The essential episodes of Cold Blood
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Cold Blood — each pick states its reason.
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Reconstructing the investigation into the murder of a man at an Ohio gas station. The case quickly revealed a web of secrets and lies connected to one of the community's richest families.
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In 1995, 21 years after Cheryl Miller's murder, police reopen the case based on changing witness testimony.
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A docudrama on the investigation of the rape and murder of a young university student, Sarah Whitehead, in a small northern community in the Canadian province of Ontario.
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An 18-year-old runaway is found raped and strangled to death on the side of a San Diego road. Tracking down the cold-blooded killer will take years of detective work and a benign connection.
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In Colorado, a lifelong bad boy comes home to finds his wife, savagely raped and strangled to death. Evidence indicates the attack is personal. But is the husband is trying to get away with murder or could someone else be involved?
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Minneapolis, Minnesota is a haven for its large gay community, until gunfire rips through the city leaving two men dead. An eyewitness leads investigators to a suspect, but soon after, an anonymous letter points to an anti-gay hate group on a mission.
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A horrendous miscarriage of justice made all the more famous by the book The Innocent Man - Murder & Injustice in a Small Town by John Grisham. In Ada Oklahoma, 21-year-old Debbie Sue Carter is found raped, beaten and strangled in her apartment. A quest for justice thrusts Ada into the national spotlight and leaves a family wondering for a quarter of a century - who killed Debbie Carter?
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A murderous attack in Park Slope, Brooklyn, leaves Sylvia Lugo dead and her girlfriend, Amanda Leach, raped and shot in the leg. Police struggle to pin down an assailant without any hard evidence, resulting in Leach being pegged as the prime suspect.
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When Wharton business student Shannon Schieber is found raped and strangled to death in her Philadelphia apartment, the city errupts with outrage as it's discovered that Shannon's death is the the latest in a string of rapes in the Centre City area.
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