Cold Case Files Classic

Klan leader Sam Bowers goes on trial for ordering the murder of an African-American storeowner 32 years prior, and investigators reopen the unsolved case of an African-American truck driver who was forced to leap to his death from a bridge by Klan members.

A boy's toy Batmobile car provides an important clue for detectives struggling to make a case against a serial killer who stalks and kills waitresses. Then, a killer helps convict himself when he boasts about his crime to prison cellmates; and New Hampshire investigators probing the murder of a pregnant woman found raped, strangled, and dumped into her bathtub, get a new lead when they discover a similar case in Florida.

A killer's bite marks and a jailhouse snitch lead to a murder conviction in a case gone cold for eight years, and a group of super sleuths try to solve the slaying of 18-year-old Jamie Weiss, found dead in her bathtub in 1996. Then, the accidental discovery of a human scalp leads to the conviction of a man for murder 18 years after the killing; and a teenager who likes to kidnap younger boys and break their bones, kills one and tortures another.

After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch an advocate group that brings awareness to cases that have gone unsolved. And police solve a young girl's rape and murder when the car where her body was discovered acts like a refrigerator, preserving half of her body. Then, Texas detectives use a DNA databank to catch a stalker. Next, 9 years after a murder, Georgia police match a fingerprint found at the scene to a prisoner now serving a life sentence and still claiming innocence.

Forty-one years after the crime, a woman implicates her brother and cousin in the murder of a policeman. Members of the Vidocq Society, a group of law enforcement professionals who volunteer their expertise to crack difficult cases, find blood-spatter evidence that helps solve a Texas murder. Then, a detective keeps a murder investigation going for 16 years and finally proves a woman killed her husband; and a rape victim fails to get a conviction on her attacker when the LAPD bungles the case.

After the murder of her aunt goes cold, a woman helps launch Citizens Against Homicide, an advocate group. And police solve a young girl's rape and murder.