The BEST episodes of Cold Case Files (2017) season 2
Every episode of Cold Case Files (2017) season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cold Case Files (2017) season 2!
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.
#1 - Written in Blood
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/2022
In July of 1970, the brutal murder of single mom Loretta Jones leaves four-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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#2 - Lone Survivor
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/13/2022
Aurora, Colorado: In 1984, three-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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#3 - Dark Angel
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2022
Thirteen days after Pam Pitts disappears in 1988, her charred body is found at a popular hangout spot in the Arizona desert; when a second victim is discovered in a mine shaft, detectives suspect the killer may have known them both.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#4 - The Devil in Disguise
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/24/2021
23-year-old teacher Irene Garza was a former beauty queen and devout Catholic who vanished the evening before Easter after giving confession. Residents of her close-knit border town did their best to find her, but after a series of false leads, her body was found floating in a drainage canal clearly the victim of a violent sexual predator. At the time, a key witness hinted that a member of the Catholic clergy may have been responsible, but the clue remained buried for 42 years until a former priest comes forward with a damning confession from another man of the cloth that reveals a sinister cover up.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#6 - The Heartland Killer
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/17/2021
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. In 2006, 26 years later, a cold case detective and producer on the set of "Cold Case Files" unknowingly began to connect the dots that would crack the case while discussing the murder of Deborah Sheppard, a Southern Illinois University student whose death had remained a mystery since 1982.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#7 - A Lesson in Homicide
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/21/2022
When beloved Red Bank middle school teacher Jonelle Melton is found murdered in her Neptune City, New Jersey apartment in the fall of 2009, suspicion is cast on her soon-to-be ex-husband, who eventually helps solve the crime years later.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#8 - The Clock Strikes Murder
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2022
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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#9 - Friday Night Ghosts
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/2022
In late 1983, the bodies of five people abducted from a local fast food restaurant are found brutally murdered in an oil field. The main suspect is long believed to be a well-connected local man, until new evidence reveals the true killers had been hiding in plain sight for decades.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#10 - A is for Arson
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/15/2022
Everett, Washington firefighter Gary Parks is killed in an arson fire at Everett Community College on Feb 16, 1987. A serial arsonist is thought to be the culprit, but it will take a dogged detective to find the killer. One suspect is Elmer Nash Jr of Snohomish, WA.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#11 - Queen of the Ozarks
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/1/2022
June 1985: 20-year-old "Sucker Day" Festival Queen Jackie Johns has gone missing, and soon her body is found in Lake Springfield. The small community of Nixa, Missouri, is certain her blood is on the hands of a local wealthy businessman, Gerald Carnahan, but it takes 25 years and the advent of DNA testing to find the true killer.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#12 - Woman in the Woods
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2022
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.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#13 - One Tough Mother
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/11/2022
In July 1997, the brutal murder of 19-year-old Tiffany Johnston rocks the small town of Bethany, Oklahoma. DNA points to her killer over a decade later and leads investigators across state lines to Texas, and the buried bodies of two other missing women.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#14 - Missing in Altoona
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/3/2021
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 to help solve her sister's mysterious disappearance. An online tip unearths the truth and a sinister family secret.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#15 - Devil at the Door
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/2021
The 1998 brutal murder of 36-year-old computer analyst Lisa Valdez inside her San Francisco studio condominium was a mystery until advances in forensic technology helped solve the case 13 years later. Her killer, Anthony Quinn Hughes, was finally brought to justice for her savage murder.
Watch Now:Apple TV#16 - Eyes of a Killer
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2022
Two masked gunmen commit a violent robbery and shoot Michael Temple Jr. in 2015, 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#17 - The School Teacher
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/10/2021
When 25-year-old school teacher Christy Mirack is found brutally murdered in her Lancaster, Pennsylvania, apartment in 1992, there is no shortage of suspects. Twenty-six years after her murder, cold case detectives get a break when the sister of the killer uploads her DNA profile to a public genealogy website. This development leads to the arrest of a former disc jockey, Raymond Rowe (who performed under the name DJ Freez) who accepted a plea deal and admitted his guilt.
Watch Now:Apple TV#18 - Suspicious Minds
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/2022
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#19 - Love and Hate
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/7/2022
Near what's known as the hanging tree, the mutilated body of Timothy Coggins is found in late 1983. The investigation stalls and goes cold for over 30 years, until a newly elected sheriff vows to bring the killers to justice, and he does.
Watch Now:Apple TV#20 - Ice Cold in Denver
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/7/2022
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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#21 - The Voice in the Lake
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/20/2021
When 31-year-old real estate appraiser Mike Williams mysteriously vanishes while duck hunting in the Florida swamps in December 2000, authorities assume that he accidentally drowned in Lake Seminole. But the case is re-examined sixteen years later after the police receive a distress call from the victim's wife, Denise Williams.
Watch Now:Apple TV#22 - The Bone Keeper
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/8/2022
When human bones are discovered in the woods in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania in December 1985, it puts an end to the search for missing 13-year-old David Reed; skull fractures point to murder, but it will be decades before investigators can find David's killer. One person of interest is Joseph "Joe" Geiger.
Watch Now:Apple TV#23 - Cold Ashes
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/25/2022
Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, both 16, disappeared after a mobile home fire in 1999, and Ashley's parents were found murdered inside the home in rural Oklahoma. investigators suspect foul play and it sends a mother on a decades-long crusade to find out what happened to her missing teenage daughter and best friend.
Watch Now:Apple TV#24 - Sisters in Death
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/4/2022
Houston, Texas, March 1984. Jack Kennedy discovers his two adult daughters brutally murdered. Their mother and niece spend their lives keeping the case alive. DNA leads nowhere. Thirty years later, an informant gives up a name. But the ordeal for the family is far from over.
Watch Now:Apple TV#25 - Missing and Murdered
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/6/2022
In American Indian Cree culture, a promise is sacred. When Cree woman Shirley Soosay goes missing in 1980, her niece Violet promises her grandmother that she will bring Shirley home. Violet never dreamed that it would take decades to solve the crime and bring Shirley home.
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