Episode
Cold Case Files: The Zodiac Killer
Overview
With access to the San Francisco Police Department's work, including saliva samples taken from letters the infamous Zodiac Killer sent 30 year ago, we reevaluate the case of the serial killer who began terrorizing California in the late 1960s.
Details
- Series
- Cold Case Files
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2001-01-08
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
The Zodiac Killer is Episode 2 in Season 3 of Cold Case Files. It aired on 2001-01-08. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 1: Cop Killer/Evil Twin
Included: Los Angeles detectives solve a 46-year-old murder case; and DNA leads to a suspected killer who has a twin brother. Host: Bill Kurtis.
Episode 3: The Accidental Killer/Little Sister Lost
While hiking with husband Dennis in Montana, Leslee Larson fell into Wolf Creek. Then Dennis is convicted of murdering his wife, while in Main. And 15-year-old papergirl Penny Parker goes missing, then her body is found by a search volunteer.
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Episode 4: The Merry Widow/The Bad Cop
Included: the case of Douglas J. Wright, a former state trooper whose 1993 murder of his wife brought a conviction in 2003. Also: the murder of a Navy seaman. Host: Bill Kurtis.
Episode 5: Daddy Knows Best/Dawn of the Dead
A detective works for 15 years to nab a man who murdered his wife and dismembered her body to hide the sexual abuse of his children. Then, 20 years after the shooting murder of a gas station attendant, detectives get a lead.
Episode 6: The Killer's Tattoo
The search for a killer with a distinctive tattoo is recalled. Host: Bill Kurtis.
Episode 7: The Green River Killer
Cold Case discusses the story of the nearly 20-year hunt for the man responsible for the murders of 49 prostitutes and other women in the Seattle, Washington area.
Episode 8: A Hitchhike to Murder/Never Forgotten
Police must wait nearly 30 years before advances in DNA technology give them the chance to convict the killer of a young hitchhiker, and Philadelphia police wage a 16-year hunt for the man who raped and killed a 10-year-old girl.
Episode 9: The DNA Link/The Secret Slide
Detectives from three different departments in Westchester County, NY team up to track down a serial killer; and a man known as the Bus Stop Rapist becomes the lead suspect decades after a woman is found murdered under a hotel bed in the case.
Episode 10: Death Before I Do/Hollywood Homicide
Included: the 1988 murder of actress Myra Davis, Janet Leigh's stand-in for “Psycho,” brings a conviction in 2001. Also: a phone tip helps solve a cold case.
Episode 11: Blood Money/Precious Doe
Testimony about the growth of larvae in dead bodies helps convict the man who stabbed a couple to death and strangled their 4-year-old daughter in 1993. And the 2001 murder of a young girl, whose head was cut off, remains unsolved.
Episode 12: Unholy Bible/A Daughter's Justice
A Texas woman's murder is solved when the killer's plan to murder another woman and stuff her into a duffel bag goes awry; and a reporter doing a story on unsolved homicides helps crack a case of murder that had been ruled an accidental death.
Episode 13: Officer Down/Secret Twin
After 23 years, investigators finally track down the killers of an Atlanta policeman when the ex-wife of one of the killers phones in a tip; and a mother keeps the skeletal remains of the 3-year-old daughter she killed in a footlocker.