Lives changed in the 20 years following an unsolved murder, and so did forensic science. In time, a high-powered microscope and DNA profiling revealed a clue no one had seen before.
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A six-year-old girl ran and hid when she saw her grandmother being beaten to death, but the man followed, beat and assaulted her. She said the assailant was her uncle, who was convicted.
In 2003, St. Cloud teenager Jason MacLennan returned home after a night out with friends and discovered his father Ken's body lying in a pool of blood.
A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other.
A woman appears to have lost control of her SUV and plunged down an embankment into a shallow creek. But investigators suspect foul play when they find snowy footprints leading from the crime scene.
In 1996, Virginia Beach police arrive at the Makdessi apartment to find Elise Makdessi and her lover dead.
In 2007, Shamaia Smith disappeared from the strip club she worked at in East Hartford, CT. Police look at various customers of the strip club, but focus on local businessman Kenneth Otto.
Rachael Mullenix, 19, was convicted of stabbing her mother and then packing her bloodied corpse in a box.
The body of a college co-ed was found on a farm covered with her own denim as well as the jeans of the killer.
In 2000, Judy Southern arrived home from work and was shot by a gunman waiting within. Her husband Allen arrived shortly afterwards, called 911 to report his wife had been shot.
The prime suspect had a criminal record and his driver's license was found at the scene of a brutal double homicide.
A young, attractive hairdresser was sexually assaulted and murdered in her own beauty salon. The evidence at the crime scene didn't match any of the suspects and the case went cold for ten years.
When a hit-and-run boating accident caused a death, police must search for one boat among 1200 others.
The wife of a respected police officer was murdered in her own home. The crime went unsolved for more than a decade, until a newly formed cold case unit took a fresh look at the evidence.
In 1969, phone operator Diane Maxwell is murdered. Her brother promised he'd find out who was responsible.
The body of a young girl was discovered on isolated farmland near Delano, California. She had no ID, but police found mailbox keys in the pocket of her jeans.
The body of an attractive young woman was found a mile from her abandoned car. Police were especially concerned when they realized the victim had come to them for protection just two weeks earlier.
A college senior was found raped and murdered near an unpaved footpath used by students to walk from one side of campus to the other.
In little more than a month, two women who lived in the same apartment complex were brutally murdered.
An aspiring model turned up dead and the prime suspect was her boyfriend. When he was eventually cleared, investigators had to dig deeper to find the perpetrator.
Tracey Frame, 35, was convicted of killing David Nixon in April 2002 after he planned to end their relationship.
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