The BEST episodes of Cold Case Files (2017) season 4

Every episode of Cold Case Files (2017) season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cold Case Files (2017) season 4!

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
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#1 - The Evil Among Us

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/7/2025

When 8-year-old April Tinsley is found dead in a Fort Wayne, Indiana ditch the community is shaken. Disturbing letters then appear, penned by her killer. Police scramble to catch April's murderer before he strikes again.

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#2 - No Known Enemies

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2025

When 81-year-old Helen Gale is found in her burned-out car, investigators in Southfield, Michigan 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.

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#3 - Damn His Soul to Hell

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/11/2024

A small Pennsylvania town is shaken by a child's tragic murder in 1964. Despite extensive police efforts, the case goes cold for 50 years until a student's genetic research sparks new developments.

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3 votes

#4 - Viciously Murdered

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/2024

When 22-year-old Susan Schwarz is found dead in her Lynnwood, Washington apartment in 1979, police suspect a robbery gone wrong. 32 years pass before a witness breaks the case wide open and leads to her killer.

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#5 - Death of a Baseball Mom

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2024

When beloved mother and sister Janora Stevens is found brutally stabbed in her Tulsa, Okla., home, her family is bitterly divided and increasingly suspicious of each other; the case chills until a trail of tell-tale fibers leads cops to her killer.

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#6 - Contracted to Kill

Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/21/2025

When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982, police suspect the work of a professional. It will take four decades to identify her killer and, in the process, reveal a shocking truth.

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#7 - Blood Red Snow

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/2025

In 2002, Chris Green, 19, is found beaten to death in a ditch in Michigan. The case remains cold for nearly a decade until investigators uncover a suspect whose incriminating statements blow the case wide open.

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#8 - A Killer Confession

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2024

The quiet town of Redding, Calif., is rocked by the disappearance of Frank McAlister, 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.

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6.80
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#9 - Good Girl Gone

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/11/2024

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.

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#10 - Sooner State Nightmare

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/2024

A massive search unfolds in Chandler, Oklahoma 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.

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#11 - The Smoking Gun

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/11/2024

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.

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4 votes

#12 - A Bullet to the Heart

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/11/2024

When 36-year-old Rodney Castin is gunned down in the lobby of his hotel in 2000, detectives scour Marietta, Georgia for his killer. Almost two decades pass before an informant's shocking testimony breaks the case wide open.

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#13 - Evil in Huntington Beach

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/11/2024

When the body of a woman turns up in a field in Huntington Beach, Calif., 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 vicious predator.

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#14 - Money, Moguls and Murder

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/2024

Deborah Clark, 23-year-old Florida nurse, found murdered in 1977. Investigation reveals affair, jilted wife, money, power. No suspect for 40 years until DNA testing exposes killer.

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#15 - Who Killed My Father

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/11/2024

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.

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#16 - A Dawn to Remember

Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/2025

When model Dawn Koons,18, heads to California with dreams of stardom, her family back in Yonkers worry she's made a mistake. When her body is found in her bathtub; police have a suspect but unmasking her killer takes nearly 40 years.

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#17 - The Campfire Mint Murder

Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/2025

When nine-year-old Candy Rogers, turns up dead after selling mints door-to-door, Spokane detectives launch a dogged campaign to find her killer. What follows is one of the longest Cold Case investigations in the State history.

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