The BEST episodes of Cold Case Files (1999) season 3
Every episode of Cold Case Files (1999) season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cold Case Files (1999) season 3!
Unsolved crimes locked away in dusty file cabinets. Time is an ineffectual balm. Painful memories are left to a victim's loved ones. What happens when a killer gets away with murder? Thanks to the efforts of a special breed of modern detective, no one escapes the laws of justice - no matter how old the case.
#1 - The Green River Killer
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/12/2001
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.
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#2 - Lil' Miss /Skeletons In The Closet
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 6/11/2001
An eerie note left on a grave helps solve a 12-year-old case of murder, and an exhaustive questioning of a mother helps police unravel the mysterious deaths of three of her
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#3 - Blood Money/Precious Doe
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/12/2001
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.
#4 - The Shopping Cart Killer
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/28/2001
A dry cleaning tag inside a sweatshirt left at a crime scene helps police track down a serial killer and rapist who had been eluding them for years.
#5 - Murder Checks In / Killer in the City
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/2001
Police hunt for a man who killed three women in three different hotels, not far from one another in Des Moines, Iowa. And police get a killer to confess when they tell him prosecutors will show photos of the gruesome crime scene.
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#6 - Weepy-Voiced Killer/The Mr. Big Sting
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/2/2001
A prostitute who fights off a screwdriver-wielding man helps police track down a serial killer; and undercover agents acting as mobsters conduct an elaborate sting to solve a murder case that had gone cold for years. Then, detectives from three different police departments in Westchester County, New York team up to track down a serial killer.
#7 - Cop Killer/Evil Twin
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/2001
After 46 years, LA homicide detectives take a Lover's Lane bandit who also gunned down two police officers into custody. Then, DNA testing helps lead police in Florida to a suspected killer, however the killer has an identical twin.
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#8 - The Merry Widow/The Bad Cop
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/22/2001
In 1983, Navy seamen Sonny Grotton left base for a long weekend at home. But as he pulled into his driveway, a gunman killed him. And in 1993, former state trooper Doug Wright claimed his estranged wife shot and killed herself in their home.
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#10 - The Accidental Killer/Little Sister Lost
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/15/2001
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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#11 - Cowboys on the Case/Office Politics
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/2001
Four retired law enforcement officers, known as the Cold Case Cowboys, help track down the killer of a man wanted for rape and robbery; and police await for advancements in DNA technology before they can put away a killer.
#12 - Death Before I Do/Hollywood Homicide
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/5/2001
Police crack a cold case of murder when a mysterious woman calls to say that her boyfriend is the killer; and the murder of a woman in 1998 provides clues to the 1988 murder of actress Myra Davis, a stand-in for Janet Leigh in the movie Psycho.
#13 - The Zodiac Killer
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/8/2001
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.
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#14 - The Missing Hunters/The Flashlight Rapist
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/30/2001
Police suspect brothers J.R. and Coco Duvall beat two Michigan hunters to death, chopped up the bodies, and fed them to pigs; and a serial rapist, who holds a mini-flashlight in his mouth to blind victims, is nabbed when he drops it during an attack.
#15 - Daddy Knows Best/Dawn of the Dead
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/29/2001
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.
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#16 - A Hitchhike to Murder/Never Forgotten
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/19/2001
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.
#17 - Unholy Bible/A Daughter's Justice
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/19/2001
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.
#18 - Mistaken for a Killer/A Woman Scorned
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/23/2001
DNA technology that take place over 20 years help police to finally identify the man who brutally stabbed two women to death; and an anonymous caller leads police to the killer of a 13-year-old girl who was shot dead and left in the woods.
#19 - Innocent Prey/The Punishment
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/18/2001
Police play a wild hunch that pays off in the capture of a serial rapist. And after 26 years, investigators finally solve the murder of a 6-year-old girl who had been forced to take a cold-water bath as punishment for painting her nails with pink polish without permission.
#20 - Officer Down/Secret Twin
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/26/2001
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.
#21 - The Lady Killer/A Husband's Secret
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/16/2001
The testimony of three prison inmates helps convict a man who viciously killed a woman out for a bike ride nearly two decades prior; and a self-admitted sex addict who strangled his cat is a suspect in the 30-year-old murder of a neighbor.
#22 - The Hit makers/Favor For A Friend
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/4/2001
A scheme to bribe a country music magazine to manipulate the charts leads to murder in Nashville and a 13-year hunt for the killer; and a murderer's plan to hide his gun is foiled when the man who buried the evidence for him spills the beans to cops.
#23 - The DNA Link/The Secret Slide
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/26/2001
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.
#24 - The Flaming Gorge Falls/Caught in the Mail
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/14/2001
A man suspected of the cold case murder of his wife and son hatches a new plot to kill his mother and father; and detectives solve the 20-year-old murder of a teenager by tricking her killer into licking an envelope, then extracting DNA from the saliva.
#25 - Blood on the Badge/Bump in the Night
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/2001
A prostitute who fights off a screwdriver-wielding man helps police track down a serial killer; and undercover agents acting as mobsters conduct an elaborate sting to solve a murder case that had gone cold for years. Then, detectives from three different police departments in Westchester County, New York team up to track down a serial killer.