Cold Cases
Elizabeth Short: What the Fingerprints Solved in 1947
Fingerprint records gave investigators Elizabeth Short’s name. The murder remained a separate and unresolved investigation.
Cold Cases.
Unsolved cases, renewed investigations, forensic breakthroughs, and the questions that remain.
Cold Cases
The 1982 Tylenol Murders and the Extortion Case That Followed
Seven people died after taking tainted capsules near Chicago. The extortion prosecution answered a separate question.
Cold Cases
The 1962 Alcatraz Escape: Where the Physical Evidence Runs Out
The evidence shows how three men got out of their cells. The FBI’s account leaves their fate after the escape unresolved.
Cold Cases
The Birmingham Church Bombing: Why the Prosecutions Took Decades
The 1963 bombing killed four girls. A reopened federal investigation helped Alabama bring two later murder prosecutions.
Cold Cases
D.B. Cooper: What the Ransom Bills Could Actually Prove
A hijacking, a parachute jump, and money found years later. Follow the evidence that survived the disappearance of the man who called himself Dan Cooper.
Cold Cases
The Gardner Museum Heist: What the Empty Frames Tell Us
Thirteen objects vanished from a Boston museum. The museum’s inventory reveals a theft far stranger than a simple hunt for expensive paintings.