Cold Case Files — Season 1, Episode 9: Terror in Telluride/Signature of a Killer

Episode synopsis

Shoot outside her bedroom, Eva Shoen was shot to death. Living in Telluride, on the mountain side. Eva was married to the son of the billion dollar Shoen family who owned the U-Haul empire. With lacking evidence the case runs cold. Even though the police believe that her death was related to a fued in the family business. Years later the case is solved by a secret that was finally revealed and a recorded conversation is played. DNA also helped the killer to confess to the crime. Signature of a Killer Taylor Courtney was a 20 yr old man who was brutaly murdered in his apartment. The crime scene was bloody and vicious. A single print is found but in 1974 when fingerprint technology was still in its infancy it meant nothing. 20 years would pass before a cold case detective would pick up the case and look at it again. What they found was a match in the system which leads to a friend of Taylor's who had committed this murder because of mistaken suspicions and jealousy.

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
• E10Diary Of A Serial Arsonist/The Lost Clue
• E11Killer on the Strip/The Doll Murder
• E12Murder Illustrated/Blood Relations
• E13The Burning Secret/Justice Delayed