Cold Case Files

"Cold Case Files: The Grim Sleeper" explores the crimes of infamous serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. who preyed on women in South Central Los Angeles over a span of 25 years. Narrated by actress Regina Hall, the gripping true crime tale is interwoven with the real-life story of the search for an elusive killer and the fight for justice in a Los Angeles community.

A massive search unfolds in Chandler, Oklahoma when two women and a child go missing from a Walmart parking lot in 1992. It will take 23 years and a tip from an unlikely source to piece together a heinous plot of misdirection and murder.

When Chris Green, 19, is found beaten to death in a snowy Bangor, Michigan ditch in 2002, his family fear their son's murder will never be solved. Years pass before shocking revelations from an informant emerge and blow the case wide open.

The 1964 murder of 9-year-old Marise Chiverella leaves the devout town of Hazelton, PA, in fear. An intense manhunt yields numerous suspects but no killer. Five decades pass before a student moonlighting as a genetic genealogist reignites the case.

When 8-year-old April Tinsley is found dead in a Fort Wayne, Indiana ditch the community is shaken. Disturbing letters then appear, penned by her killer, targeting other young girls. Police scramble to catch April's murderer before he strikes again.

When the body of 81-year-old Helen Gale is found in her burned-out car, investigators in Southfield, Michigan wonder who would murder this pillar of the community. It will be eight years before a blown alibi brings them face-to face with her killer.

When 37-year-old Lee Rotatori is found dead in her hotel room in 1982 with a single stab wound to the heart, police suspect the work of a professional. It will take four decades to identify her killer and, in the process, reveal a shocking truth.

When nine-year-old Campfire Girl, Candy Rogers, turns up dead after selling mints door-to-door, Spokane detectives launch a dogged campaign to find her killer. What follows is one of the longest Cold Case investigations in Washington State history.