The BEST episodes of Cold Case Files (2017) season 1

Every episode of Cold Case Files (2017) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cold Case Files (2017) season 1!

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America, and only about 1% are ever solved. With recent advancements in technology and the methods used to solve these cases, as well as the unwavering dedication of victims’ families, law enforcement and the public, “Cold Case Files” explores the cases that defied the odds.

Last Updated: 8/10/2025Network: A&EStatus: Continuing

8.00

24 votes

#1 - A Family Secret

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/15/2017

Ten years after a 17-year-old girl is found strangled in the woods in small-town Kentucky, detectives uncover a terrible family secret.

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7.85

26 votes

#2 - A Family Cursed

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/2017

One family faces two unsolved murders of loved ones and authorities finally uncover the missing clue that leads to solve the case 13 years after the murders occurred.

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7.79

43 votes

#3 - She Never Came Home

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/13/2017

The case of a gruesome stabbing death of a bullied teenager remains unsolved for 27 years.

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7.65

46 votes

#4 - Killings on Christmas Eve

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/2017

The death of an elderly couple, Edward "Ed" and Wilhelmina "Minnie" Maurin Ed in Washington state on Christmas Eve 1985.

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7.44

34 votes

#5 - Sweethearts, Silenced

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2017

A killer authors a book about his con-man past that becomes the key to solving a 29-year-old cold case of two high school sweethearts--and three other cold case murders--leading police to believe he could be the Zodiac Killer.

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7.30

33 votes

#6 - The Night Shift

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/25/2017

College student Brad Perry shows up to work his graveyard shift at the gas station and is never seen alive again.

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7.27

15 votes

#7 - Circle of Friends

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/8/2017

When 18-year-old Shannon Siders' body is found in the woods, everyone in the small town of Newaygo, Michigan, becomes a suspect--but no one is convicted of the crime.

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7.26

53 votes

#8 - Little Girl Lost

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/27/2017

Halloween in a small town is cancelled indefinitely when a young girl is kidnapped and killed on her way home from a costume party.

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7.12

26 votes

#9 - A Killer Slips Away

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/29/2017

Two decades after a close-knit family's loving aunt is stabbed in her home, detectives return to the crime scene and discover a pivotal clue hidden in plain view.

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7.06

33 votes

#10 - Officer Down

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/1/2017

The longest running cold case of a law enforcement officer in the United States was the murder of Sheriff's Lt. Joe Clark.

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