Every unsolved crime leaves us with a nagging sense that just one witness, one piece of evidence, could change everything. Join us Mondays to revisit cases that ran cold for decades. Some had breakthroughs that closed the file. Others remain open still today. From the network that brings you Serial Killers, Disappearances, Solved Murders, and more, this is Cold Cases — a Spotify Original from Parcast. New episodes Mondays.
Latest episodes
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1 h 04
Disappearance at the Vatican: The Orlandi Case
What happens when a teenager goes missing in the world’s smallest, and supposedly safest, country? Emanuela Orlandi’s sudden disappearance remains the only missing person’s case in…
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51 min
The Black Dahlia Murder Pt. 2
Elizabeth Short’s gruesome murder is the LAPD’s most infamous unsolved case. But there’s one person who thinks he’s cracked it — the alleged killer’s own son. Today, we reopen the…
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42 min
The Black Dahlia Murder Pt. 1
In 1940s Hollywood, a 22-year-old aspiring actress is found mutilated and drained of blood. Her body is posed, and her mouth has been carved into a permanent smile. The investigati…
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42 min
Missing Mogul: Robert Maxwell Pt. 2
After the body of media mogul Robert Maxwell was pulled from the water, rumors began to swirl about the cause of death. It's entirely possible that it was only an accident. But som…
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44 min
Missing Mogul: Robert Maxwell Pt. 1
He was a controversial media mogul in Britain accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from his employees. Then in November 1991, Robert Maxwell mysteriously disappeared…
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36 min
America’s Youngest Serial Killer
Harvey Miguel Robinson committed his first murder when he was just 17. As the son of a convicted murderer and violent abuser, did he ever have a chance? Learn more about your ad ch…
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29 min
Who Killed Jane Mixer?
In 1969, a 23-year-old law student at the University of Michigan was found murdered in a cemetery outside of Ann Arbor. Jane Mixer’s death was considered part of a string of violen…
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42 min
The Zodiac Killer Pt. 2
Following the string of brutal murders throughout the 1960s, the masked man known as the Zodiac Killer continued to write letters to the press and police, taunting them for their i…
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37 min
The Zodiac Killer Pt. 1
In the summer of 1969, newspapers in San Francisco began receiving coded letters from a man who would come to identify himself as "the Zodiac." The killer confessed to a string of…
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39 min
The Sodder Family Tragedy Pt. 3
For decades, family members and sleuths have tried to determine what really happened the night of the fire. As of yet, they have been unsuccessful. But the clues remain, the questi…
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40 min
The Sodder Family Tragedy Pt. 2
In the aftermath of the fire, a startling number of tips, twists, and witnesses came forward regarding the fate of the Sodder children. Their father, George, followed the clues for…
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36 min
The Sodder Family Tragedy Pt. 1
Early Christmas day in 1945, Jennie Sodder woke up to her house on fire. The blaze consumed her home, and five of her children. Or did it? A series of strange events before, during…
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1 h 09
Dead on the 4th of July: Marilyn Reese Sheppard Pt. 2
After a lengthy appeals process, Sam Sheppard was set free in 1964, ten years after his wife Marilyn’s murder. Two years later, he would be retried on second degree murder charges.…
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52 min
Dead on the 4th of July: Marilyn Reese Sheppard Pt. 1
Prestigious doctor Sam Sheppard woke up in the middle of the night to find his wife Marilyn dead from a gruesome murder. His account of what happened early that morning was shaky,…
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47 min
The Freeway Phantom
In the spring of 1971, a killer begins kidnapping young Black girls off the streets in Washington, D.C. He taunts their families and the police in a grim game of cat-and-mouse—then…
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44 sec
A Message from Carter
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43 min
Lewis Clark Valley Murders
Over a span of nearly four years, five people — the youngest only 12 — vanish from towns along the Idaho-Washington border. When their bodies start turning up, their missing person…
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46 min
The Texas Killing Fields
Just a mile off Interstate 45 in League City, Texas, an abandoned oil field holds the weight of a community’s grief. This is where the remains of four young women were found over t…
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46 min
Island Investigation: The Honolulu Strangler
It’s the mid-1980s in Hawaii, and police don’t want to cause a panic — but they’re at a loss. All they know is that women are turning up bound, assaulted, and strangled to death in…
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38 min
This Woman Solved Her Own Kidnapping
When Nejdra “Netty” Nance couldn't find her birth certificate, her mother had to come clean: Netty was adopted. Unable to find any adoption records, she called the National Center…