Cold Case Files (2017)

In the heart of Cajun country, young mother Brenda DuPont is found murdered in her home in May 1988. The initial investigation sputters and turns cold, but Brenda's older sister Linda vows to solve Brenda's murder, no matter how long it takes.

New York: In a city of eight million, landlord Bruce Blackwood, age 55, disappeared without a trace on March 6, 2006. Also on this same day, Bruce Blackwood had confronted tenant Luis Perez about stealing $7,700 from him and tried to evict Luis Perez from his 983 Hancock Street apartment. Though there was no body, the NYPD was sure this was a homicide and, along with Bruce's brother Ed, they spent the next nine years searching for answers and a killer. In 2014, Perez was arrested for the murder and dismemberment of Blackwood. He was convicted of murder and was given a sentence of 25 years to life in prison.

Lori Nesson's nude body was found September 28, 1974 in a roadside ditch on Rosehill Road in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Nesson, age 15, was a sophomore at Eastmoor High School. She lived with her mother on the East Side of Columbus. She had left a party 13 hours earlier on September 27 on Harding Road, five miles from where her body was discovered. Decades after Lori was murdered, the local news ran a story. A call from a viewer solved the case.

In Canton, Ohio, on January 7, 2007, 87-year-old World War II veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor Bennie Angelo was murdered in his home. His body revealed four gunshot wounds. His house was set on fire to try to eliminate evidence. The case went cold for several years until a crucial witness stepped forward and obtained a confession from the killer, Chester Ray Crank. Crank's trial began in 2014 and he was found guilty by the jury. He was sentenced to "life in prison with no possibility of parole."

On January 29, 1995, a 30-year-old mother, Lisa Marto Gaudenzi, fails to report for Army duty in Virginia. The U.S. Army lists her as AWOL. Lisa's family members immediately suspect foul play and they begin a 13-year quest for answers before an eyewitness blows the case wide open. The murderer turns out to be the man that Lisa's family suspected all along, Lisa's husband Lawrence Gaudenzi, who has also gone by the alias Randy Lee Evans. At the time of Lisa's disappearance, law enforcement accepted Gaudenzi's story about the last time he had seen Lisa. When the case is picked up again and worked as a cold case, law enforcement discovers numerous lies that had been told by Gaudenzi. Gaudenzi is arrested and on the second day of his trial, he accepted a plea in exchange for information about his former wife's death. Gaudenzi was sentenced to 25 years behind bars.

On August 4, 1986, 13-year-old Jennifer "Jenni" Bastian left her Tacoma, Washington home on a bike ride but did not come home. Her body was found three weeks later, she had been abducted and murdered. The residents of Tacoma, Washington are extremely worried, because this is the second young girl who has been killed in five months. Convinced a predator is loose, law enforcement personnel embark on a 32-year ordeal to catch the killer.