About this season
Combining the thrill of a mystery with the visceral experience of true crime drama, Cold Blood presents competing versions of what may have happened, and reenacts the events from different perspectives as new evidence comes to light.
Episodes (20)
1. Island of Lies
Aired 11 October 2011 • 60 min
An investigation into a 23-year-old Hawaiian tourist's rape and murder reveals a world of drugs and deception few vacationers ever see. And it's up to one lone detective to get the victims family some justice
2. Unnatural Causes
Aired 18 October 2011 • 60 min
South California is the perfect place to retire, but when an 84-year-old is brutally raped and murdered in her senior living community everyone is a suspect. To find her killer, the investigation goes global as the suspect does his best to slip away.
3. Road to Murder
3.3Aired 25 October 2011 • 60 min
An 18-year-old runaway is found raped and strangled to death on the side of a San Diego road. Tracking down the cold-blooded killer will take years of detective work and a benign connection.
4. In Plain Sight
2.0Aired 1 November 2011 • 60 min
In Colorado, a lifelong bad boy comes home to finds his wife, savagely raped and strangled to death. Evidence indicates the attack is personal. But is the husband is trying to get away with murder or could someone else be involved?
5. Friend or Foe
Aired 15 November 2011 • 60 min
Murdock Nebraska, a man returns home to find his mother and father shot to death. Nothing of value is missing. Everyone in town is stunned by the news and they begin to wonder, is the killer someone they know?
6. Shot in the Park
1.0Aired 22 November 2011 • 60 min
Minneapolis, Minnesota is a haven for its large gay community, until gunfire rips through the city leaving two men dead. An eyewitness leads investigators to a suspect, but soon after, an anonymous letter points to an anti-gay hate group on a mission.
7. The Rolex Murder
Aired 29 November 2011 • 60 min
Miami's Coconut Grove rarely sees trouble. Until Jos? Calvo, a family man, is shot in the head and robbed of his Rolex watch. What appears to be a random cash grab turns into a sinister mystery. Is this a robbery gone bad or a murder for hire?
8. Home Invasion
Aired 6 December 2011 • 60 min
Aiken, South Carolina, is a tiny peaceful town where nothing much happens. Until Jessica Carpenter, 17, is found raped and murdered in her living room. The neighborhood goes on high alert while police swing into action to catch her killer.
9. The Day the Music Died
Aired 14 December 2011 • 60 min
Austin is famous for its music scene and party spirit--until a single mother is savagely beaten in her sleep. With no leads, and a culture that distrust authority, 21 years pass before investigators get a stunning phone call that turns the case red-hot.
10. The Lost Boy
Aired 20 December 2011 • 60 min
In one of the most notorious missing children cases, Adam Walsh, 6, steps into a stranger's car and disappears. A manhunt is launched but Adam's severed head is found two weeks later. More than a quarter of century passes before the mystery is solved.
11. Framed
2.0Aired 5 April 2012 • 60 min
A horrendous miscarriage of justice made all the more famous by the book The Innocent Man - Murder & Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham. In Ada Oklahoma, 21-year-old Debbie Sue Carter is found raped, beaten and strangled in her apartment. A quest for justice thrusts Ada into the national spotlight and leaves a family wondering for a quarter of a century - who killed Debbie Carter?
12. On Her Own
Aired 12 April 2012 • 60 min
Winston-Salem in 1982 is a city divided by race. And when a young white copy editor is raped and stabbed to death blocks from where she worked, the atmosphere is tense. Twenty years pass before Deborah Sykes' killer finally faces justice once and for all.
13. Evil Twin
Aired 19 April 2011 • 60 min
Shock waves ripple throughout Clearwater, Florida, when an attractive waitress is found on her bedroom floor stabbed 16 times. As years pass and the case goes cold, police fear DNA might not even find justice for Laurie Colannino.
14. Shot in the Dark
Aired 26 April 2012 • 60 min
A budding college football player's life is cut short when his 21st birthday party ends with his brutal murder. A gun shot to the head with a bullet wound so exact that Lexington police think it looks like a hit. But who would want to kill Trent Digiuro?
15. Murder on the Menu
Aired 3 May 2012 • 60 min
When Jim Webb, Co-Owner and Head Chef of the General Wayne Inn outside of Philadelphia, is found shot to death in his office, police hatch a plan so risky it could mean letting a killer run free forever.
16. Park Slope Justice
1.0Aired 10 May 2012 • 60 min
A murderous attack in Park Slope, Brooklyn, leaves Sylvia Lugo dead and her girlfriend, Amanda Leach, raped and shot in the leg. Police struggle to pin down an assailant without any hard evidence, resulting in Leach being pegged as the prime suspect.
17. Philadelphia's Night Stalker
2.0Aired 17 May 2012 • 60 min
When Wharton business student Shannon Schieber is found raped and strangled to death in her Philadelphia apartment, the city errupts with outrage as it's discovered that Shannon's death is the the latest in a string of rapes in the Centre City area.
18. Dreams that Kill
Aired 24 May 2012 • 60 min
19. Nightmare in Nashville
Aired 31 May 2012 • 60 min
A McDonalds restaurant manager is murdered in a small Tennessee town and the police force goes into overdrive. But with a big list of suspects investigators are baffled and the case goes cold. Two years later, a tip brings them to Delma Ramsey's killers.
20. The Truth Hurts
Aired 15 June 2012 • 60 min
Palo Alto's community sympathize with wealthy property developer Ken Fitzhugh when his wife of more than 30 years, Kristine, falls to her death down the basement stairs. But police are suspicious from the get go: there is just too much blood at the scene.