"The cold case files are right above the copier in our copy room.
Cold case files in Wichita and neighbouring counties are being studied to see if BTK can be linked to other deaths.
Come to think of it, every active homicide assignment involving a longtime serial killer seems to lead to the cold case files.
The authorities are busy scouring hundreds of cold case files, raising the prospect of an eleventh-hour reckoning for former Nazis now in their 80s and 90s.
Two weeks after "Death Penalty," "Investigative Reports" will be shown in two-hour blocks on Tuesday nights at 9. The first hour, "Investigative Reports: Criminal Justice," will feature crime-oriented documentaries, including some from "Cold Case Files".
And when he isn't working on "Cold Case Files" he is the anchor of "American Justice," an A&E series that presents historical documentaries on high-profile crimes.
The announcement from Lifetime struck some as odd, but the channel already shows repeats of real-life crime shows like "Cold Case Files" and "Unsolved Mysteries" and made-for-TV movies about tragedies.
Listings are filled with franchises such as Unsolved Mysteries, Cold Case Files and Solved, while a more recent transatlantic model for The Investigator is clearly the radio hit Serial and TV shows such as Making a Murderer, which forensically re-open a crime file.
WHEN he isn't traveling the world for "Investigative Reports," the documentary series celebrating its 10th anniversary this week on A&E, Bill Kurtis is the anchose and producer of "Cold Case Files," a show under the "Investigative Reports" banner about crimes that have long remained unsolved.
A&E eventually ran them all in blocks (sometimes right after Murder, She Wrote re-runs); in Cold Case Files, for example, narrator Bill Kurtis's soothing voice read out the details of some egregious crime that was sometimes solved in an hour or a half-hour... or sometimes not.
