Unfinished Justice: Inside the NYPD Cold Case Squad
Unfinished Justice is an inside look at the NYPD's Cold Case Squad. Each episode of this 10 part series follows the cold case detectives as they investigate – and hopefully solve – some of the most gripping cases to ever go cold at the NYPD. Unfinished Justice: Inside the NYPD Cold Case Squad is narrated by Vito Spano, the former commander of the NYPD Cold Case Squad from 2001 to 2004 and features other key contributors. The podcast shows the obsessive determination of Vito and his former colleagues as they work cases that are years, and sometimes decades, old, tracking evidence throughout the five boroughs and beyond. This series is produced by Asterlight with production partner Neon Hum Media.
Credits:
Executive Producers (Asterlight): Cathy Tankosic, Joe Poletto, Sam Roseme
Executive Producers (Neon Hum Media): Shara Morris, Jonathan Hirsch
Lead Producer: Chrystal Genesis
Associate Producer: Liz Sanchez
Editor: Maura Walz
Executive Editor: Catherine Saint Louis
Production Manager: Samantha Allison
Original Music by: Asha Iwanowicz
Engineered by: Sam Bair
Fact-checkers: Lori Segal
Director of Distribution: David Gross
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
What It’s Really Like Working in the Cold Case Squad
In the final episode of Season 1 of Unfinished Justice: Inside the NYPD Cold Case Squad, our host Vito Spano sits down with legendary cold case detective Wendell Stratford to find out what it’s reall…
The Unsolved Murder of Jam Master Jay of the legendary hip hop group Run DMC
Unfinished Justice takes a look at the cold case murder of Jam Master Jay of the legendary hip hop group Run DMC, and reveals startling developments in the case.
An NYPD Sergeant Becomes a Suspect in a Cold Case Killing
The Cold Case Unit struggles to solve the murder of a 29-year-old woman named Juliet Alexander who had been shot three times in the head. The case would only get more complicated when one of their ow…
The Mob Killings, Part 2
Walter Mack’s work on the stolen car ring uncovered a killing spree. After years of preparation and investigation, Mack would finally have the chance to prosecute the case of his life – and take dow…
The Mob Killings, Part 1
When prosecutor Walter Mack volunteered to take on what he assumed was a “simplistic” case involving a few stolen cars, he had no way of knowing that this “boring” case would ultimately reach the top…
The Westies: Who Killed the Gentleman Gangster?
For years, Mickey Spillane ran the Irish mob that controlled the Hell’s Kitchen section of Manhattan. Behind the scenes, he controlled the area by ordering kidnappings and killings, but in public he …
The Murder of Marie-Josée Saint-Antoine
New York City was shocked when a glamorous fashion model was found murdered in her apartment at the height of the glitzy 1980s. It was hard to find anyone who didn’t love her. But as the detectives…
Maria Isabel Monteiro Alves
When Brazilian-born Maria Isabel Pinto Monteiro Alves went for her daily run in Central Park, she didn’t know it’d be her last. After her body was found, the murder became a cold case and an internat…
The Martinez Murders
It was Christmas time when the 911 call came in. A husband and wife were brutally murdered in their nice apartment, and their young children discovered the bodies. The year was 1996, the same year t…
Baby Hope
The most famous cold case in NYPD history: the case of Baby Hope. It’s a case that spanned three decades. The Cold Case detectives simply wouldn’t stop working the case of the unnamed four year old b…
Unfinished Justice (Trailer)
Unfinished Justice is an inside look at the NYPD's Cold Case Squad. Each episode of this 10 part series follows the cold case detectives as they investigate – and hopefully solve – some of the most g…