COLD CASES
27 files tagged cold cases.
Unsolved, and in most instances unsolvable now, because the evidence was lost before anyone understood it mattered.
OSA-002D.B. COOPEROPEN CASEThe only unsolved commercial skyjacking in U.S. history
OSA-006THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENTOPEN CASEAmerica's most famous broadcast hijacking
OSA-008DYATLOV PASSCONTESTEDNine hikers, a tent cut open from inside
OSA-038THE ZODIAC KILLEROPEN CASEFive dead, two survivors, and ciphers mailed to the press
OSA-039JACK THE RIPPEROPEN CASEWhitechapel, autumn 1888, the oldest file in the drawer
OSA-040THE DISAPPEARANCE OF JIMMY HOFFAOPEN CASEA restaurant parking lot, two no-show mobsters, no body ever found
OSA-042THE GARDNER MUSEUM HEISTOPEN CASETwo fake cops, 81 minutes, thirteen masterpieces
OSA-046THE SOMERTON MANOPEN CASEA body on an Adelaide beach, a scrap of Persian poetry, an uncracked code
OSA-081THE TYLENOL MURDERSOPEN CASESeven dead, no charges, and the reason every bottle is sealed
OSA-082THE ISDAL WOMANOPEN CASENine aliases, a coded diary, and no name at all
OSA-083THE BEAUMONT CHILDRENOPEN CASEThree children, a crowded beach, and a tall blond stranger
OSA-087THE BOY IN THE BOXOPEN CASESixty-five years without a name, and still no charges
OSA-088THE YUBA COUNTY FIVEOPEN CASEA working car abandoned seventy miles the wrong way
OSA-089THE CIRCLEVILLE LETTERSOPEN CASEA conviction that the letters themselves contradicted
OSA-090THE BLACK DAHLIAOPEN CASESixty false confessions and a cut nobody could explain
OSA-091HINTERKAIFECKOPEN CASESix killed, and the murderer stayed on to feed the animals
OSA-092THE SODDER CHILDRENOPEN CASEA house fire that left five children and not one bone
OSA-118THE RFK ASSASSINATIONCONTESTEDA convicted killer in front, and a fatal wound fired from behind
OSA-134THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGCONTESTED168 dead, two convictions, and witnesses describing a second man
OSA-142ELISA LAMOPEN CASEFound in a rooftop water tank guests had been drinking from
OSA-145THE TOYNBEE TILESOPEN CASEIdentical messages set into asphalt across two continents
OSA-149THE MONSTER OF FLORENCEOPEN CASEEight double murders with the same pistol, and no reliable conviction
OSA-151THE VILLISCA AXE MURDERSOPEN CASEA family of six and two guests, killed in one night in a small Iowa town
OSA-182THE MURDER OF OLOF PALMEOPEN CASESweden's prime minister, walking home from the cinema without bodyguards
OSA-183KAREN SILKWOODCONTESTEDA union activist gathering evidence on plant safety, dead in a single-car crash
OSA-185THE ALCATRAZ ESCAPEOPEN CASEThree men left the island and were never found, alive or dead
OSA-189THE CLEVELAND TORSO MURDERSOPEN CASEA killer who decapitated victims while they were still alive