Cold Trail
Ossi Karhu
Cold Trail follows the cases that time almost forgot. Each episode takes a real murder, disappearance, or unidentified body that went unsolved for years or decades, walking through the original crime, the long stretch of dead ends and silence, and the breakthrough that finally cracked it open—a DNA match, a genetic genealogy hit, a reopened file, a deathbed confession, or a single overlooked detail. With investigative rigor and deep human empathy, Maria reveals not just how cold cases get solved, but why some trails stay warm long after everyone stopped looking.
- 11 episodes
- weekly
- Avg 16 min
- English
- October 15 · 17 min
The Murder of Angie Dodge: Twenty-Three Years, a Coerced Confession, and the Neighbor Who Got Away
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- October 8 · 16 min
The Lady of the Dunes: How Ruth Marie Terry Lay Nameless on Cape Cod for Forty-Eight Years
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- September 24 · 17 min
The Buckskin Girl: How Marcia King Found Her Name After Thirty-Seven Years in an Unmarked Ohio Grave
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- September 17 · 15 min
The Murder of Christy Mirack: How a Chewed Piece of Gum Ended a Twenty-Five-Year Silence
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- August 27 · 15 min
The Boy in the Box: How America's Unknown Child Became Joseph Augustus Zarelli After Sixty-Five Years
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- August 20 · 16 min
The Murder of Carla Walker: How Touch DNA on a Bra Clasp Solved a 1974 Texas Abduction
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- August 10 · 17 min
The Golden State Killer: How Genetic Genealogy Caught Joseph DeAngelo Forty Years After a Decade of Terror
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