Cold Blood: True Crime

This episode tells the story of Joseph “Joe” Colombo and the New York crime family that bears his name. From the family’s origins after the Castellammarese War to Colombo’s public activism, internal …

On October 16, 1991, a gunman drove a pickup through the window of a Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, and in roughly 12 minutes killed 23 people and wounded more than 20 others. The massacre shock…

On March 31, 2019, Grammy-nominated rapper and community activist Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in broad daylight outside his own clothing store in South Central Los Angeles. The killer? A man he kne…

In this episode of Cold Blood: True Crime we revisit the “Ice Box Murders” — the brutal 1965 slaying and dismemberment of Houston couple Fred and Edwina Rogers, the vanishing of their son Charles Rog…

The 2019 death of Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs reopened in 2025 as court filings and depositions revealed new names and links in a network of prescription pills and illicit supply. Allegat…

This is the story of Asha Jaquilla Degree — a nine‑year‑old from Shelby, North Carolina — who vanished in the pre‑dawn hours of Valentine’s Day 2000. We follow what is known: the timeline, the search…

This is the account of Edward “Ed” Gein — the Plainfield, Wisconsin farmer whose graves‑robbing and murders in the 1950s shocked the nation and inspired decades of films and books. We examine his upb…

This episode of Cold Blood: True Crime presents an account of the death of Laci Peterson and the enduring questions about her cause of death.

This episode of Cold Blood: True Crime presents an account of Erik and Lyle Menéndez — the brothers convicted of killing their parents in 1989, the resentencing that made them eligible for parole, an…

In this episode of Cold Blood: True Crime we examine the 1988 double murder of racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy — the long, cold investigation, the motive rooted in business conflict,…

This episode of Cold Blood: True Crime presents account of the February 26, 2024 murder of 23‑year‑old Rebekah A. Byler — a pregnant Amish mother killed inside her home — and the investigation, trial…

In 2019–2020 a series of shootings in Memphis left five victims dead, including a 19‑year‑old woman who was several months pregnant. Joshua Dotson — who at trial called himself a “serial killer” and …

In this episode of Cold Blood: True Crime we present account of the February 20, 2017 killing of Whittier Police Officer Keith Boyer — the circumstances of the shooting, the investigation that follow…

3‑year‑old Nola Dinkins — reported missing in an Amber Alert and later found dead in Maryland.

22‑year‑old Elizabeth Short — later nicknamed the "Black Dahlia" — was found dead and mutilated in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. Her body was bisected with apparent surgical precision, drained of blood …

In September 2024, 18‑year‑old Nicholas Prosper killed his mother and two siblings in Luton and planned a mass shooting at his former primary school. In March 2025 he was sentenced to life with a min…

This episode of Cold Blood: True Crime presents account of the murder of 19‑year‑old Arnima Hayat in North Parramatta, Sydney, and the subsequent conviction of her husband, Meraj Zafar.

In February 2009, 47‑year‑old Environmental Protection Agency analyst Pamela Butler disappeared from her Washington, D.C., home. Years later her ex‑boyfriend, Jose Angel Rodriguez‑Cruz, admitted to k…

we examine the allegations against Thomas Pinkerton, a former youth pastor at Central Christian Church in Baltimore County, who was arrested and extradited from Georgia to Maryland on multiple counts…