The Cold Case Collective

Symsonia, Kentucky. Graves County. Two-lane roads, soybean fields, and a stretch of flooded timber and swamp that people around here call Kaler Bottoms. If you grew up in this county, you grew up in those woods. Early...

On Easter Sunday, April 11th, 2004, 19-year-old Jeremiah Jamal Parker stopped at North Sherwood Forest Park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He told the person he was with that he needed to look for a missing cell phone...

A man has gone free for approximately 30 years after shooting and killing his wife and 18-year-old daughter, leaving three more children under the age of 12 at home without parents. He has been free for three decades...

Did a drug- and alcohol-fueled house party in 1984 lead to the tragic death of 13-year-old Michelle Kasperek, or was it just an event preceding it that muddied the waters of the investigation? Michelle’s savagely...

On the morning of April 15, 1973, a nineteen-year-old college student left her dorm room with her books and told her roommate she was going to study for a Spanish exam. Two hours later, two teenagers found her body in...

On an ordinary August morning in 2001, an eleven-year-old girl walked out her front door to play in her Alabama neighborhood — the way she had a hundred times before. She never came home. Two months later, hunters would...

In the early hours of May 1960, a metal box containing 25-30 sticks of dynamite exploded under the bedroom of Jethro and Mattie Green. Jethro was thrown from his bed into the yard, suffering minor injuries; their...

October 13, 1989. Warren, Indiana. Eighteen-year-old Sheri Herr was home alone in the quiet rural community where she had grown up. By the end of the day, she would be found brutally murdered inside her family's home...

This is the tragic story of Kelvin McDuffie, a 25-year-old University of Georgia student who was shot to death in a rural part of Athens-Clarke County. He had risen to Second Lieutenant in the Army Reserves, was...

Just weeks before her 18th birthday, the vibrant, energetic, and loved Maggie Long did something that should have been routine and safe. She went home. On December 1st, 2017, Maggie Long walked into her home in Bailey...

Jason Nam was 31 years old. He lived in Honolulu, Hawaii. On March 10th, 2006, he was washing his car outside his apartment building in Makiki. In broad daylight, three masked men approached him. Moments later… he was...

It was the summer of 1973, and 20 year old Donna Lemon was making the most of it like any true Montanan before the snow starts to fall again in just a few short months. The eldest of two daughters with an avid...

It wasn’t residual Christmas carols that 11-year-old Mikelle Biggs was hoping to hear on the evening of January 2nd, 1999, as she rode her younger sister’s new bike. It was the sound of the ice cream truck she was...

August 24, 2004. For most people in Waterbury, Connecticut, it was an ordinary summer day. But for the Smolinski family, it marked the beginning of a nightmare that has never ended. Thirty-one-year-old Billy Smolinski...

One night, three generations, the trajectory of three lives unequivocally altered. In the early hours of June 24th, 2024, in Phenix City, Alabama, a 6-month-old child went missing, his mother died of an overdose, and...