The WORST episodes of Cold Case Files (2017)
Every episode of Cold Case Files (2017) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Cold Case Files (2017)!
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 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#2 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#3 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#4 - Til Death Do Us Part
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/22/2022
Chuck and Cheryl Lynn Hall had only been married for two years before he came home from work one day in 1981 and found his 20-year-old wife dead in their Aurora apartment. Cheryl's family is certain they know her killer, but there is no physical evidence to support their suspicions. After several decades, a DNA match erases all doubt.
Watch Now:Apple TV#5 - Murder by Moonlight
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/14/2022
On Easter Sunday of 1992, the body of missing woman Lisa Ziegert is found in a field; the investigation yields many leads, but no true suspect; after more than two decades on ice, the case is revived when DNA phenotyping puts a face to the killer.
Watch Now:Apple TV#7 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#9 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#11 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#12 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#13 - 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#14 - 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#15 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV#16 - 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#17 - 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#18 - 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#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 - 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#21 - 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#22 - 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#24 - 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.
Watch Now:Apple TV