The BEST episodes of Cold Case Files season 9
Every episode of Cold Case Files season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cold Case Files season 9!
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#1 - Viciously Murdered
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/11/2024
When Susan Schwarz is found shot to death in her apartment in 1979, police suspect a robbery gone wrong. Thirty-two years pass before a witness reveals a much darker motive that breaks the case wide open and leads to Susan’s killer.
#2 - A Dawn to Remember
Season 9 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/2025
When 18-year-old Dawn Koons heads to Bakersfield, California with dreams of stardom, her family back in Yonkers, New York 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.
#3 - Contracted to Kill
Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/2025
When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982 with a single stab wound to the heart, police suspect the work of a professional. It will take four decades to identify her killer and, in the process, reveal a shocking truth.
#4 - No Known Enemies
Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/2025
When 81-year-old Helen Gale is found in her burned-out car, investigators of 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.
#5 - The Evil Among Us
Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/2025
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, targeting other young girls. Police scramble to catch April's murderer before he strikes again.
#6 - The Campfire Mint Murder
Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/2025
When 9-year-old Candy Rogers turns up dead after selling mints door-to-door, Spokane, Washington detectives launch a dogged campaign to find her killer. What follows is one of the longest Cold Case investigations in the State history.
#7 - Blood Red Snow
Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/2025
When 19 year-old Chris Green is found beaten to death near Bangor, Michigan in 2002, his family fear their son's murder will never be solved. Years pass before shocking revelations from an informant emerge and blow the case wide open.
#8 - Sooner State Nightmare
Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/27/2024
A massive search unfolds in Chandler, Oklahoma when two women and a child go missing from a 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.
#9 - Death of a Baseball Mom
Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2024
When beloved mother and sister, Janora Stevens is found brutally stabbed in her Tulsa 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 Janora’s killer.
#10 - A Killer Confession
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2024
The quiet town of Redding, California is rocked by the disappearance of Frank McAlister – a teen with a recent cash windfall who leaves only a blood-stained car behind. Twenty-five years will pass before someone makes a stunning on-air confession.
#11 - A Bullet to the Heart
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/11/2024
When Night Manager, Rodney Castin, is gunned down in the lobby of his hotel 3 weeks before Christmas, Detectives scour Georgia for his killer. Two decades pass before an informant’s shocking testimony breaks the case wide open.
#12 - The Smoking Gun
Season 9 - 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, he races against time to bring justice to a family desperate for answers.
#13 - Evil in Huntington Beach
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/11/2024
When the body of a woman turns up in a field in Huntington Beach, CA, 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.
#14 - Money, Moguls and Murder
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/2024
In 1977 Florida Nurse Deborah Clark, 23, is found brutally slain in her home. Detectives unearth an affair, a jilted wife, and a web of money and power, but no true suspect. It will take 40 years and advanced DNA testing to expose Deb’s killer.
#15 - Damn His Soul to Hell
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/11/2024
The 1964 murder of 9-year-old Marise Chiverella leaves the devout town of Hazelton, PA, in fear. An intense manhunt yields numerous suspects but no killer. Five decades pass before a student moonlighting as a genetic genealogist reignites the case.
#16 - Who Killed My Father
Season 9 - 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.
#17 - Good Girl Gone
Season 9 - 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.