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The body of Lori Nesson is found in a ditch in 1974, yet her death is not ruled a homicide. After four decades, the cause of death is changed to homicide, and the search begins for a killer.

In a city of eight million, landlord Bruce Blackwood disappears without a trace in March 2006. Though there is no body, the NYPD is sure this is a homicide and they spend the next nine years searching for answers.

When 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian is abducted and murdered in August of 1986, residents of Tacoma panic. This is the second young girl killed in five months. Convinced a predator is loose, Police embark on a 32-year inquiry to catch the killer.

Just two years into their marriage, Chuck and Cheryl Hall are torn apart when Chuck finds Cheryl murdered. Though Cheryl's family is certain they know her killer, the law isn't as sure. After several decades, a DNA match erases all doubt.

Easter Sunday of 1992, the body of missing woman Lisa Ziegert is found in a field. The investigation yields hundreds of leads but no true suspect. After more than two decades on ice, the case is revived when DNA phenotyping puts a face to the killer.

In August 1972, the body of Jody Loomis is found in the woods. 34 years later, the killer's DNA is recovered from Jody's old clothing but it isn't matched until 2018, when genetic genealogy helps point to one suspect--whose guilt must be proven in court.

A mother is jammed into a trash can filled with snow and left to die by her ex-husband. A young woman scrambles to escape a gruesome pile up of injured bodies after an escalator malfunctions at a sports stadium.

A young girl is abducted and brutally raped in her car. A diver on a boat trip has a terrifying accident in the middle of the night.

A young mother is attacked and strangled by a man she meets at a party. A snowmobiler survives a series of avalanches but loses eight of his friends. A 14-year-old boy and his best friend are attacked by a 17-year-old who cuts their throats.

Attacked and abducted by a church handyman, an elderly woman is left in the trunk of her car to die. A miner and eight co-workers survive 77 hours trapped in a rapidly flooding coal mine.

The loving aunt of a close-knit family is stabbed to death in her home. It takes two decades for detectives to discover that a key witness was an imposter--and caused the case to go cold. When they turn back to the crime scene, they discover a clue.

When 18-year-old Shannon Siders' body is found in the woods, everyone in the small town of Newaygo, Michigan, becomes a suspect--but no one is convicted of the crime.

When 14-year-old Nacole Smith is brutally murdered in 1995 on a wooded path in Atlanta, the police and community rally around her mother as she seeks justice. It will take decades and a second brutal assault to finally reveal Nacole's killer.

When jewelry seller Minerva Cantu, 26, is found bound, gagged and lifeless in her home, police suspect robbery as the motive. But who killed this mother as her infant slept in the next room is a mystery that would haunt one detective for 20 years.

When teens Llianna Adank and Eric Goldstrand are found shot to death at an Oregon park in 1977, every parent's nightmare comes true. Detectives doggedly pursue leads for 40 years until a single piece of evidence leads them to a suspect 3 states away.

When Mary Scott, 23, is found murdered in her San Diego home in 1969, a case with few leads quickly loses steam. Years later, Mary's daughters grow determined to find answers about the mother they barely knew, and a crime that's 50 years cold.

When the blood-smeared car of 27-year-old Stefanie Watson is found in a Maryland parking lot her family hold out hope she's still alive. But when a jawbone is dumped in a local neighborhood, a missing persons investigation becomes a murder.

When 31-year-old Linda Slaten is brutally strangled in her Lakeland, FL home in 1981, a complex web of suspects emerges. The case takes a dramatic turn when a DNA hit exposes the sinister underbelly of a seemingly peaceful community.

When a Texas gas store owner, Subir Chatterjee, 58, is shot inside his check cashing booth in 2002, detectives suspect his killer is someone Subir knew. With the murderer's DNA in hand, one detective refuses to retire until the case is solved.

When gambler Scott Martinez, 47, is found eviscerated by a sword in his La Mesa, CA home, investigators can't tell who is telling the truth within his inner circle.. It will take 13 years and an advance in DNA analysis to find his killer.

When the battered body of Shawna Yandell, 16, is found floating in Washington State's Yakima River in 1993, detectives first suspect those closest to her. The case grew cold until new DNA technology revealed a callous killer that no one suspected.

When Susan Woods, 30, is found beaten and drowned in her tub in America's Cowboy Capitol, suspicion falls on her estranged husband. With a suspect's DNA in hand, detectives go back to the basics to unmask a killer-cowboy living in plain sight.