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- 1999– 44mTV-PG7.3 (14)TV EpisodeA woman calls police to say that her fiancée killed a California woman in 1993; the 1988 murder of actress Myra Davis.
- The story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in recent American history--the BTK killer, who terrorized the Wichita, Kansas, area for years. After committing at least seven brutal murders, BTK (for Bind, Torture, Kill) vanished for over 25 years before sending clues of his crimes to the media in 2004. He continued to avoid capture until a forensic computer expert traced a computer disc that led investigators to a surprising suspect--a church president.
- 1999– 43mTV-147.4 (16)TV EpisodeA heartless mother and an innocent girl are the focus of this episode. Their only connecting threat is that both cases take 10 years to solve.
- 1999– 45mTV-148.0 (27)TV EpisodeTwo different crimes with two different solutions in ending Cold Case files. One involves help from a person the other relies on science and footwork to get the case solved.
- The saying goes "Loose lips sink ships" Well that especially applies in this situation. No matter how hard some try their past seems to always catch up with them. You can't get rid of evidence but you can't get rid of your past.
- 1999– TV-147.6 (14)TV EpisodeIn this episode we travel to very different places where horrific crimes were committed. One takes place in a small town in Texas, the other takes place in an English Countryside. All three crimes run cold but later are solved due to hard work, science and loose lips.
- 1999– 45mTV-147.7 (15)TV EpisodeThe conviction of a man found guilty of sexually assaulting and stabbing an Ohio woman to death is overturned because his Miranda rights were violated when he was arrested. And police spend 13 years looking for the killer of a Houston security guard who was shot 11 times when he tried to stop a car theft.
- Police suspect a gay man murdered a woman because she became too friendly with his boy friend. And a man goes on a monstrous crime spree, abducting five women over 15 years and forcing each to spend months and even years as his sex slave.
- Valarie Jensen explains that she and her ex-husband adopted baby Francine from their friends, the Meegans. Months later, a mother decides she wants her baby back, and if not that, then more money. When the Jensens refuse to hand over more cash, Lillian Meegan demands her child returned. Valerie Jensen unwillingly hands over the baby. It is the last time she will see the child. It is not however the last time she will hear her. James Meegan calls Valerie frustrated that he could not console the baby. Valerie hears the child crying in the background. It is the last time she ever hears the baby. Police then confront the Meegans. Valerie Meegan claims Francine was stolen out of their car and has been missing for years. James Meegan is tight-lipped about the entire affair. Las Vegas police decide to release the couple, but not without a watchful eye. In the middle of the night police catch the couple trying to skip town. Police have enough to hold James Meegan, but not nearly enough to support a conviction. Cold case detectives then decide to reach out the public. There they find friends of the Meegans pointing fingers at James Meegan. One such friend is a man named Marcell Peet. Peet claims James Meegan confessed shaking his baby to death in a moment of frustration. The Meegans are charged with murder and abuse. An Arizona resident reads about Meegan case and connects it to Yavapai's Baby Jane Doe.
- Forensic evidence solves the 1978 murder of a beauty queen; Fingerprints and a killer's addictive habit solves a decades-old double-homicide case.
- 1999– 42mTV-147.8 (15)TV EpisodeLooks at how law enforcers stick with cases for many years, after they've gone cold, using fresh evidence to win convictions or to free prisoners who were wrongfully jailed.
- 1999– 43mTV-146.9 (15)TV EpisodeDNA evidence is the key to solving 2 cold cases: a NY serial rapist of girls and young women, as well as a CA 9-year-old girl who was grabbed at her front door, mutilated and murdered.
- A phone-sting operation produces a big surprise and helps police nab the killers of a San Diego, David Stevens, man several years after the case went cold. And a California district attorney uses an unprecedented legal strategy--a "John Doe" warrant--in the 6-year-old hunt for a rapist.
- Nineteen-year-old college student Regina Marie Reynolds is a student at Morrisville State College in New York. Around 5 PM, she is driving with her boyfriend Robert MacDonald and asks to be dropped off on Route 20, in front of the Arizona Diner parking lot. She plans to hitchhike the 5 miles west back to campus to have dinner with friends, while MacDonald plans to continue on to his home. When Regina misses classes on Friday, then the following Monday, her friends become concerned. She is a conscientious student and unlikely to skip out on school. Her roommate, Catherine Dixon, goes to campus security to report her friend missing. Campus security, in turn, files a missing persons report with the New York State Police. (Regina's mother, Barbara Smith, also happens to work for the New York State Police.) As soon as the missing persons case is opened, friends and colleagues of Regina Reynolds' are questioned. Detective Eugene Rifenberg of the New York State Police helps work the missing persons case. Some people say they saw a girl who looks like Regina get into a blue and white Volkswagen van the night of her disappearance. Some witnesses describe three white men who were possibly talking to someone who looked like Regina. Missing person fliers are posted all over the community. We have copies of the missing persons flier.
- A 14-year-old boy is charged with the murder of his sister, but his public defender believes the police coerced the boy's confession and that the real killer is still on the loose. And two deteriorated medical examiner's slides, made in a murder investigation 16 years earlier, give police the evidence they need to reopen the cold case and bring the lead suspect to trial.
- A Miami undercover operation nabs the man who beat four black prostitutes, doused their bodies with gasoline, and set them aflame. Vida Hicks was the first victim. And DNA helps solve the cold case of a man who posed as a fisherman to get a 6-year-old girl's attention, then raped and killed her.
- Looks at how law enforcers stick with cases for many years, using fresh evidence to win convictions or to free prisoners wrongfully jailed. This episode focuses on the unsolved murder of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane, we meet a Dallas criminologist who uses a state-of-the-art fingerprinting matching to catch a rapist, also watch Phoenix Police solve a 20 year old murder of a missing Navajo girl, and talk to Barry Scheck, who was on O.J. Simpson's defense team, about DNA, and an Illinois rape case.
- 1999– 43mTV-148.0 (16)TV EpisodeSee how new technologies and dedicated professionals are turning the tide on investigations long thought to have stalled.
- 1999– 46mTV-147.2 (19)TV EpisodeLight is shed on the murder of a convicted child molester, Lester B. Hansen, in the bayou when a thief is arrested years later. Over twenty years passes before police find any leads in a motel robbery that led to murder.
- 1999– 1hTV-148.1 (27)TV EpisodeGeorge Morgan, a prison inmate, recalls an incident over thirty years earlier that resulted in his sister Michell's death. John McRae, a killer who started very young is tracked for fifty years before being caught.
- A new fingerprint identification system known as I-AFIS helps Texas detectives track down a killer after three years of searching. And a Georgia investigator gets to the bottom of a 16-year-old murder case when he discovers where the victim's body had been hidden -- in the bottom of a well.
- A gut feeling and a saved piece of paper help solve this crime. A husband takes a wedding vow taken all too seriously...more than once.
- "A Map to Murder": A newspaper story about a murdered prostitute prompts a perpetrator's letter, including a map to another body. Police get the home address where the map was downloaded and find evidence of torture and murder in the basement.
- A murderer's saliva, found on envelopes that he sealed, helps seal his doom 37 years after his first killing. And Colorado police crack a cold case 24 years later when they take a DNA sample from the victim's son that proves that his father murdered his mother.