens the investigation into the brutal killing of Audrey Giannotti, 20, in rural Pennsylvania; uncovering hidden secrets, he races against time to bring justice to a family desperate for answers.
When Susan Schwarz is found shot to death in her apartment in 1979, police suspect a robbery gone wrong; thirty-two years pass before a witness reveals a much darker motive that breaks the case wide open and leads to Susan's killer.
A massive search unfolds in Chandler, Okla., when two women and a child go missing from a Walmart parking lot in 1992; it will take 23 years and a tip from an unlikely source to piece together a heinous plot of misdirection and murder.
When the body of a woman turns up in a field in Huntington Beach, California, in 1968, police simultaneously seek a killer and the identity of the victim herself; it takes 52 years for detectives to solve this dual mystery and expose a predator.
When 34-year-old Freddie Farah is gunned down in his Florida grocery store, police urgently seek his killer; decades later, Farah's son will have a chance encounter with a cold case detective which brings the case back to life and exposes a killer.
Frank McAlister disappears from the quiet town of Redding, California; he is a teen with a recent cash windfall who leaves only a blood-stained car behind; 25 years will pass before someone makes a stunning on-air confession.
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.
The 1964 murder of 9-year-old Marise Chiverella leaves the town of Hazleton, Pa., in fear; an intense manhunt yields numerous suspects but no killer; five decades pass before a student moonlighting as a genetic genealogist reignites the case.
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 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 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 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 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.

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.
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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.
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When 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in the Florida swamps in December 2000, authorities suspect he accidentally drowned.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"Cold Case Files," one of A&E Network's most popular and successful series of all time, chronicles the re-examination of long-unsolved crimes and the journeys of law enforcement personnel who reopened them. With the use of forensic advances and new evidence, police and detectives attempt to crack the cases and clarify unanswered questions. Each story is brought to life through cinematic dramatizations and first-person storytelling from the detectives and loved ones who lived through the harrowing experiences. Bill Kurtis narrates.

Bill Kurtis, Danny Glover

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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.
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