Cold Case Files — Season 1, Episode 13: The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed

Episode synopsis

A rapist is captured seven years after the crime, but when he is released on a technicality his victim is determined to fight back. Fifteen years after a fire claimed the lives of a father and son, detectives interview the grown surviving son and learn a tragic tale of a mother who burned her family.

About Cold Case Files

Explore compelling cases that have gone cold for years, chronicling the journeys of the detectives who reopened them. The detectives relive the events of the crimes, reveal new twists and startling revelations, relying on breakthroughs in forensic technology and the influence of social media to help crack these cases.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Hour 1 - Cold Case Files
• E2The Boy and the Monster/Secret in the Cellar
• E3The Texas Drifter/The Fingerprint File
• E4The Answer in the Box/Maternal Instinct
• E5The Hunter Homicides / Skulls in Stanley Park
• E6Through the Eyes of a Child / Killer Next Door
• E7One Night on the Bayou / Buckeye Misdemeanor
• E8The Mark of Cain / Death on the Freeway
• E9Terror in Telluride/Signature of a Killer
• E10Diary Of A Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue
• E11Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder
• E12Murder Illustrated/Blood Relations