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This special edition of Cold Case Files offers an inside look, rarely seen, at an active cold case investigation.

A video tape made at an ATM machine helps police in Louisville, KY, to nab a man suspected of raping 13 women. And a DA investigator in Georgia helps crack a murder case that his father, a police chief, first worked on 30 years before.

The story of the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in recent American history--the BTK killer, who terrorized the Wichita, Kansas, area for years.

When an adulterous church deacon is found shot to death in the back seat of his car, it looks like police may have stumbled upon a multi-party murder plot. And, a wife remains a key suspect in her husband's murder case for six years.

A look at the case of James Allen Selby, a serial rapist who eluded police for years while attacking 11 women in five states - Oklahoma, Nevada, California, Arizona, and Colorado.

The brutal stabbing murder of a Florida woman is solved when police find crucial DNA evidence in spit left on a pavement. And a man is put away for rape and murder when his footprint matches the footprint he left at the crime scene 18 years before.

A young girl is turned into a sexual slave for a self-proclaimed prophet. An idealistic young man is brainwashed by a dangerous and racist cult and a young woman breaks out of the violent religious organization she has been born into.

A 15-year-old girl is abducted and raped by a serial killer. A photographer is trapped under the rubble of a collapsed hotel in the Haitian earthquake. A woman is beaten and slashed with scissors by a neighbor.

A savage home invasion leaves a man fighting for his life in a burning house. An overnight fishing trip turns into an eight-day nightmare after a boat capsizes, and a woman locked in the trunk of her car faces a terrifying death.

Three masked gunmen burst into Michelle's home, tape dynamite to the bodies of the bank executive and her 7-year-old daughter, and order her to rob the bank vault where she works.

Hannah's best friend knew something was wrong when she stopped responding to her texts. No one knew that Hannah had been abducted by someone close to her.

When Deserae Turner didn't come home after school, her mother and friends began texting her incessantly. A massive search ensued, and 47 of her friends were questioned. Turns out her Snapchat may have been the key to the mystery.

April's mother recalls the day she asked her 14-year-old daughter to text her when she got home from walking the dog. April never did. Instead, she sent a cryptic text to her boyfriend and disappeared. What happened?

Travel Blogger, Carla Stefaniak, went to Costa Rica to celebrate her 36th birthday. But when she was to arrive back home to Miami, her awaiting loved-ones realized she never got on the plane.

Residents of small-town Robeson, Pennsylvania were stunned when 23-year-old Ashley Kline went missing on New Year's Eve. The gruesome truth rocked the community.

Rising social media Influencer Alexis Murphy was on her way to a hair appointment, but never arrived. When a photo of her abandoned car was posted on-line, her worried loved-ones knew something was terribly wrong.

A former deejay living in California, inherits money from his wealthy father. The heir's BFF, a banker, offers to help him manage the windfall, but the two have a falling out that ends up with a showdown, a murder and a manhunt.

Two West Virginia girls, best friends since third grade, turn on each other when a third girl transforms their solid duo into an unstable trio. When one of the girls goes missing, police focus in on her BFF and eventually prove that she's the killer.

Two best friends, steeped in the California "goth" culture are split apart by a dark, charismatic teen who holds sway over both of them. The teens' obsession with the dark side goes too far, and one of the BFFs is murdered.

He was from the wrong side of the tracks, she was the apple of her parents' eye and had every advantage in life. Together they became unlikely best friends, until another girl, and a secret, come between them.

A dead broke Florida man wins a $30 million lottery, and everyone he knows comes after him for a handout. He turns to his best friend to help him manage his money, but that's when things went sideways for these BFFs.

Can guys and girls ever really be best friends? It's a question Alphonze Fitzhugh and Britani Coberly hear many times--and they always shrug it off.