Almost Unsolved

The body of a brutally murdered young Indigenous woman is discovered in Manitoba; four suspect's names keep coming up, but with little evidence and no one willing to talk, it takes over a decade before a new officer finds a way to break the silence.

An Alberta resident vanishes without a trace until her charred body is found in an abandoned shack; the RCMP hit the case hard but without any evidence, the case quickly goes cold.

A young nurse is murdered on her way to work; after offering a reward for any information, the police quickly find and arrest their suspect; as the decades go on, the investigation is called into question, and the real killer could still be free.

The body of a motel employee working the night shift is discovered tied up and badly beaten; the investigation spans decades and crosses state lines as detectives follow false leads, dead ends, and even employ new criminal profiling techniques.

The investigation into a double murder reveals dozens of suspects, but not one can be linked to the scene; over sixty years later, new technology and a single piece of preserved evidence reveal a shocking secret that almost remained hidden forever.

When newlyweds are discovered murdered in their home police are at loss as to who did it. The case goes cold for over 40 years until technology can catch up with the killer. It will take next generation genetic genealogy to uncover the truth.

When a newborn baby is found deceased in a ditch, a community rallies to give him a proper funeral. The burial preserves DNA which, forty years later, will corner a woman who thought she'd discarded a secret no one could trace.

On a stretch of highway near a small town in Minnesota, a woman's body is found in a ditch; decades later, after DNA technology becomes common practice, a local resident makes it her personal mission to discover the victim's identity.

Police are unaware a murder has been committed until someone uses the information to try and leverage their freedom.

A woman is discovered brutally murdered in her hotel room just as she is about to start a new chapter in her professional career; forty years later, the identity of her killer is finally revealed with the help of genetic genealogy.

Three young boys are found murdered in Chicago; this launches a massive investigation that lasts nearly 40 years.

A man is found dead in his apartment, but the investigation quickly fizzles out. As more and more gay men are murdered around Toronto in the subsequent decades, his case is reopened.

The wrong man is accused of the murder of a young Canadian girl who vanishes from her home after school.

An elderly woman is killed; police dig to find her enemies.

A roadside discovery in Utah reveals a murdered woman wrapped up in sleeping bags and blankets; decades later, new DNA collecting techniques bring authorities closer than ever to finding the identity of the victim and her killer.

A young woman is brutally murdered in her home and police are convinced they have let the suspect escape for good until decades later a new invention changes everything.

An unsolved double murder becomes a notorious Vancouver cold case when a worker discovers a shallow grave in a famous park.

Two people are found brutally murdered in a bizarre crime scene.

A young woman is reported missing and then found dead days later in the elevator of a Seattle parking garage; advances in DNA tracing techniques bring forth a new suspect, and authorities are closer than ever to finding out who the killer is.

A couple find a young woman near death in a rural Washington forest; after she succumbs to her injuries, police identify the victim and struggle to find the culprit, eager to bring answers to a grieving family.

A composite sketch and DNA are the only clues in the ruthless murder of a promising young intern; forty years later, police lay a trap, and an unsuspecting predator finds that he has gone from hunter to quarry.

On his first night in town, a man is brutally stabbed to death and his body dumped.

Police know who committed the crime, but meticulous planning allows a mass murderer to escape detection for 18 years; despite a change in name, location and a new family, a chance sighting on a TV crime show helps police pick up his trail again.

A man is found murdered in the bus shelter he was sleeping in; after more bodies are found, a pattern emerges -- a murderer is targeting the most vulnerable.

The son of a millionaire inventor discovers his father's body on the kitchen floor, shot six times.

A young woman from out of town meets up with friends, and never returns to the hotel, where she is staying with her family.