Cold Case Files Classic

In Portland, Maine a housewife disappears. One year later her body is unearthed in the cellar. I.R. unravels this cold case investigation from the inside out. With the help of science, police are able to uncover a blueprint of the crime.

From England to Texas to Georgia, I.R. will go inside cold case units and watch as police use ballistics testing, old fashioned fingerprints and a new DNA data bank for criminals, to crack open the mysteries of unsolved crimes.

A highly-regarded California arson investigator is suspected of setting a series of fires; in Texas, a man is convicted of raping and murdering his 68-year-old neighbor.

Five years after the murder of prostitute Lucy Pate, a determined cop cracks the case. Susan Doll was beaten, raped & strangled in 1989. Investigators had no suspect to match DNA--until 1995.

A detective keeps a murder investigation going for 16 years and finally proves a woman killed her husband in a satanic rite; THE BURNING SECRET: and a rape victim fails to get a conviction on her attacker.