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Cold Case Files: DNA Speaks
Cold Case Files: DNA Speaks

Cold Case Files: DNA Speaks

—Examining cold cases solved through advancements in DNA, along with help from victims' families, law enforcement and the public.
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Season 110 of 10 Episodes

  • When 14-year-old Nacole Smith is brutally murdered in 1995 on a wooded path in Atlanta, the police and community rally around her mother as she seeks justice; it will take decades and a second brutal assault to finally reveal Nacole's killer.

  • When jewelry seller Minerva Cantu, 26, is found bound, gagged and lifeless in her home, police suspect robbery as the motive; but who killed this mother as her infant slept in the next room is a mystery that would haunt one detective for 20 years.

  • Teens Lianna Adank and Eric Goldstrand are found shot to death at an Oregon park in 1977; detectives doggedly pursue leads for 40 years until a single piece of evidence leads them to a suspect three states away.

  • When Mary Scott, 23, is found murdered in her San Diego home in 1969, the case quickly loses steam with few leads; years later, Mary's daughters grow determined to find answers about the mother they barely knew, and a crime that's 50 years cold.

  • When the blood-smeared car of 27-year-old Stefanie Watson is found in a Maryland parking lot, her family holds out hope she's still alive; but when a jawbone is dumped in a local neighborhood, a missing persons investigation becomes a murder.

  • When 31-year-old Linda Slaten is brutally strangled in her Lakeland, Fla., home in 1981, a complex web of suspects emerges; the case takes a dramatic turn when a DNA hit exposes the sinister underbelly of a seemingly peaceful community.

  • When Texas gas store owner Subir Chatterjee, 58, is shot inside his check cashing booth in 2002, detectives suspect his killer is someone Subir knew; with the murderer's DNA in hand, one detective refuses to retire until the case is solved.

  • When gambler Scott Martinez, 47, is found eviscerated by a sword in his La Mesa, Calif., home, investigators can't tell who is telling the truth within his inner circle; it takes 13 years and an advance in DNA analysis to find his killer.

  • When the battered body of Shawna Yandell, 16, is found floating in Washington State's Yakima River, detectives first suspect those closest to her; the case grew cold until new DNA technology revealed a callous killer that no one suspected.

  • When Susan Woods, 30, is found beaten and drowned in her tub in America's cowboy capital, suspicion falls on her estranged husband; with a suspect's DNA in hand, detectives go back to the basics to unmask a killer cowboy living in plain sight.
Cold Case Files: DNA Speaks

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Examining cold cases solved through advancements in DNA, along with help from victims' families, law enforcement and the public.

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Bill Kurtis

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