COLD CASES SOLVED

In November 2011, 33-year-old Florida mother Michelle Parker disappeared on the same day an episode of The People’s Court aired featuring a dispute with her former fiancé, Dale Smith Jr. For nearly 15 years, investigators searched for answers, but...

In 1962, Charles Hale and Lester McCollum were murdered near Battle Ground, Washington, leaving investigators with a mystery that would remain unresolved for more than six decades. Despite the passage of time, two seemingly insignificant pieces of...

In 1960, eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz was abducted and murdered in Chicago, leaving investigators with a mystery that would endure for more than six decades. In October 2026, police announced that modern forensic techniques had identified their...

When remains are too badly damaged for visual identification — burned, skeletonized, or decomposed beyond recognition — the work of putting a name to them falls to forensic anthropology. This episode examines how specialists reconstruct identity from...

n 1929, seven men were murdered in a Chicago garage, and suspicion fell on Al Capone’s organization. Forensic ballistics provided important investigative leads, but the perpetrators were never convicted. Explore what investigators established and why...