Cold Case Files

In 1980s Los Angeles, a killer is terrorizing South Central, murdering African American women and discarding their bodies in the street; as the victim count rises, fear and anger take hold in a community often overlooked by the police.

Frank McAlister disappears from the quiet town of Redding, California; he is 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.

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.

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.

The 1964 murder of 9-year-old Marise Chiverella leaves the town of Hazleton, 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.

In 1977, Fla. Nurse Deborah Clark, 23, is found slain in her home; detectives unearth an affair, a jilted wife, and a web of money and power, but no true suspect; it takes 40 years and advanced DNA testing to expose her killer.